Chair: Lydia Murdoch;

Professors: Nancy Bisaha, Robert K. Brigham, Sumita Choudhury, Miriam Cohen, Rebecca Edwards, Maria Höhn, James Merrell, Lydia Murdoch, Ismail O. D. Rashid, Joshua Schreier;

Associate Professors: Quincy T. Mills^ab, Leslie Scott Offutt^ab, Michaela Pohl; 

Assistant Professor: Wayne Soon^a.

^a   On leave 2019/20, first semester

^ab On leave 2019/20

Advisers: The department.

Programs

• History Major

• History Correlate Sequence

Courses

• HIST 101 - Martin Luther King Jr.
• HIST 102 - Humanitarian Intervention
• HIST 116 - The Dark Ages
• HIST 117 - High Middle Ages, 950-1300
• HIST 122 - Encounters in Modern East Asia
• HIST 124 - Europe 1945
• HIST 125 - Infamy on Trial: Famous Trials in Early Modern Europe
• HIST 126 - Terrorism in Russia and Eurasia
• HIST 128 - Europe 1945 - Rethinking History
• HIST 141 - Tradition, History and the African Experience
• HIST 143 - Russia, Ukraine, and the Steppe
• HIST 150 - Revolution, Evolution, and the Global Nineteenth Century
• HIST 151 - British History: James I (1603) to the Great War
• HIST 154 - Victorian Women
• HIST 159 - Blood and Faith: The St. Bartholomew’s Massacre in Context
• HIST 160 - American Moments: Rediscovering U.S. History
• HIST 161 - Violent Economies: Rewriting the American West
• HIST 162 - Envisioning Latin America
• HIST 164 - Latin American History ‘through the lens’
• HIST 174 - The Emergence of the Modern Middle East
• HIST 175 - Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa
• HIST 178 - The Global Cold War
• HIST 179 - Climate Change and International Security

The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.

• HIST 202 - Business and the State in East Asia
• HIST 208 - Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1945
• HIST 214 - The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
• HIST 216 - History of the Ancient Greeks
• HIST 217 - History of the Ancient Romans
• HIST 225 - Renaissance Italy
• HIST 226 - Northern Europe in the Renaissance, c. 1300-1550
• HIST 229 - Paris and London: Society and Culture in the Early Modern City, 1500-1800
• HIST 230 - From Tyranny to Terror: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
• HIST 231 - Algeria/France:Race, Religion & Citizenship
• HIST 235 - Ending Deadly Conflict
• HIST 236 - Germany, 1740-1918
• HIST 237 - Germany, 1918-1990
• HIST 242 - The Russian Empire to 1812
• HIST 243 - Russia and the Soviet Union, 1861-2000
• HIST 245 - Medicine, Health and Diseases in East Asia
• HIST 246 - World War II in East Asia
• HIST 247 - Albert Einstein
• HIST 251 - A History of American Foreign Relations
• HIST 254 - Victorian Britain
• HIST 255 - The British Empire
• HIST 259 - The History of the Family in Early Modern Europe
• HIST 260 - Sex & Reproduction in 19th Century United States: Before Margaret Sanger
• HIST 261 - Women in 20th Century America
• HIST 262 - Contesting Colonialism: Latin America 1450 - 1750
• HIST 263 - From Colony to Nation: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
• HIST 264 - The Revolutionary Option? Latin America in the Twentieth Century
• HIST 265 - Slavery and Freedom in the U.S.
• HIST 268 - Religion, Repression, and Resistance in Latin America
• HIST 270 - The Black Power Movement
• HIST 271 - Perspectives on the African Past: Africa Before 1800
• HIST 272 - Modern African History
• HIST 274 - Early America, 1500-1750
• HIST 275 - Revolutionary America, 1750-1830
• HIST 276 - Democracy in America? U.S. Politics and Power, 1828-1896
• HIST 277 - America 1890-1990 “The Rise and Fall of “The American Century”
• HIST 278 - Cold War America
• HIST 279 - The Viet Nam War
• HIST 280 - Global Powers in Taiwan
• HIST 281 - Fundamentals of Grantwriting
• HIST 283 - Area Studies Intensive: Arts, Film, and Ideas in Central Asia
• HIST 284 - Imagined Queens: Female Rulers in History & Media
• HIST 286 - The Art of Conversation:Living the 18th-century Salon in the 21st-century
• HIST 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• HIST 297 - Readings In History
• HIST 298 - Independent Work

Prerequisite for advanced courses is ordinarily 2 units of 200-level work in history, or by permission of the instructor. Specific prerequisites assume the general prerequisite.

• HIST 300 - Thesis Preparation: Sources, Methods, and Interpretations
• HIST 301 - Senior Thesis
• HIST 302 - Senior Thesis
• HIST 310 - Mao’s China in the World: War, Science and Legitimacy
• HIST 312 - Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese Diaspora
• HIST 315 - Crusading and the Holy Land (1095-1204)
• HIST 316 - Constantinople/Istanbul: 1453
• HIST 326 - Machiavelli: Power and Politics
• HIST 332 - Dangerous Ideas: Challenging Authority in Eighteenth-Century France
• HIST 337 - The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany
• HIST 338 - German-American Encounters since WW I
• HIST 342 - Stalinism
• HIST 351 - Problems in U.S. Foreign Policy
• HIST 355 - Childhood and Children in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• HIST 361 - Varieties of the Latin American Indian Experience
• HIST 362 - The Cuban Revolutions
• HIST 363 - Revolution and Conflict in Twentieth-Century Latin America
• HIST 365 - Race and the History of Jim Crow Segregation
• HIST 366 - American Encounters: Natives, Newcomers, and the Contest for a Continent
• HIST 369 - Social Citizenship in an Urban Age
• HIST 373 - Slavery and Abolition in Africa
• HIST 374 - The African Diaspora
• HIST 375 - Years of Disunion: The U.S. Civil War
• HIST 382 - Marie-Antoinette
• HIST 385 - Colonialism, Nationalism, and Social Identities in the Modern Middle East
• HIST 386 - Central Asia and the Caucasus: Nation Building and Human Rights
• HIST 387 - Modern China: Wealth, Power and Revolution
• HIST 388 - Strategic Thinking in Global Affairs
• HIST 391 - Independent Study - Thesis Preparation and Methodology
• HIST 392 - Independent Study - Senior Thesis
• HIST 399 - Senior Independent Work