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HIST-231 The Russian Empire, 1650-1917 (3)
This course examines the history of the Romanov dynasty and the Russian Empire focusing on understanding the structures of the diverse society that made up the empire, the growth and modernization of the empire, and the tensions within the system which led to its collapse. Readings include historical narratives, documents, and novels.
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HIST-232 The Soviet Union (3)
This course treats the history of the Soviet Union (1917-1991), seeking to explain how this civilization arose, survived, and ultimately fell, with particular attention to the history of communism as an idea. Readings help give a sense of both the aspirations and sufferings of its citizens.
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HIST-235 The West in Crisis, 1900-1945 FA2 (3)
This course examines the great crises of the first half of the twentieth century, including the two world wars, the global great depression, and communist and fascist revolutions and dictatorships. Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-239 Topics in European History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include national histories, nineteenth-century Europe, and Europe and colonialism.
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HIST-241 Colonial Latin America (3)
Conquest and change in Indian civilization; imperial politics; race and class; Indian labor and the Black legend; imperial economic relations; imperial reform and revolution. Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-242 Latin America since Independence (3)
Problems in creating nations; militarism, dictatorship, and democracy; sources of underdevelopment; reform and revolution in the twentieth century. Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-245 Modern Jewish Civilization (3)
Surveys Jewish responses to the challenges of modernity. Examines the creation of new Jewish communities in America and Israel, shifts in Jewish political status, and innovations in Jewish religious and intellectual history such as Zionism and Hasidism. Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-247 Muslim Empires 1300-1920 (3)
Examines the rise and fall of the Gunpowder Empires–the Ottoman, Safavide, and Mughal polities that for centuries dominated the Middle East and beyond after the decline of the Mongols and their immediate successors. Relations between the three empires, often characterized by intense rivalry, is a central concern. However, attention is also paid to the links that bound together their courts and aspects of daily life common to their subject populations. The course concludes with an investigation into imperial decline and the emerging conflict between the cosmopolitanism of the past and modern Western ideas of politics and society. Usually offered alternate springs.
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HIST-248 Introduction to Modern Middle East (3)
Examines the history of the modern Middle East from the late eighteenth century to the present, during which Euro-American involvement intensified. Students consider the various representations of the Middle East and its people that contributed to Western political and cultural hegemony in this period. Attention is also given to (semi-)indigenous attempts to meet this challenge from the West. Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-250 Empires and States in East Asia FA3 (3)
This course examines the origins and history of multiple imperial traditions throughout East Asian history, including ancient China (origins to 221 B.C.); Chinese empires (221 B.C. to 1912); the Japanese empire (1895-1945); and modern East Asia (1600-present).
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HIST-251 History of Modern China (3)
A survey of the major events, themes, and issues in modern Chinese history, from the Qing empire to the twentieth century. Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-264 Precolonial Africa (3)
This course surveys African societies from prehistory to the eve of European colonial rule in the 1880s. Focusing on political, social, and economic change, it examines the rise of African civilizations and state formation; the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean trade networks; and systems of slavery. The course situates African history in a global context and provides students with a historical framework for interpreting current events in Africa. Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-285 Understanding Africa: Conquests, Protests, and Post-Independence Struggles FA3 (3)
This course explores the experiences of Africans under European colonialism (1880s-1960s) and the legacy of colonialism for contemporary Africa. Topics include colonial policies and African responses; constructions of race, gender, and class; African nationalism and independence; and the social, economic, and political challenges of post-colonial Africa. Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-288 Oliver Stone’s America (3)
Director Oliver Stone’s influence on popular views of recent U.S. history has raised important questions about artistic license, the nature and uses of historical evidence, and the shaping of popular historical consciousness. This course addresses these issues while assessing both scholarly opinion and popular beliefs about the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War and antiwar movement, the 1960s counterculture, Watergate, U.S. policy in Central America, the 1980s capitalistic culture, and 9/11 and the presidency of George W. Bush. Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-294 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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HIST-296 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
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HIST-305 Topics in Race and Ethnicity in the United States (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include Latinos and Latinas in United States history; Native American history; and Asian American history.
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HIST-314 History of the World Regions (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics offered through various AU Abroad programs focus on sophisticated analyses of historical developments of a specific region and/or time period and an in-depth exploration of the historical, cultural, and social contexts of the region or time period discussed.
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HIST-322 History of Britain: 1815-Present (3)
Offered as part of the AU Abroad London program, this course examines the key political, social, and cultural developments of Great Britain over the past two hundred years, from war with France and world-wide imperial expansion to the present with Britain as a medium-sized state torn between allegiance to its former colonies, America, and the expanding European Union.
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HIST-327 Twentieth Century Europe (3)
In this century Europe has experienced two major wars, a wave of communist revolution, a violent reaction in the form of fascism, and the horror of mass extermination. Yet Europe today is quite prosperous, and there are better links between the Western countries and their communist counterparts than could have been imagined two decades ago. There is something in Europe’s past that gives it a certain resilience. Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-330 Antiquities, Exploration, and Empire: From Pompeii to the Moon (3)
This course presents a broad survey of the history of archaeological exploration during the height of Euro-American imperial expansion in the modern world. It examines famous digs, discoveries, and expeditions for what they can tell us about the ideological, political, economic, and cultural conditions of the world from which the explorers emerged. Usually offered every two years.
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HIST-344 Topics in Jewish History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics in Jewish history exploring one theme, or period, or geographical region of the Jewish past, including the history of women in Jewish tradition, East European Jewry, the world of the shtetl, American Jewish women, and anti-Semitism.
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HIST-349 Modern Iran (3)
Considers the modern history of Iran from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present. Discussion topics include great power rivalries and the rise of Iranian nationalism, the oil economy and the elite modernization, political Islam and the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79, the Iran-Iraq War and state militarization, and the nuclear crisis.
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HIST-385 Topics in African History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics in the histories and experiences of Muslim societies in Africa; outsiders’ and insiders’ constructions of African history and their perceptions of Africans; and gender and sexuality in Africa. Usually offered every term. Usually offered every term.
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HIST-390 Independent Reading Course in History (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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HIST-394 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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HIST-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
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HIST-399 Conversations in History (3)
Topics vary by section. This intensive seminar introduces majors to the study of history. By delving into a topic, students learn various approaches to the study of history that have evolved over time, as well as the mechanics of writing history. Usually offered every term. Restriction: History (BA) .
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HIST-410 Interpreting the New World (3)
This course approaches the question of how people cope with the utterly new by exploring the intellectual and cultural assumptions from antiquity and the Middle Ages that Europeans brought with them to the New World. It assesses how those preconceptions fared when challenged by experience and in the context of major changes in European culture, including the print revolution, intellectual and cultural movements such as the Renaissance humanism, and contemporary European religious conflicts. Meets with . Usually offered alternate springs.
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HIST-411 Atlantic World Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include ideas of science and faith, exchange of goods and scientific knowledge, diasporas, and comparative slavery. Some background in European and U.S. history is recommended. Meets with HIST-611 .
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HIST-412 Studies in European History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include women and gender, European thought and ideologies, nineteenth-century revolutions, development of the social sciences, Eastern and Central Europe of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, modern Germany, the Republic of Letters, and media and mass culture. Some background in European history is recommended. Meets with HIST-612 .
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HIST-418 Nazi Germany (3)
The political, social, and economic conditions that made it possible for Hitler to take power. The nature of Nazi rule. Emphasis on World War II and the Holocaust. Meets with HIST-618 . Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-419 Holocaust (3)
Traces the history of anti-Semitism and the development of racism that led to the Holocaust. Examines the historical development of the Final Solution. Considers the variety of responses to Jewish persecution by the Nazi perpetrators, the Jews, and the nations of the world. Meets with HIST-619 . Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-428 The French Revolution (3)
From kingdom to nation, from subjects to citizens, from privilege to universal rights, these are the changes that make the French Revolution the touchstone of modern politics. Yet the French Revolution also witnessed the emergence of political terror and dictatorship, the exclusion of women from the political sphere, seemingly irreconcilable tensions between the revolutionary values of liberty and equality, and foreign and civil wars of terrifying brutality. This course introduces students to key events, personalities, issues, and historiography of the French Revolution. Meets with . Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-437 British Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics including Hanoverian England, Victorian England, Edwardian England, the British Empire, the British working class, and popular culture in modern Britain. Meets with HIST-637 .
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HIST-438 French History since 1789 (3)
Covers the major issues and problems in the history of modern France. With an emphasis on social and cultural history, it treats subjects such as the revolutionary tradition in France, nationalism, peasant life, worker culture, domesticity and family life, urbanism, empire, the World Wars, consumerism, and Americanization. Course materials include memoirs, novels, and films. Meets with HIST-638 . Usually offered alternate springs.
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HIST-440 Latin American Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics including the diplomatic history of Latin America, Latin American intellectual history, and Latin American feminisms. Meets with HIST-640 .
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HIST-443 History of Israel (3)
Traces the development of modern political Zionism in nineteenth-century Europe; the historical background leading to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948; and the history of Israel since then, including patterns of Jewish immigration and its relationship to the Arab world. Meets with HIST-643 . Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-445 Russian Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics including Russian intellectual history, World War I and the end of empires, the Russian Revolution, and Russian film history. Meets with HIST-645 .
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HIST-447 Asian Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Topical courses in Asian history including modern China, late imperial China, the Japanese empire, modern Eurasian frontiers, and other topics in Chinese, Japanese, and inner Asian history. Meets with HIST-647 .
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HIST-448 American Culture in the Nuclear Age: Living with the Bomb (3)
Examines the evolution of American culture in the nuclear age, with particular emphasis on the ways in which the threat of nuclear war and annihilation have shaped American thought and behavior. Central to this study is an exploration of the history of the nuclear arms race in the context of the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the Cold War. Meets with HIST-648 . Usually offered every summer and alternate falls.
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HIST-449 Topics in U.S. History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include labor and workers, espionage and national security, radical tradition, political movements, science and technologies, film and history, and families and childhood. Some background in U.S. history is recommended. Meets with HIST-649 .
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HIST-450 Colonial America: 1492 to 1763 (3)
The founding and development of England’s North American colonies, emphasizing the original impulses and methods of colonization; Indian peoples and conflict; non-English immigration; the genesis and African background of the slave trade and slavery; and the creation of a dominant English culture in an ethnically and racially diverse society. Meets with HIST-650 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-451 Era of the Revolution and Constitution (3)
The political and social history of the American Revolution, emphasizing the genesis of the revolutionary conflict, the revolution as a “republican revolution,” the revolution’s ideological and social results and their effect abroad, and the formation of the Constitution. Meets with HIST-651 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-452 The Era of the New Republic, 1789-1850 (3)
The new republic’s political consolidation during its first critical decades; its physical, economic, and political transformation by continental expansion; the transportation and industrial revolutions and the creation of a mass democracy; and the first confrontations over slavery in 1832-33 and 1848-50. Meets with HIST-652 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-453 Civil War and Reconstruction (3)
Chronological coverage from the Compromise of 1850 to the final withdrawal of federal troops from the South in 1877. Includes antebellum reform, sectional conflict, black slavery, secession, and postwar racial and political problems. Political and social issues are emphasized, rather than a narrative of battles and skirmishes. Meets with HIST-653 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-454 The South since Reconstruction (3)
The theme is the South’s struggle with the issues of integration, separation, and self-definition since the Civil War. Reconstruction and redemption, race relations, violence, the rise and fall of the “Solid South,” and the “New South” of Jimmy Carter. Meets with HIST-654 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-455 Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1920 (3)
The course considers themes in the modernization of America: the rise of corporations and cities, the influx of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, and the advent of the new diplomacy and imperialism. Also studies populism and progressivism. Meets with HIST-655 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-456 Twentieth Century America (3)
Life in the twentieth century is different from all other periods of our past. To understand why requires an examination of the explosion of science and technology, the growth of government, America’s increasing involvement in the world, the multiplication of protest and liberation movements, the new politics, and neo-Keynesian economics. Meets with HIST-656 .
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HIST-457 America between the Wars, 1919-1941 (3)
Following a decade of stability and prosperity, the dislocations caused by the Great Depression disrupted the lives and shook the institutions of the American people, leading to unprecedented political and cultural experimentation. Emphasizing both the contrasts and continuities between the 1920s and 1930s, the course investigates the patterns of political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual life during the interwar period, with special emphasis on the tensions between radical and conservative tendencies. Meets with HIST-657 .
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HIST-459 Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Examines the changing definitions, perceptions, and uses of gender and sexuality in U.S. history. Rotating topics include women’s suffrage, images of masculinity, and gay rights. Based on the assumption that gender and sexuality are historically-specific cultural constructs, special attention is paid to their intersection with race, class, and ethnicity. Meets with HIST-659 . Usually offered alternate falls.
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HIST-460 U.S. Foreign Relations, 1774-1918 (3)
The history of United States diplomacy (and other forms of international relations) from the Revolution to World War I. Focus on policymaking and makers; on long-term issues such as unilateralism, imperialism, and neutrality; and on economics and ideology. Meets with HIST-660 . Usually offered alternate falls.
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HIST-461 U.S. Foreign Relations since 1918 (3)
The history of United States diplomacy (and other forms of international relations) since the onset of World War I. Focus on policymaking and makers; on such long-term issues as isolationism, go-it-alone unilateralism, and interventionism; on ideology, economics, and related domestic politics; and on growing U.S. attention to military and national security matters. Meets with HIST-661 . Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-462 America and the Cold War (3)
Focusing on the years 1945-1989, this course explores the international and domestic origins of the Cold War, its impact on American politics and culture, the rise of the national security state, and crises such as the Korean war, the Cuban missile crisis, and Vietnam. Meets with HIST-662 .
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HIST-464 U.S. Presidential Elections (3)
This course reinterprets U.S. history from the perspective of the nation’s quadrennial contests for national leadership. It shows how presidential elections both reflect and influence major trends and episodes of the American past. The course combines narrative history with political and economic models to present a comprehensive theory of American presidential elections. A portion of the course focuses on the current election cycle, with guest speakers contributing information and adding to analysis. Meets with HIST-664 . Usually offered alternate falls.
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HIST-467 Oral History (3)
This course presents the theory, practice, legal and ethical issues, and uses of oral history. Through field work, students gain interviewing, transcription, and analysis skills and studies the advantages and limitations of oral history as source material. Reading and case histories are drawn from modern U.S. history. Meets with HIST-667 . Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-468 Topics in Public History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include history and public policy, media and history, regional and local histories, and historic sites. Some background in U.S. history is recommended. Meets with HIST-668 .
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HIST-469 History of Medicine in the United States: from Smallpox to AIDS (3)
Health, disease, and medicine’s role in American society and culture with a special focus on health dangers posed by industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. Disease and its social construction have been an important dimension of American culture and definitions of health and disease are important barometers of who we are as a people. Epidemics (including AIDS), the hospital, ethnicity, race, urban health care, controversies in medical ethics, and medical discoveries. Meets with HIST-669 . Usually offered alternate springs.
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HIST-470 Visual and Material Culture (3)
This course combines two interdisciplinary and often overlapping areas of study for examination by students of history: material and visual cultural studies. The course introduces students to historiography and cultural theory in both fields and examines methodologies for using visual and material sources to study American cultural and social history. Meets with HIST-670 . Usually offered alternate springs.
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HIST-471 Ideology, Culture, and American Politics (3)
How have American political leaders justified their objectives? How have popular beliefs and attitudes been reflected in the American political system? This course, concentrating on the twentieth century, explores the relationship between American political life on the one hand and ideas and popular persuasions on the other. Meets with HIST-671 .
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HIST-473 American Jewish History (3)
Today American Jewry constitutes the preeminent Diaspora Jewish community. This course traces its historical development by examining the waves of Jewish immigration to the United States and the institutions that American Jews created to sustain their community. Meets with HIST-673 . Usually offered alternate springs.
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HIST-476 U.S. Environmental History (3)
Environmental history introduces nature, including plants, animals, climate, weather, and soil, as a central aspect of its analysis. This course examines the role nature plays in North America’s history from the breakup of Pangaea to the rise of the American lawn. The course further explores how humans have reshaped the continent’s ecosystems over time. Meets with HIST-676 . Usually offered alternate falls.
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HIST-477 History and New Media (3)
This course explores the impact of new information technologies on historical practices, focusing on research, teaching, presentations of historical materials, and changes in professional organization and discourse. Some background in U.S. history is recommended. Meets with HIST-677 . Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-478 Civil War Institute (3)
This week-long summer program introduces participants to the key causes and consequences of the war by exploring its remnants and remembrances in the Washington, D.C. area. The intensive program combines morning presentations and discussions with afternoon field trips. Sites include Harper’s Ferry, Antietam, Arlington National Cemetery, Sherman and Grant Memorials, Howard University, Fort Stevens, Frederick Douglass Home, Ford’s Theater, and a full-day trip to Richmond. Meets with HIST-678 . Usually offered every summer.
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HIST-479 Topics in African American History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include American slavery, African American women, the civil rights movement, and race relations in the United States. Some background in U.S. history is recommended. Meets with HIST-679 .
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HIST-480 Senior Thesis in History I (3)
Methods and materials of historical research and writing. Students design and outline research subjects based in part on the use of primary sources. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: HIST-399 and senior standing.
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HIST-481 Senior Thesis in History II (3)
Continuation of HIST-480 . Completion of senior thesis based in part on the use of primary sources. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: HIST-480 and senior standing.
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HIST-482 Research Seminar (3)
Topics vary by section. This seminar introduces students to a field of research not limited geographically, for example, military history, gender history, revolutions, etc. Students complete a series of common readings and then design, outline, research, and write their own historical research papers on a topic of their choice relating to the course theme. Papers are built on primary sources and engage the historiographical questions most relevant to the topic. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite: HIST-399 .
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HIST-485 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Beyond (3)
Summer study trip to Japan in conjunction with the Nuclear Studies Institute. Focuses on Japanese wartime aggression, the human devastation wrought by the atomic bombings, current Japanese and international efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons, and the building of closer ties between the people of the United States and Japan. Participants hear first-hand accounts of atomic bomb survivors and Asian victims of Japanese atrocities, visit sites of historical and cultural significance, and attend commemorative events. Meets with HIST-685 . Usually offered every summer.
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HIST-486 The Enlightenment (3)
Explores the Enlightenment in a pan-European and transatlantic context as an intellectual and cultural movement that engaged a growing reading public through publications and forums of intellectual sociality. Students become familiar with canonic figures such as Voltaire and Adam Smith, as well as lesser known authors, including women and Caribbean slaveholders. Meets with . Usually offered alternate springs.
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HIST-490 Independent Study Project in History (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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HIST-491 Internship (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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HIST-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
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HIST-078 Civil War Institute (0)
Noncredit option. This week-long summer program introduces participants to the key causes and consequences of the war by exploring its remnants and remembrances in the Washington, D.C. area. The intensive program combines morning presentations and discussions with afternoon field trips. Sites include Harper’s Ferry, Antietam, Arlington National Cemetery, Sherman and Grant Memorials, Howard University, Fort Stevens, Frederick Douglass Home, Ford’s Theater, and a full-day trip to Richmond. Meets with HIST-478 /HIST-678 . Usually offered every summer.
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HIST-085 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Beyond (0)
Noncredit option. Summer study trip to Japan in conjunction with the Nuclear Studies Institute. Focuses on Japanese wartime aggression, the human devastation wrought by the atomic bombings, current Japanese and international efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons, and the building of closer ties between the people of the United States and Japan. Participants hear first-hand accounts of atomic bomb survivors and Asian victims of Japanese atrocities, visit sites of historical and cultural significance, and attend commemorative events. Meets with HIST-485 /HIST-685 . Usually offered every summer.
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HIST-096 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (0)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
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HIST-500 Studies in History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics in early modern European history, European colonialism in the Caribbean, nineteenth and twentieth century European studies, Russian and Soviet studies, American political, social, and cultural studies, and American diplomatic and military studies. Usually offered every term.
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HIST-590 Independent Reading Course in History (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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HIST-596 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
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HIST-610 Interpreting the New World (3)
This course approaches the question of how people cope with the utterly new by exploring the intellectual and cultural assumptions from antiquity and the Middle Ages that Europeans brought with them to the New World. It assesses how those preconceptions fared when challenged by experience and in the context of major changes in European culture, including the print revolution, intellectual and cultural movements such as the Renaissance humanism, and contemporary European religious conflicts. Meets with HIST-410 . Usually offered alternate springs.
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HIST-611 Atlantic World Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include interpretations of the new world, ideas of science and faith, exchange of goods and scientific knowledge, diasporas, and comparative slavery. Some background in European and U.S. history is recommended. Meets with HIST-411 .
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HIST-612 Studies in European History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include women and gender, European thought and ideologies, nineteenth-century revolutions, development of the social sciences, Eastern and Central Europe of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, modern Germany, the Republic of Letters, and media and mass culture. Some background in European history is recommended. Meets with HIST-412 .
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HIST-618 Nazi Germany (3)
The political, social, and economic conditions that made it possible for Hitler to take power. The nature of Nazi rule. Emphasis on World War II and the Holocaust. Meets with HIST-418 . Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-619 Holocaust (3)
Traces the history of anti-Semitism and the development of racism that led to the Holocaust. Examines the historical development of the Final Solution. Considers the variety of responses to Jewish persecution by the Nazi perpetrators, the Jews, and the nations of the world. Meets with HIST-419 . Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-628 The French Revolution (3)
From kingdom to nation, from subjects to citizens, from privilege to universal rights, these are the changes that make the French Revolution the touchstone of modern politics. Yet the French Revolution also witnessed the emergence of political terror and dictatorship, the exclusion of women from the political sphere, seemingly irreconcilable tensions between the revolutionary values of liberty and equality, and foreign and civil wars of terrifying brutality. This course introduces students to key events, personalities, issues, and historiography of the French Revolution. Meets with HIST-428 . Usually offered every spring.
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HIST-637 British Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics including Hanoverian England, Victorian England, Edwardian England, the British Empire, the British working class, and popular culture in modern Britain. Meets with HIST-437 .
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HIST-638 French History since 1789 (3)
Covers the major issues and problems in the history of modern France. With an emphasis on social and cultural history, it treats subjects such as the revolutionary tradition in France, nationalism, peasant life, worker culture, domesticity and family life, urbanism, empire, the World Wars, consumerism, and Americanization. Course materials include memoirs, novels, and films. Meets with HIST-438 . Usually offered alternate springs.
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HIST-640 Latin American Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics, including the diplomatic history of Latin America, Latin American intellectual history, and Latin American feminisms. Meets with HIST-440 .
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HIST-643 History of Israel (3)
Traces the development of modern political Zionism in nineteenth-century Europe; the historical background leading to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948; and the history of Israel since then, including patterns of Jewish immigration and its relationship to the Arab world. Meets with HIST-443 . Usually offered every fall.
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HIST-645 Russian Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics including Russian intellectual history, World War I and the end of empires, the Russian Revolution, and Russian film history. Meets with HIST-445 .
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HIST-647 Asian Studies (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Topical courses in Asian history including modern China, late imperial China, the Japanese empire, modern Eurasian frontiers, and other topics in Chinese, Japanese, and inner Asian history. Meets with HIST-447 .
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HIST-648 American Culture in the Nuclear Age: Living with the Bomb (3)
Examines the evolution of American culture in the nuclear age, with particular emphasis on the ways in which the threat of nuclear war and annihilation have shaped American thought and behavior. Central to this study is an exploration of the history of the nuclear arms race in the context of the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the Cold War. Meets with HIST-448 . Usually offered every summer and alternate falls.
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HIST-649 Topics in U.S. History (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include labor and workers, espionage and national security, radical tradition, political movements, science and technologies, film and history, and families and childhood. Some background in U.S. history is recommended. Meets with HIST-449 .
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HIST-650 Colonial America: 1492 to 1763 (3)
The founding and development of England’s North American colonies, emphasizing the original impulses and methods of colonization; Indian peoples and conflict; non-English immigration; the genesis and African background of the slave trade and slavery; and the creation of a dominant English culture in an ethnically and racially diverse society. Meets with HIST-450 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-651 Era of the Revolution and Constitution (3)
The political and social history of the American Revolution, emphasizing the genesis of the revolutionary conflict, the revolution as a “republican revolution,” the revolution’s ideological and social results and their effect abroad, and the formation of the Constitution. Meets with HIST-451 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-652 The Era of the New Republic, 1789-1850 (3)
The new republic’s political consolidation during its first critical decades; its physical, economic, and political transformation by continental expansion; the transportation and industrial revolutions and the creation of a mass democracy; and the first confrontations over slavery in 1832-1833 and 1848-1850. Meets with HIST-452 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-653 Civil War and Reconstruction (3)
Chronological coverage from the Compromise of 1850 to the final withdrawal of federal troops from the South in 1877. Includes antebellum reform, sectional conflict, black slavery, secession, and postwar racial and political problems. Political and social issues are emphasized, rather than a narrative of battles and skirmishes. Meets with HIST-453 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-654 The South since Reconstruction (3)
The theme is the South’s struggle with the issues of integration, separation, and self-definition since the Civil War. Reconstruction and redemption, race relations, violence, the rise and fall of the “Solid South,” and the “New South” of Jimmy Carter. Meets with HIST-454 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-655 Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1920 (3)
The course considers themes in the modernization of America: the rise of corporations and cities, the influx of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, and the advent of the new diplomacy and imperialism. Also studies populism and progressivism. Meets with HIST-455 . Usually offered alternate years.
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HIST-656 Twentieth Century America (3)
Life in the twentieth century is different from all other periods of our past. To understand why requires an examination of the explosion of science and technology, the growth of government, America’s increasing involvement in the world, the multiplication of protest and liberation movements, the new politics, and neo-Keynesian economics. Meets with HIST-456 .
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