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Spring 2025 Graduate Courses

WINTER SESSION (Only One Winter Class Offered)

HIST B0303— Europe, 1815-1914
Professor James Lewis

Monday/Tuesdays/Wednesdays/
Thursdays (5:00pm – 7:00pm) ONLINE

The political triumphs of the middle classes and their troubled hegemony; the factory system, free trade parliamentarians; the transformation of 1848; the Second Empire; Italian and German unifications; movements of reform; democratic currents; socialism; the new imperialism.

SPRING SESSION BELOW

HIST B0016 - 4RS Pacific War
Professor Seiji Shirane

Mondays (4:50pm – 6:50pm)

This course will explore significant milestones and issues of both U.S. and Japanese societies during the course of the Pacific War. Our focus will be on the human experience and changes that came to both societies as well as contemporary issues regarding the contested memory and responsibility of many aspects of the war.

HIST B4406 – Europe Since 1945
Professor Andreas Killen

Tuesdays (4:50pm – 6:50pm)

This course covers the history of Europe from 1945 to the present. Readings highlight selective aspects of this history: the years immediately following the Second World War and the post-war process of recovery; the politics of the memory of the war; the emergence of Cold War Europe; the process of decolonization; the political, social and cultural crises of the 1970s and 1980s; the collapse of Communism in 1989-91; and the birth pangs and current crises of the European Union. Special attention will be paid to the case of divided and then re-unified Germany, which more than any other nation embodied the crises and contradictions of this period, and which became, with the fall of the wall, the key symbol of Communism’s collapse and of European re-integration.

HIST B4030 - Civil War & Reconstruction 1840-1877
Professor Alexandra Stern

Tuesdays (7:00pm-9:00pm) ONLINE

This seminar will examine the causes and consequences of the American Civil War. Using a mix of historical classics and innovative new work, we will investigate the evolution of sectional conflict, the development and experience of emancipation, the many conflicts over Reconstruction, and the possibilities, compromises, and limits of America’s first attempt to create an interracial democracy and politically homogenous nation-state.

HIST B4120 - US Legal History
Professor Anne Kornhauser

Wednesdays (7:00pm-9:00pm)

This seminar introduces students to major problems and interpretations in American legal history. We will examine a number of key constitutional and legal issues and conflicts in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries through historiographical interpretations and by acquainting ourselves with a variety of primary sources (including legal treatises, judicial opinions, and trial records). The course seeks to understand the role of law in American life and the social and cultural meaning of law in American history. It asks: How does law affect people’s lives and how do people affect the law? How do we locate those effects? What tools have historical actors and historians used to interpret the law? To what degree does law exist separately from other large forces that determine relations of power and possibilities for action in society? Topics include: marriage law, slave law, capitalism and the law, race and the Constitution, the emergence of civil rights/civil liberties, criminal justice, and voting rights.

HIST B8959 – Cold War International History
Professor Craig Daigle

Thursdays (7:00pm – 9:00pm) ONLINE

Examines the history of the Cold War from the perspective of non-Western states, such as East Germany, North Korea, China, Cuba, Egypt, Angola and other African states. Explores the causes and interpretations of the origins, intensification, prolongation, and the end of the Cold War, and weighs factors such as personality, ideology, economics, culture, and geopolitics in the cold war.

HIST B2321 - 3GG Research Colloquium
Professor Lale Can

Wednesdays (4:50pm – 6:50pm)

The research colloquium is a writing seminar for advanced students in history and related humanities fields. Participants in the colloquium will develop new or in-progress projects such as a research paper, thesis/research paper prospectus, or writing sample for graduate school applications. As we focus on the craft of writing history, students will work on refining their research questions, arguments, and project design and structure, as well as their engagement with primary and secondary sources and presentation of evidence. The course is designed to be collaborative and offers a unique opportunity for students to workshop their projects at different stages. Throughout the semester, students will receive constructive feedback from a community of peers and guidance from the professor, in conjunction with a field advisor. Students taking the course must have an approved project before registering.

Spring 2025 Undergraduate Courses

ONE WINTER 2024 COURSE BELOW

HIST 31182 – Gandhi and Civil Disobedience

Gandhi and Civil Disobedience

• Section WSP: MoTuWeTh 2:00pm – 4:30pm | Ravi Kalia

SPRING COURSES BELOW

HIST 20400 – Early Modern Europe

An overview of European history from the resurgence of urban life and classical culture during the Renaissance to the trials and tribulations of the French Revolution.

• Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45am | Barbara Naddeo
• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Barbara Naddeo

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

An overview of the social, economic, political, and intellectual developments in Europe from the Enlightenment to the present, and an introduction to the study of history. Topics include the problems of revolution, industrialization and the transformation of rural societies, the emergence of liberalism and the challenges it has faced in the 20th century.

• Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | James Lewis
• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 21008/BLST 21008 - African American History from 1865 to 2000

African American History from 1865 to 2000 introduces students to the African American experience in the United States from Emancipation through the end of the 20th Century. With an emphasis on developing student writing, we will examine a variety of resource materials including secondary literature, primary sources, and cultural artifacts as we delve into touchstone moments including Reconstruction, the Great Migration, World War I, the New Negro Renaissance, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the rise of black conservatism, and the new Black Renaissance of the 1990s.

• Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 21300 – The Historians Craft

Designed to introduce history as an academic discipline. It offers students an intensive introduction to research skills and the principles and methods of historical analysis. Helps students enhance their critical reading and writing skills while increasing their understanding of the nature of historical inquiry.

• Section GH: Monday 5:00pm – 7:30pm | Barbara Naddeo
• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | John Blanton

HIST 23700 – Asia and the World

The major factors that have shaped the Asian countries and peoples; geography, civilization, migration, and settlements of ethnic groups; philosophies, religions, historical events, leaders, and modern political and socioeconomic institutions. Focus on South Asia.

• Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Ravi Kalia

HIST 24000 – The United States: From its Origins 1877

The major theological and social conflicts of 17th century English colonies; the political and ideological process that defined an American identity; the social and economic forces that shaped the early republic; the nature of the civil war.

• Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45am | Alexander Gambaccini
• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Alexander Gambaccini
• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | David Pultz
• Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | David Pultz

HIST 24100 – The United States: Since 1865

Examines the social conflicts that accompanied the transformation of the United States from an agrarian republic and slave society to one of the most powerful industrial nations in the world. Particular attention will be paid to the building of new social and economic institutions and to cultural and visual representations of the nation and its people.

• Section 5CE: Friday 1:15pm – 3:45pm | Craig Daigle HYBRID
• Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Matthew Vaz
• Section G1: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Matthew Cotter ONLINE
• Section H: Monday and Wednesday 6:30pm – 7:45pm | Matthew Cotter ONLINE
• Section HNRS: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm –3:15pm | Deena Ecker
• Section J: Monday and Wednesday 8:00pm – 9:15pm | Amy Van Natter ONLINE
• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am –12:15pm | Deena Ecker
• Section P2: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm –3:15pm | John Gillooly

HIST 28200/BLST 28200 - Modern & Contemporary Latin America

Contemporary economic, social and political problems of Latin America and the Caribbean studied in historical perspective. Themes include foreign economic and political intervention; labor systems and patterns of land ownership; class, ethnic, and racial relations; the politics of reform, revolution and authoritarianism.

• Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am –10:45pm | Emmanuel Lachaud
• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm –3:15pm | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 31149 – The Ottoman Empire

This course is a survey of the Ottoman Empire from its roots as a Turkic principality in medieval Anatolia to its role as a world power in the 15th through early 20th centuries. Topics will include political adaptation and innovation; inter-communal relations; the history of law, gender, and center periphery relations; Ottoman relations with Europe; and the Ottoman legacy in the Modern Middle East and Balkans.

• Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Lale Can

HIST 31208 – The U.S. Since Watergate

This course will examine the main trends of the last three decades of the 20th century and their interconnections. Among these are: The Watergate crisis and increasing cynicism about government and politics; economic decline and stagflation in the seventies; the rise of the new conservativism and the transformation of the Republican and Democratic Parties, the course of the Cold War and its ending; the return to free-market capitalism at home (Reagan Revolution) and abroad (globalization), accompanied by the upsurge in immigration; growing economic inequality and rates of imprisonment; the aftermath of the sexual revolution and the restructuring of gender and family relations; the rise of multiculturalism, and the ensuing culture wars.

• Section T: Tuesday and Thursday 6:30pm - 7:45pm | John Gillooly

HIST 31213 – Rebellion, Liberation, Populism

What does People Power look like? How does Liberation work? Why do demonstrations reach "moments of madness"? When does an agenda become an insurrection? Do all revolutions or rebellions end in freedoms or the desired results? In this course, we will study and analyze popular movements from the modern European experience writ large, paying close attention to documentation, end results, and specific contexts for success. Film, primary sources and literature will round out source material.

• Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am – 10:45am | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 31238/BLST 31188 - Performing Black Womanhood

Performing Black Womanhood explores the social, cultural, and political ramifications of identity formation and representation and the ways in which twentieth-century black American women performed (both on and off the stage and screen) aspects of their identity and attempted, with varying levels of success, to control their images and influence sociopolitical agendas. We will look closely at the lives, careers, and images of a number of African American women and read a variety of primary texts including novels, film, music, autobiography, play scripts, and poetry as well as secondary literature.

• Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 31257 – Africa and the Major Western Religions

Africa figures prominently in the early history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Through a careful reading of primary texts, this course examines the significance of Africa and Africans in the early development of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

• Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Johnnie Wilder

HIST 31261/PSC 31452 History of Now

This course attempts to make sense of contemporary politics, economics, and society through a historical examination of the present. It will discuss contemporary topics such as neoliberalism, populism, COVID-19, the 1619 Project, #MeToo, the forever wars, Climate Change, China and the New Cold War, the war in Ukraine, etc. It will raise methodological questions on the promises and perils of using history to understand the present.

• Section 001: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | TBA

HIST 31688 – Indigenous History of the U.S

An introduction to Native American history from pre-contact to the present, this course argues you can’t understand United States history without indigenous peoples. It focuses on the interrelated histories of Native Americans, African Americans, and the U.S. by indigenizing major American historical developments and addressing current issues in Indian Country.

• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15am | Alexandra Stern

HIST 31693 – France and Francophone Africa

Examines the relationships between France and countries of the former French overseas empire in Africa from the occupation of Algeria in 1830 to political independence to issues of postcolonial dependency in Africa and the emergence of multicultural France today.

• Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | James Lewis

HIST 31694 – Japanese Empire

Japanese empire, 1895-1945. Topics will include the dynamics of colonial culture, issues of gender and marginality, and emerging debates on wartime responsibility and memory.

• Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Seiji Shirane

HIST 31745 – 1971 War & Making of Bangladesh

The war of 1971 in the Indian sub-continent was significant geopolitically because it led to the creation of Bangladesh. In so doing, it once again partitioned the subcontinent, altered the balance of power between India and Pakistan, and ended systematic oppression in Bangladesh. The course explores international events and the Cold War calculations that, first, led to the conflict, and second, resulted in the breakup of Pakistan and the liberation of Bangladesh. The course will use visuals, publicly available primary and secondary sources, and recently published scholarship.

• Section ST: Thursday 5:00pm-7:30pm | Ravi Kalia

HIST 32200 – The Era of American Revolution

This course details the causes, events, and consequences of one of the first and most important revolutionary movements of the Enlightenment. Particular attention is devoted to the social and political causes of the uprising, as well as its cultural meaning for the different participants in the American scene.

• Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | John Blanton

HIST 32650 – Consumer Culture in U.S. 1880

Examines first, the emergence and development of a consumer culture in the U.S. during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and second, the struggles waged during the middle decades of the 20th century over access to the fruits of a consumer-based economy, and over what shape that economy should take.

• Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | John Gillooly

HIST 42300 – Psych, Madness, and Society

Examines social, cultural, intellectual and institutional aspects of the history of madness in Europe since 1789. The course will begin with the age of the so-called ?Great Confinement,? then move on to consider the institutional and therapeutic reforms of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary era; the rise of theories of degeneration, hysteria and neurasthenia in the second half of the 19th century; psychoanalysis and sexology; war neurosis and military psychiatry; psychiatry under the Nazis. It will conclude by looking at the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and the new biological psychiatry of the 1980s and 1990s.

• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Andreas Killen

HIST 44900 – Power Race Culture in NYC

This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary study of American culture through an examination of New York City-its history, literature and culture. Students will examine the historical and cultural context of New York as a center of migration and immigration and power, as a cultural capital, and as an arena of racial, ethnic, and religious traditions and conflicts.

• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Matthew Vaz

Spring 2025 USSO & WCIV

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

Analysis of how a powerful nation-state evolved from a tiny offshoot of European colonial expansion. Elucidates major forces that have shaped the modern world: religion, land policies, technology, industrial capitalism, democracy, nationalism, socialism, racism, sexism, and imperialism.

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Kareen Williams
Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Kareen Williams
Section C2: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Rory Duffy
Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Rory Duffy
Section D2: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Naomi Fischer
Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Kareen Williams
Section E2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Aaron Weinstein
Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Aaron Weinstein
Section L2: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am |Harold Forsythe
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 am | Aaron Weinstein
Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 am | Harold Forsythe
Section M3: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Harry Stein
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Harry Stein
Section SEK: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45 pm | Rory Duffy

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

An examination of the civilizations of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas through a comparative study of selected places and themes. The dynamics of hunter/gatherer, pastoral and agrarian societies, urbanization, trade, imperialism, slavery, feudalism, the centralization of the state, religion and secular thought are among the topics discussed.

Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Johnnie Wilder
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Nolan Bensen
Section P: Tuesday Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section P2: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Nolan Bensen
Section R: Tuesday Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Nolan Bensen
Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Michael Lyle-Thompson | ONLINE
Section SEK2: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Johnnie Wilder

WCIV 10200 – 1500 A.D. to the Present

A study of the major forces that have shaped the modern world of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Selected themes include the interaction of the Western and non-Western world, the scientific revolution, capitalism, imperialism, industrialization, economic growth and stagnation, revolutions, counter-revolutions, modern political ideologies, the global crisis of the 20th century and emerging global interdependence.

Section D Mondays and Wednesday 12:30pm-1:45pm | Hamideh Sedghi | ONLINE
Section E Mondays and Wednesday 2:00pm-3:15pm | Hamideh Sedghi | ONLINE
Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am |Juliana Nalerio
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Juliana Nalerio
Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Ugur Akpinar

Fall 2024 Graduate Courses

HIST B8015 - Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Atlantic Africa
Professor Yaari Felber-Seligman

Mondays (4:50PM-6:50PM)

Along with the growing recognition of Africans dynamic roles in shaping the Atlantic world has come attention to the many complex ways that these encounters have shaped African societies. Featuring new, innovative scholarship, this course delves into the entangled histories of ideas of gender, sexualities, and power as they developed in Atlantic Africa between the 15th-20th centuries. Ideal for any students interested in Atlantic world, African, or comparative histories, our case studies reveal that often these themes were central to both individuals and to societies? strategies of politics, economics, colonialism, resistance, and spirituality.

HIST B0000 - Historical Methods and Historiography
Professor Anne Kornhauser

Mondays (7:00pm – 9:00pm)

Focus on the methods that have shaped the conceptualization and writing of professional history over the past few decades. Methods studied may include those of Marxists, the French Annales school, social-scientific history, gender history, anthropological history, historical sociology, the history of material culture and consumption, the history of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, global and transnational history, environmental history. Area readings will vary with instructor. (Required for all M.A. and B.A./M.A. students).

HIST B2903 -Comparative Slavery
Professor John Blanton

Tuesdays (4:50pm – 6:50pm)

This seminar will examine the rise and fall of New World slavery from the 16th through the 19th centuries. While the Anglo-American Atlantic will be the primary focus, we will also address slavery and abolition in the French Empire and Latin America. Areas of emphasis will include the ways in which enslaved people of color experienced and resisted enslavement, the political and economic structures that gave birth to and sustained slavery, the ideals and tactics of antislavery thinkers and activists, and the legal and political processes of abolition.

HIST B8956 - Birth of the European State
Professor Barbara Naddeo

Wednesdays (7:00PM-9:00PM) ONLINE

What is a sovereign state, and when did it arise in European history? How have major scholars accounted for its origins and nature? And has history borne out their hypotheses? To answer these questions this course engages landmark readings about the state by legendary social scientists from Weber to Foucault and case studies of its genesis by prominent historians of Europe and its colonial empires, from 1400--1815.

HIST B8018 -The British Empire
Professor Ravi Kalia

Thursdays (4:50pm – 6:50pm) HYBRID

Using rare film footage and eyewitness accounts British television (BBC) has chronicled the rise and fall of a once vast power of England. India--"the Jewel in the Crown"--was central the British enterprise, and India also provided over a million soldiers in WWI and over 2 million in WWII to allied powers. There were both positive and negative consequences of the Empire: it brought education, technology, law, and democracy to the four corners of the globe. It also brought prejudice, discrimination, cultural bigotry, and racism. Through visuals and documents the course examines the complexities, contradictions, and legacies of the Empire.

Fall 2024 Undergraduate Course

HIST 20400 – Early Modern Europe

An overview of European history from the resurgence of urban life and classical culture during the Renaissance to the trials and tribulations of the French Revolution.

•   Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45am | Barbara Naddeo
•   Section C2 Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45am | Staff
•   Section HNRS: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Barbara Naddeo

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

• Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | James Lewis
• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 PM | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 21006 - African American History 1619-1865

Focusing on African American resistance and strategies for liberation, this course is designed specifically for first- and second-year students. We will explore the experiences of people of African descent in North America. Key themes will include enslavement, the construction and codification of race, black culture, black participation in the American Revolution, rebellion, emancipation, the Civil War and abolition. Students with engage with a variety of texts including primary sources, secondary literature, and cultural artifacts as they hone their analytical and writing skills.

• Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 21300 – The Historian’s Craft

• Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Yaari Felber-Seligman
• Section S: Tuesday (online) and Thursday (in person) 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Craig Daigle HYBRID

HIST 21155 – Ancient Africa

Course will examine such early civilizations as the Axum, Nubia, Jenne-jeno, Ile-Ife, central African rainforest societies, Swahili towns, and Great Zimbabwe. Close attention will be paid to how mobility, technological innovation, environmental management, and cross-cultural interaction have shaped African history.

• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 23800 - The Middle East in Global History

Introduction to Middle East history and politics in global perspective. Emphasis on historical connections to world regions such as South Asia, North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Topics of study include legal cultures; migration; imperialism; diplomacy; political economy; and the impact of technological, political, and cultural revolutions on Middle Eastern peoples and diasporas across time.

• Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Lale Can

HIST 24000 – The United States: From its Origins 1877

•   Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45pm | Alexander Gambaccini
•   Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Alexander Gambaccini
•   Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | John Blanton
•   Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Alexandra Stern

HIST 24100 – The United States: Since 1865

•   Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Amanda Brennan
•   Section G2: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Laurie Woodard
•   Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Matthew Vaz
•   Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Deena Ecker
•   Section P2: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | John Gillooly

HIST 28100 Colonial Latin America

A study of the impact and meaning of colonial rule in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on the interaction between European goals and institutions, and indigenous American and African strategies of socio-cultural survival.

• Section B2: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45pm | Emmanuel Lachaud
• Section E2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 31218 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict

This course examines the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from the late nineteenth century to the present. Utilizing a broad array of sources, including film, literature, popular music, photographs, oral history, and other primary sources, students will explore different narratives of the conflict, viewed from the perspective of both Arabs and Israelis. We will seek to understand key historical moments, including the rise of Palestinian nationalism and the Zionist movement, life under the British mandate, the major impact of the Holocaust, the birth of the Palestinian refugee crisis, and regional wars. Finally, the class will examine the lasting effects of violence and collective trauma, and the many attempts to peacefully resolve the conflict since 1967.

• Section R: Tuesday (Online) and Thursday (in person) 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Craig Daigle HYBRID

HIST 31219 - Mapping New Negro Renaissance

Mapping the New Negro Renaissance explores the early twentieth century cultural and political thrust for social and economic justice led by Negros--as they proudly deemed themselves--intellectuals, artists, activists, and artists/activists. While keeping in mind that the movement embraced many forms of cultural production, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, films, dance, music, and visual art, as well as many types of political activism, we will look at how the New Negro Renaissance engaged black people directly and thematically all over the the world, from Harlem, Chicago, and Los Angeles to Port-au-Prince, Paris, and Dahomey. This research-focused class engages scholarly literature, historical documents, and cultural artifacts and culminates in an collective digital mapping project.

• Section E: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 31221 - The Haitian Revolution

This course examines the history of the largest slave revolt known to the modern period; the 13-year conflict known as the Haitian Revolution. Starting from the beginning of the French colonial plantation system through its upheaval by enslaved masses, the class will focus on the Saint-Domingue colonial period, the Revolutionary period, and the immediate post-independent period. It will analyze the concepts of Black resistance in the Americas, African influences on the Revolution, Enlightenment debates about human rights, Maroon participation, culture and religion, and the political economy of the Caribbean basin. In addition, we will explore the immediate effects of a Black nation in Caribbean basin as well as the aftershocks and reverberations throughout Atlantic history.

• Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 31225 - Religions of India

This course will explore the many religious traditions of India, including the dominant Hinduism, along with Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism. Central themes include the origins of each religious tradition; the philosophical underpinnings and the historical growth of each religion; and the social and political conflict/accommodation of multiple religious traditions in modern India.

• Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Ravi Kalia

HIST 31691 - Europe: 1945 to the Present

Covers the history of Europe from 1945 to the present. Readings highlight the post-World War II recovery; the politics of the memory of the war; the emergence of Cold War Europe; the process of decolonization; the political, social and cultural crises of the 1970s-1980s; the collapse of Communism in 1989-91; and the birth pangs and current crises of the European Union. Special attention will be paid to the case of divided and then re-unified Germany, which became, with the fall of the wall, the key symbol of Communism’s collapse and of European re-integration.

• Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Andreas Killen

HIST 31698 - 20th Century Middle East

This course offers a critical overview of the history of the twentieth century Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the present. This span encompasses developments that had lasting impacts on the region. The course will cover and address key themes and topics within the context of the region?s history, such as war, disease, environment, media, social movements, decolonization, and US imperialism in the Middle East.

• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Beth Baron

HIST 32100 - Early America

This course examines the European colonization of Atlantic North America from the late-16th through mid-18th centuries, with a particular focus on the English/British Empire. Following a brief survey of Anglophone colonial settlement and its political and economic ramifications, the course provides intensive thematic units on: 1) Native American cultures and the impacts of English settler colonialism on Indigenous life; 2) the ways in which married white women navigated the patriarchal structures of early American society; and 3) the development of racial slavery and the debates and conflicts it provoked in early America.

• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | John Blanton

HIST 32400 – Civil War and Reconstruction

This course engages students in the analysis of the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War. Topics include sectional crisis in an era of antebellum expansion, slavery and emancipation as political and personal realities, and Reconstruction conflicts over the new status of freedpeople in the South and the future of alternative sovereignties in the West.

• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Alexandra Stern

HIST 32501 – Gilded Age & Progress Era

The political, economic, and social phases of the development of the United States from Reconstruction to the First World War.

• Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am – 10:45am | John Gillooly

HIST 32560 - Food and Farming

This course introduces students to the history and historiography of food and farming, including the role of agricultural producers in advanced and pre-industrial societies. Central are the historical trajectories certain foodstuffs have taken--why they are produced and where, how they have been integrated into socio-economic and cultural environments, and how culture, politics and policies affected and are affected by them. Our focus will be on the European experience liberally construed and in comparison. Sources draw from classic economic and peasant studies, latter commodity studies and monographs, reports, and archives.

• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 32580 – Crime & Policing in America

An analysis of the evolution of crime and policing in the United States from the development of the first professional police forces in the 1830s up to the present. The course examines crime and policing as an element of governance and politics and assesses the manner in which crime and policing has interacted, processes of economic transformation, technological change, and with social conflict relating to race and class. Typical requirements involve two research papers of 6 to 8 pages in length, and a take home final exam of 6 to 8 pages in length.

• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Matthew Vaz

HIST 32600 – The U.S. from 1914-1945

America and World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Depression and New Deal, Roosevelt's leadership, World War II.

• Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | John Gillooly

HIST 34900 – The Third Reich

Hitler, Nazism and Nazi Germany. Topics include: social, economic, and political preconditions to the Nazi takeover; anti-Semitism; cultural and artistic policies of Nazi Germany; the churches; the film industry; varieties of resistance; concentration camps; the conquest of Europe; mass murder; fall of the Third Reich. (W)

• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Andreas Killen

HIST 35700 - History of Socialism

The growth of the socialist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its main ideological expressions: utopian, Marxist, revisionist, syndicalist. The relations between ideology and concrete historical circumstances; trade unionism; revolution; working class growth and change; Bolshevism; national liberation.

• Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | James Lewis

Fall 2024 USSO & WCIV

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Rory Duffy
Section B2: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Kareen Williams
Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Harry Stein
Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Kareen Williams
Section D2: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Harry Stein
Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Kareen Williams
Section E2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Rory Duffy
Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Rory Duffy
Section J: Monday and Wednesday 8:00pm - 9:15 pm | Amy Van Natter | ONLINE
Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Harold Forsythe
Section L2: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Aaron Weinstein
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 am | Aaron Weinstein
Section P2: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | David Pultz
Section SEK: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Rory Duffy

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Mike Thompson
Section G2: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Johnnie Wilder
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section P: Tuesday Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section P2: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Nolan Bensen
Section R: Tuesday Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Nolan Benson
Section SEK: Tuesday and Thursday 12:30pm - 1:45pm | Johnnie Wilder

WCIV 10200 – 1500 A.D. to the Present

Section B Mondays and Wednesday 9:30am-10:45am | TBA
Section C Mondays and Wednesday 11:00am-12:15pm | TBA
Section E2: Mondays and Wednesday 2:00pm-3:15pm | Hamideh Sedghi | ONLINE
Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Ravi Kalia
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Juliana Nalerio
Section R: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Ugur Akpinar

Summer 2024 Graduate Courses

Summer 2024 Session 1: June 3, 2024 - July 1, 2024

HIST B8951 - European Legal History, 1400—1815

How has European law contributed to the shaping of global modernity? What role has it played in the foundation of city-states and their commercial empires, gendered and racialized rights and restrictions, religious persecutions and freedoms, pluralistic and centralized form of governance, constitutional rights and limitations, as well as modern territorial states and their empires? This course provides an overview of the historical importance of the law in the age of what is known as early modernity. It introduces students to how European legal history specifically shaped the advent of modern European civilization and its global order, from the age of the Renaissance through that of democratic revolutions. By the end of this course, students will be well acquainted with how the law made possible the formation of the imperial nation-state and how it facilitated the governance as well as disciplining of society, both at home and abroad. Topics may include the contributions of the law to the internationalism of Mediterranean cities; the disciplining of gender and sexuality; the surveillance and suppression of religious cultures and groups; the legitimation, governance and domination of pluralistic empires; the imagination and enforcement of constitutional rights and protections; and, lastly, the emergence of the territorial nation-state and its empire in the era of the revolutions. Topics vary with the semester.

MoTuWeTh 6:00PM - 8:35PM | Online Mix | Professor Barbara Naddeo

Summer 2024 Session 2: July 8, 2024 – August 2, 2024

HIST B1615 – France -Francoph Af

This course examines the dynamics between France and the French Overseas Empire that began taking shape around 1830. It will touch upon all regions of the former French colonial empire, but its focus will be on colonies and dependencies in Africa. Among topics examined will be developments in France and elsewhere that prompted overseas conquests, factors in regions incorporated into the Empire that hindered or facilitated French incursions, ideologies legitimating and oppositions to Empire, and how this vast system was administered and exploited. Cultural developments associated with imperial rule in France and areas incorporated into the Empire will also feature prominently in the course, as will contemporary issues about the relationships between France and its former dependencies. Students should emerge from the course with a solid foundation in the history of both French overseas imperialism and of areas once under French governance. An understanding of how the former French Empire formed a key piece of modern world systems of economy, power and integration now commonly called “globalization” is the final goal of the course.

TuTh 6:00PM - 8:35PM | Hybrid | Professor James Lewis
MoWe 6:00PM - 8:35PM | Hybrid | Professor James Lewis

Summer 2024 Undergraduate Courses

Summer 2024 Session 1: June 3, 2024 - July 1, 2024

HIST 31182 - Gandhi and Civil Disobedience

Gandhi looms large in the history of civil disobedience, experimenting with the strategy, first, in South Africa, and later, against the British colonialists in India. In the Indian struggle for independence his role varied considerably at different times. This course is an analysis, based on new materials, of how Gandhi discovered civil disobedience, how he perfected it as a political tool, and how he won Indian independence. Readings, visuals, audio recordings, discussions.

MoTuWeTh 6:00PM - 8:35PM | Online Mix | Professor Ravi Kalia

HIST 31197 - The Afghan War

Traces the origins of the current war in Afghanistan.

MoTuWeTh 2:30PM - 5:05PM | Online | Professor Ravi Kalia

HIST 31212 - Early Modern Europe in Film

A star-studded introduction to early modern Europe through great films and companion documents about monumental figures and momentous episodes in the history of the Europe, from the glamor of the arts of the Italian Renaissance through the political drama of the French Revolution.

MoTuWeTh 11:30AM - 2:05PM | Online Mix | Professor Barbara Naddeo

USSO 10100 – Development of US & its People

MoWeTuTh 11:30AM - 2:05PM | In person | Professor Aaron Weinstein

Summer 2024 Session 2: July 8, 2024 – August 2, 2024

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

MoTuWeTh 2:30PM - 5:05PM | Online Mix | Professor James Lewis

HIST 30102 – Medieval Europe

Medieval Europe.

MoTuWeTh 2:30PM - 5:05PM | Online | Professor James Lepree

HIST 31220 – Gender and Women in the Middle East

This course examines the history of women and gender from the rise of Islam to the spread of contemporary Islamic political movements. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which religion shapes women's lives as well as the ways in which women shape religion, women's roles in political and social movements, gendered economic activities, and gender relations.

MoTuWeTh 11:30AM - 2:05PM | Online | Professor Hamideh Sedghi

USSO 10100 – Development of US & its People

MoTuWeTh 11:30AM - 2:05PM | Hybrid | Professor Aaron Weinstein

Spring 2024 Graduate Courses

ONLY WINTER SESSION

HIST B0304 - 20th Century Europe
Professor James Lewis

MoTuWeTh (5:00PM - 7:00PM) ONLINE MIX

This course is an over-view of events and trends in Europe during the “short twentieth century,” defined by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 though the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It will focus on major events (the World Wars, revolutions and cultural movements) as well as longer-term process like changing sexual mores and sustained economic transformations. The course is designed to give graduate students a thorough grounding in this history from which more specialized classes on these events or on particular regions can be pursued. The focus will be on critical analyses and discussion of assigned texts, the study of different interpretations of major events and processes, and writing designed to stimulate students’ engagement with and perspectives on the topics we will be studying. Regular attendance, engagement with assigned readings, active participation in seminar discussions, and timely completion of written assignments are requirements of the class.

Start of Regular Spring Semester

HIST B8953 - New Directions in World History
Yaari Felber-Seligman

Mondays (4:50PM-6:50PM)

This course emphasizes new directions and previously neglected topics in field of World History based on the instructor’s expertise. May include, but not limited to, histories of ancient non-western worlds, nomadic and sea-faring peoples, indigenous cultures, gender, LGBTQ individuals, everyday life, popular culture, and the so-called Big History that emphasizes broader, nonhuman planetary/environmental history as part of the curriculum. Class readings and assignments will emphasize new directions in research, practice, and pedagogy.

HIST B3750 - Madness and Civilization
Professor Andreas Killen

Tuesdays (4:50pm – 6:50pm)

Examines the social, cultural, and institutional aspects of the history of madness in modern Europe and America. Topics include the institutional and therapeutic reforms of the revolutionary era; the rise of theories of degeneration, hysteria and neurasthenia; psychoanalysis; war neurosis and military psychiatry; psychiatry under the Nazis; psychiatry and the legacy of imperialism; the anti-psychiatry movement; and contemporary bio-psychiatry.

HIST B8017 - Postwar Japan

Professor Seiji Shirane

Wednesdays (4:50pm – 6:50pm)

This course examines the postwar aftermath of Japan's defeat in World War II and the collapse of its empire in Asia. Topics include Japan's changing relations with the US from wartime enemies to postwar allies, the Cold War in Asia, economic growth and technological development, student protests in the 1960s, the Self-Defense Force and pacifism, ethnic discrimination, and the rise of "Cool Japan."

HIST B8007-African-American Cultural History: Theory and Methods
Professor Laurie Woodard

Wednesdays (7:00PM-9:00PM)

This seminar invites students to delve into the historiography, theory, criticism, discourse, key arguments and methods within the historical study of the New Negro or Harlem Renaissance. We will delve into the movement from a variety of perspectives including cultural studies, critical race theory, biography, black feminism, and Marxism. Through this exploration, students will gain a deep understanding of the complexity of this multifaceted movement and the myriad approaches of deriving meaning from it. Students will present texts, complete shorter analytical essays, and produce an extended historiographical essay.

HIST B8063- The Twentieth Century American City

Professor Matthew Vaz

Thursdays (4:50pm – 6:50pm) HYBRID

This course will examine the major themes of American urban history during the Twentieth Century. With a focus on the transformations, tensions, and conflicts of city life, we will explore mass immigration and demographic change, infrastructure and physical development, the transition from an industrial to a service economy, the political contest between entrenched party organizations and efforts at reform, and the manner on which ethnic and racial groups have vied for power within municipal governance. We will explore these themes through close examination of historical change in cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, representing varying regions and patterns of settlement.

HIST B8017 – The Atlantic World
Professor John Blanton

Thursdays (7:00pm – 9:00pm) ONLINE

This course examines the formation of an interconnected Atlantic World linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 through the Age of Revolutions, and the myriad ways in which European states and settler colonists, enslaved and free African and African-descended people, and Indigenous Americans understood and navigated their rapidly changing worlds. Topics of special consideration include the origins and methods of Atlantic History and the continued utility of an Atlantic framing; competing European, Indigenous American, and African conceptualizations of sovereignty, political economy, and social life; the development of the transatlantic slave trade, chattel slavery, and the Atlantic economy; settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and Atlantic geopolitics; the development of varied systems of patriarchal control and domestic gender relations; and the transatlantic dynamics of anticolonial resistance during the Age of Revolutions.

Spring 2024 Undergraduate Courses

HIST 20200 – The Ancient World: Rome

Surveys the history of classical antiquity from the Hellenistic Age to the fall of the Western Empire.

• Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Jennifer Roberts

HIST 20400 – Early Modern Europe

An overview of European history from the resurgence of urban life and classical culture during the Renaissance to the trials and tribulations of the French Revolution.

• Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45am | Barbara Naddeo
• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Barbara Naddeo

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

• Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | James Lewis
• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday11:00am - 12:15pm | Barbara Syrrakos
• Section T: Tuesday and Thursday 6:30pm - 7:45 PM | James Lewis

HIST 21300 – The Historians Craft

• Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Barbara Naddeo
• Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Alexandra Stern

HIST 23900 – 20th Century Europe Through Film

An overview of twentieth-century European history that pairs classic films with iconic texts.

• Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Clifford Rosenberg

HIST 24000 – The United States: From its Origins 1877

• Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45am | Alexander Gambaccini
• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Alexander Gambaccini

HIST 24100 – The United States: Since 1865

• Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Matthew Vaz
• Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Matthew Cotter ONLINE
• Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm –6:15pm | John Gillooly

HIST 26400 – History of Modern India

Surveys the elements which have shaped the characteristic institutions of India; the disintegration of the Mogul empire and the rise of the British to dominance; political, economic, cultural, and social developments during the British period and the changes wrought by the republic.

• Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Ravi Kalia

HIST 28200 – Modern and Contemporary Latin America in World History

• Section M: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm Emmanuel Lachaud
• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 31089 – African-American Cultural and Political History: 1915-145

Throughout the 20th century, African Americans have employed a variety of strategies toward the attainment of social, political, and economic equality. At different historical moments, specific agendas, tactics, and participants have come to forefront, yet the overall objectives remain the same. During the 1920s and 1930s, many African Americans put forth a fusion of cultural and political activism as the vanguard of the movement. We will explore the intersection between culture and politics during this period and examine its place within the larger struggle for equality. Using primary and secondary sources, this course will look beyond traditional literary models and present students with a deeper and more complete understanding of the complex and dynamic social, cultural, and political phenomenon known as the New Negro or Harlem Renaissance. The key themes the course will address are: Agency, Resistance, Self-determination, Citizenship, Political Activism, Gender, Sexuality, Color, Tactics, and Civil Rights. Students are required to complete weekly readings and audio, and visual assignments and to be prepared to discuss them in class. Students must also complete a final research project on a topic of their own choosing that culminates in a 15-page paper.

• Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 31146 – Affluence and Its Discontents

This course explores the rise to dominance of a consumer culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and then goes on to trace the politics of mass consumption in the period since the 1930s.

• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | John Gillooly

HIST 31163 – The European Union

The European Union, a fraternity of 28 nations and more than a half billion persons, was formed in the post-war period to encourage peace between France and Germany, two long-time belligerent nations. Today, EU regulations govern a good part of the lives of Europeans from immigration and education, monetary and trade policy, to shared air and water, and labels on cookie packages which list ingredients in 23 languages. Students will be introduced to important archival and research materials regarding European union; learn analytical skills and initiate and carry out research; and become conversant in the historical meaning of the EU and other forms of union, the nature of the EU's institutions and policies, theoretical aspects of its organization, and debates in the literature.

• Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am – 10:45am | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 31180 – Controversies in U.S. History

Like detectives, we will analyze 3 major controversial topics in U.S. history: colonization, slavery and The Red Scare/McCarthyism. These topics have as themes running throughout them FEAR, CONFLICT and DANGER. A look at these three important controversial topics will provide students with an in-depth, thematic view of issues that continue to shape our country.

• Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Alexandra Stern

HIST 31208 – The U.S. Since Watergate

• Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45am | John Gillooly

HIST 31686 – Science and Society

This course uses topical issues and recent scientific controversies to introduce students to the history of science. It will be organized around modules. Examples: the first module will take recent manifestations of eugenic thinking to introduce students to the history of the eugenics movement; 2) This module will use the torture scandal to introduce students to the history of bio- and medical ethics; 3) the US’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord will be the point of departure for a module on environmental history. Practitioners in a range of disciplines (environmental science, psychology, medicine, philosophy) will deliver guest lectures.

• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Andreas Killen

HIST 31695 – African-Latin in the Caribbean

This course analyzes the history of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and its formative role in the broader Atlantic in order to understand how the struggles of Afro-descendants anticipated and informed questions of autonomy, emancipation, race, identity, and modernity. With an emphasis on the major islands of Hispaniola, Jamaica, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, we will begin with indigenous encounter with colonialism, delve into the expansion of slavery and antislavery movements, explore post emancipation and postcolonial society, and, lastly, end with encroaching neocolonialism and its 20th century reverberations.

• Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 32300 – New Nation, Free and Slave

This course examines the political, social, and economic development of the United States from the drafting of the Constitution in 1787 through the end of the US-Mexican War in 1848. Following a narrative overview of the major events, historical actors, and political-economic developments of the era, intensive thematic units will focus on: settler colonialism, US expansionism, and Indigenous dispossession and resistance; the gendered development of early US capitalism, changes in married women’s social roles, and the emergence of an organized women’s rights movement; and the expansion of chattel slavery in the cotton south, the gradual abolition of slavery in early national New England and the mid-Atlantic, the development of new proslavery justifications, and the emergence of radical abolitionism and antislavery politics.

• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | John Blanton

HIST 32510 – History of South Africa

A survey of major political, social, economic, and cultural themes in South African history. The focus is on South Africa’s recent history from the 19th century to the present; however, the course will also give some attention to South Africa’s roles in the wider history of Africa and the world.

• Section D: Tuesday and Thursday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 32530 – Japanese-Chinese Relations

Studying the past two hundred years of relations between China and Japan is integral to understanding present and future developments in East Asia. This course complements existing courses offered by Seiji Shirane (Traditional Japan; Modern Japan; War in Modern East Asia; The Japanese Empire in the 20th-Century) and Danian Hu (Traditional China; Modern China; Twentieth-Century China). Yet while these other courses briefly touch on issues related to Sino-Japanese relations, this course is the only one to focus exclusively on relations between China and Japan over the longue durée. This is a combined course.

• Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Seiji Shirane

HIST 32850 – The French Revolution

A thorough introduction to the French Revolution - one of the defining events of modern times, and the crucible in which key elements of modern politics were forged or redefined: universal manhood suffrage, human rights, civil equality, direct democracy, ideological dictatorship, nationalism, women’s liberation, and revolution itself.

• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Clifford Rosenberg

HIST 35400 – Conservatism and the New Right

Examines various conservative ideologies and movements, their social and intellectual bases, and historical interconnections. Special attention to the renewal of the Right in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the Right’s relation to fascism and national socialism.

• Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | James Lewis

HIST 36500 African-American History to Emancipation to Present

The post-slavery experience of African-Americans: the creation and destruction of a black peasantry, the growth of a black working class, and the resulting change in black politics and culture.

• Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 41102 – The 20th Century American City

• Section 4RS: Tuesday and Thursday 4:50pm – 6:50pm | Matthew Vaz HYBRID

HIST 47100 Pakistan: Religion, Military, State

This course will explore the complex ties between religion, politics, and military, while tracing the circumstances of the creation of Pakistan in 1947 out of British India. Central themes include: How was Pakistan created? How did the military usurp political power? Notwithstanding a sizeable middle class, why does religion play such an important role in Pakistan, and what ties does religion have with the military? Finally, the central issue of Indo-Pakistan rivalry.

• Section ST: Thursday 5:00pm – 7:30pm | Ravi Kalia HYBRID

Spring 2024 USSO & WCIV

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Rory Duffy
Section B2: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Kareen Williams
Section B3: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Amy Van Natter | ONLINE
Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Harry Stein
Section C2: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Amy Van Natter | ONLINE
Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Kareen Williams
Section D2: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Harry Stein
Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Kareen Williams
Section E2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Rory Duffy
Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Johnnie Wilder
Section J: Monday and Wednesday 8:00pm - 9:15 pm | Amy Van Natter | ONLINE
Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Amanda Brennan
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 am | Amanda Brennan
Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 am | Harold Forsythe
Section M3: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Deena Ecker
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Deena Ecker
Section SEK: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Rory Duffy

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Section G2: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Johnnie Wilder
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section M2: Tuesday Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Nolan Benson
Section P: Tuesday Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Nolan Benson
Section P3: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section R: Tuesday Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Nolan Benson
Section S: Tuesday Thursday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Mike Thompson
Section SEK: Tuesday and Thursday 12:30pm - 1:45pm | Johnnie Wilder

WCIV 10200 – 1500 A.D. to the Present

Section C Mondays and Wednesday 11:00am-12:15pm | Hamideh Sedghi | ONLINE
Section D2: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Ugur Akpinar | ONLINE
Section E Mondays and Wednesday 2:00pm-3:15pm | Hamideh Sedghi | ONLINE
Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Ravi Kalia
Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am-10:45am | Aaron Weinstein
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Jeremy Randall
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Aaron Weinstein
Section P2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Juliana Nalerio
Section R: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Juliana Nalerio

Fall 2023 Graduate Courses

HIST B0000 – Historical Methods and Historiography

Mondays 7:00PM - 9:00PM | Anne Kornhauser

HIST B2609 – Japanese Empire

This course examines the expansion of the Japanese empire in Asia from 1895 to 1945, focusing on Japan's colonies in Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, the South Pacific, and Southeast Asia. We will explore new methodological approaches to the study of Japanese imperialism and how the empire transformed both the Japanese and their colonial subjects. Topics include the role of women and children in empire, the overlap of militarism and colonialism, debates over "collaboration" and "resistance," and the contested postwar legacies of empire in present-day Asia.

Wednesdays 4:50PM - 6:50PM | Seiji Shirane

HIST B8013 – Europe and Its Colonial World:1400--1800: Power and Knowledge in the Age of State & Empire Building

Informed by the age-old commonplace that knowledge is power, European states have for centuries collected extensive information about their polities, empires, and even rivals. This practice of information collection was born of the exigencies of the Renaissance city-states and later developed to aid the governance of empire in the age of conquest and colonization. The early modern period founded a number of the very archives that today still form the intellectual pillars of public policy. This course will retell the history of political modernity through the prism of the historical relationship between knowledge and power in the age of state and empire building. It will focus on the importance of information collection for the development European states and for their hallmark forms of global hegemony, while also considering the pitfalls, complexities, and unintended consequences of such a practice for the very centralization of power that they were supposed to effect.

Wednesdays 7:30PM - 9:30PM | Barbara Naddeo

HIST B8016 – Middle East & The World

This course will focus on migration to and from the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th century and the politics of mobility regulation, identity, and citizenship. Topics will include the massive 19th-century influx of Muslim refugees from Russian and the Balkans to Ottoman lands; forced population transfer, including the Armenian genocide and Turkish and Greek "population exchange" of 1923; settler colonialism; Arab migration to the Americas; and post-colonial Muslim migrations to Europe.

Tuesdays 4:50PM - 6:50PM | Lale Can

HIST B8957 – Histories of American Violence

What is the place of violence in American history, and in what ways do the stories Americans tell about themselves celebrate or erase violent action? This course critically examines the presence, meaning, and significance of violence on American soil from the colonial period to the present, drawing on an emerging historical literature using violence as a productive framework for analysis. Course readings and subject matter will intersect with histories of race, gender, imperialism, memory, and trauma.

Tuesdays 7:00PM - 9:00PM | ONLINE | Alexandra Stern

Fall 2023 Undergraduate Courses

HIST 20400 – Early Modern Europe

An overview of European history from the resurgence of urban life and classical culture during the Renaissance to the trials and tribulations of the French Revolution.

• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Barbara Naddeo
• Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45pm | Barbara Naddeo

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

•   Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | James Lewis
•   Section HNR: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Andreas Killen
•   Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 PM | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 21300 – The Historians Craft

• Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Yaari Felber-Seligman
• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | John Blanton

HIST 22900 – Africa before 1500

• Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 24000 – The United States: From its Origins 1877

• Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45pm | Alexander Gambaccini
• Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Alexander Gambaccini

HIST 24100 – The United States: Since 1865

•   Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Matthew Vaz
•   Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Matthew Cotter
•   Section ND: Tuesday and Friday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | John Gillooly

HIST 28000 – Latin America in World History

A historical introduction to the cultures and societies of Latin America and the Caribbean from the Pre-Colombian era to the present and their place in world history.

• Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45am | Shalina Jinnah
• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 31133 – India After Gandhi

This course explores the last decade of the Raj (British rule) through Nehru-Gandhi dominated Congress rule, followed by the emergence of regional and popular politics. In the 75 years since independence, India built infrastructure and institutions that will raise standards of living, increase life-expectancy, and protect the rule of law guaranteed in the Constitution (1950). India was one of the first countries to guaranty minority rights in the Constitution.

• Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Ravi Kalia

HIST 31691 – Europe: 1945 to the Present

• Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | James Lewis

HIST 31691 – African American Intellectual History: The Vernacular

AKA Word Up! Focuses on the intersection between the written and spoken word. and explores how narratives of the African American experience reflect and provoke social, cultural, and political activism and transformation. We will delve deeply into 19th and 20th century primary texts, including Negro Spirituals, the poetry of Phyllis Wheatly, Langston Hughes, and Gil Scott Heron, the speeches of Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcom X, the blues of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, the choreopoem of Ntozake Shange, the rhymes of Grand Master Flash and Cameo, the plays of Dael Orlandersmith and Roger Guenveur Smith, and the spoken word of Saul Williams. We will also explore the power of oral, written, and performed texts and how these forms speak to one another. Key themes will include Race, Gender, Sexuality, Identity Formation and Representation, Resistance to Oppression, Agency, Memory, Narrative Authority, Orality, Performativity, Objectivity, and Subjectivity. We will also delve into African American vernacular forms including call and response, signifying, and playing the dozens.

• Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 31698 – 20th Century Middle East

This course offers a critical overview of the history of the twentieth century Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the present. This span encompasses developments that had lasting impacts on the region. The course will cover and address key themes and topics within the context of the region’s history, such as war, disease, environment, media, social movements, decolonization, and US imperialism in the Middle East.

• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Beth Baron

HIST 31987 – Haiti and the Dominican Republic: An Island-wide History

The island of Hispaniola collectively comprising the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic established the second independent space in the Western Hemisphere and was the first Black and Afro-Latino colony to gain self-rule from European colonization and abolish slavery. This course introduces students to the island's dynamic history, culture, and politics, from pre-contact indigenous Ayiti, to the first site of colonization in the Americas, to the island-wide struggle against slavery known as the Haitian Revolution, to episodes of U.S. occupation and dictatorship in the 20th century, all the way to the 2010 earthquake and 2013 Haitian-Dominican immigration crisis.

• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 31698 – The Era of American Revolution

• Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | John Blanton

HIST 32400 – Civil War and Reconstruction

Examines the historical era surrounding the global conflagration of 1914-1918. Explores social, political, and economic ideologies, the consequences of imperialism and its partial collapse, artistic reflection and vanguard movements, and the new post-war world order. Uncommon violence, mass movements, radical transformation, and an inconclusive peace emerged from countless small acts.

• Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:45pm | Alexandra Stern

HIST 32501 – Gilded Age & Progress Era

The political, economic, and social phases of the development of the United States from Reconstruction to the First World War.

• Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am – 10:45am | John Gillooly

HIST 32540 – War in Modern East Asia

This course examines wars in East Asia and their impact on the societies of Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia from 1800 to the present. Topics include the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), Pacific War (1941-45), Cold War in Asia, and the historical legacies of these conflicts today.

• Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Seiji Shirane

HIST 32580 – Crime & Policing in America

• Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Matthew Vaz

HIST 32600 – The U.S. from 1914-1945

America and World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Depression and New Deal, Roosevelt's leadership, World War II.

• Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | John Gillooly

HIST 34900 – The Third Reich

• Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Andreas Killen

HIST 36300 African-American History to Emancipation

A survey of African American experience including their origins in Africa, the slave trade, colonial and plantation slavery, slave culture, resistance, the Civil War and Emancipation.

• Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 42400 The Great War

A comprehensive overview of World War I. Central themes include the origins of the conflict, both long- and short-term; the nature of industrial killing; the growth of the state, of mass armies, of economic regulation; and the revolutionary movements that the prolonged war effort spawned.

• Section C2: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Clifford Rosenberg

Fall 2023 USSO & WCIV

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Rory Duffy
Section B2: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Kareen Williams
Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Harry Stein
Section C2: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Amy Van Natter | ONLINE
Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Kareen Williams
Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Kareen Williams
Section E2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Rory Duffy
Section J: Monday and Wednesday 8:00pm - 9:15 pm | Amy Van Natter | ONLINE
Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Harold Forsythe
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 am | Harry Stein
Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 am | Harold Forsythe
Section M3: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Jacob Zomoff
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Deena Ecker
Section SEK: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Rory Duffy

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Johnnie Wilder
Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45pm | Johnnie Wilder
Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Michael Thompson
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section R: Tuesday Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Nolan Benson
Section S4: Tuesday Thursday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Nolan Benson
Section SEK3: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Johnnie Wilder

WCIV 10200 – 1500 A.D. to the Present

Section C Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00am-12:15pm | Juliana Nalerio
Section E2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Hamideh Sedghi | ONLINE
Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Ravi Kalia
Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am-10:45am | Aaron Weinstein
Section L2: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am – 10:45am | Barbara Syrrakos
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Jeremy Randall
Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Aaron Weinstein
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Aaron Weinstein

Summer 2023 Graduate Courses

Summer 2023 Session 2: July 5, 2023 – August 1, 2023

HIST B1615 – France -Francoph Af

France-Francoph Af

TuTh 6:00PM - 8:35PM | Online | Professor James Lewis

MoWe 6:00PM - 8:35PM | In person | Professor James Lewis

Summer 2023 Undergraduate Courses

Summer 2023 Session 1: June 5, 2023 - July 3, 2023

HIST 24100 - The United States: Since 1865

MoTuWeTh 2:30PM - 5:05PM | In person | Professor Kareen Williams

HIST 31888 – British Empire

British Empire

MoTuWeTh 2:30PM - 5:05PM | Online | Professor Ravi Kalia

HIST 46900 – Indian Cinema and Popular Culture

This course will explore the social impact of Indian cinema and the making of the new culture of Bollywood. Central themes include: How has Indian cenema influenced social change? What has been its social and cultural impact in modern India?

MoTuWeTh 6:00PM - 8:35PM | Online | Professor Ravi Kalia

USSO 10100 – Development of US & its People

MoWe 11:30AM - 2:05PM | Online | Professor Aaron Weinstein

TuTh 11:30AM - 2:05PM | In person | Professor Aaron Weinstein

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 15000A.D.

MoTuWeTh 11:30AM - 2:05PM | Online | Professor Johnnie Wilder

Summer 2023 Session 2: July 5, 2023 – August 1, 2023

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

Now Completely ONLINE!*

MoTuWeTh 2:30PM - 5:05PM | Online | Professor James Lewis

HIST 24000 – The United Stated: From Its Origins to 1877

MoTuWeTh 11:30AM - 2:05PM | Online | Professor John Blanton

HIST 30102 – Medieval Europe

Medieval Europe

MoTuWeTh 2:30PM - 5:05PM | Online | Professor James Lepree

USSO 10100 – Development of US & its People

MoWe 11:30AM - 2:05PM | Online | Professor Aaron Weinstein

TuTh 11:30AM - 2:05PM | In person | Professor Aaron Weinstein

Spring 2023 Graduate Courses

HIST B0303— Europe, 1815-1914
WINTER SESSION (Only Winter Class offered)

Monday/Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays (2:00pm – 5:30pm) | James Lewis

HIST B2321 - 3GG Research Colloquium

Wednesdays 4:50PM - 6:50PM | Lale Can

HIST B4010 - 4RS The Colonial and Revolutionary Period to 1783

European discovery and exploration of America; origins and peopling of the English colonies; colonial life; imperial innovations and American protest; the Revolution.

Thursdays 4:50PM - 6:50PM | John Blanton

HIST B4406 - The Third Reich

The Third Reich.

Tuesdays 4:50PM - 6:50PM | Andreas Killen

HIST B8959 - U.S-Middle East Relations - ONLINE

This is a research seminar focusing on U.S.-Middle East relations from 1945-present. Students will spend the entire semester researching and writing a paper of roughly 8,000-9,000 words (about 25 pages double-spaced) based strongly on primary sources. Weekly classes will focus on research methods and the preparation of your paper. We will examine different sources and methodological approaches, footnoting, historiography, framing, formatting, etc. The course is very much an active workshop, and requires strong participation.

Wednesdays 7:00PM - 9:00PM | Craig Daigle

HIST B8960 - Japanese-Chinese Relations

This course explores the major political, social, cultural, and economic exchanges between Japan and China during the twentieth century. Topics include Pan-Asian alliances against Western imperialism; Japan's rise as an imperial power and its two wars with China; Chinese collaboration and resistance under the Japanese occupation; "people's diplomacy? During the Cold War; and debates between the two countries over historical memory.

Mondays 4:50PM - 6:50PM | Seiji Shirane

HIST B8961 - Writing Black Women's History

Writing Black Women’s History delves into black women’s biography not from a literary perspective but as historical research and writing. With a focus on the biographies of black women in the United States during the 20th century, this Masters research-intensive seminar invites students to explore the historiography, research methodologies, and writing of black women’s historical biography. During the first half of the semester, we will delve into historical biographies of individuals including, but not limited to Lorraine Hansberry, Ella Baker, and Louise Patterson. At the same time, students will begin their own primary source-based research project culminating in the first draft of a 20-page research paper.Students will spend the second half of the semester workshopping and revising to produce a final paper that will meet the requirements of the MA Field Paper track. Questions we will consider include: Whose story gets told? Why? Why not? Into what context does a specific biography fit? How do biographies make historical arguments? When is biography more, or less effective than other forms of historical writing? What are the most effective primary sources? How do we use less-easily legible sources? What, if anything, is the role speculation and/or imagination?

Tuesdays 7:00PM - 9:00PM | Laurie Woodard

Spring 2023 Undergraduate Courses

HIST 20400 – Early Modern Europe

An overview of European history from the resurgence of urban life and classical culture during the Renaissance to the trials and tribulations of the French Revolution.

Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Barbara Naddeo

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

An overview of the social, economic, political, and intellectual developments in Europe from the Enlightenment to the present, and an introduction to the study of history. Topics include
the problems of revolution, industrialization and the transformation of rural societies, the emergence of liberalism and the challenges it has faced in the 20th century.

Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 PM | James Lewis
Section H: Monday and Wednesday 6:30pm - 7:45 PM | James Lewis
Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm - 6:15 PM | Benjamin Deihl
Section T: Tuesday and Thursday 6:30pm - 7:45 PM | Benjamin Deihl

HIST 21300 – The Historians Craft

Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Alexandra Stern
Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Craig Daigle | Hybrid

HIST 21902 – Ancient Africa

Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 21903 – World History

Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Clifford Rosenberg

HIST 24000 – The United States: From Its Origins to 1877

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45am | Alexander Gambaccini
Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am–12:15pm | Alexander Gambaccini

HIST 24100 - The United States: Since 1865

Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Matthew Vaz
Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Matthew Cotter
Section ND: Tuesday and Friday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | John Gillooly

HIST 28000 – Latin America in World History

A historical introduction to the cultures and societies of Latin America and the Caribbean from the Pre-Colombian era to the present and their place in world history.

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45am | Shalina Jinnah

HIST 28100 – Colonial Latin America

Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am – 10:45am | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 30300 – Research Colloquium (HONORS)

Research Colloquium (HONORS)

Section 3GG: Wednesday 4:50pm – 6:50pm | Lale Can

HIST 31146 – Affluence and its Discontents

Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | John Gillooly

HIST 31188 – History of Medicine in the Middle East and North Africa

History of Medicine in the Middle East and North Africa.

Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Beth baron

HIST 31208 – The United States Since Watergate

Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am – 10:45am | John Gillooly

HIST 31300 – Research Colloquium

Research Colloquium

Section 3GG: Wednesday 4:50pm – 6:50pm | Lale Can

HIST 31448 – Social and Political History Middle East

Introduces students to new approaches to the study of the Middle East, with focus on social and political histories of multiethnic societies in Ottoman Istanbul, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria; Qajar Iran; and post-WWI mandates. Covers the impact of modernity, specifically, how people experienced sectarianism, nationalism, and colonialism; integration into the world economy; and transitions from empire to nation-state.

Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Lale Can

HIST 31671 – Spy Wars

This course will examine the role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the use of covert operations during the Cold War. We will explore key moments in the CIA’s history, from the overthrow of the Iranian and Guatemalan regimes in the 1950s, and the epic disaster of the Bay of Pigs, through a series of little-known or under-explored covert activities including Operation Mongoose against Cuba, actions in British Guiana, Guatemala, Bolivia, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The course will explore both the successes and failures of the CIA, as well as examine the role of intelligence agencies in formulating U.S. foreign policy.

Section S : Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Craig Daigle | Hybrid

HIST 31685 – LGBTQ World History

This course focuses on the history, contributions, and experiences of gender and sexually-diverse individuals throughout world history, with particular emphasis on nonwestern cultures. It broadly explores changes and debates within the field of history as a whole and the stakes of centering historical analysis on individuals often overlooked or erased by mainstream history writing. The course will balance big-picture discussions with case studies drawn from the instructor’s geographic expertise. These will include examples of precolonial LGBTQ history, how nonwestern cultures conceptualized gender and sexual diversity, the fraught imperial and colonial periods, and contemporary historians’ efforts to diversify curriculums and public knowledge. Students will research a related topic of their choice and develop a final project that can take the form of a research proposal, a teaching unit, or a presentation for the public (such as a film proposal, informative website, podcast series, etc).

Section D2: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 31688 – Indigenous History of the US

Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Alexandra Stern

HIST 31696 – African Atlantic 1450-1850

Starting from the mid-15th century, the Atlantic world has been shaped by the complex interactions and history of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. From 1500 to 1820, more than three out of four migrants to the Americas were Africans. Yet for the history of Africans in the Atlantic world often becomes visible only through the history of slavery and white European settler colonialism. Looking to regions such as West and Central Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America, this class reimagines the Atlantic world through the labels African-Atlantic and Black Atlantic to consider how African and African-descended communities not only survived, but thrived, embraced, and maneuvered their environments for their own purposes. This course centers upon Africans and their Afro-descendants contributions to the Atlantic world sphere as well as their varied historical experiences and cultural formations embedded in the heart of Atlantic modernity.

Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 31975 – Archival Education and Outreach

Archives are tools; like all tools they are kept to be used? (Pugh, 2010). This course introduces students to the emerging field of archival education and will build a foundation for using primary sources as learning tools for inquiry-based learning in K-12 classrooms and undergraduate settings, and for public programming. Students will be introduced to professionals in the field who facilitate outreach in a variety of cultural institutions, and they will use what they learn to create practical tools for their professional toolbox. This course will model to students how to become well-rounded information professionals. They will be exposed to pedagogical approaches, create primary source educational resources, learn about and develop innovative outreach initiatives, and be provided with practical strategies for working with groups in a variety of public settings.

Section H: Monday and Wednesday 6:30pm – 7:45pm | TBA | Hybrid

HIST 32850 – The French Revolution

Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Clifford Rosenberg

HIST 33550 – Japanese Society since WWII

This course will look at changing dynamics of Japanese society since 1945, with some emphasis on Japan today in contrast to the United States. Topics include: dynamics of family and work life, popular culture, education, women's roles, major political and ethnic/regional issues, challenges of globalization, urban cultures, Japan's issues with terrorism, and Japan's status in Asia.

Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Seiji Shirane

HIST 35700 – History of Socialism

Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | James Lewis

HIST 36500 – African American History from Emancipation to Present

The post-slavery experience of African-Americans: the creation and destruction of a black peasantry, the growth of a black working class, and the resulting change in black politics and culture.

Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 42300 –Psychiatry, Madness, and Society

Examines social, cultural, intellectual and institutional aspects of the history of madness in Europe since 1789. The course will begin with the age of the so-called Great Confinement, then move on to consider the institutional and therapeutic reforms of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary era; the rise of theories of degeneration, hysteria and neurasthenia in the second half of the 19th century; psychoanalysis and sexology; war neurosis and military psychiatry; psychiatry under the Nazis. It will conclude by looking at the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and the new biological psychiatry of the 1980s and 1990s.

Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Andreas Killen

HIST 44900 – Power Race Culture in NYC

Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Matthew Vaz

Spring 2023 USSO & WCIV

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Rory Duffy
Section B2: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Kareen Williams
Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Harry Stein
Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Kareen Williams
Section D2: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Harry Stein
Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Kareen Williams
Section E2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Rory Duffy
Section J: Monday and Wednesday 8:00pm - 9:15 pm | Amy Van Natter | ONLINE
Section L2: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Harold Forsythe
Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 am | Harold Forsythe
Section M3: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Jacob Zomoff
Section ND: Tuesday and Friday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Deena Ecker
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Deena Ecker
Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45 pm | David Pultz
Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm - 6:15 pm | Herbert Toler
Section SEK: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Rory Duffy
Section T: Tuesday and Thursday 6:30pm - 7:45 pm | Herbert Toler
Section U: Tuesday and Thursday 8:00pm - 9:15 pm | Herbert Toler

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Section C2: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm | Johnnie Wilder
Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Johnnie Wilder
Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Michael Thompson
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section P3: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section R: Tuesday Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Nolan Benson
Section SEK: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45pm | Johnnie Wilder

WCIV 10200 – 1500 A.D. to the Present

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Oscar Aponte Moreno
Section C Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00am-12:15pm | Juliana Nalerio
Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Hamideh Sedghi | ONLINE
Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Oscar Aponte Moreno
Section L: Tuesday and Thursday (9:30am-10:45am) | Aaron Weinstein
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Jeremy Randall
Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Aaron Weinstein
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Aaron Weinstein

Fall 2022 Graduate Courses

HIST B0000 – Historical Methods and Historiography

Mondays 7:00PM - 9:00PM | Anne Kornhauser

HIST B0704 – History South Africa

Home to some of the earliest humans, the long history of South Africa represents these that mirror broader African history and key struggles that shaped the United States. This course explores the complex history of southern Africa as a region and the country of South Africa specifically. Through a series of case studies, it highlights important cultural, economic, and political themes along with scholars’ approaches to them. The course also delves into the complexities of recent identity politics, historical memory, and public history projects in South Africa, all impacted by the country’s earlier history.

Tuesdays 4:50PM - 6:50PM | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST B6050 – Modern Japan

Survey of the building of the modern Japanese state, society and economy from 1868 to the present, with focus on continuity and change, the social costs of rapid industrialization and the emergence of Japan in the global economy.

Wednesdays 4:50PM - 6:50PM | Seiji Shirane

HIST B8956 – The Birth of the Modern European State: 1400-1815

What is a sovereign state, and when did it arise in European history? How have major scholars accounted for its origins and nature? And has history borne out their hypotheses? To answer these questions this course engages landmark readings about the “state” by legendary social scientists from Weber to Foucault and case studies of its genesis by prominent historians of Europe and its colonial empires, from 1400-1815.

Wednesdays 7:00PM - 9:00PM | Barbara Naddeo

HIST B0002 – U.S. South

How did the South become a distinct American region, and to what extent is it unique? This course will explore the history of the Old and New U.S. South (colonial period to the present) to analyze its racial, social, intellectual, economic, and political evolution. Topics will include race, class, and gender relations; political and economic transformations from slave society to high-tech “Sunbelt”; and
the role of culture and memory in preserving Southern distinctiveness.

Thursdays 7:00PM - 9:00PM | ONLINE | Alexandra Stern

Fall 2022 Undergraduate Courses

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 PM | Staff
Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45 PM | James Lewis

HIST 21300 – The Historians Craft

Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Barbara Naddeo
Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Laurie Woodard

HIST 23900 – 20th Century Europe Through Film

An overview of twentieth-century European history that pairs classic films with iconic texts.

Section 001: Tuesday (in person) and Thursday (online) 2:00pm – 3:15pm | HYBRID | Clifford Rosenberg

HIST 24000 – The United States: From Its Origins to 1877

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45am | Alexander Gambaccini
Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am–12:15pm | Alexander Gambaccini

HIST 24100 - The United States: Since 1865

Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Matthew Vaz
Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Matthew Cotter
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | John Gillooly

HIST 27600 - Africa And The Modern World

This course explores the dynamics of history, economy, society and politics in Africa from 1500 to the present. Topics include Africa-world interactions, the growth of African states, economies, and cities, and changing forms of popular culture, gender, and livelihoods. The course will move between discussions of Africa-wide developments and local events. Rather than sharply divide African history into precolonial, and postcolonial segments, it will explore changes and continuities. Moving between discussions of Africa-wide developments and case studies of remarkable individuals and specific African societies, the course examines how the history of five key centuries continues to define Africa today.

Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 28000 – Latin America in World History

A historical introduction to the cultures and societies of Latin America and the Caribbean from the Pre-Colombian era to the present and their place in world history.

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 10:45am | Staff

Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Staff

NEW COURSE!

HIST 31090 - Independent Study Internship

Afro-Latinx and Afro-Caribbean in the archive. Paid independent study internship will train candidates in archival and museum research. Department consent required. For more information, please contact Professor Emmanuel Lachaud at elachaud@ccny.cuny.edu .

Tuesday 1:30pm - 4:00pm | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 31149 – The Ottoman Empire

Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Lale Can

HIST 31640 – Mapping Slavery and Freedom

This course combines traditional historical research methods with digital mapping technologies to analyze the presence of slavery in the US and the political, economic, and spatial implications of its abolition. Students will research the lives of individual slaveholders and enslaved people and produce a public-facing digital map as a final project.

Section 001: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | John Blanton

HIST 31686 – Science and Society

Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Andreas Killen

HIST 31693 – France and Francophone Africa

Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Clifford Rosenberg

HIST 31694 – Japanese Empire

This course will examine Japan’s modern history by considering historical work that reexamines the period of the Japanese empire, 1895-1945. Topics will include the dynamics of colonial culture, issues of gender and marginality, and emerging debates on wartime responsibility and memory.

Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Seiji Shirane

HIST 31695 – African Latin in Caribbean

This course analyzes the history of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and its formative role in the broader Atlantic in order to understand how the struggles of Afro-descendants anticipated and informed questions of autonomy, emancipation, race, identity, and modernity. With an emphasis on the major islands of Hispaniola, Jamaica, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, we will begin with indigenous encounter with colonialism, delve into the expansion of slavery and antislavery movements, explore postemancipation and postcolonial society, and, lastly, end with encroaching neocolonialism and its 20th century reverberations.

Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Emmanuel Lachaud

HIST 32100 – Early America

Section F: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | John Blanton

HIST 32400 – Civil War and Reconstruction

Analyzes the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War. Topics include sectional crisis in an era of antebellum expansion, slavery and emancipation as political and personal realities, and Reconstruction conflicts over the new status of freedpeople in the South and the future of alternative sovereignties in the West.

Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Alexandra Stern

HIST 32501 – The Gilded Age & Progressive Era

The political, economic, and social phases of the development of the United States from Reconstruction to the First World War.

Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm – 3:15pm | John Gillooly

HIST 32580 – Crime & Policing in America

Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am – 12:15pm | Matthew Vaz

HIST 32600 – The U.S. from 1914 - 1945

America and World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Depression and New Deal, Roosevelt's leadership, World War II.

Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | John Gillooly

HIST 34900 - The Third Reich

Hitler, Nazism and Nazi Germany. Topics include: social, economic, and political
preconditions to the Nazi takeover; anti-semitism; cultural and artistic policies of Nazi Germany; the churches; the film industry; varieties of resistance; concentration camps; the conquest of Europe; mass murder; fall of the Third Reich. (W)

Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm – 4:45pm | Andreas Killen

HIST 35400 - Conservatism and the New Right

Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | James Lewis

HIST 36300 – Afr-Amer Hist to Emancipation

Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm – 6:15pm | Laurie Woodard

Fall 2022 USSO & WCIV

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Harry Stein
Section B2: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Kareen Williams
Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Harry Stein
Section C2: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Rory Duffy
Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Kareen Williams
Section D3: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Rory Duffy
Section E: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Kareen Williams
Section E2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Deena Ecker
Section J: Monday and Wednesday 8:00pm - 9:15 pm | Amy Van Natter | ONLINE
Section L: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Aaron Weinstein
Section L4: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Harold Forsythe
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Aaron Weinstein
Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Harold Forsythe
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Aaron Weinstein
Section S: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00pm - 6:15 pm | Herbert Toler
Section SEK: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:45 pm | Rory Duffy
Section T: Tuesday and Thursday 6:30pm - 7:45 pm | Herbert Toler
Section U: Tuesday and Thursday 8:00pm - 9:15 pm | Herbert Toler

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Johnnie Wilder
Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Johnnie Wilder
Section G: Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm - 6:15 pm | Michael Thompson
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | James Lepree | ONLINE
Section SEK3: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Johnnie Wilder

WCIV 10200 – 1500 A.D. to the Present

Section B: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am - 10:45 am | Oscar Aponte Moreno
Section C: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Drew M. Fedorka
Section D: Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:45 pm | Drew M. Fedorka
Section E2: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | ONLINE
Section M: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Jeremy Randall | ONLINE
Section M2: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:15 pm | Jacob A Zumoff | ONLINE
Section P: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15 pm | Hratch Y Kestenian
Section R: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm - 4:45 pm | Hratch Y Kestenian

Summer 2022 Graduate Courses

Summer 2022 Session 1: June 6, 2022 - July 5, 2022

HIST B1921 – Afghan Wars

Afghanistan—from the Soviet Union’s occupation in the 1980s to the U.S. invasion of 2001 and beyond-- presents a good example of contemporary conflicts, often described as “complex political emergencies” (CPEs). These conflicts are the offshoots of diverse factors related to ethno-national, ethno-geographic, ethno- economic, ethno-religious and ethno-sectarian phenomena. To grasp these conflicts, one needs to examine Afghanistan’s history, culture, and linguistic dynamics, as well as its socio-economic structure, religio-tribal ideologies, and geo-strategic and geo-political stereotypes. In class discussions, a comprehensive record of the impact of these conflicts on the country’s human capital from the 1980s to the present will be examined.

Monday-Thursday 6PM - 8:35 PM | HYBRID | Professor Ravi Kalia

Monday & Wednesday (in person)
Tuesday & Thursday (online)

Summer 2022 Session 2: July 7, 2022 - August 2, 2022

HIST B0304 – 20th Century Europe

Political, social, economic, and intellectual developments in fin de siFcle Europe, the coming of the First World War, the War and Peace, the Russian Revolution, Italian Fascism, the Weimar Republic and Nazism, the Democracies between the wars, the diplomacy of appeasement, the Second World War, the Cold War and dTtente, and the emergence of East and West Europe as vital forces in the world today.

Monday-Thursday 6PM - 8:35 PM | HYBRID | Professor James Lewis

Monday & Wednesday (in person)
Tuesday & Thursday (online)

Summer 2022 Undergraduate Courses

Summer 2022 Session 1: June 6, 2022 - July 5, 2022

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

An examination of the civilizations of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through a comparative study of selected places and themes. The dynamics of hunter/gatherer, pastoral and agrarian societies, urbanization, trade, imperialism, slavery, feudalism, the centralization of the state, religion and secular thought are among the topics discussed.

Monday-Thursday 11:30AM - 2:05 PM | HYBRID | Professor Johnnie Wilder

Monday & Wednesday (in person)
Tuesday & Thursday (online)

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

Monday-Thursday 11:30AM - 2:05 PM | HYBRID | Professor Aaron Weinstein

Monday & Wednesday (in person)
Tuesday & Thursday (online)

HIST 31177 – Mughals of India

Monday-Thursday 11:30AM - 2:05 PM | HYBRID | Professor Ravi Kalia

Monday & Wednesday (in person)
Tuesday & Thursday (online)

Summer 2022 Session 2: July 7, 2022 - August 2, 2022

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

Monday-Thursday 2:30PM - 5:05 PM | HYBRID | Professor James Lewis

Monday & Wednesday (in person)
Tuesday & Thursday (online)

HIST 30102 – Medieval Europe

Monday-Thursday 2:30PM - 5:05 PM | ONLINE | Professor James Lepree

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

Monday-Thursday 11:30AM - 2:05 PM | HYBRID | Professor Aaron Weinstein

Monday & Wednesday (in person)
Tuesday & Thursday (online)

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Monday-Thursday 11:30AM - 2:05 PM | HYBRID | Professor Michael Thompson

Monday & Wednesday (in person)
Tuesday & Thursday (online)

Winter 2022

Winter 2022 Semester: January 3, 2022 - January 24, 2022

UNDERGRAD COURSE OFFERINGS

HIST 24100 – The United States Since 1865

Section WW | Monday-Thursday 1:30 - 5:08 PM | ONLINE | Professor Craig Daigle

Spring 2022 Undergraduate Courses

HIST 21300 – The Historian’s Craft

Tues & Thurs 5 – 6:15 PM | HYBRID, Tues: ONLINE, Thurs: IN PERSON | Craig Daigle

Research Colloquium

This intensive research workshop on the art and craft of primary source-based research projects offers students the opportunity to work on a substantial research project with the guidance of an instructor and the support and feedback of a cohort of fellow researchers. We welcome students who are working on a thesis prospectus, a thesis (MA or Honors), or a research project in History. Students will hone their research and writing skills as well as their ability to critique and engage with work within and beyond their own discipline.

Please contact Professor Shirane to discuss your project and admission into the workshop: sshirane@ccny.cuny.edu

- Mondays 4:50 – 6:50 PM | IN PERSON | Seiji Shirane

HIST 30300 – Research Colloquium (HONORS)

HIST 31330 – Research Colloquium

EUROPE

HIST 20600 - Modern Europe

Section E
- Mon & Wed 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON | James Lewis
Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 23900 - 20th Century Europe through Film

An overview of twentieth-century European history that pairs classic films with iconic texts.

Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | HYBRID | Clifford Rosenberg

HIST 31691 – Europe: 1945 to the Present

Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON | Andreas Killen

HIST 31692 – The Era of Great War

Tues & Thurs 9:30 – 10:45 AM | IN PERSON | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 32850 – The French Revolution

Tues & Thurs 3:30 – 4:45 PM | IN PERSON | Clifford Rosenberg

HIST 31981 – Women and the Holocaust (Cross-Listed with INTL 31981 & JWST 31917)

This course explores topics related to women’s experiences during the Holocaust from an interdisciplinary approach. Through the study of primary sources, online archives, literary texts, and artistic representations, students will gain a multifaceted perspective of this topic. This course aims to present the diverse experiences of women’s lives in the ghettos, concentration camps, death camps, in hiding, and in resistance. Students will gain a broader understanding of the Holocaust and mass killings of by learning about the first-hand experiences of Jewish, Roma-Sinti, and other “undesirable” women. The aim of this course is to address deeper questions of how the Third Reich, the war, and the Holocaust affected the lives of women differently from the lives of men.

Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON | STAFF TBA

HIST 31223 – Women in Antiquity

Mon & Wed 3:30 – 4:45 PM | HYBRID | TBA

HIST 35700 – History of Socialism

Mon & Wed 5 – 6:15 PM | IN PERSON | James Lewis

ASIA, AFRICA, & THE MIDDLE EAST

HIST 21902 – Ancient Africa

Surveys the diversity of ancient African cultures from the earliest humans through the last millennia B.C.E. The course includes famous African civilizations like Nubia and Egypt, along with many other African societies. Traces how technological innovation, environmental management, and cross-cultural interactions shaped particular cultures and how historians narrate this history.

Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 23800 – The Middle East in Global History

Mon & Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | IN PERSON | Lale Can

HIST 32530 – Japanese-Chinese Relations

Mon & Wed 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON | Seiji Shirane

HIST 31745 – The 1971 War and the Making of Bangladesh

Mon & Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | HYBRID, Mon: IN PERSON, Wed: ONLINE | Ravi Kalia

HIST 31685 – LGBTQ World History

Tues & Thurs 5 – 6:15 PM | IN PERSON | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 47100 – Pakistan: Religion, Military, and the State

This course will explore the complex ties between religion, politics, and military, while tracing the circumstances of the creation of Pakistan in 1947 out of British India. Central themes include: How was Pakistan created? How did the military usurp political power. Notwithstanding a sizeable middle class, why does religion play such an important role in Pakistan, and what ties does religion have with the military? Finally the central issue of Indo-Pakistan rivalry.

Mon & Wed 3:30 – 4:45 PM | HYBRID, Mon: IN PERSON, Wed: ONLINE | Ravi Kalia

THE AMERICAS

HIST 24000 - The United States: From Its Origins to 1877

Section B
- Mon & Wed 9:30 – 10:45 AM | IN PERSON | Alexander Gambaccini
Section C
- Mon & Wed 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON | Alexander Gambaccini

HIST 24100 - The United States: Since 1865

Section F
- Mon & Wed 3:30 – 4:45 PM | IN PERSON | John Gillooly
Section G
- Mon & Wed 5 – 6:15 PM | ONLINE | Matthew Cotter
Section R
- Tues & Thurs 3:30 – 4:45 PM | HYBRID, Tues: ONLINE, Thurs: NAC 1/201 | Craig Daigle

HIST 31146 – Affluence and Its Discontents

Mon & Weds 9:30 – 10:45 AM | IN PERSON | John Gillooly

HIST 32200 – The Era of American Revolution

Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON | John Blanton

HIST 31208 – The United States Since Watergate

Mon & Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | IN PERSON | John Gillooly

HIST 36300 African-American History to Emancipation

The post-slavery experience of African-Americans: the creation and destruction of a black peasantry, the growth of a black working class, and the resulting change in black politics and culture.

Mon & Wed 5 – 6:15 PM | IN PERSON | Laurie Woodard

HIST 31688 – An Indigenous History of the United States

Mon & Wed 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON | Alexandra Stern

Spring 2022 Graduate Courses

HIST B8958 – WWII and the Remaking of South Asia

World War II fundamentally altered South Asia: After occupying Manchuria in 1931, Imperial Japan controlled Burma (Myanmar, today) by 1942, thus threatening British India. The Indian army became the largest volunteer force in the War consisting of 2.5 million men who fought for the Allied powers in multiple theaters, including Europe, as well as defending eastern India against encroaching Japan. The course explores how the War, which had been conducted on the moral ground of defending "the right of self-determination," contributed to Indian independence, how three new nations emerged out of British India, and how South Asia, with India and Pakistan as nuclear powers, became a vital center for world order and peace.

Wednesdays 4:50 - 6:50 PM | HYBRID | Spring 2022 | Professor Ravi Kalia

HIST B2321 – Research Colloquium

Please contact Professor Shirane to discuss your project and admission into the workshop: sshirane@ccny.cuny.edu

Mondays 4:50 - 6:50 PM | IN PERSON | Spring 2022 | Professor Seiji Shirane

HIST B8016 – Middle East and the World

Thursdays 7:00 – 9:00 PM | IN PERSON | Spring 2022 | Professor Lale Can

HIST B3750 – Madness and Civilization

Thursdays 4:50 - 6:50 PM | IN PERSON | Spring 2022 | Professor Andreas Killen

HIST B0402 – The New Nation, Slave and Free, 1783 to 1840

Republicanism and the democratization of politics, industrialization of an American working class, social reform and the making of the middle class, westward expansion and the removal of the Native Americans, sectional conflict and slave culture.

Tuesdays 7 – 9 PM | ONLINE | Spring 2022 | Professor John Blanton

HIST B8957 – Histories of American Violence

Wednesdays 7 - 9 PM | ONLINE | Spring 2022 | Professor Alex Stern

Spring 2022 USSO & WCIV

USSO 10100 - Development of the U.S. and Its People

Section B
- Mon & Wed 9:30 – 10:45 AM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/122 | Rory Duffy
Section B2
- Mon & Wed 9:30 – 10:45 AM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/327 | Kareen Williams
Section C
- Mon & Wed 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/313 | Rory Duffy
Section E
- Mon & Wed 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 7/306 | Kareen Williams
Section E2
- Mon & Wed 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON | Rory Duffy
Section J
- Mon & Wed 8 – 9:15 PM | ONLINE | Amy Van Natter
Section L
- Tues & Thurs 9:30 – 10:45 AM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/106 | Aaron Weinstein
Section L2
- Tues & Thurs 9:30 – 10:45 AM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/327 | Harold Forsythe
Section L3
- Tues & Thurs 9:30 – 10:45 AM | IN PERSON, NAC 7/219 | Harry Stein
Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/310 | Aaron Weinstein
Section M2
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/106 | Harold Forsythe
Section M3
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/328 | Israel Ben-Porat
Section P
- Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 5/124 | Aaron Weinstein
Section P2
- Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 7/225 | Harry Stein
Section S
- Tues & Thurs 5 – 6:15 PM | ONLINE | Herbert Toler
Section SEK
- Mon & Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/328 | Kareen Williams
Section T
- Tues & Thurs 6:30 – 7:45 PM | ONLINE | Herbert Toler
Section U
- Tues & Thurs 8 – 9:15 PM | ONLINE | Herbert Toler

WCIV 10100 - Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Section B
- Mon & Wed 9:30 – 10:45 AM | ONLINE | James Lepree
Section C2
- Mon & Wed 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON, Comp Goeth CG252 | Johnnie Wilder
Section D
- Mon & Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | ONLINE | James Lepree
Section F
- Mon & Wed 11– 12:15 PM | IN PERSON | Johnnie Wilder
Section G
- Mon & Wed 5 – 6:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 4/222 | Michael Thompson
Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 5/108 | Richard VanNort
Section P3
- Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 4/125 | Richard VanNort
Section SEK
- Mon & Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 5/110 | Johnnie Wilder

WCIV 10200 - 1500 A.D. to the Present

Section C
- Mon & Wed 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 6/327 | David Harden
Section D2
- Mon & Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | ONLINE | Hamideh Sedghi
Section F
- Mon & Wed 3:30 - 4:45 PM | ONLINE | Ravi Kalia
Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON, NAC 7/305 | Jeremy Randall

Fall 2021 Undergraduate Courses

Click here for the Fall 2021 Undergrad History Course Flyer

HIST 20400 HNR Early-Modern Europe

An overview of European history from the resurgence of urban life and classical
culture during the Renaissance to the trials and tribulations of the
French Revolution..

Mon & Wed 11 – 12:15 PM | ONLINE | Julian Gonzalez De Leon Heiblum

HIST 20600 Modern Europe

Section E
- Mon & Wed 2 – 3:15 PM | NAC 5/101 IN PERSON | James Lewis
Section G
- Mon & Wed 5 – 6:15 PM | NAC 6/115 | James Lewis
Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 2:15 | ONLINE | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 21300 The Historians Craft

Section E
- Mon & Wed 2 – 3:15 PM | ONLINE |Seiji Shirane
Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 2:15 | ONLINE | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 22900 Africa before 1500 (cross-listed with Black Studies 31150)

Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | ONLINE | Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST 23900 20^th Century Europe through Film

An overview of twentieth-century European history that pairs classic films with iconic texts.

Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | ONLINE | Clifford Rosenberg

HIST 24000 The United States: From Its Origins to 1877

Section B
- Mon & Wed 9:30 – 10:45 AM | ONLINE | Alexander Gambaccini
Section L
- Tues & Thurs 9:30 – 10:45 AM | HYBRID – Tues: NAC 6/112 Thurs: ONLINE | Alexander Gambaccini

HIST 24100 The United States: Since 1865

Section C
- Mon & Wed 11 – 12:15 PM | ONLINE | Matthew Vaz
Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | NAC 6/113 IN PERSON | John Gillooly

HIST 25300 Modern China

Change and continuity in the Chinese tradition across the 19th and 20th centuries. The encounter with the West, social and political disruptions, efforts to industrialize, and especially the evolution and outcome of the Chinese revolution will be stressed.

Section F
- Mon & Wed 3:30 – 4:45 PM | ONLINE | Danian Hu
Section G
- Mon & Wed 5 – 6:15 PM| ONLINE | Danian Hu

HIST 28000 Latin America in World History

A historical introduction to the cultures and societies of Latin America and the Caribbean from the Pre-Colombian era to the present and their place in world history.

Mon & Weds 12:30 – 1:45 PM | HYBRID – Mon: ONLINE Weds: NAC 6/113 | Matthew Vaz

HIST 31133 India after Gandhi

Mon & Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | ONLINE | Ravi Kalia

HIST 31686 Science and Society

Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | ONLINE | Andreas Killen

HIST 31690 The United Kingdom from Decolonization to Brexit

Tues & Thurs 9:30 – 10:45 AM | ONLINE | Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 32100 Early America

Mon & Wed 9:30 – 10:45 AM | ONLINE | Darren Staloff

HIST 32400 Civil War and Reconstruction

Mon & Wed 3:30 – 4:45 PM | ONLINE | Alexandra Stern

HIST 32501 The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

The political, economic, and social phases of the development of the United States from Reconstruction to the First World War.

Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | NAC 6/113 IN PERSON | John Gillooly

HIST 32600 The U.S. from 1914 to 1945

America and World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Depression and New Deal, Roosevelt's leadership, World War II.

Tues & Thurs 5 – 6:15 PM | NAC 6/113 IN PERSON | John Gillooly

HIST 33350 Twentieth-Century China (combined section with ASIA 31112)

Mon & Wed 11 – 12:15 PM | ONLINE | Danian Hu

HIST 34900 The Third Reich

Hitler, Nazism and Nazi Germany. Topics include: social, economic, and political preconditions to the Nazi takeover; anti-semitism; cultural and artistic policies of Nazi Germany; the churches; the film industry; varieties of resistance; concentration camps; the conquest of Europe; mass murder; fall of the Third Reich. (W)

Tues & Thurs 3:30 – 4:45 PM | ONLINE | Andreas Killen

HIST 36300 African-American History to Emancipation (cross-listed with Black Studies 31173)

During the Fall 2021 semester, African American History to Emancipation, AKA: History and Memory in the Early Modern Atlantic World, will operate as a HyFlex class. HyFlex means we will be using technology so that students who wish to attend class in person and students who wish to attend class remotely will be able to do so. We will meet in person or remotely synchronously (at the assigned class meeting time) and you will be able to access course materials online asynchronously (at your convenience). Everyone will be able to participate fully and safely.

We will explore the history, memory, and representation of enslavement and abolition in the United States. The key questions we are posing are: how do we recover the unrecoverable and how do we remember the “unrememberable?” We will consider the history of enslavement in the Atlantic World, its legacies in the United States, the gaps in our knowledge, the global trauma of Atlantic World Slavery, and contemporary and contemporaneous representations. Key themes include: the formation of the Atlantic World, enslavement, the transatlantic slave trade, slavery in the United States, the formation of African American cultures, the emergence of race and racism, resistance and rebellion, abolition, emancipation, and the meaning of freedom.

Mon & Wed 5 – 6:15 PM | NAC 4/209 HYBRID | Laurie Woodard

Fall 2021 Graduate Courses

Click here for the Fall 2021 Graduate History Course Flyer

HIST B0000 Historical Methods and Historiography

Tuesdays 7-9 PM | ONLINE | Fall 2021 | Professor Clifford Rosenberg

HIST B0016 Pacific War

Mondays 4:50-6:50 PM | ONLINE | Fall 2021 | Professor Seiji Shirane

HIST B8020 20^th Century US Social Justice Movements: ‘60s Going on ‘70s***

This seminar invites students to delve into the intersecting social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. We will explore narratives of civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, black power and the student and anti-war movements, among others, focusing on the ways in which the participants, agendas, goals, and strategies inspired, challenged, and influenced one another and the ways in which scholars and writers, both within and beyond the academy, have sought to contain, or at least manage, this vibrant yet unwieldy historical movement.

Thursdays 7-9 PM | NAC 5/142 | Fall 2021 | Professor Laurie Woodard

*** HIST B8020 will meet on campus but will be available remotely as well.

HIST B8953 New Directions in World History

This course emphasizes new directions and previously neglected topics in field of World History based on the instructor’s expertise. May include, but not limited to, histories of ancient non-western worlds, nomadic and sea-faring peoples, indigenous cultures, gender, LGBTQ individuals, everyday life, popular culture, and the so-called “Big History” that emphasizes broader, nonhuman planetary/environmental history as part of the curriculum. Class readings and assignments will emphasize new directions in research, practice, and pedagogy.

Thursdays 4:50-6:50 PM | ONLINE | Fall 2021 | Professor Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST B9060 Cold War International History

Wednesdays 7-9 PM | ONLINE | Fall 2021 | Professor Craig Daigle

HIST B0807 Arab-Israeli Conflict

T/TH 3:30-4:45 PM | HYBRID | Professor Craig Daigle

Fall 2021 USSO & WCIV Courses

Click here for the Fall 2021 USSO & WCIV Course Flyer

USSO 10100 Development of the U.S. and Its People

**This discussion section will meet once a week either online (indicated by an “O”) or in-person (indicated by an “H” for hybrid.) This weekly section will be accompanied by a large online weekly lecture given by Professor Darren Staloff. The lecture can be watched live on Mondays 12:30-1:45 p.m. or asynchronously after that time. Students will be responsible for watching the weekly lecture and participating in one weekly discussion section at the specific day/time of the section in which they are enrolled.

Section 1E
- Mon 2 – 3:15 PM | HYBRID Baskerville 106 | Kareen Williams
Section 1E2
- Mon 2 – 3:15 PM | ONLINE | Rory Duffy
Section 1F
- Mon 3:30 – 4:45 PM | HYBRID – Mon: NAC 4/220C | Kareen Williams
Section 1F2
- Mon 3:30 – 4:45 PM | ONLINE | Rory Duffy
Section 1H
- Mon 6:30 – 7:45 PM | ONLINE | Herbert Toler
Section 1J
- Mon 8 – 9:15 PM | ONLINE | Amy Van Natter
Section 2L
- Tues 9:30 – 10:45 AM | ONLINE | David Harden
Section 2M2
- Tues 11 – 12:15 PM | HYBRID – Tues: NAC 4/220C | Israel Ben-Porat
Section 2M3
- Tues 11 – 12:15 PM | HYBRID – Tues: Shepard 22 | Harry Stein
Section 2P3
- Tues 2 – 3:15 PM | HYBRID – Tues: NAC 4/220C | Harry Stein
Section 3B
- Wed 9:30 – 10:45 AM | HYBRID – Wed: Shepard 22 | Kareen Williams
Section 3C
- Wed 11 – 12:15 AM | HYBRID – Wed: Baskerville 106 | Kareen Williams
Section 3C2
- Wed 11 – 12:15 PM | ONLINE | Rory Duffy
Section 3D
- Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | ONLINE | Rory Duffy
Section 3E
- Wed 2 – 3:15 PM | HYBRID – Wed: Baskerville 106 | Kareen Williams
Section 3F
- Wed 3:30 – 4:45 PM | ONLINE | Rory Duffy
Section 3F2
- Wed 3:30 – 4:45 AM | HYBRID – Wed: Shepard 22 | Kareen Williams
Section 3G
- Wed 5 – 6:15 PM | ONLINE | Rory Duffy
Section 3H
- Wed 6:30 – 7:45 PM | ONLINE | Herbert Toler
Section 3J
- Wed 8 – 9:15 PM | ONLINE | Amy Van Natter
Section 4L
- Thurs 9:30 – 10:45 AM | ONLINE | David Harden
Section 4M2
- Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | HYBRID – Thurs: NAC 4/220C | Israel Ben-Porat
Section 4M3
- Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | HYBRID – Thurs: Shepard 22 | Harry Stein
Section 4P3
- Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | HYBRID – Thurs: NAC 4/220C | Harry Stein
Section 4S
- Thurs 5 – 6:15 AM | ONLINE | Herbert Toler
Section 4T
- Thurs 6:30 – 7:45 AM | ONLINE | Herbert Toler

WCIV 10100 Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Section B
- Mon & Wed 9:30 – 10:45 AM | HYBRID – Mon: ONLINE, Wed: NAC 5/111 | Johnnie Wilder
Section D
- Mon & Wed 12:30 – 1:45 PM | HYBRID – Mon: ONLINE, Wed: NAC 5/111 | Johnnie Wilder
Section E
- Mon & Wed 2 – 3:15 PM | ONLINE | James Lepree
Section F
- Mon & Wed 3:30 – 4:45 PM | ONLINE | James Lepree
Section G
- Mon & Wed 5 – 6:15 PM | ONLINE | Michael Thompson
Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | ONLINE | Richard VanNort
Section P
- Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | ONLINE | Richard VanNort
Section R3
- Tues & Thurs 3:30 – 4:45 PM | ONLINE | Richard VanNort
Section SEK
- Mon & Wed 3:30 – 4:45 PM | HYBRID – Mon: ONLINE, Wed: NAC 5/110 | Johnnie Wilder

WCIV 10200 1500 A.D. to the Present

Section F
- Mon & Wed 3:30 – 4:45 PM | ONLINE | Hamideh Sedghi
Section G
- Mon & Wed 5 – 6:15 PM | ONLINE | Ravi Kalia
Section L
- Tues & Thurs 9:30 – 10:45 PM | IN PERSON Baskerville 106 | Aaron Weinstein
Section M
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | ONLINE | Spencer Bastedo
Section M2
- Tues & Thurs 11 – 12:15 PM | IN PERSON Baskerville 106 | Aaron Weinstein
Section P2
- Tues & Thurs 2 – 3:15 PM | IN PERSON Baskerville 106 | Aaron Weinstein

Summer 2021 Graduate & Undergraduate History Courses

Graduate Courses

HIST B8956 The Birth of the Modern European State: 1400-1815

What is a sovereign state, and when did it arise in European history? How have major scholars accounted for its origins and nature? And had history borne out their hypotheses? TO answer these questions this course engages landmark readings about the “state” by legendary social scientists from Weber to Foucault and case studies of its genesis by prominent historians of Europe and its colonial empires, from 1400-1815.

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 6-8:35 PM | 06/07/2021 - 07/01/2021 | ONLINE | Barbara Naddeo

HIST B1615 France-Francophone Africa

This course examines the relationship between France and countries of the former French overseas empire in Africa from the occupation of Algeria in 1830 to political independence, to issues of post-colonial dependency in Africa and the emergence of multicultural France today.

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 6-8:35 PM | 07/06/2021 - 08/02/2021 | ONLINE | James Lewis

Undergraduate Courses

HIST 31197 Afghan Wats in Films

The Afghan wars—from the Soviet occupation of the 1980s to the American invasion of 2001 and beyond-- present a good example of contemporary conflicts, often described as “complex political emergencies” (CPEs). These are the offshoots of diverse factors related to ethno-national, ethno-geographic, ethno- economic, ethno-religious and ethno-sectarian phenomena. To grasp these conflicts, one needs to examine Afghanistan’s history, culture, and linguistic dynamics, as well as its socio-economic structure, religio- tribal ideologies, and geo-strategic and geo-political stereotypes.

A comprehensive record of the impact on the country’s human capital from the 1980s to the present will be examined. The course will be conducted through reference readings (no textbook!), films, documentaries, videos, and digital and print media. And multiple on-line primary sources.

The course has no prerequisites and is open to all interested students.

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 6-8:35 PM | 06/07/2021 - 07/01/2021 | ONLINE | Ravi Kalia

HIST 31888 British Empire

Using rare documents and eyewitness accounts the British Museum has chronicled the once mighty British Empire and how it functioned. There were both positive and negative consequences of the Empire: it brought education, technology, law, and democracy to the four corners of the globe. It also brought prejudice, discrimination, cultural bigotry, and racism. The course examines the complexities, contradictions, and legacies of empire.

No midterm or final. One short term paper & active class discussion based on the text & selected readings.

GRADE: Will be calculated based on class discussion, interpretive arguments of your readings, and a term paper.

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 2:30-5:50 PM | 06/07/2021 - 07/01/2021 | ONLINE | Ravi Kalia

HIST 20600 Modern Europe

An overview of the social, economic, political, and intellectual developments in Europe from the Enlightenment to the present, and an introduction to the study of history. Topics include the problems of revolution, industrialization and the transformation of rural societies, the emergence of liberalism, and the challenges it has faced in the 20^th century.

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 2:30-5:50 PM | 07/06/2021 - 08/02/2021 | ONLINE | James Lewis

HIST 30102 Medieval Europe

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 2:30-5:50 PM | 07/06/2021 - 08/02/2021 | ONLINE | James Lepree

HIST 34450 The Modern Middle East

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 11:30-2:05 PM | 06/07/2021 - 07/01/2021 | ONLINE | Spencer Bastedo

Summer 2021 USSO & WCIV Courses

USSO 10100 1LL The Development of the U.S. and its People

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 11:30 AM - 2:05 PM | 06/07/2021 - 07/01/2021 | ONLINE | Aaron Weinstein

USSO 10100 2LL The Development of the U.S. and its People

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 11:30 AM - 2:05 PM | 07/06/2021 - 08/02/2021 | ONLINE | Aaron Weinstein

WCIV Courses

WCIV 10100 1LL Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

TIME TBA | 06/07/2021 - 07/01/2021 | ONLINE | Johnnie Wilder

WCIV 10100 1MM Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 2:30 - 3:30 PM | 06/07/2021 - 07/01/2021 | ONLINE | Staff

WCIV 10100 2 LL Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

Mon,Tues,Weds,Thurs 11:30 AM - 2:05 PM | 07/06/2021 - 08/02/2021 | ONLINE | Michael Thompson

Spring 2021 Undergraduate Courses

HISTORICAL METHODS

21300-The Historian’s Craft (Class-33209/Section-S)

This course introduces students to the study of history. It offers an intensive introduction to historical writing and research, and to the principles and methods of historical analysis. Students will learn about the historical craft as well as gain critical skills that are useful in any discipline or endeavor where research and writing are essential. This course is required for all history majors.

T/TH 5:00pm-6:15pm Alexandra Stern

30300-Research Colloquium (HONORS) (Class-33223/Section-3FG)

This course is an intensive workshop on the art and craft of writing primary source-based research papers of History and related disciplines. To enroll in the course, you need the permission from the instructor. You should have a project underway before the start of the semester in order to increase your chances of completing a polished paper by the end of the semester.

W 7:00pm-9:00pm Barbara Naddeo

31330-Research Colloquium (Class-33222/Section-3HJ)

W 7:00pm-9:00pm Barbara Naddeo

EUROPE

20200-The Ancient World: Rome (Class-48821/Section-F)

Surveys the history of classical antiquity from the Hellenistic Age to the fall of the Western Empire.

M/W 3:30pm-4:45pm Georgios Spiliotopoulos

20400-Early-Modern Europe (Class-48803/Section-B)

An overview of European history from the resurgence of urban life and classical culture during the Renaissance to the trials and tribulations of the French Revolution.

M/W 9:30am-10:45am Barbara Naddeo

20600-Modern Europe (Class-33194/Section-E)

M/W 2:00pm-3:15pm James Lewis

20600-Modern Europe (Class-33217/Section-M)

T/TH 11:00am-12:15pm Barbara Syrrakos

HIST 31670- European Legal History (Class-151657/Section-D)

This course provides an overview of the development of law and legal institutions on the European continent and the role law played in the formation of territorial states and world empires as well as the governance of their diverse societies at the cusp of modernity. Topics include the role of law in the construction of polities, from city-states to sovereign nations and territorial empires, and in the policing of culture and identity--from religious beliefs to gender and sexuality. The course will also examine the use of the courts by diverse social groups to assert and codify the rights of modern life, from property rights to the privileges of political citizenship.

M/W 12:30pm-1:45pm Barbara Naddeo

32250-European Union (Class-48822/Section-L)

The European Union is the largest democratically conceived confederation of sovereign states in human history, directly affecting a half a billion persons. How has this come to pass, and how does it fare? We will examine earlier examples of union, analyze the nature and origins of the EU in the midst of the Cold War, and explore its mechanics and policies, including immigration, culture, the economy, and Brexit. Texts are historical, theoretical , first-person accounts, and archival, including two comprehensive web-based history and policy archives and a foundational myth. Who was Europa, after all?

T/TH 9:30am-10:45am Barbara Syrrakos

32850 – The French Revolution (Class-48810/Section-M)

A thorough introduction to the French Revolution – one of the defining events of modern times, and the crucible in which key elements of modern politics were forged or redefined: universal manhood suffrage, human rights, civil equality, direct democracy, ideological dictatorship, nationalism, women’s liberation, and revolution itself.

T/TH 11:00am-12:15pm Clifford Rosenberg

32900-Twentieth Century Europe (Class-48814/Section-H)

What’s Freud got to do with feminism? Or Horkheimer with Hitler, Christian Democracy with the European Union, or colonial independence movements in Africa and Asia with radical student politics in Paris and Prague? You’ll find the answers to these and other questions in this course, which covers Europe during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Fascism and Nazism, the Second World War, and their aftermath. You’ll read what the men and women who shaped the 20^th century had to say about it. And you’ll learn what it means to evaluate their ideas and actions from a variety of perspectives.

M/W 6:30pm-7:45pm James Lewis

35700-History of Socialism (Class-33196/Section-G)

The growth of the socialist movement in the 19^th and 20^th centuries and its main ideological expressions; utopian, Marxist, revisionist, syndicalist. The relations between ideology and concrete historical circumstances; trade unionism; revolution; working class growth and change; Bolshevism; national liberation.

M/W 5:00pm-6:15pm James Lewis

42300-Psychiatry, Madness, and Society (Class-33206/Section-P)

Examines social, cultural, intellectual and institutional aspects of the history of madness in Europe since 1789. The course will begin with the age of the so-called “Great Confinement,” then move on to consider the institutional and therapeutic reforms of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary era; the rise of theories of degeneration, hysteria and neurasthenia in the second half of the 19^th century; psychoanalysis and sexology; war neurosis and military psychiatry; psychiatry under the Nazis. It will conclude by looking at the anti-psychiatry movements of the 1980s and 1990s.

T/TH 2:00pm-3:15pm Andreas Killen

43000-France and Francophone Africa (Class-48811/Section-P)

We will examine the political, economic, cultural and demographic dialectic between metropolitan France and its former protectorates, territories and departments in various regions of Africa. We will study both the impact of France on these societies and how these former dependencies have transformed mainland France into a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society since the end of the Second World War, often against French popular opinion and preference.

T/TH 2:00pm-3:15pm Clifford Rosenberg

THE AMERICAS

24000-The United States: From Its Origins to 1877 (Class-33230/Section-C)

The major theological and social conflicts of 17^th century English colonies; the political and ideological process that defined an American identity; the social and economic forces that shaped the early Republic; the nature of the regional conflicts that culminated in civil war.

M/W 11:00am-12:15pm Alexander Gambaccini

24000-The United States: From Its Origins to 1877 (Class-33213/Section-S)

T/TH 5:00pm-6:15pm Joel Hopkins

24100-The United States: Since 1865 (Class-5815/Section-C)

Examines the social and political conflicts that accompanied the transformation of the U.S. from an agrarian republic and slave society to one of the most powerful industries nations in the world. Particular attention will be paid to the building of new social and economic institutions and to cultural and visual representations of the nation its people. Matthew Vaz

M/W 11:00am-12:15 pm

31688-An Indigenous History of the United States (Class-53293/Section-R)

An introduction to Native American history from pre-contact to the present, this course argues you can’t understand United States history without indigenous people. It focuses on the interrelated histories of Native Americans, African Americans, and the U.S. by indigenizing major American historical developments and addressing current issues in Indian Country.?

T/TH 3:30pm-4:45pm Alexandra Stern

32200-The Era of American Revolution (Class-33212/Section-M)

T/TH 11:00am-12:15pm Darren Staloff

32500-Slavery and Antislavery in the United States (Class-48812/Section-M)

This course will examine how America constructed, opposed, and eventually destroyed the institution of chattel slavery from the beginning of colonization through the American Revolution, the first era of emancipations in the late 18^th century, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the emergence and progress of radical abolitionism, and the final destruction of slavery during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which enslaved people of color experienced and resisted enslavement, the political and economic structures that gave birth to and sustained slavery, and the ideals and tactics of antislavery thinkers and activists.

T/TH 11:00am-12:15pm John Blanton

44900-Power, Race, Culture in NYC (Class-48805/Section-D)

M/W 12:30pm-1:45pm Matthew Vaz

ASIA

25100-Traditional China (Class-48807/Section-R)

The early formation of the Chinese state, the intellectual foundation that has sustained its long history, the shaping of the Confucian way of life, and the cultural sophistication and its decline on the eve of the modern world.

T/TH 3:30pm-4:45pm Danian Hu

25100-Traditional China (Class-48808/Section-S)

T/TH 5:00pm-6:15pm Danian Hu

31182-Gandhi and Civil Disobedience (Class-50370/Section-F)

Gandhi's long life was anchored in Truth, and from Truth he devised his forceful civil disobedience (satyagraha) movement. Uniting his countrymen in peaceful protests Gandhi challenged the Raj. The British forces met Gandhi's peaceful soldiers with violence and imprisonment. In this course we will examine India's struggle for freedom, we will learn how Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolent action overpowered the British government; and we will witness how Gandhi's actions influenced civil rights movements around the world.

M/W 3:30pm-4:45pm Ravi Kalia

46400-Science and Technology in China (Class-48806/Section-M)

A survey of the scientific and technological developments in China from ancient times to the present. The course covers not only the great Chinese inventions and the decline of Chinese science and technology and its consequences, but also more recent achievements and their relation to developments elsewhere in Asia and around the world.

T/TH 11:00am-12:15pm Danian Hu

MIDDLE EAST

31220-Gender and Women in the Middle East (Class-33504/Section-C)

M/W 11:00am-12:15pm Hamideh Sedghi

Spring 2021 Graduate Courses

B0013-The Atlantic World (Class-48815/Section-4RS)

This course examines the local, regional, and global transformations wrought by interactions between the peoples of Europe, the Americas, and Africa from the 15^th to 19^th centuries. This course problematizes conventional narratives of “discovery,” “colonization,” and “revolution” by placing them in broader transnational and comparative contexts. Central themes will include: the emergence and development of Atlantic capitalism; the expropriation of Indigenous lands and the struggles of Indigenous people to maintain their autonomy; the construction and development of varied gender roles; the African slave trade, varied systems of Atlantic slavery, and the experiences of enslaved and free African and African-descended peoples.

TH 4:50pm-6:50pm Online John Blanton

B0621-Third Reich (Class-48817/Section-2RS)

An introduction to the history of National Socialism. Topics will include the crisis of Weimar Germany, the origins, structure, and evolution of the Nazi regime, Hitler, and the Hitler myth, Nazi culture, the Nazi “new order” in Europe, total war, and the implementation; of the final Solution. Special attention will be given to the question of the memory of the Holocaust.

TU 4:50pm-6:50pm Online Andreas Killen

B2321-Research Colloquium (Class-33221/Section-3HJ)

This course is an intensive workshop on the art and craft of writing primary source-based research papers of History and related disciplines. To enroll in the course, you need the permission of the instructor. You should have a project underway before the start of the semester in order to increase your chances of completing a polished paper by the end of the semester.

W 7:00pm-9:00pm Online Barbara Naddeo

B4120-US Legal History (Class-48818/Section-1HJ)

This course will introduce students to the major problems and interpretations in the field of American legal history. We will examine a number of key constitutional and legal conflicts in the 19^th and 20^th century United States through theoretical and historiographical interpretations of those conflicts as well as by acquainting ourselves with a variety of primary sources (including cases, trial records, treatises and legal lives). The course seeks to understand the role of law in American life and the social and cultural meaning of the law in American history. How does the law affect people’s lives? How do we locate those effects? To what degree does the law have an existence separate from other large forces that determine relations of power and possibilities for action? Topics will include slave law; the role of law and economic development; the law of husband and wife; race and the Constitution; the emergence of civil rights and civil liberties, legal ethnics, and the problem of regulations, among others.

M 7:00pm-9:00pm Online Anne Kornhauser

B8955-British Mercantilism & Colonization of India (Class-53289/Section-1FG)

At the dawn of Mercantilism in England, the British government authorized English merchants operating in India to “wage war” and “use violence” to establish British dominance in India and Asia. By the end of the 17^th century, the English Merchant Company in the guise of a multinational business had transformed itself into a military force with over 200,000 troops and had conquered India’s richest province, Bengal, thus commencing the colonization of India. The course explores the twists and turns of this story.

M 4:50pm-6:50pm Online Ravi Kalia

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Undergraduate and Graduate Courses by Semester

Spring 2025 Graduate Courses

WINTER SESSION (Only One Winter Class Offered)

HIST B0303— Europe, 1815-1914 Professor James Lewis

SPRING SESSION BELOW

HIST B0016 - 4RS Pacific War Professor Seiji Shirane

HIST B4406 – Europe Since 1945 Professor Andreas Killen

HIST B4030 - Civil War & Reconstruction 1840-1877 Professor Alexandra Stern

HIST B4120 - US Legal History Professor Anne Kornhauser

HIST B8959 – Cold War International History Professor Craig Daigle

HIST B2321 - 3GG Research Colloquium Professor Lale Can

Spring 2025 Undergraduate Courses

ONE WINTER 2024 COURSE BELOW

HIST 31182 – Gandhi and Civil Disobedience

SPRING COURSES BELOW

HIST 20400 – Early Modern Europe

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

HIST 21008/BLST 21008 - African American History from 1865 to 2000

HIST 21300 – The Historians Craft

HIST 23700 – Asia and the World

HIST 24000 – The United States: From its Origins 1877

HIST 24100 – The United States: Since 1865

HIST 28200/BLST 28200 - Modern & Contemporary Latin America

HIST 31149 – The Ottoman Empire

HIST 31208 – The U.S. Since Watergate

HIST 31213 – Rebellion, Liberation, Populism

HIST 31238/BLST 31188 - Performing Black Womanhood

HIST 31257 – Africa and the Major Western Religions

HIST 31261/PSC 31452 History of Now

HIST 31688 – Indigenous History of the U.S

HIST 31693 – France and Francophone Africa

HIST 31694 – Japanese Empire

HIST 31745 – 1971 War & Making of Bangladesh

HIST 32200 – The Era of American Revolution

HIST 32650 – Consumer Culture in U.S. 1880

HIST 42300 – Psych, Madness, and Society

HIST 44900 – Power Race Culture in NYC

Spring 2025 USSO & WCIV

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

WCIV 10200 – 1500 A.D. to the Present

Fall 2024 Graduate Courses

HIST B8015 - Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Atlantic Africa Professor Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST B0000 - Historical Methods and Historiography Professor Anne Kornhauser

HIST B2903 -Comparative Slavery Professor John Blanton

HIST B8956 - Birth of the European State Professor Barbara Naddeo

HIST B8018 -The British Empire Professor Ravi Kalia

Fall 2024 Undergraduate Course

HIST 20400 – Early Modern Europe

HIST 20600 – Modern Europe

HIST 21006 - African American History 1619-1865

HIST 21300 – The Historian’s Craft

HIST 21155 – Ancient Africa

HIST 23800 - The Middle East in Global History

HIST 24000 – The United States: From its Origins 1877

HIST 24100 – The United States: Since 1865

HIST 28100 Colonial Latin America

HIST 31218 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict

HIST 31219 - Mapping New Negro Renaissance

HIST 31221 - The Haitian Revolution

HIST 31225 - Religions of India

HIST 31691 - Europe: 1945 to the Present

HIST 31698 - 20th Century Middle East

HIST 32100 - Early America

HIST 32400 – Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 32501 – Gilded Age & Progress Era

HIST 32560 - Food and Farming

HIST 32580 – Crime & Policing in America

HIST 32600 – The U.S. from 1914-1945

HIST 34900 – The Third Reich

HIST 35700 - History of Socialism

Fall 2024 USSO & WCIV

USSO 10100 – Development of the U.S. and its People

WCIV 10100 – Prehistory to 1500 A.D.

WCIV 10200 – 1500 A.D. to the Present

Summer 2024 Graduate Courses

Summer 2024 Session 1: June 3, 2024 - July 1, 2024

HIST B8951 - European Legal History, 1400—1815

Summer 2024 Session 2: July 8, 2024 – August 2, 2024

HIST B1615 – France -Francoph Af

HIST B0303— Europe, 1815-1914
Professor James Lewis

HIST B0016 - 4RS Pacific War
Professor Seiji Shirane

HIST B4406 – Europe Since 1945
Professor Andreas Killen

HIST B4030 - Civil War & Reconstruction 1840-1877
Professor Alexandra Stern

HIST B4120 - US Legal History
Professor Anne Kornhauser

HIST B8959 – Cold War International History
Professor Craig Daigle

HIST B2321 - 3GG Research Colloquium
Professor Lale Can

HIST B8015 - Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Atlantic Africa
Professor Yaari Felber-Seligman

HIST B0000 - Historical Methods and Historiography
Professor Anne Kornhauser

HIST B2903 -Comparative Slavery
Professor John Blanton

HIST B8956 - Birth of the European State
Professor Barbara Naddeo

HIST B8018 -The British Empire
Professor Ravi Kalia