HIST-101-A: Intro to Hist U.S. for El Edu
Mark Rhodes
This course provides a basic survey of the social, economic, political, and diplomatic history of the United States for the students with little background in U.S. history. Answering the questions: What is America and what does it mean to be American? What is the nature of U.S.democracy? How do the lives of ordinary people intersect with the great events of our past? The course will emphasize content that will be of greatest use for students preparing to teach social studies in the upper elementary grades. (HB, Hist, Intcl)

HIST-111-A: Survey of US History to 1877
Edward Tebbenhoff
This course surveys American history from the early colonial period to the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Topics are wide-ranging and include society, politics and culture but the overall theme emphasizes the evolution of the New England colonies, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake,and the Lower South into coherent regions with different economies, social structures and cultural attributes. The course then explores how these various regions successfully cooperated with one another long enough to engage in an independence movement that separated them from Great Britain and created the United States. These regional differences lived on into the nineteenth century, however, and became the basis for the sectional conflict which erupted into Civil War in 1861. The course closes with the successes and failures of Reconstruction policy as a bridge to later American history. (HBSSM, Hist)

HIST-135-A: African-American History
Lauren K. Anderson
A survey of African-American history from the 17th century to the present. Highlights the issues and struggles of black people in their rural and urban context and places the African experience in America in the larger world considering, for example, the impact of events outside of America, such as the Haitian Revolution, British Emancipation of slavery, and European nationalism. (Same as AFRS 135.) (HB, Hist, Intcl)

HIST-149-A:Europe to 1648
TBA
An introductory survey of European history from ancient Greece to the end of the "Religious Wars" (and the Peace of Westphalia) in 1648. Topics will include: Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Empires, Ancient Rome (Republic and Empire), Medieval Europe, the Renaissance, and the Reformation and the Age of Religious Wars. (HBSSM, Hist)

HIST-171-A: History of Africa to 1880
Richard Mtisi
Survey of African history from the earliest times to roughly about 1880. The course begins with the historical development of Africa's still-vital cultural, linguistic, social, and economic systems and moves on to examine the Islamic and Christian impact on these systems through the era of the Atlantic slave trade. The course concludes by discussing the ways in which early European colonialism affected the African past. (Same as AFRS 171). (HB, Hist)

HIST/AFRS 235: Destiny or Deliverance? Civil Rights and Black Power in the United States
Lauren K. Anderson
In this course, we will ask whether the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Era were America’s destiny (towards which it has always been headed), a deliverance rescuing America from its racist past, or something altogether different. Did the end of Jim Crow change American life or did it actually hide fundamental, on-going racial strife in American society? In an attempt to answer these questions, we will cover the mass protests of the thirties and forties, the direct action campaigns of the fifties and sixties, and black liberation struggles that stretched into the seventies. We will do this by analyzing media such as speeches, music, film, television, oral histories, and photography.

HIST-291-A: Environmental History
Richard Mtisi
This course introduces students to the field of environmental history. Students will examine the ways in which humans, plants, animals, and microbiota have acted as agents in the history of the world. The course emphasizes historical developments after 1300 and especially investigates the roles of science, colonialism, capitalism, and the state in changing the physical state of the environment and the ways humans understand their surroundings. Offered alternate years. (HBSSM, NWNL, Hist, Intcl)

HIST-321-A: Top US Hist:Col/Rev Amer
Edward Tebbenhoff
Colonial and Revolutionary America will explore early American history from roughly 1500 to about 1800. There are several major themes in this course. These include the interactions among Native, European and African peoples and the lives of ordinary men and women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. The course also examines how and why British America evolved into different regions, the ways in which their inhabitants created differing economic structures, societies and cultures and gradually took different paths toward the future with all the attendant consequences for American history. Toward the latter part of the course we will give considerable attention to the ways in which the British mainland colonies overcame their considerable regional and social differences during the American Revolution, how and why they joined together to rebel against Britain and how they became an independent nation. We will examine the question of what was revolutionary about the American Revolution, what changes it brought about and what did not change. Finally, we will see that some citizens formulated a vision of a New American Empire that sustained them during a long and bloody war for independence and provided a vision that proved central to the process of nation building and expansion during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

HIST-354-A: Russian History
TBA
A general survey of Russian-Soviet history from earliest times through the Soviet period to the present day. Special emphasis given to the Russian Revolution of 1917, rise of Stalin, World War II, reconstruction and collapse of the Soviet state. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: PAID 112 or equivalent. (HB, Hist, Intcl)

HIST-355-A: Reformation in Renaissance Eur
TBA
An in-depth analysis of the various elements of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in the context of Renaissance Europe. The focus is on the traditions, beliefs, values and theologies of the Christian religious reformation and the influences on that reformation from the many cross-cultural currents in the sixteenth century, in particular the ideas and methods promoted by the Renaissance thinkers. The course will also include various aspects of social, economic, and political history, as part of the effort to contextualize the reformers' ideas, as well as their impact across society. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: PAID 112 or equivalent. (Rel, HBSSM, Hist)

HIST-362-A: Top SA Hist:India Env Hist
Brian Caton
This course introduces students to the relatively new yet rapidly growing practices of re-reading South Asian history to create narratives of environmental change and using the environment as an analytical tool to rewrite narratives of India's past. Readings will be drawn from all historical periods but will reflect the field's attention to history since about 1500. Themes will include agriculture, animal husbandry, irrigation, deforestation, hunting, mining and mineral processing, urbanization, sanitation, industrialization, colonization and decolonization, and economic liberalization as causes of environmental change, and we will examine how religious, caste, class, national, and gender identities affect these causes.

HIST-485-A: Jr/Sr Sem: Colonialism in Asia
Brian Caton
This semester's seminar will explore the field of colonialism in Asian history. The first part of the course students will read some of the most important scholarship that has defined the terms and questions of the field, e.g. direct or indirect rule, gender, Orientalism, and mission civilatrice. While developing a research project in a case of their choice, students will read examples of the historiographical schools in which colonial Asian history has been written, e.g. dependency theory, the Annales school, and Subaltern Studies. Students will produce a journal-length article and make an oral presentation of their research.

HIST-490-A: Senior Project
Projects build upon students' previous experience with scholarly research and include both a substantial piece of writing as well as an oral presentation of the findings. Senior projects will be written under the direction of the faculty member most appropriate to the research topic. Each student will make individual arrangements with that professor.