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About the Program

An understanding of history provides valuable insights into cultures and problems of civilizations. A certain elasticity of mind is required of the history major, who must learn to see the whole and also comprehend the interaction of the parts. This intellectual ability is useful in many fields, such as law, marketing, and journalism. The department offers a range of courses and seminars making possible study of America, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, as well as African-American and women’s history.

Faculty

• Chair: James Carter, Associate Professor
• Professors: Lillie Edwards, Jonathan Rose
• Associate Professor: Edward Baring, Frances Bernstein, C.Wyatt Evans, Sharon Sundue

Advanced Placement (AP) Examinations

A score of 4 or 5 on the American history examination exempts the student from HIST 101  or HIST 102 . A score of 4 or 5 on the European history examination exempts the student from HIST 104  or HIST 105 . 

Off-Campus Programs

London Semester

See the program’s catalog entry  for details.

Programs

• History Major

• History Minor

Courses

• HIST 101 - History of the United States, From Contact to 1877
• HIST 102 - History of the United States, 1876-Present
• HIST 104 - European History 1492-1789: Reformation, Enlightenment, and Revolution
• HIST 105 - European History 1789-1989: Nationalism, Totalitarianism, and Rebirth
• HIST 201 - Selected Topics in History
• HIST 210 - Historical Research Methods
• HIST 211 - African-American History: African Origins to 1877
• HIST 212 - The Struggle for Equality: African-American History from 1860 to The Present
• HIST 213 - Conspiracy Theory in American History
• HIST 214 - Monsters, Gangsters, and the Great Depression
• HIST 215 - History by the Numbers
• HIST 232 - History of Ancient Rome
• HIST 236 - Medieval Europe
• HIST 242 - History of England to 1714
• HIST 243 - History of Britain since 1715
• HIST 244 - Modern French History
• HIST 245 - Modern German History
• HIST 246 - History of Imperial Russia
• HIST 247 - History of the USSR
• HIST 270 - History of Science
• HIST 272 - History of Biology in the 20th Century
• HIST 273 - Darwin and Darwinism: The History of Evolutionary Biology
• HIST 274 - History of Physics in the 20th Century
• HIST 300 - Independent Study
• HIST 301 - Selected Topics in History
• HIST 302 - Selected Topics in U.S. History: U.S. Diversity
• HIST 303 - Selected Topics in History: International Diversity
• HIST 305 - Colonial America
• HIST 306 - The American Revolution
• HIST 308 - The American Civil War
• HIST 312 - The United States Since World War II
• HIST 313 - The Atomic Bomb & American History
• HIST 318 - A History of Business in America
• HIST 319 - The History of Work in America
• HIST 320 - Modern American Legal History
• HIST 321 - American Women’s History
• HIST 323 - African-American Intellectual and Social History
• HIST 326 - Popular Culture and Its Critics
• HIST 327 - Presidents and the Presidency in the United States, 1787-Present
• HIST 335 - Early Modern Europe
• HIST 336 - Foundations of the European Intellectual Tradition
• HIST 337 - Modern European Intellectual History
• HIST 338 - Women in Modern European History
• HIST 339 - Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust
• HIST 340 - Studies in French History
• HIST 341 - Studies in Russian History
• HIST 342 - Europe, 1914-1945: The World Wars and the Great Dictators
• HIST 343 - Post-1945 Europe
• HIST 355 - The United States and the World
• HIST 356 - The United States and East Asia
• HIST 357 - The Vietnam War
• HIST 363 - After the Death of God
• HIST 363H - After the Death of God - Honors
• HIST 370 - History of Sexuality
• HIST 371 - Disease in History
• HIST 372 - Environmental History
• HIST 380 - London Semester Interdisciplinary Colloquium
• HIST 381 - Contemporary British Politics
• HIST 382 - The History of Modern Britain
• HIST 400 - Capstone History Research Seminar
• HIST 410 - Specialized Honors I
• HIST 411 - Specialized Honors II

• HIST 107 - Contemporary Issues in World History
• HIST 230 - History of Ancient Greece
• HIST 238 - Crusade and Jihad Then and Now
• HIST 241 - Jewish History from Roman Times to the Enlightenment
• HIST 255 - Global History
• HIST 256 - History of the Islamic Middle East, 600-1800
• HIST 257 - History of the Modern Middle East
• HIST 258 - Modern Jewish History
• HIST 259 - Modern Sub-Saharan Africa
• HIST 261 - Latin America Since Independence
• HIST 262 - History of Asia: Asian Traditions
• HIST 264 - Modern China: From Opium Wars to the World’s Workshop
• HIST 304 - Selected Topics in Global History

• HIST 216 - The History of Rock and Roll

• HIST 350 - History of American Journalism

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