111H The Medieval World
Rutenburg MW 1:00 – 1:50 and discussion with instructor F 11:00 – 11:50
This is a special honors section taught by the instructor, J. Rutenburg. This section will have a small enrollment--limited to 12-15 students. Basic course requirements are the same as History 111 regular sections. But the overall study and discussion of required readings will be more intensive, with a more sophisticated level of discussion and analysis than the regular sections of the course offer. Honors Humanities students are encouraged to enroll, along with students in the History Honors Program, and outstanding students in general, who may enroll with the consent of the instructor.
CORE Distributive Studies, Social or Political History

112 The Rise of the West: 1500-1789
Sutherland TuTh 9:30 – 10:45
The principal themes of the course are starvation, poverty and death; the transition from a religion of gestures to one of conscience and its relation to the Reformation; the European contact with indigenous peoples, trade, and subjugation; warfare and its relation to structures of states; Enlightenment, the scientific revolution and the stirrings of liberty.
CORE Distributive Studies, Humanities
USP Distributive Studies, Area A

120 Islamic Civilization
Staff TuTh 9:00 – 9:50 and discussion
Introduction to society and culture in the Middle East since the advent of Islam: as a personal and communal faith; as artistic and literary highlights of intellectual and cultural life; and as the interplay between politics and religion under the major Islamic regimes.
CORE Distributive Studies, Social & Political History (SH)
CORE Human Cultural Diversity
USP Distributive Studies, Area A

122 African Civilization to 1800
Landau MW 10:00 – 10:50 and discussion
African societies, politics and economies, adaptations to ecologies, systems of trade; Egypt, Nubia, and the Bantu expansion; Muslim travel accounts (Ibn Battuta); African oral epics (Sundiata, Mwindo);Sahelian empires and Islam; Christian Ethiopia; savannah and forest kingdoms (Kongo, Tio, Kuba, Rwanda, Zimbabwe); indigenous manufacture and trade (iron, copper, gold, fabric, salt, and slaves); the Swahili; pre-1800 African diasporic societies (African Krio, S. Amer. Saramaka, "Zanj" slave revolt); and the rise of slave-era states, east and west. Cross listed with AASP.
CORE Distributive Studies, Social & Political History
CORE Human Cultural Diversity

156-01 History of the United States to 1865
Berlin MW 9:00 – 9:50 and discussion
156 History of the United States to 1865
Want to know what makes an American an American, this is it. History 156 provides a broad overview of the making of American society between the initial European and African settlement and the American Civil War. While introductory, the course requires a general understanding of the American past, its chronology and its character. The course focuses on critical questions of political legitimacy, state creation, economic development and--most critically--identity formation. Emphasis is given to the role of slavery in the making and unmaking of American society, and to why the Civil War was fought.
CORE Distributive Studies, Social or Political History
CORE Social or Political History (SH)
USP Distributive Studies, Area A

156-02 History of the United States to 1865
Grimsted MW 10:00 – 10:50 and discussion
This course explores the early history of the United States and of those colonies that came to make it up, through the Civil War. Students will read primary sources through which people in the “new world” defined their struggles, hopes, fears, and society. Themes concern the mingled motives of religion and money in the European settlement, the blending of European, Native American and African cultures, and the long and never completed struggle to define a more humane society where people were in some sense to be equal, within the cauldron of developing democracy, capitalism and slavery.
CORE Social or Political History (SH)
USP Distributive Studies, Area A

157-01 History of the United States Since 1865
Olson TTh 10:00 -- 10:50 and discussion
This course has four major themes: the nature of the United States’ presidential political system, the impact of presidential leadership, the United States’ involvement in world affairs, and the origins and character of economic and societal changes. Within these themes the course will cover such specific topics as reform, civil rights, immigration, and cultural moods.
CORE Social or Political History (SH)
USP Distributive Studies, Area D

157-02 History of the United States Since 1865
Smead MW 11:00-11:50 and discussion
This course surveys the history of America from the end of the Civil War through the 1970s and beyond. We explore the forces that shaped modern-day America, including the role of industrialization, technology, the impact of race and ethnicity, and the changing role of the federal government in the lives of American citizens. The goal is to figure out why we are the way we are.
CORE Distributive Studies, Social or Political History (SH)
USP Distributive Studies, Area D

157 -03 History of the United States Since 1865
Staff TTh 1:00 – 1:50 and discussion
No Description Available
CORE Distributive Studies, Social or Political History (SH)
USP Distributive Studies, Area D

175 Science and Technology in Western Civilization
Staff TTh 2:00 – 2:50 and discussion
An overview of the development of both science and technology in the West since Classical Times. Particular attention is given to the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions and to the Twentieth Century.
CORE Social or Political History (SH)
USP Distributive Studies, Area A

208W (Historical Research and Methods Seminar) Research in Early American History
Bradbury Th 12:30-2:30

208X (Historical Research and Methods Seminar)
Staff T 9:30-11:30 OR Th 11:00-1:00

208Y (Historical Research and Methods Seminar)
Staff W 11:00-1:00 or T 12:00-2:00

208Z (Historical Research and Methods Seminar)
Staff M 10:00-12:00 or W 1:00-3:00

210 Women in America to 1800
Staff MW 10:00 – 10:50 and discussion
This course examines the history of American women from the era of European colonization to the eve of the modern era in 1880. It explores the experiences of Native American, colonial, African-American, immigrant, and frontier women. It examines women's social, political, economic, familial, sexual, and religious experiences, with particular attention to how time, place, race, class, and ethnicity influenced women's lives. This course also examines the social construction of gender to see how it has changed over the course of American history, and how women influenced these developments.
CORE Distributive Studies, Social or Political History
CORE Human Cultural Diversity
USP Distributive Studies, Area A

212 Women in Western Europe, 1750 – Present
Gullickson TTh 11:00 – 11:50 and discussion
History 212 examines the experiences of noble, peasant, middle-class, and working class women during the past 250 years. Topics include women’s work, women and the holocaust, women and war, the suffragettes, sexuality, changes in women’s legal status, women’s clothing, marriage ages and rates, and much more. Readings include women’s autobiographies, women’s political writings, and men’s writings about women.
CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.
CORE Diversity (D) Course.

219E (Special Topics in History) History of Ancient Egypt
Cohen TTh 12:30-1:45 and discussion
No description available.

224 Modern Military History
Sumida TTh 9:00-9:50
This course surveys the military history of Europe from 1494 to 1815—that is, from the dynastic wars of Valois and Habsburg through the national wars of the French Revolution and Empire. Although the chronology of this course is defined by wars, its focus will be upon the dynamics of military and naval institutional development. It thus deals with changes in national economies, social structures, government, systems of international relations, and technology, and relates this material to the development of army organization, strategy, tactics, operations and logistics. For the purposes of comparison, some attention will be given to the military experience of Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries.
CORE Distributive Studies, Social or Political History

236 History of Britain, 1688-Present
Price TuTh 9:30-10:45
British history from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the present. The revolution of 1688; the structure of 18th-century society and politics; economic and social change in the industrial revolution; 19th and 20th-century political and social reform; imperialism; the impact of the First and Second World Wars on British society.
CORE Distributive Studies, Social or Political History (SH)
USP Distributive Studies, Area A

250 Latin American History I
Vaughan TuTh 10:00 – 10:50 and discussion
Introduction to the history of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and South America from the late pre-Contact era through the Wars of Independence (c. 1450-1820). The course concentrates on the cultural, political, social and economic interaction between Europeans, Amerindians, Africans, and peoples of mixed-race descent under a colonial regime. Recurrent themes include discovery and conquest, cultural contact and conflict, social organization and stratification, racial mixture and race relations, slavery, economic production, colonial administration, identity formation, and incipient nationalism.
CORE Social or Political History (SH)
CORE Diversity (D)
USP Distributive Studies, Area A

255 African-American History, 1865-Present
Moss TuTh 11:00-12:15
Lectures, readings, and class discussions engage the role of African Americans in the social, political, economic, cultural and artistic life of the US. Emphasis is placed on the enduring themes that have shaped the black experience in American society, and the impact of those themes on contemporary problems in race relations is examined.
CORE Human Cultural Diversity
CORE Distributive Studies, Social or Political History

275 Law and Constitutionalism in American History
Henretta TuTh 12:30 - 1:45
This course explores both the “history” and the “law” of the United States. It probes the reciprocal relationships between legal matters and political, economic, and social institutions. It also addresses the issue of how history is written and interpreted, and requires students to attempt various types of historical analysis. In the Fall Term 2005, the course will focus on American law and society in the twentieth century.
CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course
USP Distributive Studies, Area D

282 History of the Jewish People I
Lapin MW 12:00 – 12:50 and discussion
This course surveys the history of Jews and Judaism from their origins in ancient Israel to the end of the Middle Ages, covering Israelite origins and the development of biblical literature, the development of Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, and the experiences of Jews in medieval Christian and Islamic societies of Europe and the Middle East. Assignments and discussion will address questions of evidence and historical argument. Particular emphasis throughout the course will be placed on the interrelationship of political, cultural, and social factors in shaping the experience of people.
CORE Social or Political History (SH)
CORE Diversity (D) Course
USP Distributive Studies, Area A

282H History of the Jewish People I - HONORS
Lapin MW 12:00 – 12:50 and discussion Th 3:00-3:50
Honors section of History 282. Discussion led by the instructor.

284 East Asian Civilization I
Goldman MW 10:00-10:50 and discussion
An interdisciplinary survey of the development of East Asian cultures. A comparative historical approach drawing on all facets of East Asian traditional life, to gain an appreciation of the different and complex cultures of the area.
CORE Distributive Studies, Social or Political history
CORE Human Cultural Diversity

299 Directed Research
Staff TBD
By permission of department.

306 History of Religion in America
Bradbury TuTh 9:30 – 10:45
A history of religion, religious movements, and churches in America from the early colonial period to the present, with special attention to the relation of church and society.

319L (Special Topics in History) Asian Age in World History
Lilley TuTh 12:30 – 1:45
Guiding themes to the “Asian Age”: (1) Steppe nomads as empire builders; (2) their interactions with and conquests of settled regions in East Asia, South Asia, and Southwest Asia; (3) Mongols and Turks as dynamic forces in world history; (4) the post-1700 Russian-Manchu struggle for dominance of Inner Asia; (5) “Asian Age” as an alternative narrative of to a Europe-centered world history.

319W (Special Topics in History) US Latin America Relations
Weinstein TuTh 12:30 - 1:45
This course will explore the political, economic, social and cultural repercussions of US-Latin American relations in the period from the mid-19th century, when the U.S. began to replace Great Britain as the pre-eminent foreign power in Latin America, to the present. The material covered will include cases of overt political intervention and conflict, as well as less dramatic but ongoing forms of economic and cultural influence. The course will also consider the way in which varying internal conditions in Latin America have allowed very different responses to U.S. influence and intervention, and even created circumstances under which Latin Americans have had considerable influence over US policy and culture. Finally, throughout the course we will examine the changing images of Latin America in North America (and vice versa).
Requirements for this course include a midterm and a final exam and two short (5- to 8-page) papers. Exams will be based on materials covered in the readings as well as in class. They will consist of short essays (identifications) and longer essay questions. Hand-outs will be distributed for paper assignments. In addition, all students will be expected to do the readings and participate in class discussion. Class participation will count in the final grade.

330 Europe in the Making: The Early Medieval West (A.D. 300 – 1000)
Holum TuTh 2:00 – 3:15
From one empire to another: Rome to Charlemagne. This period is approached as a crucible in which classical, Christian, and Germanic elements merged yielding new experimental syntheses organized around authority (kings, popes, and aristocrats), cultural trends (beliefs, thought and learning), and the formation of group solidarity (kindred, manor, monastery, vassalage, and state).

332 Europe During the Renaissance and Reformation I
Soergel MW 2:00 – 3:15
Continental Europe from 1450 to 1650: development and spread of Renaissance culture; growth in the powers of central government; economic expansion and beginnings of overseas colonization; division of Western Christendom into two rival religious camps. Particular emphasis on the Protestant and Catholic reformations and their consequences for Europe’s political, social, and cultural development. Renaissance and reformation, 1450-1555. The age of religious wars, 1555-1650.

353 America in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1815
Ridgway MW 1:00 – 2:15
The background and course of the American revolution and early nationhood through the War of 1812. Emphasis on how the Revolution shaped American political and social development, the creation of a new government under the Constitution, and the challenges facing the new nation.

357 Recent America: 1945 to Present
Sicilia TTh 11:00 – 12:15 and T 2:00 -3:15
Section 0101
This course explores key themes and topics in United States
history from the end of World War II to the present including: 1) the Cold War (origins, progress, ideologies, opponents, and end; 2) reform movements (civil rights, the Great Society, feminism, environmentalism, and neo-conservatism); 3) political economy (the military-industrial complex, presidential politics, the growth of the state, and Reaganomics; and 4) culture (religion, racism, gender, family, mass media, and consumer culture). The course meets twice a week for lecture-discussions. Students who prefer to work more independently should consider enrolling for HIST357, section 0201.

Section 0201:
This course explores key themes and topics in United States history from the end of World War II to the present including: 1) the Cold War (origins, progress, ideologies, opponents, and end; 2) reform movements (civil rights, the Great Society, feminism, environmentalism, and neo-conservatism); 3) political economy (the military-industrial complex, presidential politics, the growth of the state, and Reaganomics; and 4) culture (religion, racism, gender, family, mass media, and consumer culture). The course will employ a variety of information technologies – including podcasted lectures, digitized archival courses, and electronic discussion and debate formats – in order to encourage students to engage intensively in dialogue with instructors and classmates, and to work closely with primary courses. Students who prefer to work less independently should consider enrolling for HIST357, section 0101.

375 (JWST 344) Modern Jewish History II: World Jewry Since 1870
Rozenblit TTh 11:00 – 12:15
Study of the situation of Jews in Europe and America in the past century. Focus especially on anti-Semitism and Jewish reaction to it; Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel; Jewish socialism; the impact of immigration to America; Jews in Poland, the Soviet Union and Germany in the 1920s and 30s; the Holocaust; and Jews in the world today.

386 Experiential Learning (Internship)
TBD TBD
Offers advanced undergraduates opportunities to pursue their historical interests in real-world educational activities. Prerequisite: learning proposal approved by the history department internship coordinator, faculty mentor, and student's site supervisor. Must have at least 60 semester hours. Non-repeatable, but may take up to 6 credits in one semester.

395 Honors Colloquium I
Eckstein M 10:00 – 12:00pm
Enrollment limited to students admitted by the departmental honors committee.

398 Honors Thesis
Eckstein M 1:00 – 3:00pm
Students in this course will begin the research and writing of their honors theses. Classes and conferences will be scheduled to facilitate the process. Enrollment is limited to students admitted by the departmental honors committee.

405 Environmental History
Staff MW 2:00 – 3:15
This course introduces one of the most exciting and active fields in history, exploring the interactions between humans and their natural environment. Beginning with a look at the biological and geophysical conditions of human existence and development, the course will quickly survey some of the writings on the environmental impact of early cultures, both Western and non-Western. The focus will then shift to the Western experience, with most of the emphasis in the latter part of the course on the United States. Issues will include the interaction between technology and the environmental effects of agriculture, industry, and urbanization; the development of environmental ethics; and the shifting elements of the public debate over environmental rights and responsibilities.

407 Technology and Social Change in History
Staff TTh 11:00 – 12:15
This course is an introduction to the key issues that are posed by seeking to understand the historical relationship between changes in technology, on the one hand, and changes in society, on the other. It has become widely evident that technology is a key (some say the key) agent for shaping economic, political, military, and cultural life. If we are to understand the real significance of this fact, we must comprehend the extent to which technology has always played a significant role in both setting the boundaries and providing the opportunities for action by both individuals and communities. As might be imagined, there are numerous valid approaches to understanding issues this large and complex. This course is explicitly concerned with exploring and demonstrating the usefulness of the historical approach to the subject.

408B (Senior Seminar) Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan and Diaspora
Mayo Th 10:00 – 12:00
Research Seminar; Permission Required.
No description available.

408C (Senior Seminar) The Construction of Jewish Knowledge
Cooperman Tu 10:00 – 12:00
Research Seminar; Permission Required.
Judaism as a religion and a culture has been built upon claims to authoritative knowledge of a revelation given by God and passed on in an unbroken chain of transmission through the generations. But how do Jews decide what knowledge is authentic, and what knowledge is not? How do they respond to foreign ideas? How do they organize knowledge, and how do they give recognition to those who "know" the "right" things? Our course will range from biblical to modern, from religious customs in medieval Provence to political theoreticians at the University of Chicago, from arguments about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to claims of authority by rabbis in South Africa. As we discuss each text, we shall ask: what is the author’s claim to authoritative knowledge, and how does that claim fit into the historical patterns of such claims over time? In addition to regular attendance and participation in class discussion, the course will require weekly short essays over the first eight weeks, and a final research paper of approximately twenty pages on a topic to be worked out with the instructor.

408D (Senior Seminar) The Rise and Fall of the Old South
Rowland M 1:00 – 3:00
Research Seminar; Permission Required

408F (Senior Seminar) American Culture in the 1930s
Giovachinni T 1:00 – 3:00
Research Seminar; Permission Required

408G (Senior Seminar) US and the Cold War
Smead W 1:00 – 3:00
Research Seminar; Permission Required

408J (Senior Seminar) Enslavement and Emancipation in the Americas
Weinstein T 9:30 – 11:30
Research Seminar; Permission Required
As Europeans conquered and colonized the New World, they gradually established a massive system of slave labor based largely on the forced immigration and sale of Africans. This process revived an institution--slavery--that had been declining in most of Europe prior to the age of expansionism. And by associating enslavement with racial difference and a rapidly growing commercial economy oriented toward the world market, the New World colonizers created an enduring basis for discrimination and control unparalleled by other slave systems. This course will examine slavery and its impact on plantation societies in the Americas, with particular attention to Brazil and the Caribbean. The emphasis will not be on the everyday aspects of life in slave societies, but rather on slavery as a “political” question, broadly speaking. We will begin by considering the issue and process of enslavement itself; that is, why did European domination of these areas give rise to large-scale enslavement, first of the native population, and then of Africans, and what kinds of political, moral, and economic issues arose in the process. We will also discuss various aspects of slavery in the Americas—shifting racial categories, manumission and the formation of a free “colored” population, various forms of slave rebellion and resistance—that destabilized and possibly challenged the foundations of chattel slavery. Next we will explore the century-long process of emancipation in comparative perspective, with cases ranging from the great revolution in Saint-Domingue/Haiti to the relatively peaceful abolition of slavery in Brazil. Finally, we will examine the implications of slavery for subsequent labor systems and race relations in the Atlantic world.

419A (Special Topics in History) Africa
Staff TTh 11:00 – 12:15
No description available.

419C (Special Topics in History) Early Modern Jewish History
Cooperman TTh 2:00 – 3:15
This course begins in the 15th century when the European Renaissance came into full flower and Jews were gradually expelled from almost every country in the West. We will follow the Jewish migrations to the East and see the creation of major new population and cultural centers in Poland and the Ottoman Empire. The strain of these dislocations leads to social and religious upheavals: new forms of community, new forms of mystical thought, and radical messianic movements characterize the period. By the mid-18th century, the old forms of Jewish life are no longer capable of containing the pressures, and traditional Judaism is forced to confront calls for westernization on the one hand and the pietistic revivalism of Hasidism on the other.

419D (Special Topics in History) Visions of America: Americanism and Anti-Americanism in Twentieth Century Film
Giovacchini TTh 9:30 – 10:45
Our seminar will focus on a thematic and somewhat chronological approach to the study of Americanism and anti-Americanism in the 20th century. Since their founding, the United Stated have been involved in an intense social, economic, and cultural exchange with the rest of the world. Even though few people might have had a direct experience of them, the idea, if not the reality, of the United States was at the center of passionate debates in many parts of the globe. At the end of World War I, U.S. influence grew more and more far-reaching and these debates became even more intense. All over the world many felt the economic, cultural, and social influence of the United States in their lives. Many also saw the United States as the embodiment of what their own societies would become in the future. For some this was an enticing possibility, for others it was a dreadful prospect.

419E (Special Topics in History) History of South Africa
Landau MW 2:00 – 3:15
The material will fall into three units: Southern Africa to 1910, with an emphasis on new research into African political traditions; South Africa 1910-1994, focusing on the struggle against racism and apartheid; and a special-focus unit on criminality and banditry in South African history, esp. after 1990. Readings will include speeches and other primary documents, Nelson Mandela's biography, and a research paper project involving time spent in the library.

419F (Special Topics in History) Chinese Popular Culture
Goldman W 3:30 – 6:00
This course will examine Chinese cultural history from ca. 1600-1900 through a variety of textual and visual sources. Some of the themes and issues to be covered in the course will include: popular religion and ritual, theatrical performance, vernacular architecture, print culture, gendered variations in the experience and expression of culture, circulations between high and low cultures, and daily life in both rural and urban communities. Primary source readings (in translation) will be alternated with readings in the relevant secondary scholarship. The course is designed as a reading intensive discussion seminar. Students will be responsible for approximately 150-200 pp. of reading per week, two short analytical essays and a longer final paper, in addition to weekly short writing exercises. Open to upper-level undergraduates (especially history majors) and graduate students. Prerequisites: an introductory course in Chinese or Asian history, or permission from the instructor.

419G (Special Topics in History) Modern Middle East
Wein TTh 12:30 – 1:45
No description available.

419J (Special Topics in History) Strategic Military Theory: Clausewitz
Sumida TTh 2:00 – 3:15
No description available.

419M (Special Topics in History) Poverty and Social Policy in the US
Michel MW 2:00 – 3:15
Poverty has existed in the United States since its founding, but ideas about the causes of poverty and proposals for its elimination have varied considerably over time. This course will trace changing perceptions of poverty and ideas of social welfare from the eighteenth century to the present, asking the following questions: Who is considered poor and how is poverty measured? How are poverty and the condition of the poor explained? Who is responsible for poverty, and what, if anything, should be done about it? As we will discover, responses to these questions not only change from one period to the next but vary according to the race, class, gender, and beliefs and assumptions of “the poor” themselves, and of those who are “perceiving” them. Perceptions of poverty and social welfare also draw on and help to shape the broader political culture of the nation. The format of this course will be lecture and discussion, with about half of each class meeting devoted to lecture, and half to discussion of the readings. Readings will include both primary and secondary sources. There will be a midterm, final, and term paper.

419N(Special Topics in History) Society and Culture in Victorian Britain
Taddeo MW 2:00pm – 3:15pm
This course examines the political, social, and cultural life of Great Britain, primarily from 1830 to 1900. We will pay particular attention to the various meanings of Victorianism and the bourgeois myths of progress, morality, reform, and imperial conquest. We will focus on the "Two Nations" residing within Britain and the problems of poverty and crime that affected all classes. This course will focus on Victorian notions of class, race, and gender and how they were shaped by and influenced politics and culture of everyday life.Readings will be a combination of primary and secondary sources.

419P (Special Topics in History) Cultural History of the Chinese Revolution
Gao TTh 9:30 – 10:45
Cultural dimension of the Chinese Revolution. Discussion of China’s elite and popular culture and their transformation through social revolutions in the twentieth century.

419W (Special Topics in History) Women and Reform Movements in the 20th Century US
Muncy TuTh 11:00-12:15
US women have been involved in reform movements throughout the twentieth century. This course will focus especially on women in various movements for social justice and will ask questions about how women’s participation in such movements has been shaped by gender, race, and class positions. In each of three periods, we will study women’s participation in the labor movement, movements for racial justice, and social welfare reform. To the extent that movements for the advancement of women have existed independent of these three areas, we will examine those as well. The three periods of special focus are the Progressive Era (1890-1925); the New Deal Era (1933-45); and the Postwar Era (1945-1975).

425 Imperial Russia
Staff MW 3:30 – 4:45
This course charts the evolution of the Russian empire as it moved from an Orthodox Muscovite civilization in the 17th century to a Westernizing, European Great Power in the 18th and 19th centuries, one that produced one of the world’s greatest cultures and assumed a unique position between East and West. The course charts Russian imperial history from Peter the Great until the revolutionary upheavals of the early 20th century swept away the Romanov dynasty and the tsarist order. It explores what it was like to live at various times and places in this vast empire, and is structured around some major themes in the history of Russia during this period. These include the development of the imperial order and Russian autocracy; Russia's rise as a great power in Europe; cycles of reform and reaction as Russia interacted with Western and European influences; the evolution of major social groups (especially the nobility and peasantry) before and during the changes wrought by industrialization; cultural transformation and the great flowering of Russian culture in the 19th century; the emergence of the intelligentsia and the rise of revolutionary movements; and, last but not least, the roots of the Russian Revolution.

426 Age of Industry: Britain 1760-1914
Price TTh 12:30 – 1:45
An economic, social, political and cultural analysis of Britain in the age of its industrial supremacy. The nature of the first industrial revolution, the emergence of modern social classes, the cultural impact of industrialization, politics and society in the early and mid-nineteenth century, Victorianism and its critics, imperialism and politics, high and low culture, the rise of labor, social and political tensions 1910-1914.

441 Germany in the Twentieth Century: 1914 – Present
Herf TTh 9:30 – 10:45
This course examines German political (domestic and international), intellectual, cultural and social history from the decade preceding World War I to the decade following the end of the Cold War. In the twentieth century, Germany experienced seven different forms of rule: the Kaiser Reich (1870-1945); Weimar Republic (1919-1933); National Socialist dictatorship (1933-1945); allied occupation (1945-1949); the Federal Republic (West Germany) (1949-1991); the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (1949-1991); and unified Germany (1991-present). We will examine this plurality of regimes with particular attention to causes of war and peace; radicalization and de-radicalization; modernization and the fundamentalist revolt; democracy and dictatorship; mass crime, memory and justice; Germany’s place in Europe during the Cold War and after German unification. Though we will examine the causes and consequences of the Nazi regime, World War II and the Holocaust, the second half of the course will deal extensively with German history to the first years of the twenty-first century. In addition to the issues regarding the Nazi regime, we will ask why democracy collapsed in 1933 but survived in West Germany after 1949 and then in unified Germany since 1991, and explore similarities and differences between the Nazi and the Communist dictatorships. The course will also raise comparative issues concerning twentieth century Germany in relation to other rapidly modernizing as well as advanced industrial societies.

443 Modern Balkan History
Lampe TTh 12:30 – 1:45
A political, socio-economic, and cultural history of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and the former Yugoslavia from the breakdown of Ottoman domination to the present. Emphasis is on movements for national liberation during the nineteenth century and on war, ethnic conflict and state-building through the twentieth century to the collapse of Communist regimes and the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

453 Diplomatic History of the United States from 1914
Zhang TTh 3:30 – 4:45
American foreign relations in the twentieth century. World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the end of the Cold War. A continuation of HIST 452.

454 Constitutional History of the United States: From Colonial Origins
Belz TTh 12:30 - 1:45
The interaction of government, law, and politics in the constitutional system. The nature and purpose of constitutions and constitutionalism; the relationship between the constitution and social forces and influences; the way in which constitutional principles, rules, ideas, and institutions affect events. The origins of American politics and constitutionalism through the constitutional convention of 1787. Major constitutional problems such as the origins of judicial review, democratization of government, slavery in the territories and the political system as a whole.

456 History of American Culture and Ideas to 1865
Grimsted MWF 1:00-1:50
The ideas, conflicts, myths, and realities that shaped American culture and society from the first settlements to the Civil War, explored through primary sources such as letters and diaries, works of literature and philosophy, songs and speeches, and economic and political essays. It explores the development of an American common culture--democratic and capitalist--and of religious, racial, class, gender and sectional subcultures that complicated the broad patterns.

461 Blacks in American Life: 1865 - Present
Moss TTh 2:00 – 3:15
The role of blacks in America since slavery, with emphasis on twentieth century developments: the migration from farm to city, the growth of the civil rights movement, the race question as a national problem.
CORE Human Cultural Diversity

482 History of Japan to 1800
Mayo TuTh 2:00-3:15
A multi-faceted survey of the history of Japanese civilization from the establishment of warrior or samurai rule, 1180’s, to the last shogun (great barbarian subduing generalissimo), 1860’s. After a brief overview of Japan’s late classical legacy, the course will focus on the rise of the hereditary warrior class and dominance of military government and values from the middle to early modern periods of Japan’s history. It will include medieval and early modern politics and warfare, interactions with Asian neighbors, the Buddhist transformation of Japan, Neo- Confucian ideology, artistic achievements, economic and technological developments, class and gender, urban popular culture, and encounters with Europe and America. We will end with the background to the Meiji Revolution, 1868, and the abolition of the samurai class. The course will utilize visual materials and major documents and explore the network for excellence in historical sources.

491 History of the Ottoman Empire
Zilfi TTh 9:30 – 10:45
Critical survey of major issues in the rise and rule of the Ottoman Empire as the largest and longest-lived Islamic state in history. The course combines readings, extended discussions and lectures to explore the formation of the imperial state; conflicts and tensions in the empire’s ethnically and religiously pluralistic environment; encounters with the West; nationalism and ethnic identity in the 19th and early 20th centuries; the “women question” and the discourse on rights; slavery and abolition; World War I and the Turkish war of independence.
CORE Human Cultural Diversity

492 Women and Society in the Middle East
Zilfi Th 12:30 – 2:30
Study of the customs, values, practices and institutions that have shaped and continue to shape women's experience in the Middle East. Although the course looks at earlier periods, the focus is on the twentieth century.

499 Independent Study
Faculty TBD
By permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits.