HST 111: Introductory Seminar: Family and Local History:

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This course explored local history and genealogy.

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HST 205: Questions in History: Slavery, Abolition, and Freedom:

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This course explores America’s history with the institution of slavery.  It begins with the black Americans’ African origins and the middle passage, continues through slavery’s expansion in the antebellum period, its destruction during the Civil War, and concludes with freed people’s struggles for citizenship during Reconstruction.  Students will come to understand American slaves’ lives and labors, the multiracial abolition movements, slave resistance, the political debates around slavery, slavery’s demise.

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HST 214: Major Themes in Asian History:

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A survey of major themes in South, Southeast, and East Asian history from ancient times to the present, with a focus on the modern period. It examines such processes as the formation of classical civilizations, the rise and fall of empires, cultural encounters, transformations of societies, and such themes as imperialism, nationalism, and Communism.

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HST 215: Themes in World History:

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This course emphasizes the increasing connectivity of regional cultures, especially from the rise of the Silk Road civilizations 2000 years ago to the present. Specific topics include the diffusion of cultural innovations, immigration, long-distance trade, the spread of diseases, and empire-building.

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Great Britain and the American Civil War Research Paper

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HST 305: German History through Film:

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This course examines movie representations of events in German/world history in the 20th century.  We will focus on changing and contested interpretations of World War I, Hitler and Nazi Germany, World War II, Divided Germany, the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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HST 312: Medieval England:

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History of Great Britain from Alfred of Wessex to the accession of the Tudors in 1485. Social, political, and constitutional development of England, and comparable developments in Scotland and Ireland. First-year students admitted only by permission of the department.

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Medieval Education Research Paper

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HST 331: Colonial America:

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The first British empire in comparative global perspective. First-year students admitted only by permission of the department.

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HST 332: The American Revolution:

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An intensive study of the revolt from Great Britain, 1754-1789. First-year students admitted only by permission of the department.

 

HST 334: The Early Republic:

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The United States between 1789 and 1850. First-year students admitted only by permission of the department.

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HST 335: The Civil War:

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A study of the causes, conduct, and consequences of the American Civil War. First-year students admitted only by permission of the department. 

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HST 345: History of the American Midwest:

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Emergence of the Midwest from the old Northwest Territory of the early American republic through the Civil War and the 20th century; emphasis on the development of a distinctive regional culture and interaction of various religious, ethnic, and racial groups.

 

William Henry Harrison and the Indiana Territory Research Paper

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HST 353: The American Empire: Foreign Policy Since 1945:

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American foreign policy and imperial ambitions since 1945.

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