HIST 105History of the Modern World
This course surveys modern world history from 1450 to the present. It focuses on global processes and regional particularities t
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HIST
75 courses with the subject HIST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HIST 110149 One Introduction to History Seminar
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HIST 110-149One Introduction to History Seminar
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HIST 113Jacksonian Democracy
This course examines the events and ideas of the Jacksonian era, focusing especially on the period from 1828 to 1845. We consi
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HIST 114Food Histories in the Americas
What can food tell us about the past? In this writing-intensive history course, we will consider this question by focus
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HIST 115The Crusades
This course examines the history of the Crusades that dramatically shaped the relationship between Eastern Christianity, Islam and
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HIST 118The Cold War
The Cold War was a political contest between the USA and USSR that took on increasingly apocalyptic dimensions as the nucle
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HIST 119Race and Ethnicity in the United States
The story of American history has, in many ways, been the story of white supremacy. The struggles to invent, define, and control r
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HIST 120History in Pictures
This course is an introduction to the interpretation and analysis of visual sources of history. Visual artifacts will be treated as both objects that make argu
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HIST 121Partition of the Indian Subcontinent
One of the most violent and disruptive events of the 20th century, the Partition of the Indian subcontinent into the nation
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HIST 122European Race-Making from Columbus to Abolition
This course explores the development of race and racism in Europe, 1492-1807, by following things as they moved around the
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HIST 123Magic + Miracles: Medieval Religion
Religion was central to nearly every aspect of life in the middle ages, c. 300-1500 AD. Using a range of visual and written
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HIST 124The History of Pre-Colonial Africa and its Global Connections
The course introduces students to the history of pre-colonial Africa and the global connections which different African societies sustained over centuries before colonization. By foregrounding local forms of technological innovation, empire bu
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 140Health, Healing and Medicine in Africa
The course examines concepts of health and healing in multiple cultural and social contexts in African societies from the ‘Pre-colonial’ p
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HIST 201History of Ancient Greece
An investigation of the historical development of the city-states with their social, economic, and political institutions from 800-40
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HIST 202History of Ancient Rome
An investigation of how Rome grew from a small city-state to become a vast and complex state governing an empire. The cours
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HIST 206The Politics and Practice of History
This course trains students in the skills, methods, philosophies, and practices of the discipline of history. Students learn how
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HIST 207The Middle East (600-1200): The Islamic Enterprise
This course studies the Middle East from the 7th century through the early thirteenth. The goal of the course is to provide
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HIST 208The Middle East (1200-1700): Arabs, Crusaders, Mongols, Turks and More
This course studies the Middle East from the 13th through the 17th century. The goal of the course is to prov
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HIST 209The Middle East (1700-2003): Empires, Nations, East" and "West""
This course studies the Middle East from the 18th through early 20th century. The goal of the course is to provide a sur
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HIST 212The Middle East in the Mind of America, America in the Mind of the Middle East
This course covers a century of political and cultural interactions between one country (the United States) and a large, culturally, linguistically, and po
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HIST 214Africa History: 1800-present
Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, we begin by exploring the impact of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa and move to t
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HIST 215History of Technology
A study of technology from the irrigation cities of the ancient world through militarily financed systems of the late twenti
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HIST 216Modern South Africa
This course introduces students to the politics, cultures, and histories of South Africa. Beginning in the seventeenth century,
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HIST 217Settler Colonialism in World History
This course addresses settler colonialism in world history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Examining case studies
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HIST 218The Beautiful Game: A Global History of Soccer
The course takes the position that football (soccer) is more than just a game, and invites students to consider and examine the cultural, social and political meanings which societies around the world have attached to the beautiful game. The class situates the global history of soccer in the context of themes which include indu
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HIST 221Rome to Renaissance: Medieval Europe
This course explores the history of Europe, c. 300-1500. Students will examine how events such as the decline of the Roman Empir
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HIST 222Reformation to Revolution: Early Modern Europe
During the early modern period, c. 1500-1800, European exploration and colonization transformed the ecology of planet Earth and
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HIST 225From Revolution to European Union: Modern European History
For good and ill, Europe played a major role in shaping the modern world. Why did Europe give birth to human rights and
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HIST 226Sex in Modern Europe
This course takes a historical approach to the study of one of the most basic human practices: sex. We will focus on the histo
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HIST 227Race and Migration in Modern Europe
Popular wisdom holds that Europe today faces a migration "crisis" that poses unprecedented challenges to European identity and
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HIST 231Capitalism Takes Command: U.S. History, 1840-1940
This course explores how, from 1840-1940, struggles among North Americans over questions of land, race, gender, labor, and
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 232American Revolution and Civil War: A Political History
This course examines American political history in two crucial time periods: 1760-1789 and 1850-1880. The course
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 235From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Where did Black Lives Matter come from? Students will learn how our current moment was made possible by the successes and defeats
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HIST 236Recent America: The Great Depression - 2001
American politics from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan. Topics include the New Deal;
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HIST 238Global Stimulants: Histories of Coffee, Tea, and Yerba Mate
For more than five hundred years now, the desire for global stimulants has shaped patterns of colonialism, imperialism, labor, and
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HIST 239Food and the City: Social Histories of the Premodern and Early Modern Middle East
In this course, we will analyze the ways in which religious and ethnic identities related to food seem to blur in urban traditions link
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HIST 241History, Art, and Culture of Russia and Eastern Europe
This course introduces students to the major issues addressed by scholars of Russia and Eastern Europe in a number of different discipl
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HIST 243Imperial Russia
This course surveys 1,000 years of Russian history, from the founding of the first state in Kiev in the 9th century to the
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HIST 244Russia from Lenin to Putin
This course surveys Russia's history over the past century.Beginning with the years of war and revolution from 191
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 245Latin America: The Colonial Period
This course examines the colonial era of a region now called Latin America. It will begin with the period preceding the arrival
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 246Latin America: The National Period
This course examines the history of Latin America from the early nineteenth century until the present by exploring the social,
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 248East Asia's Last Dynasties: Japan, Korea and China, 1600-1900
A comparative study of institution-building, economic life, and social history in China, Korea and
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 24920th Century East Asia: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan
An historical analysis of how East Asia's four major states-China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan-modernized amidst forc
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HIST 250Japan Goes to War 1895-1945
Japan's War against the United State (1941-1945) was the culmination of fifty years of empire-building in Asia. From the 189
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HIST 251Muslim Girls (Run the World): Gender and Popular Culture from Prophetic Tradition to Arab Futurism
This interdisciplinary course takes up topics that are vital for students on college campuses today, including Islam, Islamaphobia, gender,
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HIST 252Transformation of the American Environment
This course examines the relationship of environment (and environmental change) to American history. Topics include the impact of
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
HIST 257Race, Ethnicity, and the Law in U.S. History
This course examines the histories of African, Latina/o/x, Indigenous, and Asian Americans from the colonial period to the present,
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 258U.S. Constitutional History
This course analyzes the history of the U.S. Constitution from 1787 to the present. We focus primarily on two main topics in constitutional history: (1) federalism, property rights, and e
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 259Medieval Iberia: the Peoples, Places and Politics of Convivencia
In this course, students will be introduced to the practice of studying medieval history as they approach an understanding of medieval Iberia (Spain) as part of th
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HIST 261Slavery in the Americas
Brought to the Americas as part of the largest forced migration in history, the struggles of the millions of men, women,
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 266Modern South Asia
This course provides an overview of the history of modern South Asia from the colonial to the post-colonial period. This course will explore
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HIST 267The Mughal Empire in South Asia
This course covers the history of the Indian subcontinent from the Delhi Sultunate until the rise of British colonialism, a time period that is known for the emergence of Muslim rule in the subcontinent. Significant attention will focus o
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HIST 269Contested Lands: The Case of Kashmir
This course examines how histories of borderlands and margins, emanating from empires and nation-states, turn them into simultaneous objects of desire and con
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 275Crossing the Americas: Latin American Migration and Latines
In this course we will trace Latin American migration to and within the United States over the course of the 20th Century. We will map the various turning points in the local and federal treatment of immigration to the U.S. and
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HIST 276Conquest: A History
This course will examine the global history of conquest from ancient times to the present. We will study conquests by Assyrians, Persians, Gree
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 280Internship in History
The department will arrange internships each semester for qualified juniors and seniors wi
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HIST 290291 Independent Study
Qualified students may develop, in consultation with an instructor in the depa
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HIST 290-291Independent Study1
Qualified students may develop, in consultation with an instructor in the department, a single-semester course directed to a particular theme or topic of historical inquiry, providing practice in historical research and writing.
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HIST 310Colloquium: Human Rights and Modern War
This is an intensive course focused on the ways that the language and practice of human rights have intersected with t
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HIST 320Colloquium: Islam in the Modern World
The topic of Islam in the Modern World has garnered much scrutiny and debate. This course sheds a historical light on a number of important issues including the role of colonia
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HIST 330Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Europe
Noble knights and fair ladies loom large in stereotypical depictions of the middle ages, but how did people in medieval Europe (c. 500-1500) really thi
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HIST 340Advanced Seminar in South African History and Culture
This advanced seminar is designed for students for students who have already taken cour
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HIST 345Colloquium: Histories of Argentina (and its Neighbors)
This course explores the histories of Argentina and its neighbors during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will ex
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HIST 350France from the Margins: History of Modern France
What does the history of modern France look like when we move away from the story that France has told about itself, as t
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HIST 350-399Two Research Seminars
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 354Seminar: 1968 - Year of Global Rebellion
1968 was a tumultuous year around the world. The Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the Prague Spring, the assassination of MLK, the Bia
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 355Global South Asia: Empire, Migration and Diaspora
This course examines how the region of South Asia has broadly interacted with, shaped, and been shaped by other parts of the modern world, and asks: How can we rethink an
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 359Abolitionist and Civil Rights Movements in Early American History
In this seminar, we will examine the strategies, tactics, and rhetoric used by early American activists who sought to abolish slavery, eliminate racial discrimination in criminal law and process, establish legal protections ag
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 365American Technological Development
The growth of American technology is examined from the Colonial era through the twentieth century. Topics include the proli
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 368Seminar in Latin American History
This seminar provides advanced students with an opportunity to conduct research on a subject of their choosing related to the speci
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 371Seminar: Native American History
Humans had been transforming the Americas and themselves for over 500 generations before Columbus "discovered" the New World
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 373The Early Ottoman Empire: People(s), State and Society
This seminar offers an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of the rise and establishment of the early Ottoman Empire. Covering the rise of the early Ottoman state from the perspective of th
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 375Seminar in African History
The seminar addresses a major theme in the field of African History by facilitating a close reading, and discussion
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- 2025-2026
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HIST 495-496Thesis1
Guided by a member of the staff, the student writes a thesis in a specialized field. If at the end of the first semester the student's project appears to have honors potential, the student may apply to pursue graduation with honors. Upon satisfactory completion of the essay, the student takes an oral examination on the thesis and its historical field. Signature of Department Head or Instructor required.
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- 2025-2026
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