57 courses with the subject HIUS, 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.
HIUS 1501Introductory Seminar in U.S. History3
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Introduces the study of history intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history. Requisites 1st or 2nd year students
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Studies the development of the colonies and their institutions, the Revolution, the formation and organization of the Republic, and the coming of the Civil War.
Effective Date 01/01/2022 This course examines warfare and military developments in America from the colonial period to 1900. Major topics include debates over the role of the military in society; the motivations and experiences of soldiers; interaction between the military and civilian spheres; the development of a professional army and navy; and the social and cultural context, impact, and legacies of warfare.
Effective Date 02/17/2016 This is a course on war and the American experience during the last century-plus. It is a sequel to HIUS 2051, which covers U.S. military history from 1600 to 1900. This part of the course includes the how and why of traditional military history but goes further, tackling issues in intelligence or technology or economics – from the rise of intelligence agencies to the growth of a military-industrial complex.
Effective Date 01/01/2024 From Thomas Edison to Elon Musk, we’ve all heard stories of heroic inventors. In this course you’ll explore a different history of technology: how it’s shaped the ordinary lives of Americans, and how ordinary Americans shaped our common technologies. By viewing technology from the bottom-up, you’ll learn how to question and challenge the powerful stories about technology that surround us today.
HIUS 2168US-Mexico Border: History, Policy, and Theory3
Effective Date 01/01/2026 This course will introduce students to the history of the US-Mexico borderlands. Adopting a transnational approach, it will explore the relationships between the peoples, empires, and nations spanning the US-Mexico border. Starting with the various historiographical approaches to the study of borders and frontiers, then with the recent history US-Mexico border, and the persistence of transnational communities along the border from the nineteenth century to the present.
HIUS 2201US Immigration Law and Policy in Historical Perspective3
Effective Date 09/28/2023 This course will trace the origins of today’s immigration policy debates by providing students with a comprehensive overview of American immigration law and policy from the eighteenth century to the present. The course will also explore how state and federal policies impacted a wide array of immigrants, including the Irish, Chinese, and Mexican arrivals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIUS 2559 topic #10 US Immigration History
Effective Date 08/01/2026 From the post-Ice Age migrations to the Americas to current developments in tribal sovereignty, this survey course will include such topics as mutually beneficial trade and diplomatic relations between Natives and newcomers; the politics of empire; U.S. expansion; treaties and land dispossession; ecological, demographic, and social change; pan-Indian movements; and legal and political activism.
Effective Date 01/01/2021 This course tells the story of British America from an Atlantic perspective. The thirteen colonies that formed the United States were once part of a larger empire that spanned eastern North America and the Caribbean. From 1500 to 1800, cross-cultural encounters among Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans created a dynamic new world. Key topics trade, religion, agriculture, slavery, warfare, and the origins of the American Revolution.
Effective Date 07/28/2014 Studies the growth of ideas and institutions that led to American independence, the creation of a union, and a distinct culture.
Effective Date 01/01/2023 This course uses Thomas Jefferson as a lens to explore the post revolutionary era in the United States (ca. 1776-1830), with a focus on race and slavery, trans-nationalism, imperialism, and legal/constitutional developments.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Examines the period from roughly 1815 to 1861 focusing on the interaction between the developing sectional conflict and the evolving political system, with the view of explaining what caused the Civil War.
Effective Date 01/01/2023 Examines the course of the Civil War and Reconstruction in detail and attempts to assess their impact on 19th century American society, both in the North and in the South.
Effective Date 08/01/2012 This new course will examine the history of deaf people in the United States over the last three centuries, with particular attention to the emergence and evolution of a community of Deaf people who share a distinct sign language and culture. We will read both primary texts from specific periods and secondary sources. We will also view a few historical films.
none (though a previous class in History or ASL is recommended) Credits: 3
HIUS 3131From Lincoln to Roosevelt: America in the Gilded Age3
Effective Date 01/01/2026 This course will examine the years after the Civil War, from 1865 to 1900, a period in which Americans witnessed unprecedented economic expansion that profoundly altered political and social arrangements. It explores how the nation “recovered” from the Civil War, how it reconstructed itself, and continued to define the notion of who was an American and who was not. In short, it examines how the nation transitioned from one divided to the threshold of world domination in the age of imperialism.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Built around the history of mainstream and independent American film, this course explores how Americans have viewed and interpreted various historical moments and processes through the movies.
Effective Date 01/01/2010 This class will explore the history of the United States from 1980 to the present through the lens of the information revolution that occurred during this period. We will examine the origins of the technological changes like the mainframe computer, merged media, the emergence of the internet, and the impact that they had on the economy, politics and social interaction.
Effective Date 08/01/2015 Surveys post World War II U.S. politics uncovering the links between long range social and economic phenomenon (suburbanization, decline of agricultural employment, the rise and fall of the labor movement, black urbanization and proletarianization, economic society and insecurity within the middle class, the changing structure of multinational business) and the more obvious political movements, election results, and state policies of the last half century.
Effective Date 10/01/2012 This course will cover the history of American involvement in Vietnam from 1945 through 1975. It will offer a detailed study of U.S. political, economic, cultural, and military policy through a wide range of scholarship on the U.S. engagement with Vietnam, focusing on the war’s impact in Southeast Asia and in the United States.
Effective Date 12/07/2015 This course will examine landmark films on the Vietnam War from the 1960s through the present. Lectures and discussion focusing on between 8 and 10 films, which students will watch as part of class, will explore the history and themes depicted in these films, highlighting directorial viewpoints, the contexts in which the films were produced and received, their historical accuracy, and their impact on the legacy of the war in American culture.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Studies the history of the South from 1900 to the present focusing on class structure, race relations, cultural traditions, and the question of southern identity.
Effective Date 01/01/2018 History is the study of continuity and changes over time. This course will examine social, political, and economic continuities and changes in Virginia from 1900 to 2018.
HIUS 3301The History of UVa in the Twentieth Century3
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Studies the local, regional, and national trends effecting higher education, relating these trends specifically to the University of Virginia. Students are active participants in recovering the institution’s history through oral interviews with alumni, faculty, and administrators and through serious archival work.
Effective Date 01/01/2027 This course will focus on the American Civil War, specifically on the writings of a few prominent figures who in the face of intensifying friction tried to articulate and promote constructive ways of avoiding the destruction of 1861-1865. We will also read the writings of people, northern and southern, civilian and military, who responded to the destructiveness of war while anticipating the re-constructiveness of the postwar years. Requisites Students cannot enroll if they previously completed HIUS 3559 Topic #34 American Civil Wars
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Surveys the rise of the modern corporate form of American business and an analysis of the underlying factors which shaped that development.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Studies the evolution of the American city from colonial times to the end of the nineteenth century. Emphasizes both the physical growth of the system of cities and the development of an urban culture, including comparisons with European and Asian cities.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Surveys American labor in terms of the changing nature of work and its effect on working men, women, and children. Emphasizes social and cultural responses to such changes, as well as the organized labor movement.
Effective Date 12/13/2017 This survey traces the history of African American popular music from the late 1950s to the current era. It examines the major sonic innovations in the genres of soul, funk, and hip-hop over the course of the semester, students will examine how musical expression has provided black women and men with an outlet for individual expression, community building, sexual pleasure, political organizing, economic uplift, and interracial interaction
Effective Date 05/05/2009 This course will use an interdisciplinary format and document based approach to explore the history of non-urban poverty in the US South from the 1930s to the present. Weaving together the social histories of poor people, the political history of poverty policies, and the history of representations of poverty, the course follows historical cycles of attention and neglect during the Great Depression, the War on Poverty, and the present.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Required for history majors, to be completed before enrollment in the Major Seminar. Introduces a variety of approaches to the study of history, methods for finding and analyzing primary and secondary sources, and the construction of historical arguments. Workshops are offered on a variety of topics each term.
HIUS 3523Disco and Disillusionment: The United States in the 1970s3
Effective Date 01/01/2019 This lecture provides both a chronological and thematic approach to the history of 1970s America. Class will focus on significant shifts in American politics, culture, and society. The course will encourage us to think more deeply about the fate of liberalism in post-1960s America, the rise of ethnic identity and its impact on the rights revolution, gender and the politics of sexuality, religion and the rise of the South, Nixon and Watergate.
Effective Date 08/01/2019 Studies the evolution of women’s roles in American society with particular attention to the experiences of women of different races, classes, and ethnic groups.
HIUS 3612Gender & Sexuality in America, 1865 to Present3
Effective Date 08/01/2019 Studies the evolution of women’s roles in American society with particular attention to the experiences of women of different races, classes, and ethnic groups.
Effective Date 09/28/2023 The history of local government and local politics in shaping American life. Course examines issues, themes, and problems of local democracy in historical and contemporary contexts. Class meetings combine lectures and discussions. Course includes local civic engagement component. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIUS 3559 topic #23-26 All Politics is Local
Effective Date 09/25/2014 This course examines the history and contemporary experiences of African Americans at the University of Virginia from the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the present era.
HIUS 3671African American Freedom Movement, c 1945-Present3
Effective Date 08/01/2020 This course examines the history and legacy of the African American struggle for civil rights in twentieth century America. It provides students with a broad overview of the civil rights movement – the key issues, significant people and organizations, and pivotal events – as well as a deeper understanding of its scope, influence, legacy, and lessons for today
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Studies the major developments in American law, politics, and society from the colonial settlements to the Civil War. Focuses on legal change, constitutional law, legislation, and the common law from 1776 to 1860.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Studies the major developments in American law, politics, and society from the era of Reconstruction to the recent past. Focuses on legal change as well as constitutional law, legislation, and the common law.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 A survey of American legal thought from Holmes to Posner. Emphasizes theories of property, contract, tort, corporations and administrative law in Legal Realism, Legal Process Jurisprudence, Law and Economics, and Critical Legal Studies.
HIUS 3852Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States since 18653
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Analyzes the main traditions of thought and belief in the relationship to significant historical events and cultural changes from the Civil War to the present.
HIUS 3853From Redlined to Subprime: Race and Real Estate in the US3
Effective Date 01/01/2023 This course examines the history of housing and real estate and explores its role in shaping the meaning and lived experience of race in modern America. We will learn how and why real estate ownership, investment, and development came to play a critical role in the formation and endurance of racial segregation, modern capitalism, and the built environment.
Effective Date 09/22/2011 This course takes advantage of the nationally known academic experts, journalists, and policy-makers who come through UVa’s Miller Center of Public Affairs each week. Based on the work of these visiting scholars, students will consider the historical background of some of our most pressing policy and public affairs issues. Assignments will include extensive weekly readings, a few short op-eds, and a lengthy original research essay.
Effective Date 02/16/2017 This course uses the writings of participants to examine major themes relating to the American Civil War. Assigned texts will illuminate, among other topics: (1) Why the war came; (2) How it evolved from a struggle for Union to one for Union and emancipation; (3) How the conflict affected civilians on both sides; (4) Why soldiers fought; and (5) How men and women on each side remembered the war and how those memories influence current perceptions.
Effective Date 01/01/2027 The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Effective Date 02/24/2020 The major colloquium is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Colloquia are most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students in colloquia prepare about 25 pages of written work distributed among various assignments. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Effective Date 05/19/2015 Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.
HIUS 4993Independent Study in United States History1
Effective Date 03/01/2009 In exceptional circumstances and with permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Enrollment is open to majors or non-majors.
