美国史学最大的菠菜的平台入门阅读课程. The class examines the leading schools of historical opinion from the founding of American society through the modern era.
Prereq: HIST 801
This course will introduce graduate students to the history profession and to the tools and methods used by historians.
This graduate course examines contemporary issues and practices in the field of public history. 本课程的形式将根据主题而有所不同, instructor, and the needs of the students. May be repeated with each new offering.
HIST 848: Age of Eisenhower will explore readings and topics that situate the 1950s into larger national and global exchanges. 通过研究美国社会之间的动态关系, culture, politics, and international affairs, this course will provide students with a deeper understanding of how the early Cold War era made and remade American culture and life throughout mid-twentieth century. The Age of Eisenhower will also introduce you to the most influential monographs and scholars on this era as well as the newer works.
This course surveys the social, political, economic, 以及现代北美农业的文化史. Agricultural History will explore readings and topics that also situates the field into larger international and global exchanges. By examining these dynamic relationships Agricultural History aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of how farm and food history intersects with other sub-specialties such as medicine and health history as well as military, foreign relations, and environmental histories. Agricultural History will also introduce you to the most influential monographs and scholars of the field as well as the newer works.
This graduate readings course will provide a broad historiographic overview of the American West from pre-European contact to about 1900. We will cover an array of traditional Western topics such as territorial expansion, exploration, fur trade, cattle frontier, mining, law and order, and homesteading. 本课程还将涵盖新西部历史的主题, including Native peoples, borderlands, race and gender, and environmental history. Students will become familiar with pioneering historians in the field such as Frederick Jackson Turner, Walter Prescott Webb, and Herbert Eugene Bolton and New Western historians such as Patricia Limerick, Elliott West, and Ann Hyde. The goal of this course is to introduce students to multiple perspectives and interpretations about the many people who have lived in and experienced the American West.
This online graduate course is an introduction to the field of colonial American history. Over the course of the semester, we will read foundational works in the field and consider how historians have gradually expanded the definition of colonial America to include new peoples, places, and subjects. After examining the work of the influential Consensus historian Perry Miller and one of his students, Bernard Bailyn, we will turn to three different subfields: histories of African American slavery, accounts of Native-European encounters, and histories of gender in colonial America.
This course is designed to meet two goals: to teach students to think critically about the production, consumption, 以及地方和社区历史的传播, 并帮助他们成为所在社区的公共学者. It will teach students to conduct local historical research and to present that research and knowledge to public audiences. But more importantly, it will challenge them to critically consider local historical memory and notions of “heritage,“人们如何在他们的社区中建立一种认同感和位置感, how historical knowledge shapes civic engagement, and how people have used history at the local level to influence power relations. 课程作业鼓励学生了解当地历史事件的背景, conduct local historical research, envision how to lead their own communities to become more inclusive and comprehensive in their historical interpretation, and write for public audiences.
An on-line graduate reading and research course. Through assigned readings, written reviews, research papers, and group discussions, 学生将探索美国宪法史上的关键问题. 我们将特别关注美国的发展.S. 宪法和正在进行的关于其起源的史学辩论, nature, and continuing influence. Additional attention will focus on critical constitutional questions and Supreme Court decisions throughout American history.
The American frontier is oftentimes synonymous with crime, violence, and disorder. Images of gunfighters on dusty cow town streets, gun toting law officers, and vigilantes hanging a ruffian from a tree are common images of frontier America. This course will explore the history and legacy of American frontier law and order. Students will read classic books, recent scholarship, and view Hollywood films to try and uncover whether or not the American frontier deserves to be labeled as a region where crime and violence prevailed over law and order. Students will have weekly readings, asynchronous discussions, and a variety of writing assignments.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to a broad range of the scholarly literature on the Gilded Age. Readings have been chosen because of their importance in shaping thought on a subject related to the history of the Gilded Age, or they are important for other reasons.
The goals and objectives of this course are:
To create a community experience of discussion, analysis, critical thinking, and writing about the essential themes, personalities, and events that defines the history of the Hispanic communities of the Americas and their relationship to the United States.
To facilitate and assist students in building an academic resource base in this area of study which they will be able to use for future academic work.
To facilitate and assist students in creating their own analytical framework for discussing Hispanic immigration and Hispanics in America.
This graduate-level online readings course is designed to introduce students to the major themes, debates, 以及动态的历史保护领域的问题. More than simply saving old places, historic preservationists today believe in the power of historic places to influence our sense of community, inspire creativity, promote sustainability, support local economies, and provide connection to the pasts around us. At the same time, a critical look at historic preservation’s own history reveals systemic issues and inequalities that should encourage us to think about how our historic places might work to better reflect the fullness and complexity of American history. The readings for this course are chosen to both demonstrate the importance of historic preservation and promote critical reflection on its practice, historically and in the present.
In this graduate readings course, we will assess the growing body of work on Native American history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and particularly the work of historians who have investigated indigenous borderlands: places where Native peoples encountered one another and the agents of the Spanish, French, and British empires. The selected readings focus on different sites of Indian-European encounter—from coastal New England to Nevada’s Great Basin—and the people who negotiated early American borderlands, including Native captives, interpreters, and navigators.
Scholars have recently shown how Native American nations were not simply subjects of European colonialism but also expansive powers that governed and collected tribute from other Native peoples and Europeans alike. Like European nations and empires, Indigenous polities defined borders, conquered new territories, 并制定了过境和穿越外国土地的协议. In this course, we will study Indigenous powers in North America between the rise of Cahokia and the Lakota struggle against the U.S. Army.
本课程将从12世纪的密西西比河谷开始, where Cahokian peoples built enormous mounds, developed large agricultural surpluses, and received tribute from distant people who conducted pilgrimages to their cities. The leaders of the Cahokia polity wielded economic, political, and spiritual power. Following the collapse of Cahokia, 不同的土著政治成为权力的代理人, including the Iroquois in New York. We will consider the language and categories that historians have used to describe the political structure of the Iroquois, including "empire,历史学家也用这个词来形容科曼奇家族, who enlisted horses to become the dominant power in the southern plains in the eighteenth century. 本课程将以讨论19世纪60年代和70年代的冲突作为结束, when the dominant power of the central and northern Great Plains—the Lakota Sioux—resisted American expansion.
美国西部的传统大学课程在1890年结束, 那一年,美国人口普查得出结论,边疆时期已经结束. Noted historian Frederick Jackson Turner first promoted this ending point in his 1893 Frontier Thesis essay and then generations of historians perpetuated it in the twentieth century. 从20世纪60年代开始,但在80年代末和90年代成年, New Western Historians refuted the 1890 end date and began revising the ideas of the Turnerians. Consequently, new areas of research opened to historians that included the exploration of race and gender, urbanization, environmental issues, federal government power and expansion, the impact of depression and war, persistence and resilience of Native peoples, and a host of other non-traditional western themes.
Note: The History Department provides a two part sequence on the American West. Part I (The American West) covers the years from before European contact to roughly 1890. 第二部分(现代西方)涵盖了从1890年到现在的岁月. Students who are specializing in the American West as an examination field or thesis area should take both courses. Other students may take one or the other. Part I is not a prerequisite for taking Part II.
This course is an introduction to formative work in the field of Native American history. Since the 1970s, scholars have been expanding the archival and methodological reach of Native American history to include indigenous sources and comparative perspectives about the experience of colonialism. The selected readings represent Native histories across North America—from New York to Seattle—and address experiences of indigenous individuals, families, kinship groups, and nations.
We will begin with foundational works in the field of Native American history that address the different dimensions of indigenous power and the ways in which Native peoples managed natural resources. Turning to the nineteenth century, we will analyze how historians have explained the environmental and biological costs of colonialism and the violence of dispossession and removal. The semester concludes with the work of historians who have drawn from interviews and aspects of material culture to convey indigenous experiences through the twentieth century and up to the present day.
A graduate readings course examining major historiographic issues in key periods and topics in American history. 主题将包括(但不限于)殖民美国, the Early Republic, Civil War and Reconstruction, Gilded Age/Progressive America, Western and Native American history, the Great Depression, World War II, Environmental history, the Cold War, Civil Rights, and Recent America.
This course explores the history of the Midwest and its role in United States history. It draws on the region’s broad social, political, cultural, and civic movements to understand how the Midwest emerged as a distinctive region. Through readings of influential and innovative historical works students will deepen their understanding of the region’s history and the conflicts and contests that shaped its political, cultural, and social compositions. We will consider the varied and overlapping narratives of the Midwest to not only better understand this region, 更重要的是它对美国和世界的影响.
The course will introduce students to the theory and practice of historic interpretation at historic sites and museums. Using readings, assignments, peer review, site visits, and discussion boards, students will learn about crafting high quality interpretive narratives grounded in sound scholarship while obtaining usable skills for the public history profession. Students will be exposed to literature that introduces them to the philosophy of interpretation as well as provides them with practical case studies and exercises that will prepare them for work in the field. Quality interpretation for historical resources involves sound scholarship and collaboration between academics, working professionals, and the general public, so students will be asked to conduct research using both primary and secondary literature as well as collaborate with partners and consider their potential audiences.
这门最大的菠菜的平台阅读课程探讨政治, social, cultural, 以及美国国家公园和纪念碑的环境历史. Selected readings introduce students to the origins of the National Park idea and then examine how the National Park Service has responded to the challenges of the past century. Topics covered include: the struggle to preserve natural and cultural resources, 旅游业与现代性对公园的影响, the politics of displacement and representation, and the ongoing practice of public history within the National Park Service system.
The 1970s may be one of the most misunderstood, overlooked, and readily dismissed decades of the 20th century. Ask people who lived through those years for their impressions and they will likely recall with displeasure gasoline shortages, polyester leisure suits, and disco. 其他人可能会哀叹战后自由主义或“运动”的崩溃,” that collective burst of activism for expanded rights and social justice that defined the 1960s. 许多人仍然对这十年的内城骚乱嗤之以鼻, environmental problems, and economic distress. This course will revisit and complicate some of those lingering perceptions about the 1970s. Course readings will examine sweeping political changes stemming from labor struggles, ongoing racial tension, foreign policy, 以及对20世纪60年代剧烈社会变化的强烈反对. At the same time, 他们还将审查人权和环境权利的进步, 特别是当他们由于地方性的草根运动而扩大时. Finally, course readings consider cultural phenomena that linked 1960s countercultural movements to the popularization of organic food, “green” technology, and, oddly enough, evangelical Protestantism.
本课程向学生介绍口述历史的理论和实践. The first portion of the course will engage scholarship related to oral history, 特别是强调该领域历史的作品, oral history as methodology, tools for conducting oral history, and individual and collective memory. Readings will prompt students to think about how individual and public memories are constructed and shaped over time as well as the dynamic relationship that occurs during the interview process between interviewer and interviewee. The course will pay particular attention to ethical and legal considerations related to the practice, including IRB oversight, intellectual property, and bias. Finally, students will be expected to complete an oral history interview with a person of their choice, 运用他们在课程实习部分所学到的技能.
Historians of the American West have long debated over the relationship between the American West and the Pacific Ocean. Many scholars argue that the West stops at the Pacific while another group extends the West into the Pacific Ocean to include Hawaii, Alaska, and maritime cultures. This course will explore the American relationship with the Pacific Ocean by addressing themes such as indigenous societies, European exploration and colonization, extractive economies, tourism, federal government presence and dependence, and Native dispossession.
This course is an introduction to recent, influential work in Plains Indian history. Readings span the length of the Great Plains, from the Texas borderlands to the U.S.-Canada border; multiple centuries, from the 1200s to the present day; and different methodological approaches, including environmental history, relations of gender, material cultures, and public memory. Throughout the semester, we will explore core questions in the field as well as the terrain between history and other disciplines, including archaeology, art, and the natural sciences.
We will begin with two works that reconstruct the ancient histories of Plains Indians through oral histories, archaeological evidence, and environmental research. Turning to the nineteenth century, we will analyze how historians have explained the environmental and biological costs of colonialism and the violence of dispossession and removal. The semester concludes with the work of historians who have drawn from interviews and aspects of material culture to convey indigenous experiences through the twentieth century and up to the present day.
The assigned readings have not only influenced scholars in other fields but also reached beyond the academy to speak to the wider public. They have reshaped, and in some cases challenged, how educators, curators, 记者们在课堂上传播平原印第安人的历史, museums, and media forums. We will consider how these historians wrote for multiple audiences and incorporated evidence into compelling narratives. Readings will hopefully provide models for your own research and writing in Plains Indian history as well as opportunities to discuss ways of working with contemporary indigenous communities.
本课程探讨民粹主义运动的近代史.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to a broad range of the scholarly literature on the Progressive Era. Readings have been chosen because of their importance in shaping thought on a subject related to the history of the Progressive Era, or they are important for other reasons.
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the theory and practice of public history. A growing body of scholarship on public history has emerged over the past few decades, seeking to develop a better understanding of the underlying principles of the field and the challenges of doing history in public. This class will expose students to both classic as well as new scholarship on public history, 探索当今公共历史实践面临的几个关键问题, and offer hands-on, practical experience through the preparation of a grant proposal and the completion of a real-world public history project.
This course is designed to equip students with knowledge and skills needed to become public history administrators. 课程材料的内容必然会有所不同, ranging from “how-to” guides and reflections from public history professionals to theoretical essays designed to prompt discussion about major issues facing the field. Monographs and case studies will introduce students to the history of museums and historic sites in America, ethical considerations, digital history, legal questions, and career options. 学生们还将学习如何撰写拨款和筹款, perhaps one of the least glamorous but most important aspects of a public historian’s work. While the content leans toward museum work, 这些阅读材料也适用于公共历史的其他领域. 该课程还借鉴了更多的非营利性管理的一般考试, participatory philosophies, collaborative community research, and entrepreneurship so that students will be equipped with skills and ideas that will help them succeed in the professional realm.
This course surveys the social, political, economic, 以及现代科技的文化史. Science and Technology will explore readings and topics that situate both fields into larger international and global exchanges. 通过研究科学之间的动态关系, technology, and society, this course will provide students with a deeper understanding of how these histories intersect with other sub-specialties such as medicine and health history as well as military, foreign relations, and environmental and agricultural histories. Science and Technology will also introduce you to the most influential monographs and scholars of both fields as well as the newer works.
This course will examine the origins, development, and significance of sports, athletics, recreation, 以及美国从殖民时代到现代的休闲方式. Students will be introduced to the major sports historians and the primary historiographical arguments in the field. While we will briefly explore the origins of modern-day sports such as baseball, football, and basketball, the primary focus of the course will be the relationship of sports to larger historical themes such as modernization and urbanization, race and gender, and economics and politics.
This class will acquaint students with the history of the Age of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement that spread throughout Europe and its colonies during the 1700s. Based upon the premise that all men possessed reason and would organize the world in a rational manner, 启蒙运动对现状提出了重大挑战. For Europeans living during the eighteenth century, 这一时期给社会组织带来了深刻的变化, economies, militaries, and political and religious systems. Students will analyze and discuss Europe during the eighteenth century to investigate the nature of the Enlightenment and its impact throughout Europe.
The British Empire was the world’s largest empire. By 1900 it encompassed one quarter of the globe and accounted for a fifth of the world’s population. This course explores cultural, political and economic themes of this vast empire. 本课程涵盖的主题包括-这个帝国是如何创建的? The role of race in the Empire, the global trading empire, the role of the Indian Raj, the British African Empire, and the demise of British imperialism. In doing so the course seeks to establish how Britain shaped and in turn was shaped by its empire.
本课程是对主要政治问题的概览, military and religious features of the Byzantine Empire from roughly 330 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The course will be run largely through discussion boards and three ten-page unit essays. The main readings for each week are supplemented by three primary sources in translation to help students better understand the periods that we will be moving through rather quickly.
The study of Cold War history has changed greatly. Only two decades ago historians and political researches had to limit themselves to the analysis of Western sources. 因此,西方政策在他们的研究中占据了主要地位. It was very difficult to come to objective judgments about the Soviet Union and the entire Communist Bloc. With the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s the Eastern European archives opened and historians had an opportunity to study previously secret documents. As a result, a number of books, volumes of documents, and articles discussing numerous aspects of the post-World War II history of Eastern Europe appeared. This class will provide a survey of the recent literature on Eastern Europe from 1945 to the accession of the Eastern European countries to the European Union. Just as the collapse of the region's communist regimes took social scientists by surprise in 1989, 自那以后,政治和经济轨迹的分化也随之加剧. 在一些国家,民主制度迅速得到巩固. 在其他国家,自由选举产生了“非自由民主”." Likewise, in the economic sphere, outcomes have varied widely: while some governments quickly managed difficult reforms and laid the conditions for growth, others faced extended economic stagnation. Finally, 该地区的一些国家已经加入了欧盟和北约, a process that, arguably, has deepened democracy and cemented economic reforms while simultaneously rousing fears of NATO once again in today’s Russia. Our survey of political and economic developments in this region will cover democratization and political participation; privatization and macroeconomic reform; nationalism and ethnic conflict; as well as regional integration. Though we will cover the whole region, 主要考虑的国家是东德, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to some of the best and most controversial recent historical writings on post-1945 Eastern Europe. The goal is to offer an overview of the period with an emphasis on a few key issues that have sustained recent scholarly interest. We will examine how historians reevaluate some old questions today and we will have an opportunity to analyze new and old historiographical questions in depth.
This course will compare issues relating to the theory and practice of Marxist regimes. We will use policies as developed in the Soviet Union as our basis for comparison, focusing on the cult of personality, persuasion and culture vs violence and repression, 以及针对农民和妇女的政策. In the process, 我们还将考虑每个国家意识形态之间的平衡, pragmatic political considerations, and historical traditions as well as the ability of ordinary citizens to influence policy. Then each student will choose another communist country to research and will write a 20-25 page paper comparing the application of any one of those policies in that country and in the Soviet Union. During the second part of the semester, students will share articles on their chosen country’s policies with colleagues.
This class will examine cultural practices regarding cemeteries and death in Europe, the United States and in global perspective. It considers historical explanations for how individuals and societies have dealt with death and the disposal of human remains over time and space. Among other topics, 本课程将讨论墓地组织的问题, structure and management, grave marker design, health and sanitation concerns, burial rituals and practices, body disposal and funeral options.
The history of the postwar period in Europe has changed dramatically over the last quarter century. The end of the Cold War brought an end to the era that began with the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 and prompted a consideration of the postwar period outside the context of superpower domination. The fall of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany made it possible to think about the period from the 1940s to the 2000s with a greater sense of historical distance. Developments after 1990 brought issues to the fore that had been obscured by Cold War era politics. A new generation of historians turned their attention to a variety of new subjects: gender, identity, culture, youth, post-colonialism, immigration, and the environment. 与欧洲一体化有关的问题与成功, the resurgence of nationalism in Eastern Europe, and the rise of xenophobic right-wing movements in Western Europe have shifted the focus of postwar scholarship toward a new set of contradictions and dilemmas. Most importantly, 前苏联集团国家档案的开放, and the greater availability of archival material in Western archives related to the 1940s and 1950s, 让历史学家重新审视传统的解释, 并吸引了越来越多的研究人员进入这一领域.
The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to the best and most controversial recent historical writing on postwar Europe. The goal is to offer an overview of the period with an emphasis on a few key issues that have sustained recent scholarly interest. We will examine how old questions are being written about today and we will have an opportunity to analyze new and old historiographical questions in depth.
This class will investigate the ways in which gender and war have intersected in the region and era of modern Europe from the 18th c to the present. 将考虑的议题之一将是军队中的女性, as victims, peace activists, and as proponents of war in the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second World Wars, 以及上世纪90年代前南斯拉夫的战争. We will also consider how war affects men, 包括男人为什么打架或选择不打架这样的话题, cross dressers in the military, 以及军队中男女同性恋士兵的问题.
This course surveys the social, political, economic, 以及现代全球流行病的文化史. Global Pandemics will explore readings and topics that the history of infectious diseases into larger international and global exchanges. 通过研究科学之间的动态关系, infectious disease, and society, this course will provide students with a deeper understanding of how these histories intersect with other sub-specialties such as medicine and health history as well as military, foreign relations, and environmental and agricultural histories. Global Pandemics will also introduce you to the most influential monographs and scholars of both fields as well as the newer works.
This course covers events in Russia from Peter the Great in 1613 up to the Revolution of February 1917. 从本质上讲,它涵盖了罗曼诺夫王朝的兴衰. 需要解决的关键问题之一将是俄罗斯专制制度的本质, the Westernizer/Slavophile Debate, serfdom and emancipation, the War of 1812 and Decembrist Revolt, 知识分子和反对派的发展, including anarchism, populism, liberalism, and socialism, nationalism and conservatism, and finally the Revolution of 1905, Duma, and First World War.
This Course covers the political history of later medieval England from the reign of Richard II to that of Richard III. The course does not deal with social, religious or economic issues except where these impinge on the high politics of the realm.
本课程将考察19世纪英国的历史. It will focus on the political and social developments of Britain at home and with a week on the development of the British Empire. It will provide an in-depth look at the politics of repression during the Napoleonic Wars, to the pressures for Reform, the Great Reform Bill of 1832, Chartism, 废除谷物法和讨论自由贸易, the Reform Bill of 1867 and 1885, the great ministries of Gladstone and Disraeli, 本世纪最后几十年的印第安之夏, the Arms Race and the descent into War in 1914.
This course examines the modern history of France from the Napoleonic era to contemporary France’s role in the European Union and globalization. 自1789年大革命以来,法国目前处于第五共和国, France has fundamentally reinvented its political system in vastly different ways in a struggle to resolve the unanswered questions of 1789 and meet the needs of the present. 法国国家及其人民一直生活在君主制之下, republics, and empires, as well as a commune, 心甘情愿与纳粹合作的政权, 现在是一个超国家实体,被称为欧盟. France’s social transformations have been equally dramatic as evidenced by the destruction of the ancient regime’s system of social estates and the creation of urban social classes; the forging of a national identity in an age of empire building; and the influx of immigrants from that empire’s overseas colonies in the late 20th century. In this course, we will also examine what it has meant to be “French” in the modern era through a variety of lenses ranging from legal definitions of nationality, 跨大西洋视角与文化建构.
After almost seventy-five years, the rather short eleven years of Nazi rule in Germany remain one of the most intensively studied topics in European history. Most of the prevalent myths about Nazism, however, 能追溯到纳粹对自己的叙述吗. This course will explore the history of Germany between 1933 and 1945 by investigating National Socialism as a political, social, and cultural phenomenon, 并将其置于德意志历史的大框架中. We will concentrate on some of the most crucial questions surrounding this period: Why did the Nazi Party come to power? 纳粹政权意识形态的来源是什么? Why did the Nazis gain widespread popular support? 妇女在纳粹独裁统治下扮演了什么角色? 纳粹领导人何时、为何以及如何决定灭绝欧洲犹太人? What motivated the murderers? How do we define "collaboration" or "resistance" in Germany between 1933 and 1945? The magnitude of the events has led some scholars to suggest that the Shoah defies explanation. The premise of this course, however, is that Nazi Germany and the Shoah can and, must be scrutinized by historians.
The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to some of the finest historical writing on Nazi Germany. The goal is to offer an overview of the period with an emphasis on a few key issues that have sustained recent scholarly interest. We will examine how old questions are being written about today and we will have an opportunity to analyze new and old historiographical questions in depth.
19th Century Europe covers the long century between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The course emphasizes the revolutionary changes that created the modern era in Europe. The topics covered include: the French Revolution & Napoleonic Wars, The Congress of Vienna, The Industrial Revolution, the Rise of Liberalism, Socialism, and Nationalism, the Revolutions of 1848, the Wars of Unification (Italy & 德国),第二次工业革命,社会 & 政治变革、新帝国主义与大国外交.
The purpose of this section of History 849 is to acquaint students with the history of The Reformation. Beginning in the early 1500s, 宗教改革开始于天主教神职人员改革教会的运动. It quickly developed into a new religious movement known as Protestantism that challenged not only accepted ideas about religion, 也给欧洲的政治和社会带来了深刻的变化. 学生将分析和讨论宗教改革的原因和性质, its impact throughout Europe, and the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
The purpose of this section of History 849 is to acquaint students with the history of The Renaissance. The Renaissance began in the Italian peninsula during the 1300s and gradually spread to northern Europe by the 1500s. This period saw the rise of the Italian city states, which were dynamic centers of trade and culture. These cities oversaw the development of new and radical ideas about politics, culture, and society. By the early 1500s, the Italian city states began to lose their economic and political influence as the center of the Renaissance gradually shifted to the royal courts of northern Europe. Students will analyze and discuss the nature of the Renaissance and its impact throughout Europe.
The seas which cover over seventy percent of our planet have often been termed the last great unexplored frontier. Yet since ancient times peoples have sought to master sea travel and control the flow of peoples and goods over them. Some of the greatest empires we have known have had their power based on their ability to control the seas around them. This course seeks to introduce students to different themes in the history of the evolution of sea power. From Mediterranean galleys to the aircraft carriers of the Cold War; from the Atlantic slave trade to the Indian Ocean spice trade; students will examine the close confluence of trade and naval power throughout human history.
美国奴隶制一直是最具活力的领域之一, and controversial, in the last fifty years. Inspired research has led to numerous classics of American historiography as well as dramatically shifting interpretations of the “peculiar institution” and its role in American life. Every aspect of the slave regime and the life of the slave has been closely examined. Students will delve into this impressive historiography by reading many of these works and by writing analytical essays focusing on the resulting interpretations. 这是一门关于美国奴隶制史学的阅读课程. 本课程将探讨美国奴隶制度的起源, its expansion into new lands, and how it became such a controversial issue in American life and in the historiography of the topic. 主要的新作品以及该领域的几部经典作品将被审查.
This course covers events in Russia from approximately the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 until the death of Josef Stalin on March 5, 1953. While some time must, of course, 花在1917年俄国革命和列宁时代, our main focus will be how Soviet politics and society changed during the Stalin years. Specifically, 我们将讨论诸如托洛茨基和斯大林之间的竞争等关键事件, the Cultural Revolution, the Five Year Plan, Collectivization of the peasantry, The Purges, the Second World War, and Postwar Stalinism. We will pay special attention to historiographic debates regarding these events as well as to issues relating to the roles of women in society, class conflict, and the changing national policies, 尤其是反犹太主义的发展. Among the larger questions we will consider are the relationship between ideology and power in Soviet Stalinism, the connections between Stalinism and Leninism, and the role of terror, and finally the role played by Soviet citizens in implementing Stalin’s policies.
This class will acquaint students with the history of seventeenth-century Europe. The century opened with a series of rebellions, wars, and economic difficulties that have been classified as “the general crisis of the seventeenth century.“这些事件导致了欧洲政治性质的巨大转变, warfare, economics, and society. They also gave rise to more stable political systems in the form of absolute monarchies and centralized states. Students will analyze and discuss the causes and nature of the dramatic changes taking place during this period, as well as the consequences of these changes.
This course covers events in the Soviet Union from approximately the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. While some time must, of course, be spent on both the earlier and later eras, our main focus will be how Soviet politics and society changed from the mid 1950s-through the 1980s under Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Specifically, we will discuss such key events as de-Stalinization and the Thaw under Khrushchev, Economic Stagnation, 腐败和勃列日涅夫领导下的异议运动, and Glasnost and Perestroika under Gorbachev. We will pay special attention to issues relating to the roles of women in society, class conflict, and the changing national policies, including the fate of the Jewish population. Among the larger questions we will consider are the relationship between ideology and power, the use coercion, 消费文化和黑市的重要性.
The purpose of this section of History 849 is to acquaint students with the history of the British Isles during the Tudor/Stuart period (1485-1714). This era was a dynamic period, 见证了议会的成长和发展, the Reformation, the Civil Wars, and the Glorious Revolution. Students will analyze and discuss the causes and nature of the dramatic political, social, religious, 这一时期发生了经济变化, as well as the consequences that such changes had upon the peoples of the British Isles.
The purpose of this section of History 849 is to acquaint students with the history of the Vikings. The Vikings are popularly depicted as barbarians who rampaged across Europe causing massive social upheaval. However, they were also artists, poets, and merchants who explored and settled in areas throughout Europe and the North Atlantic. Students will analyze and discuss issues such as the nature of Vikings society and government, the nature of Viking raids, and the impact of Viking expansion both upon the Vikings’ homeland in Scandinavia and upon the rest of Europe. These readings and discussions will provide students with a strong foundation for future research in Viking era history.
The purpose of this class is to introduce students to academic military history. The scholarly study of military history has waxed and waned over the centuries. 目前,令人遗憾的是,我们正处于衰退期. 鉴于我们所知道的这个充满冲突的世界, such scholarly study and debate is essential. This course will introduce students to the current state of military history studies. Students will also examine in detail the major themes in academic military history. 学生将分析围绕“战争方式”的争论。, “The Military Revolution” and “Colonial Warfare”. Together these discussions will serve to provide students with a firm foundation for ongoing research in academic military history.
The purpose of this section of History 849 is to acquaint students with the period of the Wars of Religion (1500-1650). This era saw numerous wars throughout Europe that changed the fundamental nature of European political, military, economic, religious, and social structures. Students will analyze and debate the European wide causes and impact of the era’s conflicts. They will also investigate specific conflicts, namely the French Wars of Religion, the Dutch Revolt, and the Thirty Years’ War to gain greater understanding of these conflicts’ impact upon specific regions of Europe.
This online course will cover the history of World War I from its root causes in the nineteenth century until the Paris Peace Conference, and beyond. During the term the major political, social, economic, cultural, and military aspects of the war will be explored in order to allow the student to understand how the Great War came to be such a significant event in the early twentieth century, and the ways in which it continued to cast a shadow long after the guns fell silent.
This course introduces graduate students to the theory and practice of public history. A growing body of scholarship on public history has emerged over the past few decades, seeking to develop a better understanding of the underlying principles of the field and the challenges of doing history in public. This class will expose students to both foundational as well as new scholarship on public history, 探索当今公共历史实践面临的几个关键问题, and offer hands-on, practical experience through the preparation of a grant proposal and the completion of a real-world public history project.
This course introduces graduate students to the practice and methodologies of local and community history research. Students will be exposed to key readings and issues in local history scholarship, gain a strong understanding of the characteristics of quality local and community history, and become extensively familiar with the kinds of primary sources used to explore and interpret history at the local level. The course will culminate in a substantial project that results in the production of a real-world product for a community partner.
本课程向最大的菠菜的平台介绍主要主题, debates, and issues in museums and material culture studies. Students will be exposed to key readings and issues in museum studies and material culture scholarship, gain a strong understanding of the history of museums and their evolving role among diverse groups of public audiences, and explore the principles and methods behind the use of material culture in a variety of public history settings. The course will culminate in a major artifact analysis assignment and a substantial project that results in the production of a real-world product for a community partner.
这门最大的菠菜的平台课程向学生介绍主要主题, debates, 以及动态的历史保护领域的问题. Students will read several significant works on the history of historic preservation in the United States, the power of history and historic places to shape communities and a sense of place, relevant historic preservation laws and practices, and the many challenges facing historic preservationists in the twenty-first century. Guided by these readings, students will also conduct original research into a historic property and prepare a National Register nomination.
Internships are designed to provide students with hands-on experiences that will prepare them for the workplace. 而任务将根据主办机构的不同而有所不同, students should expect to gain a variety of new and resume-building experiences related to the organization, implementation, and administration of public history programs. Internships are vital for helping students to discover their own aptitudes and interests regarding the field of public history as well as providing them with opportunities for networking and enhancing their resumes. Thus students should treat internships as they would any professional opportunity.
先决条件:HIST 801和HIST 803,并获准进入历史硕士课程
最大的菠菜的平台选择论文的必修课. Prepares students to conduct primary research, construct historical arguments, identify historiographical patterns, and begin the writing process.
This course serves as an alternative to the traditional thesis requirement and is designed as an opportunity for graduate-level public history students to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities in public history practice. 选择这个选项的学生将被要求发展, complete, and defend a substantial, original public history project. Exact details will vary and should be developed in consultation with the student's advisor. 学生每学期修3-6个学分.
HIST 898: Environment and Warfare in the 20th Century will explore readings and topics that situate both environmental and military history into larger international and global exchanges. 通过研究战争和环境之间的动态关系, this course will provide students with a deeper understanding of how these histories intersect with other sub-specialties as well as more familiar accounts in military and foreign relations history. Environment and Warfare in the 20th Century will also introduce you to the most influential monographs and scholars of both fields as well as the newer works. This class can apply to either the United States or Non-United States History course requirements.