History Course Web Pages by Course Name and Semester

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History Courses by Course Number

Course Number

Course Title

HIS 100

Introduction to Historical Inquiry

1968 Around the World

After the Great War

Cold War America

Confucian Civilization and Its Challengers

Conservation Movement

Dakota and the U.S. War of 1862

Digital History Local and Global

Europe in the Age of Revolutions, 1789–1917

Europe Under Great Dictators

European Revolutions

Feminist Killjoys of U.S. History

Guns, Germs, Steel and the Spanish Conquest

Global Reformations

How History Works

Making History: Europe in the Age of Revolutions, 1789-1917

Rise and Fall New World Slavery

Spanish Conquest of America

The Conservation Movement

The Prophet Muhammad

Transatlantic Revolution: U.S., France, Haiti

Writing From the Margins

HIS 195

Introductory Special Topic: Classical Asia

Introductory Special Topic: Comparative Herbalism

Introductory Special Topic: Global Medicinals

Introductory Special Topic: Shakespeare/Mediterranean

Introductory Special Topic: Writing from the Margins

HIS 201

Colonial Latin America

HIS 202

Modern Latin America

HIS 210

Historical Perspectives on U.S. Education

HIS 212

Democracy in America, 1789–1848

HIS 214

The American Civil War and Reconstruction

HIS 215

Foundations of US Popular Culture

HIS 220

U.S. Environmental History

HIS 221

Being Muslim in American

HIS 222

Women in American History

HIS 223

Health and Medicine in American History

HIS 224

Sex in American History

HIS 225

Native American History, 1491–1865

HIS 226

Native American History, 1871 to Present

HIS 227

African American History

HIS 232

Medieval Europe, 400–1400

HIS 233

Renaissance, Reformations, Explorations

HIS 234

Tudors and Stuarts, 1485–1707

HIS 235

Britain in the Age of Enlightenment

HIS 236

Modern Britain and the Empire

HIS 237

The Spectacle of Modern France

HIS 238

The Making of Modern Germany

HIS 239

Tyrants and Tunesmiths: Opera, Politics, and Society in Modern Europe

HIS 242

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

HIS 244

Ivan and Fritz Go to War: World War II on the Eastern Front

HIS 255

History of Ancient Greece

HIS 257

The Roman Republic

HIS 258

The Roman Empire

HIS 261

Southern Africa

HIS 262

Modern Africa from the Sahara to the Zambezi

HIS 265

The Crusades in the Middle East

HIS 266

History of the Modern Middle East

HIS 267

Islam in the Modern Era

HIS 268

Islam and Gender

HIS 271

Imperial Collisions in the Asia-Pacific

HIS 275

China’s Revolutions

HIS 277

China’s Rise

HIS 281

Science and Society

HIS 282

Contextualizing Opera: The NY Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Broadcasts

HIS 283

When the World Becomes Global: Early Modern Empire, Expansion, and Exchange

HIS 284

Surveillance in Modern History

HIS 285

Islamic Law in Theory and Practice

HIS 295

Special Topic: Advanced Tutorial on Historical Writing

Special Topic: Asian American Activism 1875-2010

Special Topic: Being Muslim in America

Special Topic: Black Abolitionist Thought

Special Topic: Early British History

Special Topic: Historical Black Press/News/Media

Special Topic: Changing Gender Relations in South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh

Special Topic: China's Revolutions

Special Topic: Classical Asia

Special Topic: Cold War Latin America

Special Topic: Cold War Radical Politics

Special Topic: Contested U.S. Presidential Elections

Special Topic: Contextualizing Opera

Special Topic: Craft History

Special Topic: Dark Arts: Chinese Social Scares

Special Topic: Digital History

Special Topic: Early-Modern Japan, 1600–1868

Special Topic: Foundations of US Popular Culture

Special Topic: From the KGB to the Elf on the Shelf: Surveillance in Modern History

Special Topic: Gender and Power Chinese History

Special Topic: Global Cultural Encounter

Special Topic: Greek and Roman Histories

Special Topic: Historical Trauma, Memory, Identity E. Asia

Special Topic: History of Asian Thought

Special Topic: History of Modern India

Special Topic: History of the Black Press News and Media

Special Topic: Islam and Modernity

Special Topic: Islamic Empires

Special Topic: Israel/Palestine History

Special Topic: Kungfu Pandas: Chinese Environmental History

Special Topic: History of Slavery and Race in the Middle East and North Africa

Special Topic: History of US/Latin American Relations

Special Topic: Korea and Vietnam

Special Topic: Landscapes of Grinnell

Special Topic: Looking Closer: Botanical Drawing and its Social Origins

Special Topic: Modern China: History from the Margins

Special Topic: Modern History of Israel/Palestine: Society, Culture, and Politics

Special Topic: Modern Japan

Special Topic: Native American History 1877–Present

Special Topic: Origins of Capitalism

Special Topic: Queer Global History

Special Topic: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Modern Germ

Special Topic: Reckoning with the past in Modern Africa

Special Topic: Roman Empire 44 BCE–467 CE

Special Topic: Science and Society: Newton to Darwin

Special Topic: Sex, Gender, Family in Europe 1300–1700

Special Topic: Sex in American History

Special Topic: Surveillance Mod Hist

Special Topic: The Cold War in Asia

Special Topic: The Crusades in the Middle East

Special Topic: The History of Medicine

Special Topic: Tudors and Stuarts, 1485–1707 

Special Topic: When the World Became Global

HIS 297

Digital History and Slavery

HIS 30x

Advanced Studies in Latin America History

Latin America and the U.S.- HIS 309

HIS 31x

Advanced Studies in United States History

Politics in the Early American Republic

Race in Early America - HIS 312

U.S. Civil War: History and Memory - HIS 314

HIS 32x

Advanced Studies in United States History

19th-Century American Pop Culture

20th-Century American Sexualities - HIS 322

American Indian Reservations - HIS 325

American Women Since WWII - HIS 323

Illicit Medicine - HIS 324

Latin America and the U.S. - HIS 329

Nature and the New Deal - HIS 320

Sex and Sexuality in American History - HIS 322

The Civil Rights Movement - HIS 327

HIS 33x

Advanced Studies in Western European and British History

Decolonization - HIS 334

Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe - HIS 331

Order and Disorder in Early Modern Europe - HIS 335

Politics of Food in Early-Modern England - HIS 330

The European Metropolis - HIS 336

Wagnerism - HIS 337

HIS 34x

Advanced Studies in Russian History

Stalinism - HIS 342

HIS 35x

Advanced Studies in Historiography and Ancient History

HIS 36x

Advanced Studies in African and Middle Eastern History

Special Topic: Sacred and Secular History in Modern Middle East - HIS 361

HIS 37x

Advanced Studies in Asian History

Chimerica: History of Special Relationship - HIS 373

China's Revolutions - HIS 371

From Samurai to Soldiers: Japan at War - HIS 377

Human Rights in Asia - HIS 371

Issues Making Modern China - HIS 377

Law/Society in Chinese History - HIS 374

US-East Asian Relations - HIS 378

HIS 38X

Advanced Studies in Comparative and Transregional History

Advanced Tutorial: Modern Classics of Historical Writing - HIS 382

HIS 395

Advanced Special Topic: American Women from Suffrage to the White House

Advanced Special Topic: Historical Narratives Middle East

Advanced Special Topic: Many Worlds of Indian Leaders: Gandhi, Ambedkar, Savarkar

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