History Minor

Undergraduate Program

The History Department offers a traditional major, a minor and elective courses for nonmajors. Undergraduate majors must choose one of three areas of geographic specialization—United States, European or global history. These specializations may be linked to course work in interdisciplinary concentrations such as Asian studies, Holocaust studies or women’s studies. The History Department also offers a general track within the major for those seeking certification in elementary education.

The major exposes students to different fields of knowledge, offering training in critical thinking; the accumulation, organization and analysis of information; and clear and concise writing. The major provides an excellent background for graduate school, teaching, careers in law, government, journalism, international affairs, museum, library and archival work, and business. With courses on every major geographical area of the world, and with conceptual approaches ranging from political and diplomatic to social, intellectual and cultural, the History Department offers a rich and diverse curriculum.

The department also participates in Clark’s Higgins School of Humanities, allowing students to enjoy the support and benefits of the school.

Program Faculty

Taner Akçam, Ph.D.
Debórah Dwork, Ph.D.
Janette T. Greenwood, Ph.D.
Willem Klooster, Ph.D.
Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D.
Nina Kushner, Ph.D.
Douglas Little, Ph.D.
Olga Litvak, Ph.D.
Drew McCoy, Ph.D.
Ousmane Power-Greene, Ph.D.
Amy Richter, Ph.D.
Paul Ropp, Ph.D.

Adjunct Faculty

John Brown, Ph.D.
Paul Burke, Ph.D.
Richard Ford, Ph.D.
Everett Fox, Ph.D.
Thomas Massey, Ph.D.
Mark Miller, Ph.D.

Affiliate Faculty

Robert Dykstra, Ph.D.
Jack Larkin, M.A.
Alden Vaughan, Ph.D.

Emeriti Faculty

George A. Billias, Ph.D.
Daniel Borg, Ph.D.
Paul Lucas, Ph.D.

Courses

• CLAS 111 - Roman Art and Architecture
• CLAS 150 - Jerusalem in History and Imagination
• HGS 262 - Jews and Christians in the Ancient World
• HIST 011 - Survey of U.S. History to 1865
• HIST 012 - Survey of U.S. History 1865
• HIST 016 - American Race and Ethnicity
• HIST 021 - Voices From Slavery
• HIST 033 - Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism: The Cultural Heritage Of China
• HIST 036 - The Strange World of Thomas Jefferson
• HIST 037 - 19th-Century America Through Women’s Eyes
• HIST 039 - At Home in 19th Century America: Domesticity and American Culture
• HIST 040 - The Witchcraze: Witch Hunts in Early Modern Europe
• HIST 042 - Nazi Germany: Rise and Fall
• HIST 045 - Reconsidering the Harlem Renaissance
• HIST 048 - Baseball and American Society
• HIST 050 - Jesus and History
• HIST 055 - 9/11 in Fact and Fiction
• HIST 062 - War and Peace in the Middle East
• HIST 070 - Our European Roots: Western Civilization From Ancient Hebrews Through the Renaissance and Reformation
• HIST 071 - Our European Roots: Western Civilization From the 17th Century to the Present
• HIST 077 - Introduction to Latin-American Civilization
• HIST 080 - Introduction to Modern East Asia
• HIST 090 - Twentieth Century Global History
• HIST 104 - History of Russian Culture, 988-1988
• HIST 106 - Modern Europe, 19th & 20th Centuries: Ethnicity, War, and Genocide
• HIST 110 - Early Modern Europe
• HIST 113 - American Urban History
• HIST 114 - African-American History, 1865-Present
• HIST 115 - Authority and Democracy: The History of Modern Central Europe
• HIST 118 - Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1918
• HIST 120 - Writing History
• HIST 128 - History of Modern Israel
• HIST 135 - History of Armenia
• HIST 142 - Central Europe in the Long 19th century (1756-1914)
• HIST 143 - War and Peace: Central Europe, 1914-2003
• HIST 145 - U.S. History Through the Novel
• HIST 153 - Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century
• HIST 161 - Modern India
• HIST 162 - The History of the Modern Middle East
• HIST 165 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• HIST 174 - The Jewish Experience
• HIST 175 - Holocaust: Agency and Action
• HIST 181 - Chinese Civilization
• HIST 182 - Modern China
• HIST 185 - The Russian Revolution, 1890-1938
• HIST 191 - Pirates and Smugglers in the Atlantic World
• HIST 201 - Era of the American Revolution
• HIST 202 - The Early American Republic
• HIST 203 - U.S. Urban History
• HIST 204 - Special Topics in American History
• HIST 205 - Renaissance and Reformation
• HIST 206 - Africans in the Americas, 1500-1888
• HIST 207 - Explorations in History: Rural New England in the 19th Century
• HIST 209 - U.S. History Since World War II
• HIST 210 - Research Seminar in American Cultural History
• HIST 211 - American Consumer Culture
• HIST 212 - History of Sexuality: 1750 to the Present
• HIST 213 - Gender and the American City
• HIST 214 - The American Civil War
• HIST 215 - The Age of Lincoln
• HIST 216 - Special Topics: African-American Internationalism
• HIST 217 - Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, 1865-1877
• HIST 219 - History of American Women
• HIST 220 - The Black Radical Tradition
• HIST 222 - History of the South
• HIST 223 - The Civil Rights Movement
• HIST 225 - Blacks & Reds: African Americans, Socialists, and Communists in the 20th Century
• HIST 226 - Comparative Colonialism
• HIST 227 - The Caribbean in the Era of Slavery, 1492-1886
• HIST 228 - Early Modern Britain
• HIST 229 - Women in European History
• HIST 230 - History of the Armenian Genocide
• HIST 231 - Origins of Modern America, 1877-1914 (formerly America in the Gilded Age)
• HIST 232 - Finding the Subject: Comparative Histories of Prostitution
• HIST 233 - Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism: Intellectual History of China
• HIST 234 - Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe (1500-2000)
• HIST 235 - The Atlantic World
• HIST 236 - Gender, War and Genocide in 20th Century Europe
• HIST 237 - The Holocaust Perpetrators
• HIST 238 - America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1917-1991
• HIST 242 - History of Nationalism
• HIST 243 - American Antiquarian Society Seminar in American Studies
• HIST 245 - U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East Since 1945
• HIST 247 - The Western Powers and the Armenian Genocide
• HIST 248 - History of the Middle East
• HIST 251 - Jesus, History and the Apocalypse
• HIST 252 - The Sephardi Jews in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
• HIST 253 - 20th-Century Europe
• HIST 254 - The Age of Atlantic Revolutions
• HIST 255 - History of the Jews in Eastern Europe
• HIST 256 - The British Empire
• HIST 260 - Rescue and Resistance During the Holocaust
• HIST 261 - Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Europe
• HIST 264 - The European Mind, History & Theory, 1700-2000
• HIST 265 - Life and Death in the City: Occupied Europe, 1939-1945
• HIST 266 - Refugees
• HIST 267 - Religious Experience in the Ancient World
• HIST 268 - Special Topics: Advanced Topics in the Study of Genocide
• HIST 269 - Transgression and Policing: Eighteenth-Century Culture and Society
• HIST 270 - Jewish Responses to Modernity: The Enlightenment and Its Critics
• HIST 273 - Life Under Occupation
• HIST 281 - China Rising: The People’s Republic of China since 1949
• HIST 282 - Chinese Women in Literature and Society
• HIST 283 - Eastern European Jewish Diaspora: Culture and Community in Twentieth Century US, USSR and Israel
• HIST 286 - The Vietnam War
• HIST 287 - ID173 - Introduction to Latin-American Politics
• HIST 288 - Seminar in Chinese History
• HIST 290 - Political Dissent in Chinese History
• HIST 291 - Advanced Topics in International Relations - America Confronts Radical Islam
• HIST 292 - Yiddish Literature and the History of Jewish Secular Culture
• HIST 293 - African American Social and Political Movements
• HIST 294 - A Culture of Dissent: Russian Radicalism in Historical Perspective
• HIST 295 - Dangerous Women
• HIST 297 - Honors Thesis Research
• HIST 299 - Directed Study
• HIST 340 - U.S. Constitutional Law: Governmental Powers
• HIST 352 - The Holocaust Through Letters and Diaries
• HIST 362 - Genocide, Denial, Facing History and Reconciliation
• HIST 376 - Collective Memory and Mass Violence
• JS 117 - Reading the Narratives of the Hebrew Bible
• PSCI 103 - Africa and the World
• PSCI 178 - South Africa: History and Contemporary Politics
• PSCI 256 - Russian Politics: From Dictatorship to Democracy..and Back Again
• PSCI 272 - U.S. Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties
• UDSC 232 - Population, Environment and Development

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