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Fall Courses 2009-2010

HIST 149(F) The 1959 Cuban Revolution: Precedents, Processes, and Legacies, 1898-2009 (W)
(Same as AFR 149)

Benson - TR / 11:20 am

HIST 152(F) The Fourteenth Amendment and the Meanings of Equality (W)
(Same as WGST 152)

Dubow - MR / 2:35 pm

HIST 158(F) Thicker Than Water: American Political Dynasties (W)
Dalzell - TR / 9:55 am

HIST 165(F) Going Nuclear: American Culture in the Atomic Age (W)
(Same as LEAD 165)

Chapman - TR / 8:30 am

HIST 193(F) Black Power Abroad: Decolonization in Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe (W) (D)
(Same as AFR 193)

Singham - M / 7:00 pm

HIST 201(F) History Behind the Headlines (D)
Bernhardsson - TR / 9:55 am

HIST 224(F) Intro Roman Archaelogy
(Same as CLAS 235)

Rubin - MR / 1.10 pm

HIST 239(F) Modern Germany, 1870-1989
Revill - MWF / 11:00 am

HIST 240(F) Muscovy and the Russian Empire
Fishzon - TR / 11:20 am

HIST 242(F) Latin America from Conquest to Independence
Kittleson - TF / 1:10 pm

HIST 252A(F) British Colonial America and the United States to 1877
Long - TF / 1:10 pm

HIST 253(F) The United States from Appomattox to AOL, 1865-Present
Dubow - MR / 1:10 pm

HIST 262(F) The United States and the World, 1776 to 1914
(Same as Leadership Studies 262)

Chapman - TR / 11:20 am

HIST 284(F) Topics in Asian American History (D)
(Same as AMST 284)

Wong - MR / 1:10 pm

HIST 295(F) Technology and Science in American Culture
(Same as HSCI 240)

Beaver - MR / 1:10 pm

HIST 301A(F) Approaching the Past: History, Theory, Practice
Waters - MWF / 11:00 am

HIST 301B(F) Approaching the Past: Documentary Practices
Brown - MR / 1:10 pm

HIST 311(F) The United States and the Middle East
(Same as LEAD 310)

Chamberlin - MR / 2:35 pm

HIST 315(F) Cultural Foundations: The Literature and History of Early China (D)
(Same as CHIN 224 and COMP 220)

Nugent - MR / 1:10 pm

HIST 321(F) History of U.S.-Japan Relations (D)
(Same as ASST 321 and JAPN 321)

SIniawer - TR / 9:55 am

HIST 332(F) The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
(Same as RLFR 216)

Revill - MR / 2:35 pm

HIST 338(F) The History of the Holocaust
(Same as JWST 338)

Garbarini - TF / 1:10 pm

HIST 342(F) Creating Nations and Nationalism in Latin America (D)
Kittleson - TF / 2:35 pm

HIST 352(F) America and the Sea, 1600-Presen t (W)
(Same as MAST 352)
(Offered only at Mystic Seaport)

Gordinier - TBA

HIST 364(F) History of the Old South
Dew - TF / 2:35 pm

HIST 369(F) Imperialism and the United States (Senior Seminar in American Studies) (D)
(Same as AMST 407)

Vimalassery - W / 1:10 pm

HIST 370(F) America and the Vietnam War
(Same as PSCI 242)

McAllister and Woods - TR / 11:20 am

HIST 372(F) The Rise of American Business
Dalzell - TR / 11:20 am

HIST 380(F) Comparative American Immigration History (D)
Wong - MWF / 8:30 am

HIST 381(F) From Civil RIghts to Black Power
Brown - TR / 9:55 am

HIST 391(F) Insurgencies: Revolts, Revolutions, Wars of National Liberation, and Jihads
(Same as ANTH 391 and INTR 391)

Just - MR / 1:10 pm

HIST 430F) Toward a History of the Self in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe
Garbarini - W / 1:10 pm

HIST 456(F) Civil War and Reconstruction
Dew - R / 7.30 pm; W / 1.10 pm

HIST 460(F) The Age of Lyndon B. Johnson
Woods - MWF / 11:00 am

HIST 471(F) Comparative Latina/o Migrations (W) (D)
Whalen - W / 1:10 pm

HIST 480T(F) Historical Narratives of the Israeli-Palestininan Conflict (W) (D)
Bernhardsson

HIST 485T(F) Stalinist Terror and the New Man (W)
Fishzon

HIST 486T(F) Remembering World War II in the Pacific (W)
Siniawer

HIST 493(F) Senior Honors Thesis-Research Seminar
Waters - TF / 2.35 pm

HIST 497(F) Independent Study
Waters - TBA

 

Spring Courses 2009-2010

HIST 104(S) Travel Narratives and African History (W)
(Same as AFR 104)

Mutongi - W / 1:10 pm

HIST 111(S) Movers and Shakers in the Middle East (W)(D)
(Same as LEAD 150)

Bernhardsson - TF / 1:10 pm

HIST 128T(S) Conquistadors in the New World (W)
Wood - TBA

HIST 148(S) The Mexican Revolution: 1910 to NAFTA (W)
Kittleson - TF / 2:35 pm

HIST 164(S) Slavery in the United States (W)
(Same as AFR 164)

Brown - MWF 11:00 am

HIST 203(S) A Survey of Modern African History
(Same as Africana Studies 203)

Mutongi - TR / 9:55 pm

HIST 207(S) The Modern Middle East (D)
Bernhardsson - TR / 9:55 am

HIST 215T(S) Crises and Critiques: The Literature and Intellectual History of Early 20th Century China (W)(D)
(Same as CHIN 251 and COMP 256)

Nugent - TBA

HIST 218(S) Modern Japan
(Same as ASST 218 and JAPN 218)

Siniawer - TR / 8.30 am

HIST 228-01(S) Europe in the Twentieth Century
Revill - MR / 1:10 pm

HIST 228-02(S) Europe in the Twentieth Century
Revill - MR / 2:35 pm

HIST 229(S) European Imperialism and Decolonization
(Same as AFR 229)

Singham - TR / 8:30 am

HIST 241(S) The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
Fishzon - TR / 11:20 am

HIST 248(S) History of the Caribbean: Race, Nation, and Politics
(Same as AFR 248)

Benson - MWF / 8:30 am

HIST 252B(S) America From San Gabriel to Gettysburg, 1492-1865
Dalzell - MWF / 11:00 am

HIST 253(S) The United States from Appomattox to AOL, 1865-Present
Brown - MR / 1.10 pm

HIST 263(S) The United States and the World, 1914 to the Present
(Same as LEAD 263)

Chapman - TR / 9:55 am

HIST 286(S) Latina/o History From 1846 to the Present
(Same as LATS 286)

Whalen - TR / 9:55 am

HIST 293(S) History of Medicine
(Same as HSCI 320)

Beaver - MWF / 11:00 am

HIST 301F(S) Approaching the Past: Remembering American History
Wong - W / 1:10 pm

HIST 301G(S) Writing the Past
Garbarini - W / 1:10 pm

HIST 318(S) Nationalism in East Asia
(Same as PSCI 354 and ASST 245)

Crane - TR / 9:55 am

HIST 326(S) War in European History
Wood - MR / 2:35 pm

HIST 330(S) The Reformations in Early Modern Europe
(Same as REL 220)

Shuck - TF / 2:35 pm

HIST 334(S) Sex and Psyche: A Cultural History of Fin-de-Siècle Europe
(Same as WGST 334)

Fishzon - TR / 8:30 am

HIST 337(S) Origins of European Social Thought and the Social Sciences
Revill - TF / 2:35 pm

HIST 341(S) Identity, Geography, and Politics in the Roman Empire
(Same as CLAS 238)

Rubin - MWF / 9:00 am

HIST 345(S) In Our Own Backyard? US. and Latin American Relations
(Same as AFR 345 and LEAD 345)

Benson - TR / 11:20 am

HIST 346(S) History of Modern Brazil
Kittleson - TF / 1:10 pm

HIST 352(F) America and the Sea, 1600-Presen t (W)
(Same as MAST 352)
(Offered only at Mystic Seaport)

Gordinier - TBA

HIST 354(S) The Revolutionary Generation: Galaxy of Leaders
(Same as LEAD 285 and PSCI 285

Dunn - R / 1:10 pm

HIST 360(S) The Spanish-American Wars (D)
(Same as LEAD 360)

Chapman - TF / 1:10 pm

HIST 361(S) A Social and Cultural History of World War II (D)
Wong - MWF / 8:30 am

HIST 362(S) The 1980s
Dubow - MR / 1:10 pm

HIST 365(S) History of the New South
Dew - MR / 2:35 pm

HIST 375(S) History of American Childhood (D)
(Same as AFR 375)

Long - TR / 8:30 am

HIST 386(S) Latinas in the Global Economy: Work, MIgration, and Households (D)
(Same as WGST 386 and LATS 386)

Whalen - TF / 1:10 pm

HIST 390(S) The 1930s in Comparative Perspective: Germany, Italy, and Japan (D)
(Same as JAPN 390 and ASST 390)

Siniawer - TR / 11:20 am

HIST 396(S) Muslims and Europe: From the Conquest of Algeria to the Present (D)
Singham - M / 7:00 pm

HIST 457(S) Gender, Law, and Politics in U.S. History
(Same as WGST 457)

Dubow - M / 7:00 pm

HIST 466(S) Imagining Urban America, Three Case Studies: Boston, Chicago, and L.A.
(Same as AMST 364)

Dalzell - W / 1.10 pm

HIST 473(S) The United States, Revolution, and the Postcolonial World
(Same as LEAD 373)

Chamberlin - W / 1.10 pm

HIST 482T(S) Fictions of African-American History (W)
(Same as AFR 482)

Long - TBA

HIST 489T(S) Western Political Thougth in Transition (W)
(Same as PSCI 359)

Oakley - TBA

HIST 490T(S) Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe (W)
Garbarini - TBA

HIST 494(S) Senior Honors Thesis-Writing Seminar
Waters - TF / 2.35 pm

498(S) Independent Study
Waters - TBA

 

Courses Not Offered 2009-2010

HIST 103 The City in Africa: Nairobi and Johannesburg (W)
(Same as AFR 103)

HIST 117T Clash of Empires: China and the West, 1800-1900 (W)
(Same as ASST 117T)

HIST 119 The Japanese Empire (W)

HIST 124 The Vikings (W)

HIST 127 The Expansion of Europe (W)

HIST 129 Blacks, Jews, and Women in the Age of the French Revolution (W)

HIST 135T The Great War, 1914-1918 (W)
(Same as LEAD 135T)

HIST 136 Before the Deluge: Paris and Berlin in the Interwar Years (W)

HIST 141 Modernism, Leisure, and Subjectivity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (W)

HIST 147 Women and Men in Twentieth-Century Latin America (W)
(Same as WGST 147)

HIST 148 The Mexican Revolution: 1910 to NAFTA (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

HIST 154T The American Way of War: The First Three Centuries (W)

HIST 166 The Age of Washington and DuBois (W)
(Same as AFR 166)

HIST 202 Early-African History Through the Era of the Slave Trade

HIST 209 The Origins of Islam: God, Empire and Apocalypse
(Same REL 231)

HIST 212 Transforming the "Middle Kingdom": China, 2000 BCE-1600
(Same as ASST 212)

HIST 213 Modern China, 1600-Present
(Same as ASST 213)

HIST 214 Japanese Religions and the State (W)
(Same as REL 259)

HIST 216 The Greater Game? Central Asia and Its Neighbors Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
(Same as INST 101 and REL 236)

HIST 217 Early Modern Japan
(Same as ASST 217 and JAPN 217)

HIST 222 Greek History
(Same as CLAS 222)

HIST 222 Roman History
(Same as CLAS 223)

HIST 226 Europe From Reformation to Revolution: 1500-1815

HIST 227 A Century of Revolutions: Europe in the 19th Century

HIST 230 Modern European Jewish History, 1789-1948
(Same as JWST 230)

HIST 243 Modern Latin America, 1822 to the Present

HIST 281 African-American History, 16619-1865
(Same as AFR 281)

HIST 282 African-American History From Reconstruction to the Present
(Same as AFR 282)

HIST 292 Africans in Europe: Slaves, Abolitionists, Artists, Intellectuals and Migrants in the Modern Era
(Same as AFR 292)

HIST 294 Scientific Revolutions(Same as HSCI 224)

HIST 301C Approaching the Past: Practices of Modern History

HIST 301D Approaching the Past: Is History Eurocentric?

HIST 301E Approaching the Past: Three Historians of the Dark Ages

HIST 304 South Africa and Apartheid

HIST 307 Islam and Modernity (D) (W)

HIST 308 Gender and Society in Modern Africa
(Same as WGST 308 and AFR 308)

HIST 310 Iraq and Iran in the Twentieth Century (D)

HIST 319 Gender and Family in Chinese History
(Same as ASST 319 and WGST 319

HIST 322 The Construction of Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
(Same as WGST 239 and CLAS 239)

HIST 323 Leadership, Government, and the Governed in Ancient Greece (W)
(Same as CLAS 323 and LEAD 323)

HIST 324 The Development of Christianity: 30-600 C.E. (W)
(Same as REL 212)

HIST 327 Knighthood and Chivalry

HIST 328 Medieval Empires

HIST 356 Race, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History
(Same as WGST 356)

HIST 359 Autobiography as History: An American Character?

HIST 368 Cultural Encounters in the American West (D)
(Same as AMST 246)

HIST 373 Va Va Vroom! -- A Nation on Wheels
(Same as ENVI 373)

HIST 374 American Medical History

HIST 379 African American Politics
(Same as AFR 379)

HIST 384 Comparative Asian-American History, 1850-1965 (D)

HIST 385 Contemporary Issues in Recent Asian-American History, 1965-Present (D)

HIST 387 Community Building and Social Movements in Latina/o History
(Same as LATS 387 and WGST 387)

HIST 388 The Cold War, 1945-1991
(Same as LEAD 388)

HIST 392 Producing the Past
(Same as ASST 345 and SOC 345)

HIST 393 Sister Revolutions in France and America
(Same as LEAD 212 and RLFR 212)

HIST 395 Fashioning Bodies: Dress, Consumption, and Gender from the Renaissance to the Present
(Same as WGST 395)

HIST 408 Archaeology, Politics, and Heritage in the Middle East

HIST 432 Experiencing the Great War

HIST 439 Personality, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Russian Thought

HIST 443 Slavery, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (D)

HIST 452 Women in America
(Same as WGST 452)

HIST 459 Jim Crow (D)
(Same as AFR 459)

HIST 464 The United States and the Vietnam War
(Same as Lead 464)

HIST 475 Modern Warfare and Military Leadership

HIST 476 Apocalypse Now and Then: A Comparative History of Millenarian Movements (D)
(Same as REL 217)

HIST 483T African Political Thought (W)

HIST 487T The Second World War: Origins, Course, Outcomes, and Meaning (W)

HIST 491T Political Islam: Past, Present, Future (D)(W)

HIST 492T Revolutionary Thought in Latin America (D)(W)