Courses are of several kinds:
- Colloquia, based on common reading and discussion, in
which students normally write interpretive papers, book critiques and review
essays, and/or bibliographical essays.
- Seminars, in which, after an initial period of common
readings, students work primarily on a research project. (In certain cases
students may also write research papers in courses that are technically
“colloquia.”)
- “Literature of the field” courses, designed to provide
entry to a broad area of history, through reading and discussion of a number of
major issues, problems, and controversies that represent traditional and contemporary
approaches to the area as a whole. These courses introduce students to the
kinds of materials and issues that are tested on the qualifying examination and
provide a framework for preparing to take the qualifying exam. M.A. students
may be admitted to these courses with the instructor’s permission.
- Methodology courses, intended to introduce students to a
wide spectrum of issues, theories, and research strategies. Ph.D. students are
required to take a methodology course in their first year.
- Independent study courses, devoted to reading, research,
or some combination, set up between a student, or a small group of students,
and a particular faculty member.
- Dissertation prospectus seminars. Ph.D. students are
required to take this seminar in their third year.
Doctoral students may, with the approval of their advisers,
enroll in up to four courses in other departments; M.A. students may enroll in
up to two. Doctoral students may also, with approval, prepare their second
fields outside the history department. Courses are also available at area
universities through the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium.
The following is a selected list of course offerings. (Note: This list of courses is not exclusive, and courses are not necessarily taught every semester.)
AFRICA
History of Jews and Judaism in Africa
G57.1556 4 points.
Imperialism, Colonialism, and Decolonization in Africa Since 1875
G57.1558 4 points.
Analysis of the theory and practice of imperialism as it
applied to Africa south of the Sahara; the
theory and practice of colonial administration in British, French, and Belgian
Africa; and the nature of the relationships between the independent African
nations and their former colonial masters.
Literature of the Field: Africa
G57.1562 4 points.
This course introduces students to the major themes,
scholarly approaches, and sources for African history.
Topics in African History
G57.1784 4 points.
Islam in West Africa
G57.2007 4 points.
History of West Africa
G57.2028 4 points.
African Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade
G57.2555 4 points.
Examines the institution of servitude and slavery in
tropical Africa since classical antiquity.
Studies master-servant relationships in selected precolonial African societies
and the Atlantic slave trade and its impact on African political, social, and
economic organization.
African Civilization: Perceptions and Realities
G57.2556 4 points.
AFRICAN DIASPORA
Conceptualizing the African Diaspora
G57.1785 4 points.
A colloquium concerned with the ways in which the African
diaspora has been (and is being) theorized; that is, the conceptual and
methodological frameworks within which the African diaspora has been located,
and by which the imaginary has been approached. Specifically, the field is
considered in connection with and through insights provided by studies of the
subaltern and cultural, theories of feminism and hybridity and creolization,
black radical internationalism, etc.
Literature of the Field: The African Diaspora
G57.1801 4 points.
A colloquium on the formation and development of the African
diaspora, uncritically defined as the dispersal of people of African descent
throughout the world, by way of examining the most recent and influential
literature on the topic. Care is given to consider works addressing the
Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean, as well as the Americas.
African Culture and Experience in North America
G57.2029 4 points.
A seminar on African culture and experience in North America, differing from conventional courses on African
Americans in that it focuses on and emphasizes the specifically African
contribution while following the permutations and re-imagination of that
contribution over time and in response to other cultural sources.
The Making of the African Diaspora
G57.2622 4 points.
A seminar that emphasizes the historiography of what has
come to be called the African diaspora, but in other eras was called something
else, like pan-Africanism. Seminal works by Du Bois, Barnett Wells, Padmore,
Casely Hayford, James, Blyden, Crummell, Cooper, etc., are examined.
ATLANTIC WORLD
Family, State, and Society in the Early Modern Atlantic
G57.1163 4 points.
This readings colloquium assays current thinking on the
historical relationship between the family and the state while exploring the
varied understandings of this relationship that colonial peoples of North America—Europeans, Africans, and Native
Americans—brought to the process of nation building.
Literature of the Field: Atlantic History
G57.2001 4 points.
This course introduces students to the major themes,
scholarly approaches, and sources for Atlantic history.
Topics in Atlantic History (Research Seminar)
G57.2002 4 points.
In this seminar, students pursue independent research
projects while meeting as a class to discuss research challenges as represented
both by their own research and in common readings.
Women, Gender, and Politics in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
G57.2605 4 points.
Examines 18th-century interrelated debates about the nature
of citizenship and the civitas in revolutionary America,
France, and Haiti.
Political Cultures of Empire (Research Seminar)
G57.2861 4 points.
This course provides the opportunity for closely advised
research and writing on student-designed projects related to the history of
empires. The course builds on readings and discussion in the reading course
Empires, States, and Political Imagination (G57.3390). While the reading course
is not a prerequisite for this research seminar, students should have some
demonstrated knowledge of the history of at least one imperial setting and be
in a position to formulate a research topic at the beginning of the semester.
By the end of the semester, each student will have produced a major research
paper based on primary sources in the format of an article to be published in
an academic journal.
Ethnohistory: Theory and Practice (Research Seminar)
G57.3012 4 points.
This seminar presents students with the opportunity to
produce papers based on independent research in the field of ethnohistory,
cultures in contact, throughout history.
Empires, States, and Political Imagination
G57.3390 4 points.
This course focuses on the comparative study of empires from
the Romans to the present and on the variety of ways in which empire-states
have established and constrained claims to rights, belonging, and power. The
study of empire expands our debates over rights, citizenship, economic
regulation, and accountability without letting them fall into a seeming gap
between the nation-state and the global.
Atlantic History Workshop
G57.3803 4 points.
This year-long course overlaps with the Atlantic History
Workshop colloquium, which meets regularly in the Department of History
throughout the academic year. At the colloquium, participants discuss
precirculated works-in-progress presented by visiting scholars or members of
the colloquium. Students enrolled in this course attend every meeting of the
colloquium and undertake additional activities assigned by the instructor.
EAST ASIA
Topics: East Asian History
G57.1731 4 points.
Material Culture in Chinese History
G57.1917 4 points.
Modern Chinese Intellectual History
G57.1919 4 points.
Literature of the Field: Problems in Japanese History II
G57.2001 4 points.
Modern Japanese Culture
G57.2005 4 points.
Asiatic Mode of Production
G57.2530 4 points.
Culture of Imperialism
G57.2557 4 points.
Exploration of the unequal exchange between colonizer and the colonized in the 19th and 20th centuries. The perspective is comparative, the method interdisciplinary.
Print Media and Journalism in China
G57.2573 4 points.
Mapping South Asia: Culture, Politics, and History
G57.2915 4 points.
Studies in Culture and Politics in Modern Japan
G57.2917 4 points.
MEDIEVAL EUROPE (FROM THE FALL OF ROME THROUGH THE 14TH CENTURY)
Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages
G57.1115 4 points.
Medieval France
G57.1117 4 points.
France governed by the Capetian and Valois kings served as a seedbed for a brilliant medieval society. Agrarian and social-economic backgrounds, intellectual life, political strategies, crusades, literature, Gothic art, and personalities of that period.
France Under the Old Regime
G57.1156 4 points.
Themes include demographic, economic, social, political, and
cultural structures of the old order; the civil wars of the 16th century;
political culture of royal absolutism; intellectual currents and oppositional
politics; popular culture; historiographic debates; the Enlightenment and the
development of political oppositions; and the origins of the French Revolution.
History of Byzantium
I, 284-867
G57.1503 4 points.
Examines the principal historical development of Byzantium from the reign
of Diocletian to the rise of the Macedonian Dynasty.
History of Byzantium II, 867-1453
G57.1504 4 points.
Analyzes Byzantium from the
Macedonian Dynasty to the fall of Constantinople
in 1453 to the Ottoman Turks.
Women and Gender in the Middle Ages
G57.2109 4 points.
Examines women’s experience in and contributions to medieval
Europe and developments in gender formulations
during the Middle Ages.
Literature of the Field: Early Middle Ages
G57.2112 4 points.
Research methods, interpretation, and the actual writing of
medieval history have changed. This course explores changes in the approach to
the study of medieval European history as they apply to social, cultural, and
religious history.
Literature of the Field: Later Middle Ages
G57.2113 4 points.
Interpretation of medieval history in the 20th century. Historiography and sociology of knowledge.
The Crusades: A Reevaluation
G57.2219 4 points.
Studies the history of the Crusades and the Crusader Kingdom in the context of both the Latin West and the eastern Mediterranean world. Explores major themes and issues raised by the crusading movements against a background that provides an understanding of the era and an understanding of theories proposed by modern historians to interpret the Crusades. Emphasis is on primary sources—Latin, Arabic, Jewish, and Byzantine—in translation.
Topics in Byzantine and Ottoman History
G57.3025 4 points.
Seminar in Medieval History
G57.3115 4 points.
Readings in Medieval Greek Sources
G57.3116 4 points.
EARLY MODERN EUROPE (1400-1789)
Literature of the Field: Early Modern Europe I
G57.1150 Required of Ph.D. candidates making this their major field. 4 points.
Surveys major literature and historiographical issues in the early modern field.
Italy During the Renaissance
G57.2157 4 points.
Intensive reading of themes from 14th-, 15th-, and 16th-century Italy, including the nature of the city-state and of Italian urban society, urban culture and humanism, the origins and nature of the Renaissance as seen in its historians, and the effects of the foreign invasions on Italian life and culture. A series of bibliographical papers are required.
The European Enlightenment
G57.2160 4 points.
Surveys the material, cultural, and intellectual origins of
the European Enlightenment; Enlightenment thought as oppositional politics,
with attention to religious, economic, social, and political writings; the
culture of the scientific revolution; feminine and feminist cultures; political
journalism and polemic; the literary underground; and popular culture and its
politicization.
State and Society in Early Modern Europe
G57.2164 4 points.
Early Modern Spain
G57.2166 4 points.
Provides a solid knowledge of the political, social, and cultural history of early modern Spain.
Women, Gender, and Politics in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
G57.2605 4 points.
See description under Methods, Transnational, Comparative.
MODERN EUROPE (1750-PRESENT)
Modern Greek History
G57.1124 4 points.
Examines how the major developments in modern European history from the Enlightenment and state formation to the post-1945 era were manifested in “peripheral” and “small” European nation-states by using Greece as a case study.
Literature of the Field: Modern Europe Through the 19th Century
G57.1201 Required of Ph.D. candidates making this their major field. 4 points.
Survey of the major literature and historiographical issues in the modern European field.
Literature of the Field: Modern Europe from 1900 to 1945
G57.1202 4 points.
19th-Century France
G57.1209 Identical to G46.1610. 4 points.
The impact of revolutions and economic changes on 19th-century French society.
20th-Century France
G57.1210 4 points.
Society, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Italy
G57.1222 4 points.
Diplomatic History of Europe in the 19th Century
G57.1251 4 points.
Major diplomatic events from 1789 to 1900, such as the French
and Napoleonic Wars, European Restoration, national unification, imperialism,
and the Bismarckian settlement. Discussion of their relation to political,
economic, and social events.
Women in European Society and Politics
G57.1253 4 points.
Explores main themes of and principal approaches to European
women’s history from the late 18th century through World War II. Readings focus
on Britain, France, Germany, and Russia.
Revolutionary and Soviet Russia
G57.1302 4 points.
Peasant, religious, and Praetorian rebellion in old Russia;
the Populist and Marxist revolutionary movements; the urban and peasant
revolutions in 1905 and 1917 to 1920; and the Stalinist industrial, urban, and
bureaucratic revolution.
The Decline and Fall of the Russian Empire, 1856-1917
G57.1326 4 points.
Modernization and its breakdown during the reigns of the
last three czars. Agrarian and administrative reform, industrialization,
urbanization and the urban crisis, the emergence of a revolutionary elite, and
the revolutions of 1905 and February 1917.
History of England Since 1688
G57.1408 4 points.
Classic and current scholarship in English social and
cultural history, law and society in the 18th century, family history,
demography, industrialization and the city, Victorian women’s history, and
imperialism. Students present interpretive papers on themes developed with the
instructor.
Britain in the 20th Century, 1914 to the Present
G57.1409 4 points.
Introduction to the developing social structure and culture
of England during and since the first Industrial Revolution. Topics in English
social history include family history, mobility, work discipline, illegitimacy,
and alcoholism, which are subjects of recent research.
History of Modern Ireland, 1690-1921
G57.1416 Open to undergraduates with permission of
instructor. 4 points.
History of Modern Ireland, 1922-1998
G57.1417 4 points.
Irish and European Migration to America
G57.1419 4 points.
Topics in East European Jewry
G57.1526 4 points.
Topics in West European Jewish History
G57.1527 4 points.
Topics in Women and Gender in French History
G57.1764 4 points.
The French Economy Past and Present
G57.1910 4 points.
Italian Fascism
G57.1982
4 points.
Development of the European State in the 19th Century
G57.2131 4 points.
Political, economic, and social developments in Europe from
1815 to 1914. How did Europe become a functional entity and meet its problems
in terms of political institutions, governmental structures, and social
movements that culminated in a changed relationship between individuals and the
state? What forces shaped European society and prepared it for the 20th
century? Conservatism, liberalism, and socialism and their effect on and
interrelationship with political and social developments.
The French Revolution
G57.2178 4 points.
Study of the economy, society, ideology, and political
culture in France during the revolutionary decade, with attention to
historiographic debates concerning the intellectual and cultural origins of the
Revolution; the first new regime, 1789-1791; revolutionary radicalization; the
political culture of the Terror; gender and revolutionary politics; expansion
and conquest; and the Revolution’s impact on the formation of modern political
culture.
History and Memory in Europe/ World War II
G57.2184 4 points.
Weimar Germany
G57.2248
4 points.
Explores strengths and weaknesses of Germany during its
transition from a monarchy in 1918 to totalitarianism in 1933: the legacies of
World War I, economic problems, foreign affairs, culture, and the enemies of
the republic.
Post-World War II Germany
G57.2250 4 points.
Politics and Ideas in Europe Since 1939
G57.2260 4 points.
Discusses aspects of European political, cultural, and
intellectual history, from the Second World War to the present. Covers material
from East and West Europe that is mostly primary in nature—novels, essays,
contemporary political writings, etc. Emphasis is on the interrelation of
cultural, political, and philosophical ideas and affairs in modern Europe.
Methods and Problems in European Intellectual History
G57.2266 4 points.
Introduces modern European intellectual history, through the
study of four to six major thinkers and the diverse and conflicting methods
employed to interpret them. Those studied are chosen from a list that includes
Kant, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Baudelaire, Durkheim, Bergson, Weber,
Nietzsche, and Freud.
Britain and Ireland Since 1750
G57.2427 4 points.
Introduces the interpretive and primary literature in modern
English history, with emphasis on recent scholarship and methodology in English
social and cultural history. Readings and discussions of social class
structure, the Victorian city and village, labor unions, public education and
literacy, criminality, prostitution, and health.
The Global Economy
G57.2560 4 points.
Bourgeois Life and Culture in 19th-Century Europe
G57.3290 4 points.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Literature of the Field: Colonial Latin America
G57.1801 4 points.
Examines how Spanish- and Portuguese-American empires were
created, how their societies and cultures were shaped, and how their
institutions and their economies were modified by internal changes. Considers
the 18th-century reforms of the colonial system and the growing pressure for
independence.
Literature of the Field: Modern Latin America, 1824-Present
G57.1802 4 points.
Introduction to historiography of postindependence Latin
America. Focuses on topics such as the integration of Latin America into the
world capitalist trade and investment system, evolution of rural and urban
labor systems and movements, liberalism, nationalism, U.S.-Latin American
relations, and revolutionary movements.
Slavery, Colonialism, and Revolution in the Caribbean
G57.1809 4 points.
Introduction to the major themes and debates of colonial
Caribbean history. Begins with the reading of general works on the Caribbean:
selections from major texts and classic essays by historians, anthropologists,
and literary critics arguing the case for the study of the Caribbean as a unit of
analysis. From there, goes on to consider the central themes of the region and
the period: slavery, capitalism, and emancipation; colonialism, revolution, and
imperialism; nationalism and race. Themes are studied from a variety of
approaches and perspectives, from very local microhistorical studies to
comparative ones to more sweeping global treatments. Throughout, an attempt is
made to bridge the vertical lines that often separate the study of the
different linguistic and imperial Caribbeans.
Topics in Latin American and Caribbean History
G57.2800 4 points.
Historiographic and analytic approaches to variable topics.
Recent colloquia included Historical Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in
Latin America and Independence and Nationalism in the 19th Century. May also
focus on the history of a particular country or subregion, such as modern
Brazil, Central America, or the Caribbean.
Research Seminar: Latin America and the Caribbean
G57.2801 4 points.
Methodology research seminar in which students learn the basic techniques of isolating and conceptualizing a topic, develop their research skills in handling primary and secondary sources available in the New York area, and complete a coherent, pertinent research paper of about 25 pages, with appropriate documentation and bibliography.
Topics in Latin American History: Culture and Politics in Latin America
G57.2803 4 points.
Politics and Culture in Latin America
G57.2804 4 points.
METHODS, TRANSNATIONAL, COMPARATIVE
Industrialization and the Working Class in Comparative
Perspective Since 1870
G57.1022 4
points.
Study of the transition from a maturing to a late society in
Europe and the United States. Examines economic pressures, technological
developments, entrepreneurial policies, ethnic and national subcultures, and
emergence of urban and state institutions as they relate to the social history
of the working class, the labor movement, and class consciousness.
Environmental History
G57.1050 Identical to G65.1022. 4 points.
Analyzes monographs in the field, drawn from all
geographical areas, dealing with major theoretical issues.
Historians and New Media
G57.1023 4 points.
Cultural History in Perspective
G57.1145 4 points.
Global Encounters: 1300-1800
G57.1730 4 points.
The general aim of this course is to study global
interactions between various societies from 1300 to 1800, a period during which
peoples from all continents encountered one another in conditions of both
cooperation and collision. Topics include comparative notions of empire and colonial
practices; the ideas and beliefs each society held about themselves and
“others” and the things and conventions that gave them such identities:
language, color, ethnicity, kinship, religion, and so on. Throughout the
course, students also study the structure of each society’s thought; the
categories of analysis used in encounters with other societies; and how
interactions and the language used to characterize others changed over time.
Other topics include trade between various societies; the creation of colonial
societies; slavery: evolution, concepts, and its influence in the creation of
racial theories; diaspora in history and its influence in the various societies
affected by migratory movements.
Transnational Construction of Race
G57.2008 4 points.
Explores the social, cultural, and political meanings and
consequences of racial constructions, with attention to such topics as law,
sex, gender, science, and empire. Interrogates North American racial systems in
transnational contexts.
Race and Place: Local, Regional, National, and Transnational
Explorations
G57.2014 4 points.
Explores historical constructions of race and the meaning
and significance of race, with an emphasis on (though not limited to) the
Americas. Seeks to place these explorations in the context of various
geographical levels, from local and regional to national and transnational,
with attention to the crossing of all such borders.
The Ways of Social History in the 20th Century: Forms of
Historiographical Change
G57.2020 4
points.
Early Modern European Imperialism: Discourses, Institutions,
Experiences
G57.2186 4 points.
This one-semester seminar on early modern European
imperialism is designed to give students interested in the history of early
modern Europe, the Atlantic world, the history of Africa, and colonial Latin
America a general understanding of the early modern ideologies and institutions
that enabled Europe to colonize parts of Africa and the Americas. Throughout
the semester, students examine several important topics: medieval precedents of
early modern imperialism; theories of empire and monarchy; ideologies of
conquest and colonization; models of conquest and colonial exploitation; and
the relevance of race and slavery in understanding European influence in Africa
and the Americas.
Women, Gender, and Politics in the Age of the Atlantic
Revolutions
G57.2605 4 points.
Examines 18th-century interrelated debates about the nature
of citizenship and the civitas in revolutionary America, France, and Haiti.
Modern City Culture
G57.2754
4 points.
Studies the culture of New York City in comparative
perspective, particularly emphasizing the relation of political and economic
modernization to the culture of modernity and artistic movements of modernism.
Theories of Nationalism
G57.3500 4 points.
Approaches to Historical Research and Writing
G57.3603 4 points.
MIDDLE EAST
History of the Middle East, 600-1200
G57.1502 Identical to G77.1640. 4 points.
Egypt in Modern Times
G57.1511 Identical to G77.1664. 4 points.
Topics in Ottoman History
G57.1513 Identical to G77.1651. 4 points.
Topics in Medieval Islamic History
G57.1521 4 points.
Islam in the Modern World
G57.1522 Identical to G77.1803. 4 points.
Seminar on the Modern History of the Middle East I: The
Great Powers and the Middle East
G57.1533
4 points.
Modern Iran (1800 to the Present)
G57.1541 Identical to G77.1661. 4 points.
Islamic Middle East, 1200-1800
G57.1641 4 points.
History of the Middle East: 1750-Present
G57.1642 4 points.
Literature of the Field: Modern Middle Eastern History
G57.1643 4 points.
Late Ottoman Empire
G57.1652
4 points.
Seminar in Modern Middle Eastern History I
G57.1653 4 points.
Seminar in Modern Middle Eastern History II
G57.1654 4 points.
Problems and Methods in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
G57.2513 Identical to G77.1687. 4
points.
Introduction to Islamic Studies
G57.3502 Identical to G77.1700. 4 points.
UNITED STATES (CONTACT TO PRESENT)
History of Sexuality
G57.1057 4 points.
Investigates historical constructions of sexuality in the
United States from the colonial era through the 20th century.
Lower East Side American Jewish Memory
G57.1271 4 points.
History of American Judaism
G57.1280 4 points.
Jewish Women in America: Historical Problems
G57.1281 4 points.
Literature of the Field: 20th-Century United States
G57.1600.001 Required of Ph.D.
candidates making this their major field. 4 points.
Surveys major literature and historiographical issues in the
American field in the 20th century.
Literature of the Field: U.S. Colonial Era
G57.1600.002 Required of Ph.D. candidates making this
their major field. 4 points.
Surveys major literature and historiographical issues in the
American field in the colonial era.
The American Revolution and Constitution
G57.1603 4 points.
Studies the tension between England and the American
colonies in a political and social context. Other topics include revolutionary
ideology, constitutional conflict, the War of Independence, the framing of new
state government, and the debate over the federal Constitution.
The United States, 1789-1824: Problems of the New Nation
G57.1605 4 points.
Studies political behavior and party formations in the
emergent American nation, with emphasis on the relationship of economic policy
and foreign affairs to political process.
Literature of the Field: 19th-Century United States
G57.1610 Required of all Ph.D.
candidates making this their major field. 4 points.
Surveys the major literature and historiographical issues in
the American field in the 19th century.
The United States in the 20th Century to 1945
G57.1612 4 points.
Studies political, economic, and foreign relations issues
during the period from the Spanish-American War to 1945. Discusses major
figures and developments historiographically to emphasize the historical
literature, interpretations, and continuing dialogue.
Intellectual History of the United States, 1830 to 1890
G57.1701 4 points.
Surveys major currents of American thought in the 19th
century, focusing on American romanticism and scientific naturalism, utilizing
materials from imaginative literature, philosophy, the fine arts, political and
social thought, religion, and science.
Intellectual History of the United States Since 1890
G57.1702 4 points.
Surveys major currents of American thought from the end of
the 19th century, focusing on American relativism, utilizing materials from
imaginative literature, philosophy, the fine arts, political science, and
technology.
U.S.-East Asian Relations
G57.1737 4 points.
From the open door as the McKinley administration understood
it to the open door as Deng Xiaoping defined it. Examines the American
imagination of Asia, the reality of U.S. policy toward specific Asian
countries, and the corresponding imagination and reality of Asian nations
toward the United States.
Transnational Approaches to American History
G57.1739 4 points.
Local and Community History in America
G57.1752 4 points.
See description under Public History.
History and Public Policy
G57.1753 4 points.
See description under Public History.
Media and History
G57.1755
4 points.
See description under Public History.
Historical Thinking: Women and Gender in the United States
G57.1761 4 points.
Topics in American Women’s History
G57.1762 4 points.
American Social History in the 19th Century
G57.1771 4 points.
Causes and consequences of the Civil War, including the
transition to capitalism and the transformation of work in the North; southern
slavery; religion and reform; class, politics, and Jacksonian democracy;
African American freedom; labor and politics in the Reconstruction South and in
the industrializing North; and capitalist expansion at the end of the century.
History of American Higher Education
G57.1778 Identical to E55.2067. 4 points.
Topics in the history of American colleges and universities
since 1750. Analysis of educational policies and functions, with attention to
the limitations of educational responsibility, the transformation of
institutional structures, changing modes for gaining and imparting knowledge,
and the social prerogatives and initiatives assigned to an educated class.
History of American Education
G57.1781 Identical to E55.2009. 4 points.
Examines the major themes, developments, and dilemmas of
educational history in the United States. How have historians defined and
explored American education? What are the major achievements and weaknesses of
the field?
Afro-American History
G57.1782 4 points.
Broad exposure to African American history. Begins with a
historiographical introduction, describing the growth and development of the
field, and moves to a major theme and period treatment ranging from ancient
Africa to the civil rights movement. Provides an understanding of the field and
a foundation for specialized course work and research.
Women in 20th-Century America
G57.1789 4 points.
Surveys women in modern America, with emphasis on work,
politics, feminism, and changing social roles.
African American Intellectual History from the Victorians to
the Present
G57.1804 4 points.
Indians in Early America
G57.1891 4 points.
Transnational Constructions of Race
G57.2008 4 points.
Explores the social, cultural, and political meanings and
consequences of racial constructions, with attention to such topics as law,
sex, gender, science, and empire. Interrogates North American racial systems in
transnational contexts.
Master’s Seminar: Historical Research Methods
G57.2022 4 points.
Introduction to the theoretical and methodological
components involved in the research process. Considers historiographical
issues; develops an understanding of the archival and library environments,
focusing on searching strategies and the use of automated techniques; and
emphasizes framing research questions. Students complete a research paper with
appropriate documentation and bibliography in their area of interest.
American Cultural History
G57.2024 4 points.
Examines modes of cultural history, particularly newer ones.
Explores recent theoretical and historiographical discussions of cultural
history.
19th-Century Intellectual and Cultural History
G57.2025 4 points.
Christianity and Culture in America—From Finney to Falwell
(1820-1990)
G57.2026 4 points.
Examines the nature of American Christianity from the
revivals of the early 19th century through the revival of the religious right
in the 1990s. Explores themes in American religious development, including the
changing nature of Roman Catholic, mainline Protestant, evangelical,
fundamentalist, and Pentecostal movements; the relation between gender and
religion, the development of African American religious traditions, and the
relationship of Christianity to larger social, religious, and economic
structures in American society. Students examine and interpret a wide range of
primary sources and significant texts in American religious and cultural
history.
Gender/Cultural History in America
G57.2030 4 points.
Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the United States
G57.2553 4 points.
Topics in Colonial American History
G57.2603 May be repeated for credit with permission of
the instructor. 4 points.
Reading and discussion examining one aspect of colonial
society in depth.
Race, Civil War, and Reconstruction
G57.2607 4 points.
Studies the social, political, and cultural history of the
Civil War era and its legacies, with particular attention to race.
Radicalism and Reform in the United States
G57.2608 4 points.
Examines the origins, motives, and achievements of
dissenting movements in America, from 17th-century English backgrounds to the
present. Emphasizes individuals and groups interested in changing the existing
system toward greater equality for the individual. Topics: nonconformist
dissent of the Puritan revolution, reform and radicalism of the American
Revolution, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, antebellum perfectionism,
populism, socialism, progressivism, communism, the New Deal, and the 1960s New
Left.
Research Seminar: U.S. History
G57.2612, 2613 4 points per term.
Methodology research seminar in which students learn the
basic techniques of isolating and conceptualizing a topic, develop their
research skills in handling primary and secondary sources, and complete a
coherent, pertinent research paper of about 25 pages, with appropriate documentation and bibliography.
The instructor sets the limits of the area in which students choose topics,
e.g., U.S. foreign policy since 1900 or the American Revolution.
Topics in American Social History
G57.2621 May be repeated for credit with permission of
the instructor. 4 points.
Explores recent literature on American social history, with
attention to the new interpretations of women and labor, education and
religion, town and urban development, business structures, and social class
formation.
Topics in U.S. History, 1789-1850
G57.2655 4 points.
American political behavior in the eras of the first and
second party system. Introduces biographical analysis and behavioral and
quantitative analysis to penetrate the myths of the Age of Jackson and its
antecedents.
Topics in 19th-Century American Intellectual History
G57.2707 4 points.
Readings in American romanticism and American scientific
naturalism.
America in the 1960s
G57.2715 4 points.
Readings and discussion on the 1960s. Seeks an understanding
of the politics, culture, ideology, economy, and movements for change of the
decade; the Vietnam War and the antiwar effort.
The Cold War, 1945-1989
G57.2779 4 points.
Examination of the Cold War from World War II to the fall of
the Soviet empire in 1989.
Social Movements in the United States, 1890-Present
G57.3608 4 points.
Topics in Intellectual and Cultural History
G57.3611 4 points.
HISTORY OF WOMEN AND GENDER
Gender and Radicalism in Modern China
G57.0535 4 points.
History of Sexuality
G57.1057 4 points.
See description under United States (Contact to Present).
Family, State, and Society in the Early Modern Atlantic
G57.1163 4 points.
See description under Atlantic World.
Women in European Society and Politics
G57.1253 4 points.
See description under Modern Europe (1750-Present).
Black Women’s Political Activism
G57.1256 4 points.
Examines black women’s conceptions of, and presence in, the
public or political realm from the antebellum era through the 1960s.
Investigates the ways in which black women defined the public and political.
Jewish Women in America and Europe: Historical Problems
G57.1281 4 points.
Investigates particular historical episodes concerning the
history of Jewish women across the United States and Europe.
Historical Thinking: Women and Gender in the United States
G57.1761 4 points.
Topics in American Women’s History
G57.1762 4 points.
Gender and History
G57.1763 4 points.
Explores various theoretical and methodological approaches
to the history of women and gender. Explores various aspects of methodology in
women’s history, drawing mainly on American and European sources. Topics
include politics and culture, work and family, socialism, and sexualities.
Topics in Women and Gender in French History
G57.1764 4 points.
Women and Work
G57.1769 4 points.
See description under United States (Contact to Present).
Women in 20th-Century America
G57.1789 4 points.
See description under United States (Contact to Present).
History of Latin American Women
G57.1810 4 points.
Gender/Cultural History in America
G57.2030 4 points.
Women and Gender in the Middle Ages
G57.2109 4 points.
See description under Medieval Europe.
History of Women in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
G57.2176 4 points.
See description under Early Modern Europe.
Feminist Theory
G57.2291
4 points.
Examines a range of feminist theoretical writing, places it
historically, and relates it to other political, cultural, and scholarly
feminist practices.
Religion, Family, and Gender in Early America, 1607-1840
G57.2604 4 points.
See description under United States (Contact to Present).
Women, Gender, and Politics in the Age of Atlantic
Revolutions
G57.2605 4 points.
See description under Methods, Transnational, Comparative.
Gender and Imperialism
G57.3901 4 points.
Examines how gender is implicated in imperialism and
postcolonial societies, including Africa, India, the United States, the
Caribbean, and Latin America.
PUBLIC HISTORY
Public History Seminar I
G57.1750 4 points.
This course reviews the history, theories, and methodologies
of public history from its 19th-century origins through the present.
Public History Seminar II
G57.1751 4 points.
This course expands on the foundations of Public History
Seminar I and allows students to translate their academic research into public
presentations.
Seminar in Historical Editing
G57.1012 4 points.
This course is designed to introduce students to the
theories, practices, and problems in editing and publishing historical
documents. Students develop their own edited collections, complete with prefatory
material, transcriptions, annotations, calendar, and electronic editions.
The Material Culture of American Life
G57.1052 4 points.
Concentrates on employing artifacts in order to explore
memory and place from the late colonial period to the present.
Local and Community History
G57.1752 4 points.
Students are introduced to theories and methods for studying
localities and communities. Special emphasis is placed on new approaches to
urban history and the development of communities in the 19th and 20th
centuries.
History and Public Policy
G57.1753 4 points.
Explores the processes by which social insights and
criticisms become formalized into social policy in America. Specific issues
related to health, education, crime and poverty, urban life, public and
cultural institutions, and the impact of institutionalization receive
particular emphasis.
Media and History
G57.1755
4 points.
Explores historical dramatizations and documentaries with an
emphasis on radio, television, film, and print.
Oral History
G57.2012
4 points.
A fieldwork course emphasizing historiographical,
theoretical, and methodological approaches to interviewing.
Historian and the Visual Record
G57.2021 4 points.
Analyzes such visual media as photographs, posters, magazine
illustrations, advertisements, motion pictures, and video. Includes a
curatorial component that explores how archivists and public historians manage
these records.
ARCHIVAL MANAGEMENT AND HISTORICAL EDITING
Archives, Historical Societies, and Historical Editing:
Principles and Practicum I
G57.1010
Required core course in archives program. Wosh. 4 points.
Introduction to the theory and practice of managing public,
private, and institutional archives in the United States. Includes a historical
overview of recordkeeping and archives, introduction to bibliographic
resources, appraisal, arrangement and description, reference, collection
strategies, and the development of the USMARC AMC format. Students complete a
supervised 45-hour practicum project in a professional archive.
Seminar in Historical Editing
G57.1012 Required course in archives program. Katz. 4
points.
This course is designed to introduce students to the
theories, practices, and problems in editing and publishing historical
documents. Students develop their own edited collections by drawing on a
selection of Margaret Sanger papers, complete with prefatory material,
transcriptions, annotations, and calendar.
Archives, Historical Societies, and Historical Editing:
Principles and Practicum II
G57.2010
Prerequisite:
G57.1010. Required core course in archives program. Wosh.
4 points.
Second half of the introductory, year-long overview. Topics
include preservation management, advanced appraisal, electronic records,
developing outreach programs, records management, professionalization and the
role of the archivist as a public historian, legal and ethical concerns, and
leadership issues. Students complete a supervised 120-hour practicum project in
an archival repository.
Introduction to Preservation and Reformatting
G57.2013 De Stefano. 4 points.
Overview of principles and practices of archives
preservation. Examines the physical composition of archival materials in all
formats, causal agents that contribute to archival deterioration, the
application of appropriate preservation and conservation methods, and various
reformatting and rehousing techniques, including digitization. Explores the
ways in which archivists select material for preservation, perform condition
surveys, develop environmental controls, and formulate disaster planning and
recovery programs. Use and access considerations are addressed, as are the
technical aspects and limitations of various preservation options.
Institutional Archives
G57.2016 Sink. 4 points.
Traces the rise of modern bureaucratic
organizations—businesses, governments, and nonprofits—and their relationship to
the documentary record. Examines the history of recordkeeping; the records and
information needs of businesses, nonprofits, and governments; records
management theory and practice; and the challenges posed by electronic records.
Advanced Archival Description
G57.2031 Frusciano. 4 points.
This course is designed to provide students with an
understanding of advanced archival descriptive techniques. Focuses on the development
and use of bibliographic standards to create and exchange data concerning
historical records. Particular emphases include the MARC AMC format;
introduction to such Web-compatible technologies as Standard Generalized Markup
Language and Extensible Markup Language; the history, development, and future
of Encoded Archival Description; and the administrative and technical
considerations involved in digital reformatting.
The Historian and the Visual Record: Exploring Alternative
Sources
G57.2021 Panzer. 4 points.
Analyzes visual media, including photographs, posters,
magazine illustrations, advertisements, motion pictures, and video. Pays
special attention to the use of these media as sources for examining political,
social, cultural, intellectual, and economic history. Includes a curatorial
component that explores how archivists manage these records.
Research in Archival Management and Historical Editing
G57.3013.01 Wosh. 1-4 points.
Directed research concerning a selected topic involving
archival theory and practice, developed in conjunction with course instructor.
Readings in Archival Management and Historical Editing
G57.3023, 3024 Wosh, staff. 1-4 points
per term.
Directed readings concerning a selected topic involving
archival theory and practice, developed in conjunction with course instructor.
RESEARCH AND READING
Reading in History
G57.3011, 3012 1-4 points per term.
Research in History
G57.3021, 3022 Open to students engaged in dissertation
research by special permission of a departmental adviser. 1-4 points per term.
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