This course traces the early development of Western civilization from the ancient Near East; Greece and Rome; the medieval civilization(s); to the European Renaissance and Reformation.

This course traces the development and of western civilization and its global impact from the seventeenth century to the present.

This course is an introduction to history as a discipline, and an analysis of the origins, development and structure of the United States as a pluralistic and multiracial society from 1609 to the present.

This course deals with the emergence of the modern world, including such topics as the expansion and intensification of cross-cultural interaction; imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism; the spread of information; capitalism, industrialism, and popular sovereignty; race and ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic status.

This course explores the roles and contributions of China, Japan, and Korea from the sixteenth century to the present tracing such themes as nationalism, capitalism, socialism, imperialism, war, peace, race, and gender struggles.

This course starts with the formative periods of Chinese civilization from the Neolithic era and ends with the Opium War and the collapse of the Manchu Qing Empire in 1911. This course will provide students with an understanding of modern-day China by looking at China's dynamic and multilayered past.

The course is specifically designed for foreign students studying in Beijing with the objective of enabling them to understand the ongoing social, economic and political trends which have roots in the past. The time period studied will span from the end of the 19th century through the 20th century.

The course will introduce the historical development of Islamic civilization and the formation of Muslim social and political institutions from the 7th century to the present.

This course explores the formation of modern Latin America by examining the region as a global nexus where ideologies, cultures, peoples, and political entities have conjoined and clashed from the fifteenth century to the present. Demonstrate and understanding of the relationships among historical events, culture and social forces. Differentiate between students' values and ways of understanding the world & those of other cultures.

This course is an introduction to the history of the United States from the colonial era through the Civil War.

This course is an introduction to the history of the United States from the Civil War to the present.

This course surveys the history of Africa from dynastic Egypt to post-colonialism. The primary focus of this class is to examine the interactions African peoples had with non-Africans from the 15th century to the present. Engage communication skills and sensitivities. Possess a heightened understanding of diversity in the world.

This course examines the interaction between Romans and the so-called 'barbarians' such as the Goths, Huns, Slavs, and Arabs from the 2nd to the 7th centuries, with a focus on how new archaeological and skeletal data is changing our understanding of the barbarians.

The Vikings are popularly thought of as invaders, marauders, destroyers of civilized peace. However, recent research has focused on their society, culture, accomplishments and contributions in a much more positive sense.

This course will trace the history of medieval and early modern ideas about nature, magic, demonology, and witchcraft, exploring the history of reason and rationality, elite and popular culture, persecution and society, and the intersections between Magic, Science, and Witchcraft.

This course will investigate intellectual and cultural responses to major events of nineteenth-century German history, including the Napoleonic Wars, the Restoration, the Revolution of 1848, the unification of Germany, the German Empire under Bismarck and Wilhelm II, and events leading to the First World War.

This course will cover the major phases of modern German history: Wilhelmine Germany, Volkish Germany, Germany in the First World War, Weimar Germany, National Socialist Germany, Germany in the Second World War, Post-War West Germany, East Germany, and Reunification. While setting forth the background of political and social developments, we will carefully consider responses to these issues by leaders in German intellectual and cultural life.

The course will cover: exchanges between nomad and sedentary populations in East Asia and the flourishing of information routes to modern day Mongolia, Afghanistan, India, Greece and Rome; interactions with European powers, concepts of colonialism, imperialism, and the emergence of 20th century world wars; contemporary geo-political challenges in the region.

Explores the role of climate in history, from the emergence of homo sapiens to recent anthropogenic climate change. Major topics include the social impact of climate variability, sources of resilience, origins of scientific knowledge, and the use of historical knowledge in the present.

Moving beyond seafaring lore and legend, this course places the history of pirates and sailors in the context of "Atlantic history." Students will explore how organized conquests and trading ventures led to the formation of the first British empire and the expansion of commercial networks around the Atlantic and beyond.

This course provides a historical introduction to sexual behaviors and attitudes in the United States from the early American period to the present. The primary emphasis concerns the impact of social and political change on sexual norms and behavior.

This course surveys the environment and environmentalism in United States history, from the transformation of New England into a farm ecology, the expansion of the cotton South, the settlement of the West, to the rise of industrial cities, suburban sprawl, and the globalization of the economy.

History and the Public explores the field of public history with special emphasis on the theory, methods, practice, ethics, and controversies faced when preserving or presenting history outside of a formal classroom environment.

This course studies the ways historians arrive at their interpretation of events. This is accomplished through a history of historical writing or through a special selected topic that illustrates the use of different methods by past and present historians. Students are expected to take this course after completing their four introductory courses for the major.

Special topics or new approaches of current interest to the instructor. This course counts as a 300-level history elective. Students may repeat the course for credit when the topic changes.

Special topics or new approaches of current interest to the instructor. This course may be used to fulfill the history major distribution requirement in 300-Level Pre-1700 European History or may count as a 300-Level history elective. Students may repeat the course for credit when the topic changes.

Special topics or new approaches of current interest to the instructor. This course may be used to fulfill the history major distribution requirement in 300-Level Post-1700 European History or may count as a 300-Level history elective. Students may repeat the course for credit when the topic changes.

Special topics or new approaches of current interest to the instructor. This course may be used to fulfill the history major distribution requirement in 300-level U.S. history or may count as a 300-level history elective. Students may repeat the course for credit when the topic changes.

Special topics or new approaches of current interest to the instructor. This course may be used to fulfill the history major distribution requirement for a 300-level course in the history of Africa, Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East or may count as a 300-level history elective. Students may repeat the course for credit when the topic changes.

This course examines some of the worst pandemics ever to strike humanity, starting with the outbreaks of smallpox and bubonic in the final centuries of the Roman Empire, the devastating Black Death of the 14th century, and the diseases that destroyed the native Americans in the wake of Columbus's voyages.

This course traces urban development from late antiquity to the early modern period.

This course explores ancient Greek history, society and culture, from the Bronze Age through the period of Classical Greece ending with Alexander and his empire.

This course surveys ancient Roman history, with a focus on Rome's conquest of the Mediterranean, the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the good and bad emperors of the Principate, and the conversion of Constantine to Christianity.

The two best known Roman towns - Pompeii and Herculaneum - whose remains were preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE - will serve as a microcosm for understanding Roman society.

This course examines the history of Christian communities and beliefs from their emergence in Jewish Palestine to the legalization of that religion in the Late Antique period. Students will gain familiarity with the diversity of early Christian belief, the interaction with the Roman imperial government, the evangelization and spread of Christianity both within the Roman Empire and outside it, the impact of Christianity on Roman social and family life, and the birth of monasticism.

This course focuses on the City of Rome itself from the third century up to the reign of Charlemagne. It demonstrates that this period was a time of gradual transformation and continuity. Both literary sources and the archaeology and epigraphy of the City shall be combined to show that barbarian invasions did not destroy the walls of Rome, and that the arrival of Christianity did not cause the fall of classical culture.

Students study how the technology of scuba diving combined with scientific archaeology has created a new discipline of shipwreck archaeology since the 1960s. They follow the history of the discipline and explore shipwrecks from Bronze Age Greece to nineteenth-century Chicago. They synthesize the research and conclusions of nautical archaeologists worldwide and organize those findings for presentation to a broader public in the coherent and imaginative form of their own Museum.

This course examines European, Islamic and Byzantine society and culture in the Middle Ages.

This course examines European society and culture in the later Middle Ages.

This course explores the three cultures of the Middle Ages - Islam, Byzantium, and Europe, with particular emphasis on art, music, and literature.

This course explores the lives of medieval women from 500-1500 CE. While paying close attention to medieval ideas about gender and sexuality, students will examine experiences of medieval women from a range of backgrounds and social statuses as well as male and female roles in family life, religion, and politics.

This course will explore the "lived" religious experience of medieval people through their actions, behaviors and artifacts. "Folk" (or pagan) survivals, pilgrimage, music and arts, devotion to saints, magical beliefs and practices, and attitudes to the natural/supernatural world[s] may be covered, depending on subtitle.

This course examines the intriguing range of religious beliefs and practices in medieval Europe. Over the course of the semester, students will explore the criteria and processes by which local communities and translocal authorities defined heresy as well as the political interests and cultural assumptions that shaped labels and definitions.

Understanding the medieval supernatural leads to an appreciation of the richness of medieval society and intellectual culture. How were "natural" and "supernatural" defined across time and space, popular and elite cultures? How were ideas about the "supernatural" shaped by daily life, theology?

We will investigate the extent to which chivalric ideas controlled or encouraged aristocratic violence; the relationship between violence and courtliness; the extent to which chivalry threatened or strengthened royal government; and the influence of courtly love on gender.

This course examines the origins and development of the Crusades and the Crusader States in the Islamic East. It will explore crusade ideology, political and military histories of crusades, compare Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perceptions of the crusading movement, and consider invocations of Jihad and Crusade into the modern era.

This course examines the history of medieval England, with an emphasis on its cultural history as manifested through written documents, material remains, art and music.

This course examines the political and cultural life of Italy's five principal city-states (Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan and Naples) from the era of St. Francis and Dante until the sack of Rome in 1527.

This course examines the history of the Society of Jesus from its founding by Ignatius Loyola in the 16th century to its activities in the contemporary world.

This course examines the birth and progress of the Reformation in Europe from Luther's protest in 1517 to the conclusion of the Thirty Years War in 1648.

This course examines political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in Poland since the first Polish state. Its major themes include: the consolidation of the Polish state; economic and political problems in the 17th Century; revolution and independence; World War II; Communist rule in Poland; and Solidarity.

The course explores the period that leads directly into the French Revolution.

This course surveys the major political, social, economic, religious, and cultural developments in England under the Tudors, Stuarts and early Hanoverians (1485-1760).

This is a course in the social and cultural history of early-modern England. It focuses, in particular, upon the tension between how early modern English men and women saw their world (ordered, hierarchical, stable, divinely sanctioned) and what their world was actually like (disordered, socially mobile, unstable, secular).

This interdisciplinary introduction to the history of London will assess the economic, political, social, and cultural reasons for the city's importance in British and world history.

This course analyzes the causes, meanings, and consequences of the French Revolution of 1789 by examining French society and culture from the age of absolutism to the end of Napoleon Bonaparte's empire.

This course investigates the main currents of European thought and culture from the Romantic era to the fin de siècle. Using literary texts and music, as well as visual arts, we will study the major intellectual trends of the nineteenth century and attempt to determine their influence on European society.

This course explores the cultural and political development of modern France as a nation and imperial power. It examines the formation of national identities; the discourse and practice of French nationalism and republicanism; and the forms of resistance and collaboration that shaped relations between citizens, state, colonized peoples, and empire.

This course studies the major currents in Italy from the defeat of Napoleon to the present.

This course examines political changes in Britain, economic and social causes and consequences of industrialization, and the changing position of Great Britain in Europe and the world.

This course examines the rise and decline of Britain's empire.

This course traces the transformation of Britain's oldest colony into an independent nation between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.

This course examines how, by the middle of the 19th century, Russia emerged as the largest empire in the world.

This course examines comparative perspectives on feminism, sexuality, and women in the family and in public life in Europe 1700-present.

The course will begin by tracing the origins and various forms of European nationalism, continue with the establishment of nation-states in Western and Eastern Europe, and end with a discussion of various national and ethnic issues that dominate European political and ideological discourse today.

This course traces the origins of the two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century and assesses the cultural and political movements that transformed Europe and the west in those years.

The course will deal with the causes, main features and consequences of the Nazi movement in Germany and Europe from 1919 to 1945.

This course explores a defining event of modernity, the genocide of Europe's Jews, by exploring Nazi actions, victims' varied experiences, and international reactions. We will also tackle questions like: Was the Holocaust unique? What does it mean to be a "bystander"? What are the politics of memory and commemoration?

The course examines the history of the war from its origins to the destruction of the Axis powers and the onset of the Cold War.

This course examines the postwar world, the movement toward European integration; the tensions between East and West; problems and proposed solutions in contemporary Europe, as well as responses to these issues made by intellectual and cultural leaders of the modern age.

This course will cover such issues as the Revolution and Civil War, Stalin's repression, victories in World War II, the years of stagnation, Soviet society, its institutions and culture.

This course surveys the experiences of women in the late Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and the states that now comprise the region. In particular, we will examine the ways in which writers, filmmakers, and activists of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries have addressed the 'woman question.'

In this course students will study the history of European Communism from its inception. The success that this ideology enjoyed among European societies makes it necessary to study this phenomenon in detail. The course will begin by tracing the origins of Communism and end with a discussion of its downfall.

This course offers a historical survey and analysis of the processes of political, social, cultural, and economic change that affected Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. The course will begin with the break-up of multi-national empires in Eastern Europe and end with the collapse of communism.

This course takes advantage of Chicago's access to one of the most important collections of modern European art in the world. The Art Institute of Chicago offers masterpieces representing every major aesthetic movement in Western history. Full appreciation of these treasures involves recognizing the historical circumstances that surrounded their creation and considering the ideas their creators intended to communicate.

This course focuses on the history and development of feminist thought and activism since the late eighteenth century. Attention goes beyond just U.S. and European feminist history, exploring Indigenous, Black, and postcolonial feminism to investigate their unique feminist ideas and the challenges they pose to "traditional" feminist thought and action.

This course focuses on the early and medieval history of the states, societies, and cultures of the Middle East from the prophetic mission until the fall of the 'Abbasid empire in 1258.

This course surveys the modern Middle East, with a focus on the Arab world.

This course explores the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict since the beginnings of the immigration of the East Europeans and Russian Jews to Ottoman Palestine in the late 19th century.

A combination of site visits, lectures, and group discussions throughout Tunisia provides a unique experiential understanding of the relationship between the Arab spring, democratic change, Islam, gender relations, and U.S. foreign policy amidst the historical inheritances of the Carthaginian, Roman, Islamic, and French empires in North Africa.

This course traces the history of the African continent to 1600.

This course traces the history of the African continent from 1600 to the present, i.e., from the tumult of the slave trade through Africa's resistance to European imperialism and colonialism, and its eventual emergence as an independent continent.

This course examines the development of Islam in Africa, including issues such as Islamic mysticism, eschatology, and state formation.

This historically-based exploration will analyze the role that African music from the continent played in shaping and forming such American musical forms as the Blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Soul Music, and Hip-Hop. The course begins in 15th century West Africa, and ends in the late 20th century American milieu.

This course will examine the modern history of South Asia. It will explore the history of South Asia with a thematic and chronological approach. Important subjects to be examined include: early modern state formation, colonial forms of knowledge, religious identity, gender and class relations, and the political economy in the early modern and colonial state.

This course will trace Chinese history from the origins of classical Chinese civilization in the Shang and Zhou periods to the evolution of an agrarian society under the imperial state.

This course explores China's attempt to adjust to the complex transformations in its economy, society, politics and intellectual life initiated during the early modern period and transfigured into crisis proportions by unchecked demographic growth. These challenges were heightened and made more acute by the often hostile encounter with first the West and then Japan through the end of World War II.

This course examines the attempt to create and foster the growth of a socialist state and society in China under the Chinese Communist Party, with attention to the steady transformation of society, the economy, and political life since 1949.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was a watershed in China's modern history. Over the course of a decade, Mao summoned the populace to battle "bourgeoisie" of the state by attacking various parts of the social, cultural and political structure.

This course will introduce students to important contemporary issues such as globalization, resurgent ethnic and religious strife, racism, imperialism, and the crisis of the nation state, among others. Both thematic and chronological approaches will be employed in examining selected world regions.

This course studies the lives of Asian women in China, Japan, and Korea from early modern times to the present by examining changing roles of women and how these changes have come about.

This course will introduce students to the major themes in the colonial history of the region known today as Latin America from conquest to independence.

This course examines independence movements and wars in the region known today as Latin America. Course readings and lectures will explore the impact of the Enlightenment on Bourbon Spain and Spanish America, new movements toward free trade, friction between the church and state, and crown policies toward indigenous peoples.

This is a survey course that introduces students to the history of Latin America during the nineteenth century through two: 1) Nation Formation: 1780s-1850s and 2) Liberal Reforms and Progress: 1850s-1910.

This course examines major political, cultural and socio-economic developments in Latin America from the twentieth century to today. Topics to be covered include nationalism and revolution, military dictatorship and state oppression, and hemispheric relations.

This course examines the Caribbean and Central America from European conquest and colonization to the present day.

This course will introduce students to the major themes in Mexican history from pre-Columbian to contemporary times based on three historical periods: Early Mexico, the Nineteenth Century, and Recent Mexico.

This course explores debates about the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) by analyzing its interpretation in scholarship and its representations in memoir, fiction, art and film.

This course introduces students to the life experiences of women in Latin America through history, film, oral history, and their personal narratives.

The main themes of the course include rise and development of the Ottoman Empire; relations between Muslims, Jews, Christians, and other communities; the practices of inclusion and exclusion along class, gender, and ethno-religious lines; the rise of nationalism; experiences of violence and war; and imperial legacies in post-Ottoman states.

This class evaluates the motives and circumstances of global genocides and uncovers the experiences of those targeted by genocidal violence. The course will range widely from settler colonial violence in the Americas to the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge, Rwanda, ISIL, and beyond.

This course covers the story of America's colonial past from its origins in the Atlantic world of the 16th century through its contact and conflicts with Native American peoples.

This course will first examine the history of slavery in the ancient and medieval eras, but is devoted mainly to the rise and maturation of slavery and slave trading in the Atlantic world (ca. 1500-1865). The last third of the class charts the resurgence of post-abolition slavery.

When British colonists in North America declared themselves independent from the British Crown in 1776, they affected the most successful revolution in modern history. This course covers the antecedents and outcomes of their actions from the Seven Years War through the American Revolution to the War of 1812.

This course covers United States social, cultural, economic, and political development during the first half of the nineteenth century.

This course covers the crisis of the Union from the Compromise of 1850 through the Civil War and the era of Reconstruction.

Although World War I's impact on America paled in comparison to that of the European combatants, the wartime experiences affected the nation's economic, political, and cultural life for the remainder of the twentieth century. This course examines America's World War I experience and explores its legacy.

This course focuses on American history from 1929 to the present, a period of economic turmoil, domestic reform, and international engagement.

This course examines the social and cultural patterns of twentieth century life as revealed in popular novels, vaudeville, movies, music, nightlife, and advertising.

Beginning with colonization and extending to the 2000s global expansion of Starbucks, this course outlines the history of American business, wealth, and the attendant inequality by exploring the interplay between business, labor, politics, and culture.

This course focuses on the constitutional and legal history of the U. S. from colonial times to the end of the Civil War.

This course focuses on the constitutional, legal, & public policy history of the U. S. from the end of the Civil War to the twenty-first century

This course examines how notions of crime and punishment have evolved between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (with the early modern period serving as a backdrop).

This course will present a general overview of black politics in America, including the major black political ideologies and their theoretical underpinnings and the role of race in urban politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Digital resources make primary source material available while database, mapping, and text-mining applications allow us to ask new types of research questions. Digital history is more than just gaining familiarity with digital resources, applications, and platforms; it is about understanding how using these tools has changed the way we study history.

This course will cover the process of frontier expansion in American history.

This course is a survey of the history of American Indians, including the variety of Pre-Columbian societies, the encounter between Indians and European settlers, the impact of Eurasian diseases, American Indians' fight to avoid removal from their homelands, and the resurgence of Indians as sovereign peoples.

Course deepens students' understanding of African American History by emphasizing African American women's leadership, intellectualism, challenges, and social impact. Covering multiple eras from slavery, the civil rights movement to the present-day and difficult topics (including sexual assault), the course examines the diverse experiences of historically marginalized black women.

This course introduces the history of Latinos in the United States from the Spanish Colonial period to the present.

The impact of World War II on Italian-Americans and their roles in the war effort. Topics include influence of Fascism in the U.S., classification of Italian-Americans as "ENEMY ALIENS," participation of Italian-Americans on the home front and as OSS members, and lasting impact of GI experience and the GI Bill.

The History of Italians in Chicago offers an in-depth look at one of Chicago's important ethnic groups. The course will utilize local resources and include a number of guest speakers from the fields of sociology, literature and political science.

This course is a general survey of African-American history from its African origins to the Present.

This course traces the development of Islam among African Americans from West African societies prior to the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the influence of Islam on popular culture in the 21st century.

This course explores the success and failure of radical political and social movements in the United States.

What resources are there for future K-12 teachers wanting to explore the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and class into their classrooms and meet new requirements, like those in Chicago, to broaden the K-12 curriculum? This course is designed for primary and secondary education majors eager to explore digital resources.

This course examines the origins and diversity of Irish migration to the United States since the eighteenth century.

This course surveys the history of Chicago from its origins to the present, using the city as a case study of American urbanization.

This course examines the transformation of the United States from a simple agrarian and small-town society to a complex urban and suburban nation, covering the pre-Columbian period to the present.

This course will study United States Military history from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. We will study key battles, strategy, weapons and leaders. We will also focus on the individual soldier: his pay, recreation, benefits and equipment.

This course offers a comprehensive examination of origin, execution, and failure of America's war in Vietnam.

This course examines the historical interplay of gender, race and class in the lives of African-American and white women in the United States.

This course examines the changes in gender roles and the relationship between men and women from the colonial era to the present.

This course focuses on the turbulent years from 1960 to 1974 in American history, a period of active social movements and foreign wars.

The course features studies of anti-immigrant politics sponsored by: 1. the Federalist Party (late 18th c); 2. the "Know Nothing" Party (mid-19th c); 3. the Populist Party (late 19th c); 4. the Ku Klux Klan (1920s); 5. the Republican Party (early 21st c).

This course aims to show how the president's election, job, power, and mystique has changed since the Founding. Students will delve into the modern primary and party system's origins, the fierce debates about the Electoral College, the controversies over executive power, the media's importance, and the first families' changing role.

Each participant will utilize the research skills, historical studies and writing abilities acquired to date to produce a significant paper based largely on historical research in primary sources and bolstered by appropriate secondary sources. Restricted to students in senior standing.

This course provides three hours credit for students engaged in history related internships in the public and private sectors.

This course provides students with the opportunity to work under the direction of a faculty member on a particular area of interest that is not part of the department's usual curriculum.

The course focuses on twentieth-century historical writing, emphasizing changing interpretive paradigms and innovative methodologies, and will introduce students to the range of topics and influences that now shape the discipline.

This course explores pedagogical, professional, and ethical issues of importance to historians. We will examine the many identities of historians and the relationship between training in history and career pathways. Students will explore the history of the historical profession, approaches to teaching history, ethical issues in history as well as the diverse pathways available to those with training in history. Each student will complete a pedagogical activity, a career exploration report, and a professionalizing project. Required of all first year PhD students. Open to all other students as an elective.

The course explores the literature on women and gender in US history with attention to theoretical issues, a broad chronological scope, and cultural diversity. Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze a body of historical literature on women and gender in US history while honing their skills in writing and oral presentation.

This course focuses on major historiographical questions reflecting the diversity of inquiry in the field of nineteenth century U.S. history. Students will be introduced to the major historiographical debates concerning the development of American society and politics during the nineteenth century. Students learn to critique recent historical literature through discussion and reflective essays.

Environmental history expands the customary framework of historical inquiry, incorporating such actors as animals, diseases, and climate alongside more familiar human institutions and creations. This course will expose students to the major concepts, tools, and sources in the field. It will equip students to describe major changes in approaches to environmental history. It will prepare students to write, teach, and develop research projects on environmental history.

This class exposes students to the history of cities across a broad spectrum of time and place. The level of analysis is both more global and more local than traditional narratives of the nation state. This course explores the recurring challenges and possibilities of urban life and urban governance across cultures and time. An emphasis on reading and writing will help students develop the skills of critical analysis. Restricted to Graduate Students.

This course will give students a basic understanding of oral history by asking several questions of the discipline, including: What exactly is oral history and what sets it apart from other historical research methodologies? What are the ethical issues involved in undertaking oral history? How does one conduct, record, and archive an interview? What steps are necessary in constructing an oral history project? What are the merits of the various products that can be derived from oral history in both texts and multimedia? In addition to reading oral historical texts and theory, students will conduct at least two interviews and participate in an ongoing oral history project. Students will learn how to develop, conduct, and evaluate an oral history interview and prepare oral history interviews for archival disposition.

This class is restricted to Graduate students. This course is an introduction to approaches to the study of American material culture in its many forms, including decorative arts and mass-produced consumer objects; urban form, vernacular architecture, commemorative landscapes; the body and dress; foodways; and the material culture of childhood. The course will consider the ways scholars use material culture to "do" history, with an emphasis on artifacts as evidence.

In the last generation, historians, literary scholars, and other humanists have intensified the study of historical memory and commemoration, even as public demonstrations, debates, and legislation over historical markers and monuments have proliferated. This course examines the ways that Americans have remembered, forgotten, and argued over violent episodes that have played important roles in their history. We will examine three aspects of historical memory: how individuals, institutions, and movements created and silenced historical memories; how these memories were embodied in the commemorative landscape; and how memories and public landscapes have changed over time.

Research Seminar that explores the nature and practice of local history and explores various methods and approaches central to local history research. This course will introduce students to the literature on local history, acquaint them with the methodology critical to local history research, and have them conduct original research on a local history topic.

An elective course that allows PhD and MA students explore a career pathway and have the opportunity to see how the skills gained in History can be applied to diverse career settings. Students will gain an exposure to a non-academic career, develop new skills, and gain experience is communication, collaboration, and intellectual self-confidence.