History (HIST)

Honors: The History Department offers an Honors Program in history for qualified students; see the department head or department web page for details.

Department Head: David S. Peterson

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

David A. Bello, Ph.D.—(2004)-2008
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Southern California

Richard H. Bidlack, Ph.D.—(1987)-2011
Martin and Brooke Stein Professor of History
Ph.D., Indiana University

Michelle Diane Brock, Ph.D.—(2014)-2014
Assistant Professor of British History
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

Theodore C. DeLaney, Ph.D.—(1995)-2001
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., College of William and Mary

Robert Matthew Gildner, Ph.D.—(2012)-2012
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

Sarah Horowitz, Ph.D.—(2008)-2014
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Mary C. (Molly) Michelmore, Ph.D.—(2006)-2012
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Michigan

Barton A. Myers, Ph.D.—(2013)-2013
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Georgia

William Patch, Ph.D.—(2005)-2005
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History
Ph.D., Yale University

David S. Peterson, Ph.D.—(1999)-2009
Professor of History
Ph.D., Cornell University

Nicolaas A. Rupke, Ph.D.—(2011)-2011
Johnson Professor of History
Ph.D., Princeton University

Roberta H. Senechal, Ph.D.—(1988)-2007
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Tyrone H. (TJ) Tallie, Ph.D.—(2014)-2014
Assistant Professor of African History
Ph.D., University of Illinois

Note: History courses are numbered according to the following scheme. Within the 200 and 300 levels, the last two digits indicate the following groupings:

00-29 European History
30-69 United States, Canadian, and Latin American History
70-89 African, Asian and Global History

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

• •  History major leading to BA degree

Courses

• •  HIST 100 - European Civilization, 325-1517
• •  HIST 101 - European Civilization, 1500-1789
• •  HIST 102 - European Civilization, 1789 to the Present
• •  HIST 103 - China: Origins to 20th-Century Reforms
• •  HIST 104 - Japan: Origins to Atomic Aftermath
• •  HIST 105 - Scenes from Chinese History
• •  HIST 107 - History of the United States to 1876
• •  HIST 108 - History of the United States Since 1876
• •  HIST 130 - Latin America: Mayas to Independence
• •  HIST 131 - Modern Latin America: Túpak Katari to Tupac Shakur
• •  HIST 170 - History of Islamic Civilization I: Origins to 1500
• •  HIST 171 - History of Islamic Civilization II: 1500 to the Present
• •  HIST 173 - Global History to 1300
• •  HIST 174 - Global History since 1300: Connections and Change from Genghis Khan to Boko Haram
• •  HIST 175 - History of Africa to 1800
• •  HIST 176 - African History Since 1800
• •  HIST 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
• •  HIST 190 - Bibliographical Resources
• •  HIST 195 - Topics in History for First-years and Sophomores
• •  HIST 200 - Dante: Renaissance and Redemption
• •  HIST 201 - Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 325-1198
• •  HIST 202 - Europe in the Late Middle Ages, 1198-1500
• •  HIST 203 - The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Setting
• •  HIST 204 - The Age of Reformation
• •  HIST 205 - Public and Private in Europe, 1700-1900
• •  HIST 206 - Women and Gender in Modern Europe
• •  HIST 207 - France: A Contested Nation
• •  HIST 208 - France: Old Regime and Revolution
• •  HIST 209 - France in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• •  HIST 210 - Paris: A Contested City
• •  HIST 211 - Scandal, Crime, and Spectacle in the 19th Century
• •  HIST 213 - Germany, 1815-1914
• •  HIST 214 - Dictatorship and Democracy in Germany, 1914-2000
• •  HIST 215 - From Weimar to Hitler: Modernism and Anti-Modernism in German Culture after the First World War
• •  HIST 217 - History of the British Isles to 1688: Power, Plague, and Prayer
• •  HIST 218 - Rule Britannia, 1688- 1990: The History of Britain from the “Glorious” Revolution to the Iron Lady
• •  HIST 219 - Seminar: The Age of the Witch Hunts
• •  HIST 220 - Imperial Russia, 1682 to 1917
• •  HIST 221 - Soviet Russia, 1917 to 1991
• •  HIST 222 - Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union and the Resurgence of Russia
• •  HIST 223 - International Relations, 1815-1918: Europe and the World
• •  HIST 224 - International Relations, 1919-2000: The End of European Hegemony
• •  HIST 226 - European Intellectual History, 1880 to 1960
• •  HIST 228 - Women in Russian History
• •  HIST 229 - Topics in European History
• •  HIST 230 - Discovering W&L’s Origins Using Historical Archaeology
• •  HIST 233 - U.S.-Latin American Relations from 1825 to Present
• •  HIST 234 - Nations and Nationalism
• •  HIST 238 - Anthropology of American History
• •  HIST 240 - Early American History to 1788
• •  HIST 242 - The United States, 1789-1840
• •  HIST 243 - The Evolution of American Warfare
• •  HIST 244 - The Art of Command during the American Civil War
• •  HIST 245 - The American Civil War
• •  HIST 246 - American Experience with Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency
• •  HIST 247 - America in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
• •  HIST 248 - Populism, Progressivism, and the New Deal
• •  HIST 253 - Gay and Lesbian Life in 20th-Century United States
• •  HIST 256 - The History of Violence in America
• •  HIST 257 - History of Women in America, 1609-1870
• •  HIST 258 - History of Women in America, 1870 to the Present
• •  HIST 259 - The History of the African-American People to 1877
• •  HIST 260 - The History of the African-American People since 1877
• •  HIST 262 - The Old South to 1860
• •  HIST 264 - Morning in America? Society, Culture and Politics in The Age of Reagan
• •  HIST 265 - The U.S. in the Era of World War II
• •  HIST 266 - The American Century: U.S. History from 1945
• •  HIST 267 - Mapping the American City: Metropolitan History and GIS in the 20th Century
• •  HIST 268 - Building a Suburban Nation: Race, Class, and Politics in Postwar America
• •  HIST 269 - Topics in United States, Latin American or Canadian History
• •  HIST 270 - Modern Islamic Political Thought
• •  HIST 271 - Profit and Prophecy in Islamic History
• •  HIST 273 - East Africa: A Thousand Years
• •  HIST 276 - History of South Africa
• •  HIST 277 - Speaking and Being Zulu in South Africa
• •  HIST 279 - Africa in the Western Imagination
• •  HIST 284 - Visions of Japan’s Empire in East Asia: 19th-Century Origins through World War II
• •  HIST 285 - Seminar: The Yin and Yang of Gender in Late Imperial China (10th-19th centuries)
• •  HIST 287 - Supervised Study Abroad: Athens
• •  HIST 289 - Topics in Asian, African, or Islamic History
• •  HIST 295 - Seminar: Topics in History
• •  HIST 305 - Seminar: Religion, Church, and Politics in Medieval and Renaissance Society
• •  HIST 306 - Seminar: Politics and Providence: Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought
• •  HIST 307 - Politics and History: The Machiavellian Moment
• •  HIST 309 - Seminar: The French Revolution
• •  HIST 312 - Seminar on Nazism and the Third Reich
• •  HIST 319 - Seminar on The Great War in History and Literature
• •  HIST 322 - Seminar in Russian History
• •  HIST 337 - Seminar: Revolutions in Latin America
• •  HIST 344 - Seminar on The United States, 1840-1860
• •  HIST 346 - Seminar on Reconstruction, 1865-1877
• •  HIST 350 - Seminar: Going Nuclear: American Society, Culture and Politics in the Cold War Era
• •  HIST 354 - Seminar: The History of the American Welfare State
• •  HIST 355 - Seminar: America in the 1960s: History and Memory
• •  HIST 364 - Seminar on the Origins of the Constitution
• •  HIST 366 - Seminar: Slavery in the Americas
• •  HIST 367 - Seminar: 9/11 and Modern Terrorism
• •  HIST 378 - African Feminisms
• •  HIST 379 - Queering Colonialism
• •  HIST 386 - Seminar: Managing Mongols, Manchus, and Muslims: China’s Frontier History (16th-20th Centuries)