History (HIST)

Professors Merchant, Patch, Peterson, Sanders, Senechal
Associate Professors DeLaney, Bello, Bidlack
Assistant Professors Horowitz, Jennings, Michelmore

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

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

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 109 - History of Ancient Egypt
• •  HIST 110 - History of Ancient Greece
• •  HIST 111 - Seminar: History of Ancient Rome
• •  HIST 114 - Seminar: The World of Dante
• •  HIST 115 - The Machiavellian Moment
• •  HIST 130 - Latin America: Mayas to Independence
• •  HIST 131 - Modern Latin America
• •  HIST 150 - Seminar in American History for First-years and Sophomores
• •  HIST 170 - History of Islamic Civilization I: Origins to 1500
• •  HIST 171 - History of Islamic Civilization II: 1500 to the Present
• •  HIST 174 - World History since 1300
• •  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 - Seminar: The Sea Peoples and the Collapse of the Bronze Age
• •  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 208 - France: Old Regime and Revolution
• •  HIST 209 - France in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• •  HIST 213 - Germany, 1815-1914
• •  HIST 214 - Germany, 1914-2000
• •  HIST 217 - History of the British Isles to 1688
• •  HIST 218 - History of the British Isles Since 1688
• •  HIST 220 - Imperial Russia, 1682 to 1917
• •  HIST 221 - Soviet Russia, 1917 to 1991
• •  HIST 223 - International Relations, 1815-1918: Europe and the World
• •  HIST 224 - International Relations, 1919-1970: The End of European Hegemony
• •  HIST 226 - European Intellectual History, 1880 to 1960
• •  HIST 229 - Topics in European History
• •  HIST 233 - U.S.-Latin American Relations
• •  HIST 234 - Nationalism in Latin America
• •  HIST 238 - Anthropology of American History
• •  HIST 240 - Early American History to 1788
• •  HIST 242 - The United States, 1789-1840
• •  HIST 244 - The Military Leadership of the Civil War: Four Case Studies
• •  HIST 245 - The American Civil War
• •  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 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 263 - The South Since 1877
• •  HIST 267 - Mapping Roanoke: Metro History and G.I.S.
• •  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 271 - Climate and Society
• •  HIST 274 - Histories of Everything
• •  HIST 275 - World Military History: Akkad to Zulu
• •  HIST 280 - Japan to 1800: From Shamans to Samurai
• •  HIST 283 - China’s Imperial Shadow: Prehistoric Origins to 1600
• •  HIST 285 - Seminar: The Yin and Yang of Gender in Late Imperial China (10th-19th centuries)
• •  HIST 289 - Topics in Asian, African, or Islamic History
• •  HIST 296 - History of Washington and Lee
• •  HIST 300 - Seminar in Ancient History
• •  HIST 305 - Seminar: Religion, Church, and Politics in Medieval and Renaissance Society
• •  HIST 306 - Seminar: Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought
• •  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 336 - Seminar: Environmental History of Latin America
• •  HIST 337 - Seminar: Revolutions in Latin America
• •  HIST 339 - Seminar: Natives and Strangers
• •  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 361 - The History of Violence in America
• •  HIST 364 - Seminar on the Origins of the Constitution
• •  HIST 366 - Seminar: Slavery in the Americas
• •  HIST 367 - Seminar in American Social History
• •  HIST 376 - Africa, Science, and Development
• •  HIST 377 - Congo, Rwanda, and The Modern World
• •  HIST 381 - Seminar: Japan in World War II
• •  HIST 386 - Seminar: Managing Mongols, Manchus, and Muslims: The Control of Ethnic Diversity in China (16th-20th Centuries)
• •  HIST 387 - Seminar: The Struggle Over China’s Environment
• •  HIST 395 - Advanced Seminar
• •  HIST 397 - Spring-Term Topics in History
• •  HIST 401 - Directed Individual Study
• •  HIST 402 - Directed Individual Study
• •  HIST 403 - Directed Individual Study
• •  HIST 453 - Internship in History
• •  HIST 456 - Internship in History
• •  HIST 473 - Senior Thesis