Current and Recent Course Offerings
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Spring 2026 registration access time for graduate History students can be found here.
Spring 2026
HIST 410: Topics - 20th Century US Social/Cultural History
Thursdays 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dr. Elliott Gorn
This course is a reading and discussion seminar, focused on US social and cultural history in the 20th century.
HIST 441: Women's & Gender History: Europe
Mondays 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Dr. Alice Weinreb
This course provides an introduction to the major themes and scholarship in women's and gender history. It examines a variety of debates about and methodological approaches to the historical construction of gender, ranging from histories of the body and sexuality to analyses of culture, politics, and the economy. It explores how gender identities were produced and contested at specific historical moments and in different locations.
HIST 450: Nineteenth Century America
Wednesdays 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
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.
HIST 482: Archives and Record Management
Mondays 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Instructor: TBA
This course introduces basic archival theory and methodology. Particular emphasis will be placed on ethics, best practices, and the relationship of archives to allied fields.
HIST 483: Oral History: Method and Practice
Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Dr. Samantha Trabucco
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.
HIST 555: US Social & Intellectual History
Tuesdays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin
This course is a research seminar in which students will use primary sources to write an original work focusing on commemoration and historical memory. Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of historians have focused on the ways in which examinations of commemoration and memory inform our understanding of both the past and present. We will explore examples of this type of research and analysis and discuss issues important in using commemoration or memory as the lens through which to understand the past. Students learn how to locate and analyze archival materials to develop an original article-length research paper.
Fall 2025 Course List
HIST 400: Contemporary Approaches to History
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Edin Hajdarpasic
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.
HIST 410: Topics - Borders and Migration in North America
Tuesdays 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Dr. Benjamin Johnson
This course introduces students to the major concepts, developments, and problems in the history and historiography of modern North American borders and border-crossing. Out central theme is the process of border-making: the ways in which nation-states claiming exclusive territorial sovereignty re-drew the continent’s map, intersecting with other ways of organizing space, allowing some people and things to cross while barring others. The readings are equally concerned with the changing ways that diverse peoples challenged these projects or sought to use or alter them for their own purposes. Topics will include zones of contact between the young United States with Indian peoples and European empires, tariffs and regulations on importing goods across borders, efforts to exclude migrants, and the politicization of these issues in recent decades. We will encounter familiar figures like Donald Trump and border patrol agents, but also less familiar stories of fugitive slaves crossing to Mexico, Indians fleeing into the United States, and Americans crossing into Canada for alcohol. An overarching question of the seminar is how a consideration of these topics recasts our understanding of the national histories of Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
HIST 461: Twentieth Century America
Call number used to register for this course in LOCUS: 5630
Tuesdays 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Dr. Tikia Hamilton
Reading and discussion seminar. Students will read monographs and articles in 20th century U.S. history, including social, cultural, intellectual, and other approaches. The final assignment will be a long historiographic paper.
HIST 479: Public History Media
Thursdays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Christopher Cantwell
An introduction to the field of digital humanities and public media. Through a series of assignments and in-class labs centered around common Digital Humanities tools and platforms, the class will explore current and historical conversations in digital humanities and new media and address theoretical and practical problems involved in digital humanities-based methods and methodology. The final product of each assignment will be a collaborative digital public humanities project.
HIST 480: Public History: Method and Theory
Mondays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin
This course explores the field of public history with special emphasis on the theoretical and methodological challenges faced when preserving or presenting history outside of a formal classroom environment. Also under consideration will be the professional and ethical responsibilities of the historian both inside and outside of the university setting. Students will be able to understand the theoretical and methodological issues of importance to the field of public history, reflect upon ethical issues involved in the collection, curation, and presentation of history, and participate in applied projects drawing upon public history methodologies and presentation modes.
HIST 510: Research Seminar - Special Topics
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Brad Hunt
Research seminar using primary sources in cultural, social, technological, intellectual, and institutional history. Topics vary according to the interest of the instructor. Students will learn how to local and analyze archival material to develop an original article-length research paper. Students will learn how to locate and analyze archival materials to develop an original article-length research paper.
Course descriptions are available in the .
Course instructor, day, time, and location information is available in .
Spring 2026 registration access time for graduate History students can be found here.
Spring 2026
HIST 410: Topics - 20th Century US Social/Cultural History
Thursdays 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dr. Elliott Gorn
This course is a reading and discussion seminar, focused on US social and cultural history in the 20th century.
HIST 441: Women's & Gender History: Europe
Mondays 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Dr. Alice Weinreb
This course provides an introduction to the major themes and scholarship in women's and gender history. It examines a variety of debates about and methodological approaches to the historical construction of gender, ranging from histories of the body and sexuality to analyses of culture, politics, and the economy. It explores how gender identities were produced and contested at specific historical moments and in different locations.
HIST 450: Nineteenth Century America
Wednesdays 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
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.
HIST 482: Archives and Record Management
Mondays 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Instructor: TBA
This course introduces basic archival theory and methodology. Particular emphasis will be placed on ethics, best practices, and the relationship of archives to allied fields.
HIST 483: Oral History: Method and Practice
Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Dr. Samantha Trabucco
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.
HIST 555: US Social & Intellectual History
Tuesdays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin
This course is a research seminar in which students will use primary sources to write an original work focusing on commemoration and historical memory. Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of historians have focused on the ways in which examinations of commemoration and memory inform our understanding of both the past and present. We will explore examples of this type of research and analysis and discuss issues important in using commemoration or memory as the lens through which to understand the past. Students learn how to locate and analyze archival materials to develop an original article-length research paper.
Fall 2025 Course List
HIST 400: Contemporary Approaches to History
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Edin Hajdarpasic
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.
HIST 410: Topics - Borders and Migration in North America
Tuesdays 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Dr. Benjamin Johnson
This course introduces students to the major concepts, developments, and problems in the history and historiography of modern North American borders and border-crossing. Out central theme is the process of border-making: the ways in which nation-states claiming exclusive territorial sovereignty re-drew the continent’s map, intersecting with other ways of organizing space, allowing some people and things to cross while barring others. The readings are equally concerned with the changing ways that diverse peoples challenged these projects or sought to use or alter them for their own purposes. Topics will include zones of contact between the young United States with Indian peoples and European empires, tariffs and regulations on importing goods across borders, efforts to exclude migrants, and the politicization of these issues in recent decades. We will encounter familiar figures like Donald Trump and border patrol agents, but also less familiar stories of fugitive slaves crossing to Mexico, Indians fleeing into the United States, and Americans crossing into Canada for alcohol. An overarching question of the seminar is how a consideration of these topics recasts our understanding of the national histories of Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
HIST 461: Twentieth Century America
Call number used to register for this course in LOCUS: 5630
Tuesdays 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Dr. Tikia Hamilton
Reading and discussion seminar. Students will read monographs and articles in 20th century U.S. history, including social, cultural, intellectual, and other approaches. The final assignment will be a long historiographic paper.
HIST 479: Public History Media
Thursdays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Christopher Cantwell
An introduction to the field of digital humanities and public media. Through a series of assignments and in-class labs centered around common Digital Humanities tools and platforms, the class will explore current and historical conversations in digital humanities and new media and address theoretical and practical problems involved in digital humanities-based methods and methodology. The final product of each assignment will be a collaborative digital public humanities project.
HIST 480: Public History: Method and Theory
Mondays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin
This course explores the field of public history with special emphasis on the theoretical and methodological challenges faced when preserving or presenting history outside of a formal classroom environment. Also under consideration will be the professional and ethical responsibilities of the historian both inside and outside of the university setting. Students will be able to understand the theoretical and methodological issues of importance to the field of public history, reflect upon ethical issues involved in the collection, curation, and presentation of history, and participate in applied projects drawing upon public history methodologies and presentation modes.
HIST 510: Research Seminar - Special Topics
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Brad Hunt
Research seminar using primary sources in cultural, social, technological, intellectual, and institutional history. Topics vary according to the interest of the instructor. Students will learn how to local and analyze archival material to develop an original article-length research paper. Students will learn how to locate and analyze archival materials to develop an original article-length research paper.