Courses
The courses we teach are not just about memorizing facts or storylines: they are about understanding where those facts come from and how and why they are used to create the stories historians tell. Our courses will sharpen your skills, expand your mind, and teach you about the world even if you do not become a history major.
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Yearly Course Schedule 2025-2026
Fall 2026
Course |
Concentration |
Instructor |
Time |
Enrollment |
| 101-7-20 Native Americans in Film and TV | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Doug Kiel | M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-7-22 The American Revolution at 250 | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Caitlin Fitz | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 15 |
| 101-7-24 Policing Immigrant Communities | Major: Minor: |
Geraldo Cadava | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-7-26 Merchants, Missionaries, and Spies: Along the Medieval Silk Roads | Major: Minor: |
Jonathan Brack | M/W 3:30– 4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-7-28 The Dragon & the Snow Lion: Nation & Nationalism in China and Tibet | Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia, Middle East |
Peter Carroll | M/W 3:30–4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-7-30 History with Animals | Major: Minor: |
Lydia Barnett | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-7-32 Trans History | Major: Minor: |
Zavier Nunn |
M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 200-0-20 Christianity in Modern History | Major: Minor: |
Ed Muir |
M/W 9:30a-10:50am | 30 |
| 200-0-22 Visions of America | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Kathleen Belew |
M/W 2:00–3:20pm | 45 |
|
203-2-20 Jewish History II: Early Modern, 1492-1789 [JWSH_ST 203-2-1] |
Major: Minor: |
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
T/Th 3:30–4:50pm | 30 |
|
214-0-20 Asian American History |
Major: Minor: |
Ji-Yeon Yuh |
T/Th 3:30–4:50pm | 30 |
| 215-0-20 History of the American Family | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Michaela Kleber | T/H 11:00 – 12:20pm | 45 |
| 220-0-20 History of the Future | Major: Minor: |
Ken Alder | T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm | 224 |
| 248-0-20 Global Legal History [LEGAL_ST] | Major: Global Minor: |
Helen Tilley | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 90 |
| 250-2-20 Global History: The Modern World | Major: Global, Americas, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East, European Minor: United States, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East |
Daniel Immerwahr |
M/W/F 11:00-11:50am | 180 |
|
261-0-20 Sex After Shakespeare |
Major: European Minor: Europe |
Scott Sowerby |
M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 135 |
|
265-0-20 Women's Sports: A Global |
Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Caitlin Fitz |
M/W/F 11:00– 11:50am | 90 |
|
271-3-20 History of the Modern Middle East, 1789-Present |
Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Middle East |
Henri Lauziere |
M/W/F 3:00 – 3:50pm | 30 |
| 286-0-20 World War II in Asia | Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia |
Laura Hein |
M/W/F 10:00-10:50am | 45 |
| 292-0-20 African Histories of Science | Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa |
Helen Tilley |
T/Th 3:30–4:50pm | 15 |
| 292-0-22 Watching Narcos | Major: Minor: |
Lina Britto | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
|
292-0-24 Great Trials in History |
Major: Minor: |
Ed Muir | T/Th 9:30-10:50am | 15 |
| 292-0-26 Jews and Arabs in Palestine-The Land of Israel, 1880-1948 [JWSH_ST 280-4-1] | Major: Minor: |
Maayan Hilel | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
|
300-0-20 South Asians in the World |
Major: Americas Minor: United States, Science and Technology |
Ken Alder | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 300-0-22 A History of Sex | Major: Minor: |
Zavier Nunn | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 30 |
| 300-0-24 Byzantium: Emperors and Hooligans | Major: Minor: |
Sergey Ivanov |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 300-0-26 Gender & Sexuality in 19th-Century Black History | Major: Minor: |
Leslie Harris |
M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 305-0-20 American Immigration [LEGAL_ST 305-0-1] | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Shana Bernstein |
M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 317-1-20 American Cultural History: 19th Century | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Susan Pearson |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 324-0-20 US Gay and Lesbian History [GSS] | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Lane Fenrich |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 342-2-20 History of Modern France: 19th Century to Present | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Tessie Liu |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 345-2-20 History of Russia, 1917-1991: The Soviet Union | Major: Minor: |
Jeff Eden |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 370-0-20 Music and Nation in Latin America | Major: Americas Minor: Latin America |
Lina Britto |
T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
|
375-0-20 Nomads in World History |
Major: Minor: |
Jonathan Brack |
M/W/F 10:00-10:50pm | 30 |
|
381-1-20 Qing China |
Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia |
Peter Carroll |
MW 12:30-1:50pm | 30 |
| 393-0-20 Black Protest | Major: Minor: |
Brett Gadsden |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 Soviet History Through Film | Major: Minor: |
Jeff Eden |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
|
393-0-24 The Historian's Craft 1 (Sanders Seminar) |
By application only. |
Robin Bates |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
|
395-0-20 The 2005 Hurricane Season |
Major: Minor: |
Leslie Harris |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
|
395-0-22 Holocaust Trials |
Major: Minor: |
Benjamin Frommer |
M/W 9:30-10:50am | 15 |
|
398-1-20 Thesis Seminar |
By application only. |
Amy Stanley |
Th 2:00-4:50pm | 15 |
Winter 2027
Course |
Concentration |
Instructor |
Time |
Enrollment |
| 101-8-20 Race and the American Presidency | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Brett Gadsden | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-8-22 Asian American Lives | Major: Minor: |
Ji-Yeon Yuh | M/W 3:30–4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-8-24 Historians, Judges, and Spies | Major: Minor: |
Ed Muir | T/Th 9:30-10:50am | 15 |
| 101-8-26 Here Be Dragons: Medieval Travel | Major: Minor: |
Alexandra Montero Peters | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm |
15 |
| 200-0-20 Civil Rights, Black Power | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Brett Gadsden |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
|
200-0-22 Red Power: Indigenous Resistance |
Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Doug Kiel |
M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
|
200-0-24 Global Tech |
Major: Global Tech Minor: Science and Technology |
Edisson Aguilar |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 201-1-20 Europe in the Medieval and Early Modern World | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Alexandra Montero Peters | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 203-3-20 Jewish History III: 1789-1948 | Major: Minor: |
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtren | TBD | 45 |
| 210-1-20 North America and the United States to 1865 |
Major: Americas |
Caitlin Fitz | M/W/F 11:00-11:50am | 83 |
| 211-0-20 American Wars |
Major: Americas |
Michael Allen | M/W/F 1:00-1:50pm | 45 |
| 216-0-22 Global Asians |
Major: Global |
Ji-Yeon Yuh | M/W 12:30 - 1:50pm | 45 |
| 253-0-20 A Global History of Prisons and Camps | Major: Global Minor: |
Benjamin Frommer | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 90 |
| 255-1-20 African Civilizations | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Akin Ogundiran |
M/W 9:30–10:50am | 45 |
|
260-2-20 Becoming Latin America, 1492-1830 |
Major: Americas Minor: Latin America |
Paul Ramirez |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 30 |
|
262-0-20 Pirates, Guns, and Empires |
Major: Minor: |
Scott Sowerby |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 180 |
|
275-1-20 History of Early Modern Science and Medicine |
Major: Global Minor: Law and Crime |
Helen Tilley |
T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 292-0-20 Korean War Legacies | Major: Minor: |
Ji-Yeon Yuh
|
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 292-0-22 Women, Power, and Modernity in Islam | Major: Minor: |
Ashish Koul | M/W 2:00 – 3:20pm | 15 |
| 300-0-20 Reporting on Latino Communities | Major: Minor: |
Geraldo Cadava |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 292-0-22 Muslims and Christians in African History | Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa |
Sean Hanretta | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 292-0-24 Cannabis: Global History | Major: Global Minor: Law and Crime |
Lina Britto | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 315-3-20 The United States Since 1900: Late 20th Century to Present | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Michael Allen | T/Th 9:30-10:50pm | 15 |
| 333-0-20 The European Renaissance |
Major: European |
Ed Muir | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 30 |
| 351-0-20 Europe in the Age of Total War |
Major: European |
Robin Bates |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm |
45 |
| 352-0-20 A Global History of Death and Dying |
Major: |
Sean Hanretta |
T/Th 11:00-12:20am |
45 |
| 374-0-20 The Arabian Peninsula Since the 18th Century |
Major: Minor: |
Henri Lauziere | M/W/F 3:00-3:50pm | 30 |
| Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Daniel Immerwahr | M/W/F 2:00-2:50pm | 135 | |
| 341-0-20 Paris: World City, 1700 to the Present [GNDR_ST 321-0-22] | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Tessie Liu |
T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 344-2-20 German History: Germany Since 1945 | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Lauren Stokes | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 345-1-20 History of Russia: 800-1917 | Major: European, Asia/Middle East Minor: Europe, Asia |
Jeff Eden | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 360-0-20 Tudor and Stuart Britain | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Scott Sowerby | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 393-0-20 Comparative Fascism | Major: Global, European Minor: Europe |
Lauren Stokes |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 Queer and Trans Histories of the Holocaust | Major: European Minor: Europe, Law and Crime |
Zavier Nunn |
T/Th 3:30–4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-26 What is Anti-Semitism? |
Major: Americas, European, Asia/Middle East |
David Shyovitz |
M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 395-0-20 Commodities and Culture in Atlantic Africa |
Major: Africa/Middle East |
Akin Ogundiran |
M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 395-0-22 Asian American Midwest: Race, Place, Memory [ASIAN_AM 320-0-1] |
Major: Americas |
Ji-Yeon Yuh |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-24 The Historian's Craft 2 |
Major: Global |
Robin Bates |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-26 Imperialism in Asia |
Major: Global, Americas, European, Asia/Middle East |
Melissa Macauley |
T 3:00-5:50pm | 15 |
| Major: Global, Africa/Middle East, Americas, Asia/Middle East, European Minor: By request |
Brett Gadsden |
W 2:00-4:50pm | 15 | |
|
Scott Sowerby |
W 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | ||
| 405-0-24 Global Histories of Science |
Helen Tilley |
M 2:00 – 5:00pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-26 History of Disability |
Haley Bowen |
T 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | |
|
Susan Pearson |
Th 9:00 – 12:00pm | 15 | ||
|
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
T 6:00-9:00pm | 15 | ||
|
Paul Ramirez |
Th 10:00-12:00pm | 15 | ||
|
Kate Masur |
T 9:00-12:00pm | 15 |
Spring 2027
FYI: Courses for Spring are currently being updated - subject to change.
Course |
Concentration |
Instructor |
Time |
Enrollment |
| 101-8-20 Cultural History of Beer,Wine, and Spirits in Africa |
Major: Africa/Middle East |
Akin Ogundiran | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 101-8 Scientific Lives |
Major: |
Ken Alder | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 15 |
| 200-0-20 Apocalypse Now and Then: A Recent History of the End of the World |
Major:
|
Keith Woodhouse | T/Th 200-3:20pm | 45 |
| 200-0-22 Transformations of the American Childhood |
Major: Americas |
Kathleen Belew | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 200-0-24 Mediterranean Rulers |
Major: |
Alexandra Montero Peters | T/Th 2:00-3:50pm | 30 |
| 201-2-20 Europe in the Modern World |
Major: |
Holly Swenson | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 45 |
| 218-0-20 The History of Latinas and Latinos in the United States |
Major: Americas |
Geraldo Cadava | T/Th 12:30-1:50pm | 45 |
| 250-1-20 Global History: Early Modern to Modern Transition |
Major: Americas, European, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East, Global
|
Jonathan Brack | M/W/F 11:00-11:50am | 90 |
| 255-3-20 Modern Africa |
Major: Africa/Middle East |
Sean Hanretta | M/W/F 4:00-4:50pm | 45 |
| 275-2-20 History of Modern Science and Medicine |
Major: |
Ken Alder | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 90 |
| 292-0-20 From the Assembly Line to AI: Automation and Modernity |
Major:
|
Edisson Aguilar | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 15 |
| 292-0-20 TBD |
Major:
|
Sean Hanretta | TBD | 15 |
| 300-0-20 Global History of Waste |
Major: Global |
Akin Ogundiran | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 300-0-22 Indigenous Peoples and US Law |
Major: Americas |
Douglas Kiel | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 339-0-20 Cold War Mirrors |
Major: |
Jeff Eden | M/W 3:00-4:20pm | 15 |
| 346-0-20 East Central Europe under Communist Rule and Beyond, 1945 to the Present |
Major: European |
Ben Frommer | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 30 |
| 349-0-20 The Holocaust |
Major: |
Sarah Cushman | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 365-0-20 Medicine in Latin America: From Chocolate to Che Guevara |
Major: Americas |
Paul Ramirez | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 45 |
| 367-0-20 History of Mexico |
Major: Americas |
Paul Gillingham | T/Th 9:30-10:50am | 30 |
| 373-1-20 The Last Empire of Islam: The Ottomans in Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era |
Major: Asia/Middle East |
Ipek Yosmaoglu | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 30 |
| 385-1-20 History of Modern South Asia, 1500-1800 |
Major: Asia/Middle East |
Rajeev Kinra | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 393-0-20 Catholicisms in the Americas |
Major: Americas |
Paul Ramirez | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 Empires, Borderlands, Nationalisms |
Major: |
Ashish Koul | T/Th 11:00 - 12:20pm | 15 |
| 393-0-24 Comparative Facism |
Major: |
Lauren Stokes | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-20 Spain of the Three Religions |
Major: European |
Alexandra Montero Peters | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-22 Modern Presidency |
Major: |
Michael Allen | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 398-3-20 Thesis Seminar |
By application only. |
Amy Stanley | Th 2:00-4:50pm | 15 |