History

Art & architecture in Europe, the Mediterranean (esp. Greece & Rome, ) & the Middle East in prehistoric, ancient, & medieval periods, with introduction to issues & themes of art history.

The history of the visual arts in the West from the Early Renaissance to the present.

An internship in an elective area of concentration.

The artistic contributions of the ancient societies of Egypt, the Aegean, Greece and Rome, placed within appropriate cultural contexts.

European & Mediterranean art & architecture from the late Roman Empire to the 14th c. with emphasis on the social, religious & political contexts of visual production.

Italian art & architecture from 1300-1480, investigation of the political, religious & social contexts of the visual productions of artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Masaccio, Mantegna & Botticelli.

Major works of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the seventeenth through mid-eighteenth centuries. Special emphasis on how historical events affected the production of artistic monuments.

An examination of the visual arts since 1900 that emphasizes their historical roots and present social significance.

A survey of art from the colonial and revolutionary periods through the twentieth-first century. This course explores American artists, stylistics movements, and traditions of art production. It likewise examines prominent cultural moments related to the exhibition and display of art.

Artistic movements and artists around the world from the 1960s to the present; Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo- expressionism, Arte Povera, Graffitti Art, and Performance Art, from Warhol to Wyeth to Haring and Koons.

Italian art & architecture from 1480 to 1550. Investigation of stylistic, political & social contexts of art. The idea of Mannerism & artists such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael & Titian.

Themes and images of women in the visual arts as an expression of the needs, desires and attitudes of society; and a study of women artists from ancient times to the present, with regard to how being female may, or may not, have affected their work.

Philadelphia's unique contribution to American painting, sculpture, and architecture, from the early Swedish and Welsh settlers of the Delaware Valley, to Andrew Wyeth and Robert Venturi.

Nineteenth century painting and sculpture in Europe and America, focusing on Cezanne, Courbet, Delacroix, Goya, Eakins, Homer, Manet, Monet, Rodin and West.

What role does art play in social change? How do artists participate in political movements? This course focuses on the intersection of art and activism, considering artworks, exhibitions, museums, and public spaces as sites of political speech.

Construction of gender and sexuality as visualized through art and various forms of visual culture. Topics include the gaze, feminist art, gendered construction of fashion, queer identities and art, and bodies and censorship.

History of photographic styles and techniques from 1826-Present. Emphasis on the relation of photography to capitalism, colonialism, racism, feminism, and gender identities in contemporary culture.

The visual arts in Ireland concentrating on the Golden Age from the 5th to the 9th Century: architecture of the early monastic settlements, manuscript illumination and its influence, and the cultural impact of the Irish forms of monasticism.

Selected themes or periods in the history of art examined in depth.

A survey of the history of the art market from the 1600s to today, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, exploring the economic and political forces shaping various markets for the exchange of artworks.

Co-requisite 1-credit course designed to provide an embedded study-abroad experience to complement a requisite Art History course.

An introduction to the theories and methods of the discipline of Art History, such as feminism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, post-colonialism, and postmodernism. Prerequisite: At least one prior Art History course. (AAH 1001 to AAH 3801) or permission of the Instructor.

Art History capstone writing and research seminar, which builds on AAH-4010 Interpreting Art. Students practice advanced art historical research and write culminating research project.

An intensive research project under individual direction. Permission of chairperson required.

Selected core courses exploring religion in different eras with emphasis on cross cultural interaction.

Selected core courses exploring relationship between environmental and technological change in different eras and societies.

Selected core courses on empire and practice of imperialism in different eras.

Selected core courses exploring issues of race and/or gender in different eras.

This course will trace the formation of diverse societies, culture, politics, and interactions in the Atlantic basin beginning in the 15th century Primary source material will be analyzed.

Selected core courses offering transnational perspectives on the development of American society.

Selected core courses that take a global or comparative approach to major issues.

Selected core courses on different aspects of ancient world, its classical origins, the influence of Christianity upon societies the development of its institutions and culture, and its spread to include almost the entire European continent.

In-depth study of American history from the pre-Columbian period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, with a particular emphasis on engaging historical problems as a process of inquiry and interpretation. Designed especially for history majors and future teachers, but open to all students.

In-depth study of American history from the end of Reconstruction to the present, with a particular emphasis on engaging historical problems as a process of inquiry and interpretation. Designed especially for history majors and future teachers, but open to all students.

Learn how to think and research as a historian. Apply historical methods, analyze primary sources, develop independent research, and engage in professional development. This course is geared towards current and prospective History majors.

The political, economic, social, and intellectual life of the American colonies and the clash of racial and ethnic groups in America to 1763.

The colonial resistance to Great Britain; the making of the Constitution; and the continuing struggle, to 1810, to define the meaning of the Revolution.

A study of the causes of a war in which Americans fought Americans; the war's evolving nature and eventual outcome; the fight over the meaning and the extent of reconstruction; and the long term political, economic, and social consequences of the war and the end of slavery.

Study of the US Government's legislative efforts regarding labor, health and hygiene from 1900 to 1945.

Major problems and domestic developments in the United States in World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression and World War II.

Major problems and domestic developments in the United States since 1945: reconversion, Cold War, the """Good Society"""" of the 1950s

The completion of independence, hemispheric diplomacy, expansion, Civil War, and imperialism.

Diplomatic history from World War I to the present, including involvement in European and Asian struggles, cooperation in international organizations.

The wars of America from their European antecedents to 1900; relations between the military and society; role of the military in national development.

History of US Supreme Court. Topics include court's major decisions, historical development of the court and the court's effect on American society and politics.

Major themes in American constitutional history. Role of the US Constitution and its interpretation in US political and legal history

The evolution of American Medicine from the colonial period to the present day. Topics include the rise and fall of heroic medicine, the demise of scientific medicine, the growth of modern surgery, the evolution of medical practice.

Study of American Indians from pre-Columbian times to the present, including land use practices, social customs, gender relations, U.S. government removal and assimilation policies, post-colonial political economy, and contemporary issues of cultural identity and sovereignty.

Pre-famine Irish emigration to North America; the famine; post-famine movement; Irish-American labor, politics, urban and suburban developments.

The forced migrations of Africans to the New World, the institution of slavery, and the struggle of Afro-Americans to gain equality in American society.

Themes of resistance and creativity with the development of the African-American communities in the era following the Civil War. Reconstruction, Northern migration, Jim Crow and segregation, and protest thought and Civil Rights.

The study of the influence of region, race, and ethnicity on gender definitions in America; and the impact of those ideas in shaping women's lives, sexuality, housework and wage labor, and access to power and politics, from the colonial period to the present.

Introduction to history and practice of historic preservation of buildings and landscapes with focus on US. Students will learn how to research buildings, analyze law and public policy, engage with community planning and assess environmental and economic outcomes.

Explores how historical thinking and knowledge are necessary to build environmental, social, and economic sustainability today. Topics include climate history, Indigenous knowledge, ?green? capitalism, Black ecologies, historical tourism, historians as activists, conservation, and gentrification.

Establishment and maintenance of a Hapsburg colonial state; indigenous responses to religious and secular colonization; the creation of a multicultural society from African, indigenous, and Iberian peoples from the 1580s to the 1780s.

Latin America's revolutionary century from the beginnings of political revolt in the 1780s to economic modernization in in the 1880s. Bourbon Reforms; indigenous revolts and slave rebellions; liberal revolutionary movements, political independence & economic independence.

20th century economic inequalities, U. S. intervention and military dictatorships, cultural imperialism and immigration Communism in Latin America, human rights within a multiracial society.

Selected topics in Latin American history.

Meet the ancient Greeks and learn about how their societies evolved between the Bronze Age and the arrival of the Romans. Explore the ancient Greek world from Mycenae to Athens to Sparta to Thebes and beyond.

Pax Romana from reforms of Augustus to the break-up of the western Empire in the fifth century A.D. Topics include provincial life, romanization of indigenous peoples, Iculture and decadence in the capital, and the rise of Christianity.

Explore four different ancient societies between ca. 3000 BCE-500 CE: Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, and Roman. Topics include archaeology, historiography, and the modern reception of the seven wonders.

Social constructions gender in ancient Near East, ca. 3200-500 BCE, using artifacts and textual sources to learn how gender functioned in legal systems, religion, and family life. Topics include gender and power, women and experiences, same-sex relationships, gender ambiguity.

Explores the primary evidence for Cleopatra?s reign in ancient Egypt, the kingdom over which she ruled. Students will investigate Cleopatra's reception over time to compare with the image of her we have today.

It is through the study of archaeological evidence that the history of ancient Egypt can be reconstructed. This course will begin with the unification of Egypt (ca. 3100 BCE) and continue to the end of the Second Intermediate Period.

Archaeological evidence and the history of ancient Egypt. Explores emergence of the New Kingdom when the Egyptians were creating their first empire and continues to the coming of Alexander the Great.

Topics in Ancient History

History and culture of the eastern Roman Empire from founding of Constantinople in 330 to its capture by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The emperor's court, art, architecture, monasticism, women, the rise of Islam and the Crusades.

Who was Robin Hood? Was he England?s best archer, noble outcast, and friend of the downtrodden? We will trace his medieval legend through the centuries culminating in the movies and novels of today.

Cultural, political, and intellectual developments in Europe from the late-Medieval period to the Enlightenment. Focus on how the European Renaissance was mediated through material culture and technologies and problematize teleological ideas of """revolution"""" and """"reformation"""" in a global context."

Catholic, Protestant, and popular reform theories and religious upheaval. 16th C. revolution with emphasis on the economic social, and political background of the crisis of feudalism and critique of the church and early modern state.

Forces and personalities that helped to shape Rome's identity and place in the world.

What were women?s lives like in Europe before 1800 C.E.? What rights did different women have from antiquity to the French Revolution? What were most women's everyday responsibilities? What religious literary, and artistic role did they play?

The cultural transition to modernity in 18th Century Europe. Social, cultural, and political critiques of status quo. Tension between religion and science. New perceptions of civil society, economics and crime and punishment, and art. Creation of a reading public.

European history between unification of Germany and WWI. Politics, diplomacy, economic transformations, art, literature, and revolutionary movements will be explored.

The changing roles of women in society and politics in Europe from the 18th to 20th centuries. Topics include women in politics and government; women and the economy; women and revolution; & feminism and feminist movement.

Social, political, and cultural history of Europe from the fin de siecle to European unification; world wars and revolution, East-West divide, consumer society and popular protest.

Europe from the end of World War ll to the European Union; postwar reconstruction; Cold War; the growth of consumer society, the collapse of the Soviet Empire; changing conceptions of European identity.

Emergence of Britain as the preeminent global capitalist economy and political power from the court of Charles ll to Britain's loss of its American colonies and its victory over revolutionary France.

British politics, society and culture from the triumph of Waterloo through the world of the Beatles. Topics include industrial conflict, urban poverty and radical politics; Anglo-Irish relations, women's movements. imperialism and decolonization; & youth culture.

Ireland from the Reformation to the Act of Union with particular emphasis on the rise and impact of the Protestant Ascendancy.

The social and political history of the Irish state in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Exploration of emerging topics in field of Irish History, including but not limited to the Act of Union, the impact of the Protestant Ascendancy, and the cultural, social and political history of the modern Irish state.

Major developments, problems, and policies connected with the evolution of the French nation and its empire from 1815 to the present.

The German lands from 1800 to the present, changing conceptions of Germany and dilemmas of German history.

German from the rise of Hitler to the end of the Second World War.

The development of Russia from the founding of Kievan Rus through the era of Ivan the Terrible to the great European power ruled by Catherine the Great. Autocracy, civil wars, peasant rebellions, and foreign invasions.

History of Imperial Russia from the reign of Catherine the Great to the fall of Nicholas ll and the Romanov dynasty. Topics include politics, culture, society, and revolutionary movements in Russia during the late 18th-early 20th centuries.

History of the Russia and the Soviet Union from the collapse of the Romanov Dynasty to the Present. Political and cultural history are explored from the Bolshevik Revolutions through the Soviet and Post-Soviet eras. Special focus on authoritarian rule.

Eastern and Central Europe from the end of World War II through the Revolutions of 1989. Focus on political, social and cultural history of the region and the nature of these states' relationship with the Soviet Union.

This class explores the Holocaust?s roots in antisemitism and the prewar years, details the evolution of the Final Solution, and investigates its place in memory and history.

Select topics in European History.

The political, economic and social history of the Middle East with emphasis on the passing of imperial institutions and emergence of republics, trade and commerce, colonialism, and revolutionary movements.

Middle Eastern women from the seventh century to the present. Women's lives and experiences, their influence and contribution to the economy, politics, literature & the arts Effects of regional, ethnic, class & religious differences on women's status and activities.

Selected topics in Middle Eastern history.

The impact of 19th century European colonialism on Africa the division of Africa into European dependencies; change and continuity in African culture; the emergence of independent African nation sates after World War ll; their difficulties and opportunities.

Selected topics in African history.

Explores the political, economic, and military interactions connecting the US, China, Japan, and southeast and east Asia across the 20th century.

East Asia region (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong), late 19th century to mid-20th century. Topics include Sino-Japanese War, revolution in China, colonialism in Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, rise and fall Japan's empire, and Korean War.

East Asia region (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong), mid-20th century to present. Topics include communist revolutions in China and Korea, occupation Japan, economic """miracles"""" in Japan

Survey of the first half of China's twentieth century, from 1895-1949. Topics include the revolution toppling China's last empire; China's descent into warlordism; struggles to reunify the nation; ware with Japan; and the Communist revolution of 1949.

China during its republican and Communist periods.

The social and political history of modern Japan (1868-Present); its dramatic rise to world power status, the long road to WW ll, the impact of Allied Occupation; themes of cooperation and conflict in state-relations.

Thematic historical survey focusing on relationship between economic and social, cultural, and intellectual processes around the world in the last three centuries. Global scope but emphasis on historical experiences of East Asia, primarily China & Japan.

History of Indian subcontinent from late Mughal period through British Empire, culminating in independence and partition in 1947. Emphasis on knowledge, power and state formation; resistance, revolution, and nationalism; gender and the role of women; and post colonial legacies.

Modern history of the Indian subcontinent from late Mughal Empire to the present. Themes include: expansion of British power, anti-colonial nationalism, birth of Indian and Pakistan, and contemporary politics, economics, and culture in the region.

Selected topics in Asian history.

Development of science & consequential transformations in mechanics, anatomy, astronomy, botany and physics (1400-1700). Special attention to the social and human contexts in which science and scientific knowledge was produced.

The major wars of the 20th century: World War l, World War ll, Korea and Vietnam. Cold War, wars of liberation.

Visions and experiences of a global war; Nazism and a culture of total war; war and civilians; racism and the Holocaust; the atomic bomb; historical commemoration and memory

The origins, conduct, and outcomes of the Cold War, and analysis of evolving interpretations of this conflict and its significance.

Survey of the history of human rights. Topics include: the intellectual origins of human rights; the United Nation's efforts to codify human rights protection after WWII; and the ongoing affronts to human rights around the world.

The Jews in relation to the larger civilizations in which they have lived; Jewish intellectual and moral contributions; Jewish history in the Christian world; the Holocaust; formation of a Jewish homeland, Israel.

The Holocaust was a seminal event of the twentieth century. This multimedia-rich class explores the Holocaust's roots in antisemitism and the prewar years, details the evolution of the Final Solution, and investigates the developments in history and memory since.

Selected topics in non-Western and world history.

Selected themes in the history of gender examined in depth.

Selected themes in the history of race examined in depth.

Selected themes in public history examined in depth.

Selected topics in world history.

An internship in a local historical archive, museum, park, or library.

A more extensive internship in a local historical archive, museum, park, or library.

Selected topics in American history of interest to faculty and students.

Evolution of European West from its classical origins. Influence of Christianity on European institutions and culture. Relations between European West and both Islam in the Near East and North Africa, and the Christian Byzantine East of Europe and Russia.

How the ancient Mediterranean world changed between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the death of Cleopatra VII; Hellenistic society, kings and queens, Ptolemaic Egypt, science and art, and encounters between Greeks and Romans.

Between 500-1500 C.E. in Europe certain women were accused of poisoning, witchcraft, adultery, whoredom, and assassination of their husbands and children. Learn about these women and how the accusations relate to their roles in society.

Russia from the 1917 Revolution to the present; the radical transformation of a state, economy and society in revolution and civil war, the Stalin dictatorship, the trial of World War II, and the patterns of reform and continuity in the post-Stalin and post-Soviet eras.

Examines history of the former Soviet Union and its states from 1989 to the present. Topics include 1989 revolutions; collapse of the USSR; German reunification; Yugoslav Wars; the rise of Putin; Color Revolutions; terrorism; Maidan; War in Ukraine

Egyptian archeological record, Greek and Roman sources, modern literature, and film to study life and legacy of Cleopatra VII (first century BCE), Queen of Egypt.

This course explores modern Europe from 1850 to the present, using the evolution of soccer across Europe as a means to investigate politics, culture, and society across a tumultuous century and a half of European triumph and tragedy.

Critical examination of the relationships between crime, law, power and justice over time. This course focuses on the interconnected histories of issues such as crime and punishment, identity, wealth and poverty, violence and the law.

The development of the Republic from the presidency of Jefferson through the Mexican War; revolutions in transportation and commerce, struggles of nationalism and sectionalism; issues of race and gender and the ferment of reform.

Investigation of the city's past and present through reading historical accounts and exploring today's city. Changes and continuity in politics, economy, and social composition from 1682 to today, esp. social structures and the changing physical environment of the city.

Cultural history as revealed through artifacts, including everyday objects, decorative arts, and architecture; issues and controversies related to museum exhibits; the role of the internet in material cultural studies.

Explores American and European 1960s social movements via essays, memoirs, films, and music. Examines the complex and fascinating social, cultural, and political history of this turbulent and important era in modern history.

Co-requisite 1-credit course designed to provide an embedded study-abroad experience to complement a requisite History course. Must also enroll in [3-credit course] as corequisite; Required for embedded course, [name of course, e.g., Europe since 1945]

Modern and contemporary China, from 1949 to the present. Covers the Communist revolution 1949, under the rule and leadership of Mao Zedong; post-Mao transition and liberalization; Cold War rivalries; global reintegration since the 1980s; and new geopolitical hostilities.

The junior research seminar introduces majors to research methods, sources, and historiography -- how historians have reconstructed, interpreted, and written about the past. By examining diverse interpretations and historical controversies, the seminars help students develop their abilities to critique historical arguments and develop their own arguments. The course prepares history majors for their Senior Research Methods course, HIS 5501.

Student research and reports. Seminar format. Written permission of chair required.

An intensive research project under individual direction. Written permission of chair required.