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The Department of History is committed to pursuing excellence in historical scholarship and teaching across many different time periods and research interests. Its outstanding faculty specializes in a wide array of historical issues and themes that transcend particular regions and periods. Courses connect undergraduate and graduate students with the excitement of historic discovery and provide a rigorous training in researching and analyzing the human past.
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The award carries a stipend of $300,000; Strauss will receive the award at a ceremony on May 29 in Washington, D.C.
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Professor Jon Parmenter says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to call the election looks like a smart decision.
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Jingya Guo, a doctoral candidate in history, studies how historical actors contested and reconfigured the demarcation between pathology and health for female bodies in China.
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HIST 4931 Vitality and Power in China (also ASIAN 4429, BSOC 4911, CAPS 4931, RELST 4931, STS 4911) (HST-AS, SCD-AS) (HPE, HAN) Tuesday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor TJ Hinrichs Chinese discourses have long linked the circulation of cosmic energies, political power, and bod...
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HIST 4672 Europe in Flames: World War II and its Aftermath (also JWST 4672) (GLC-AS, HST-AS) (HEU) Tuesday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Cristina Florea One of the most spectacular conflagrations in global history, World War II surpassed all previous conflicts in violence, ...
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HIST 4204 Early American History through Film, ca. 1500-1800 (also AMST 4205) (HST-AS) (HPE, HNA) Thursday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Casey Schmitt While the purpose of Hollywood films is to entertain, when those films are set in the past, they offer a critical lens onto...
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HIST 3740 America Becomes Modern: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (also AMST 3744) (HST-AS) (HNA) Tuesday and Thursday: 2:55-4:10 Professor Lawrence Glickman “America Becomes Modern” offers an upper-level survey of major themes in American history between 1877 and 1917. The course will h...
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HIST 2811 Science, Nature, and Knowledge: 1500-1800 (also STS 2810) (HST-AS)(HPE, HEU) Monday and Wednesday: 10:10-11:25 Professor Jeremy Schneider This course investigates the history of science in early modern Europe (ca. 1500 to 1800), a period in which new understandings of the natural ...
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