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Spring 2025

ART: people of Old Japan looking on to people of Modern Japan — Credits: K. Roebuck

HIST 1622 From Samurai to Superpower: Japan in World History II

Qin Terracotta Warriors — Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qin_Terracotta_Warriors,_Pit_1_08.jpg

HIST 1740 Imperial China

Banksy_Hitchhiker_to_Anywhere_Archway_2005

HIST 1850 Thinking about History with the Manson Murders

Picture of bride and groom

HIST 1930 A Global History of Love

The Met - Theodoor Galle

HIST 1950 The Invention of the Americas

JAMESK’S •JAMAICAN RESTAURANT, IKOYI, LAGOS (NIGERIA) — photo by J. Byfield

HIST 1976 Recreating the Caribbean: Migration and Identity in Contemporary Caribbean History

Theodore de Bry from Wikimedia Commons

HIST 1986 Disasters!: A History of Colonial Failures in the Atlantic World, 1450-1750

girl viewing museum pieces — Getty Image: https://www.gettyimages.com/search/photographer?photographer=Images%20By%20Tang%20Ming%20Tung

HIST 2043 Asian American Oral History

View of the monument to Peter I on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg — Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V._Surikov._View_of_the_monument_to_Peter_I.jpg

HIST 2158 St. Petersburg and the Making of Modern Russia

1898 cartoon "Ten Thousand Miles from Tip to Tip" — 1898 cartoon "Ten Thousand Miles from Tip to Tip" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10kMiles.JPG

HIST 2212 The U.S. Empire

Photo of Adolph Hitler

HIST 2285 Fascism in the Twentieth Century: History and Theory

Photograph taken by Judith Byfield: Green Book, Archives in England

HIST 2307 Histories of the African Diaspora

Japan Kid Thumbs Ride Saipan — National Archives at College Park

HIST 2315 The Occupation of Japan

Drawing of Henry Morgan

HIST 2381 Corruption, Collusion, and Commerce in Early America and the Caribbean

International Boundary Commission — Image obtained from: http://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/en/.

HIST 2392 Where Fire Meets Ice: Histories of the U.S.-Canada Border Across Four Centuries

Poster titled Warmly love chairman Mao — Warmly love chairman Mao IISH collection, the Stefan R. Landsberger collection or the Private Collection.BG E12/601(chineseposters.net, IISH collection).

HIST 2435 Global Maoism: History and Present

photo of Alice Campus, Limbede House — photo by R. Sandwell

HIST 2515 Freedom Struggles in Southern Africa

Image on the left attributed to Xi Lian; image on the right attributed to The New York Times

HIST 2575 Tyranny and Dignity: Chinese Women from the Cultural Revolution to the White Paper Revolution

Photo for Environmental History

HIST 2581 Environmental History

HIST 2590 The Crusades

Cristofano Allori, Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1613) — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes#

HIST 2656 Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in Historical Perspective

Map of Indian land cessions in the United States. — Map of Indian land cessions in the United States. Credit: Law Library of Congress

HIST 2660 Everything You Know about Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History

Chile — Chile Ray Craib

HIST 2715 A Global South: Chile, the Pacific and the World

World map of the Queen's Dominions at the end of the nineteenth century — Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The-queens-dominions.jpg

HIST 2760 The British Empire

HIST 2765 The North American West

Mongol Calvalry Men — Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_Mongol_Empire

HIST 2905 Global History of War from the 16th Century to the Present

Photo of a European Castle

HIST 2958 Empires and Vampires: History of Eastern Europe

HIST 3345 Global 1960s: Revolution from the College Campus to the Battle Grounds

union soldier and his family — Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppss.00400/

HIST 3430 History of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

Angela Davis — Angela Davis s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/102201/images/Free_Angela_Button

HIST 3590 The Black Radical Tradition in the U.S.

Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, photo of the Human Volcano — Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reginald_marsh,_smoko,_il_vulcano_umano,_1933.jpg

HIST 3602 Cultural History of North America

Let’s Celebrate National Borinqueneers Day! — PUBLIC DOMAIN This work, Let’s Celebrate National Borinqueneers Day! by Carlos Cuebas, identified by DVIDS (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8335371/lets-celebrate-national-borinqueneers-day)

HIST 3801 War and Revolution in 20th Century Latino History

Buddha among the plants: permission granted et

HIST 3960 Transnational Local: Southeast Asian History from the Eighteenth Century

Uris Library reading room — The A. D. White Reading Room in Uris Library. Credit: Jason Koski (UREL)

HIST 4000 Introduction to Historical Research

HIST 4041 Atlantic Commodities

Photo of Edmund Pettus Bridge — Photo taken by C. Hyman in Selma, Alabama, October 2022

HIST 4112 The Historical Geography of Black America

photo of marked-up text — photo by C. Verhoeven

HIST 4277 Modern European Cultural-Intellectual History through Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project

Early model Studer professional tape recorder, 1969 — By RFWilmut - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28110293

HIST 4422 Oral History: Theory, Practice, and Method

Napoleon Crossing the Alps — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_-_Napoleon_crossing_the_Alps_-_Malmaison1.jpg

HIST 4629 The Age of Revolution in Europe & the Caribbean: 1789 to 1825

HIST 4910 Approaches to Medieval Violence

Chinese painting of a water-powered mill for grain, with surrounding river transport. Northern Song Dynasty — Wikipedia (US public domain): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Song_Dynasty_Hydraulic_Mill_for_Grain.JPG

HIST 4963 China's Early Modern

Fall 2024

The Big Stick — The Big Stick cartoon wikipedia.org/wiki/en:William_Allen_Rogers

HIST 1576 War in U.S. History: From the Frontier to the Wars on Terror

Cultural event in Africa — Photo by J. Byfield

HIST 1590 History and Popular Culture in Africa

View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. — https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa7388

HIST 1600 History of Law: Great Trials

Utagawa Kuniyoshi: Boat upon the waters 1845 — Utagawa Kuniyoshi: Boat upon the waters 1845 Utagawa Kuniyoshi: Boat upon the waters 1845

HIST 1621 From Samurai to Superpower: Japan in World History I

the American Life — Library of Congress, public domain

HIST 1770 U.S. History Through Literature

The Met - Theodoor Galle

HIST 1950 The Invention of the Americas

Decorative Art : Subversion

HIST 1951 Foreign Policy as Subversion

Painting Louisburg-in-North-America — HIST-1985-Louisburg-in-North-America Pierre-Charles Canot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

HIST 1985 American History from 1500-1800

“Le Marron Inconnu,” — “Le Marron Inconnu,” de Albert Mangonès dans le centre de Port-au-Prince en Haïti, en avril 2018

HIST 2055 Race and Slavery in the Early Atlantic World

Tewkesbury Medieval Festival — Photo by Philip Halling: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tewkesbury_Medieval_Festival_2013_%5E19_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3555615.jpg

HIST 2083 A Land to Call Our Own: De-Colonizing Medieval Europe

The end of Borodino battle — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia#/media/File:Конец_Бородинского_боя.jpg

HIST 2151 War in Experience and Expression: Origins of Modern War-Writing, 1500-1900

Photo of acupuncture and map of Ithaca — Photos showing subjects covered and their intersection with Ithaca TJ Hinrichs

HIST 2207 East Asian Medical and Martial Arts

Map of the West Indies

HIST 2253 Diasporas from the Spanish Caribbean

Japan Kid Thumbs Ride Saipan — National Archives at College Park

HIST 2315 The Occupation of Japan

African American Flag — African American Flag The author of the image has released the photographic work under a free license, or it is in the public domain

HIST 2354 African American Visions of Africa

HIST 2371 US Climate Catastrophes: Rethinking US History through the Climate

map of eastern US — NY Public Library Open Access Maps: http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/midatlantic/refs/434889s_ref.html

HIST 2391 From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation-States: Early American History in Two Dozen Maps

textile trader in Africa — Photo by J. Byfield

HIST 2452 Dress, Cloth and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora

Hancheng North — Photo by TJ Hinrichs of Hancheng North

HIST 2562 Medicine and Healing in China

Clock workings — https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVerge_escapement%23%2Fmedia%2FFile%3AVerge_escapement_Giovanni_di_Dondi.jpg&data=05%7C02%7Cjly5%40cornell.edu%7Ce50968bd1e474526627e08dc3c774fb4%7C5d7e43661b9b45cf

HIST 2631 The Global History of Time

two children, Lange 1942 — Photo by Dorothea lange (1942): https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8765963/photo-image-face-vintage-children

HIST 2640 Introduction to Asian American History

the destruction of tea in Boston — The Library of Congress: https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b52022/

HIST 2665 The American Revolutionary Era

Nixon and Elvis — Nixon and Elvis Wiki Public Domain: Ollie Atkins, chief White House photographer at the time

HIST 2680 Sex, Drugs, and Experimenting with Democracy in 1960s and 1970s America

Monument defaced with graffiti — Monument defaced with graffiti Monument defaced with graffiti

HIST 2792 Monuments, Museums, and Memory: An Introduction to Public History

David being anointed by Samuel — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura-Europos#/media/File:Dura_Synagogue_WC3_David_anointed_by_Samuel.jpg

HIST 2852 Judaism and the Origins of Christianity

HIST 2955 Socialism in America

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire photo

HIST 2969 The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire

Police arresting a women at a peaceful protest — https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/a-single-photo-that-captures-race-and-policing-in-america/623598/

HIST 3436 History of the Cops: Racialized Policing in the US

Arusha Decloration Monument mural b — Wikimedia Commons: Arusha Decloration Monument

HIST 3653 International Development in African History

HIST 3770 Latinos and the United States, 1492-1880

Students researching in AD White Reading Room

HIST 4000 Introduction to Historical Research

Solomon Schechter studying the fragments of the Cairo Genizah — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solomon_Schechter_studying_the_fragments_of_the_Cairo_Genizah,_c._1898.jpg

HIST 4196 From the Bible to the Museum: Jewish Memory and Public History

HIST 4203 Contesting Votes: Democracy and Citizenship throughout U.S. History

protest, justice for the climate crisis — Library of Congress, public domain

HIST 4262 Environmental Justice: Past, Present, Future

Vienna Cafe — https://picryl.com/media/view-from-cafe-heinrichhof-of-the-imperial-and-royal-court-opera-theater-blick-84a1f6

HIST 4673 Vienna and the Birth of the Modern

Immigrants on a ship — National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Copyright: Public Domain Source Record ID: 306-NT-648-E-5: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa26989#rights-restrictions

HIST 4851 Refugees

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