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Fall 2026

Image of Map of Middle-East for HIST 1561

HIST 1561 Introduction to the Ottoman Empire

Civil Rights March on Washington: Attribution Leffler, Warren K., photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

HIST 1595 African American History From 1865

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

HIST 1631 Sex, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

the American Life — Library of Congress, public domain

HIST 1770 U.S. History Through Literature

Diego Rivera cover art for Pablo Nerada (1950)

HIST 1960 Latin America & the Modern World

Apollo 17 Blue Marble Moon — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble#/media/File:Apollo_17_Blue_Marble_original_orientation_(AS17-148-22727).jpg

HIST 1965 Introduction to African History

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

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

The Boston Massacre — Wikimedia Commons

HIST 1985 American History from 1500-1800

HIST 2050 Introduction to Humanities Topics: Aterlives of 9/11

Photo of book — book Pexels

HIST 2132 Law and Society in Early Modern and Modern China

Serov Ida Rubinstein — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valentin_Serov_-_Ida_Rubenstein_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

HIST 2154 Sex and Power in Jewish History

Decorative Poster — Decorative Poster Decorative Poster

HIST 2195 Biography, History, and Modernity

Roosevelt and Reagan — https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ronald-reagan-was-not-an-fdr-republican-roosevelt-blue-collar-depression/

HIST 2220 From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan

Immigrants on deck of steamer "Germanic." 1887 Source: Library of Congress

HIST 2251 U.S. Immigration Narratives

Decorative Art : English Art, Mortality

HIST 2259 Plagues, Prisons and Print in 18th-century London

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

HIST 2307 Histories of the African Diaspora

Mount Rushmore — https://home.nps.gov/moru/learn/photosmultimedia/index.htm

HIST 2369 Race, The Nation, & American Outdoor Recreation

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

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

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) ca. 590–570 B.C. from metmuseum.org

HIST 2650 Ancient Greek 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

The Mughal Emperor Jahangir (1605-27) holding a globe

HIST 2749 Mughal India and the Early Modern World, c. 1500-1800

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

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

Flammarion — Flammarion - public domain

HIST 2811 Science, Nature, and Knowledge: 1500-1800

Paprus — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_66

HIST 2852 Judaism and the Origins of Christianity

Chinese symbols

HIST 2932 Engendering China

Pyramid of Capitalism ~ 19th century drawing

HIST 3081 Stability and Crisis: Capitalism and Democracy, 1870 to the present

Witches Flight, Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casta_painting_all.jpg

HIST 3175 No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Inquisitors, Heretics, and the Struggle for Truth in the Early Modern World

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

HIST 3770 Latinos and the United States, 1492-1880

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 3950 Monsoon Kingdoms: Pre-Modern Southeast Asian History

Students researching in AD White Reading Room

HIST 4000 Introduction to Historical Research

Max Weber — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Max_Weber_in_1918.png

HIST 4084 How to be Modern: Thinking with Max Weber

HIST 4109 The Practice and Theory of Public History: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in US History

Looking for a hanging chad — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_for_hanging_chad,_2000_Presidential_election.jpg

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

Ottoman Empire Era — Public Domain

HIST 4543 State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire

Spring 2026

Charing Bull from wikimedia commons by Highsmith, Carol M.

HIST 1540 American Capitalism

Image of Map of Middle-East for HIST 1561

HIST 1561 Introduction to the Ottoman Empire

Civil Rights March on Washington: Attribution Leffler, Warren K., photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

HIST 1595 African American History From 1865

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

Modern China — book cover for Y. Du

HIST 1920 Modern China

Cross in the Mountains — Cross in the Mountains Wiki Caspar David Friedrich

HIST 2155 The Invention of Religion

'Stimmzettel Anschluss' — Public Domain

HIST 2165 The Death of Democracy: Europe Between the World Wars

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

Brazilian troops in Italy — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Expeditionary_Force#/media/File:Massarosaw.jpg

HIST 2213 World War II: History and Culture

Immigrants on deck of steamer "Germanic." 1887 Source: Library of Congress

HIST 2251 U.S. Immigration Narratives

Photo of Adolph Hitler

HIST 2285 Fascism in the Twentieth Century: History and Theory

Angela Davis

HIST 2353 Civil Rights vs. Human Rights in the Black Freedom Struggle

1853 map of Africa, the remaining Unexplored Region essentially corresponds to the Congo basin — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River#/media/File:Routes_of_European_explorers_in_Africa,_to_1853.jpg

HIST 2556 The Global Congo: Diplomacy, Extraction, and Resistance

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

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

Taos Pueblo — taken by Professor at Taos Pueblo on 9/26/25

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

Terrorism, truck on fire — Image by kalhh from Pixabay

HIST 2690 History of Terrorism

Muslims taking water from pool — https://emuseum.cornell.edu/objects/41247/muslims-taking-water-from-a-pool-in-front-of-a-mosque-laho?ctx=6308b9e6502617f5dfb96431e3bf1013709d4e18&idx=2

HIST 2750 History of Modern India

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

Early West — Image by ddzphoto from Pixabay

HIST 2765 The North American West

Henry de la Beche, "A more ancient Dorset," watercolor 1830

HIST 2812 History of Scientific Images

Prison Image scanned from Robert Chambers' Book of Days, 1st edition. Chamber's died in 1871, so work is in the Public Domain.

HIST 2815 Imprisonment in Europe and America from the Middle Ages to the Present

Painting Law; Attribution: Юдаль Майсеевіч Пэн, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

HIST 2853 The Law in Jewish History

Scene from French Revolution

HIST 2860 The French Revolution

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

Church by Luc De Cleir • Age 38 • Stekene/Belgium

HIST 3200 The Viking Age

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 From Witchcraft to K-Pop Crossover: A History of North America

men kissing — Public Domain

HIST 3953 Cold War Europe

Buddha among the plants: permission granted et

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

Students researching in AD White Reading Room

HIST 4000 Introduction to Historical Research

America and China Maps — Image generously created by Cornell Alumna Cici Jialei LIU'24

HIST 4076 History of US-China Relations, 1949-2025

The Body Politic — The Body Politic KR

HIST 4127 The Body Politic in Asia

Waterfall — Image by PDPhotos from Pixabay

HIST 4243 Public History in Place: Interpreting the Environment

The Rome Colesseum with bust of Alexader the Great and Persepolis — https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1872-0515-1; https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3875047; https://www.mcgill.ca/classics/files/classics/images/persepolis_bas-relief_101967.jpg

HIST 4345 Ancient Empires: From Persia to Rome, 550 BCE to 14 CE

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

Map of the Middle East — Image by Markus Spiske from Pixabay

HIST 4542 The Modern Middle East During the Long 19th Century

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

HIST 4674 Disposession, Truth, and Reconciliation

Queen Elizabeth

HIST 4950 Witches, Whores and Wives: Patriarchy and Resistance in Renaissance England

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