printer friendly pageHISTORY 347E: Health and Society in Africa (HISTORY 245E)
The history of disease, therapeutic and diagnostic systems, and the definition of health in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial Africa. The social and political histories of specific epidemics, including sleeping sickness, influenza, TB, mental illness, and AIDS. The colonial contexts of epidemics and the social consequences of disease.
HISTORY 351A: Core in American History, Part I
HISTORY 351F: Core in American History, Part VI
Required of all first-year Ph.D. students in U.S. History.
HISTORY 353D: Approaches to American Legal History
(Same as
LAW 651.) Legal history may once have been primarily devoted to exploring legal doctrines and key judicial opinions, and thus to be of interest mainly to legal scholars and lawyers. Now, the best writing in legal history resembles historical writing more generally, and the study of legal ideas and practices is increasingly integrated with social, intellectual, cultural, and political history. Examines recent writings in American legal history, ranging broadly across time and space to ask how the field reflects developments in historical writing more generally, and how the use of legal materials affects our understanding of major aspects of American history.
HISTORY 355: Decision Making in International Crises: The A-Bomb, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
For advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Primary documents and secondary literature. Topics include: the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan, the Korean War, and the Cuban missile crisis.
HISTORY 362G: The Pivotal Decade in U.S. History: 1960's or 1970's?
Which had more lasting impact, the civil war of the 1960s or the conservative revolt of the 1970s? Should the 1970s supersede the 1960s as a pivotal moment when something happened of considerable importance to historians? Considers this debate of the decades comparatively and thematically, addressing topics including civil rights, foreign policy, electoral politics, popular culture, law, economics, labor, and social movement organizing.
HISTORY 363G: History Through a Life: The Allure of American Biography
Considers the possibilities and limitations of exploring U.S. history through the genre of biography. Is a single life too narrow to explain why and how pivotal events in U.S. history, such as war, economic depression, social revolution, unfold? Or can one life illuminate the complexity of historical shifts? Readings will span U.S. history, exploring topics such as labor and racial civil rights, science and culture, women and sexuality, transnationalism and diplomacy, law and presidential politics. The craft of biography will be considered alongside biographical subjects.
HISTORY 370: Graduate Colloquium on Colonial Latin American History
Sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Indigenous cultures. The arrival of Europeans and its impact on native and European societies. Culture, religion and institutions, and everyday life. The independence period and the formation of new nations.
HISTORY 373A: The European Expansion (HISTORY 273)
The relationship between European monarchies and their colonial domains from the 16th-18th centuries. Reasons for expansion, methods, and results. Case studies include the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English domains in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Readings include primary and secondary sources.
HISTORY 375B: Borders and Borderlands in Modern Mexico
Surveys the history of Mexico's borders and borderlands from the nineteenth century to the present. Examines theoretical conceptualizations of the borderlands as well as the historical development of identities and geographic borders within and around Mexico. Topics include the legacies of war, map making, the construction of lo Mexicano, the politics of culture, and migrations to, from, and through Mexico. Analyzes the prevailing trends in Mexicanist historiography.
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