Special Topics Seminar (3 to 9)

Staff

History and Historians (3)

Zimmerman, Schwartz

Historiography and historical method for graduate students. Readings and discussions on major trends in history; selections from classics of historical literature.

Anbinder, Zimmerman

Pedagogic techniques and strategies particular to the discipline. Admission by permission of instructor.

History and Public Policy (3)

Berkowitz

Seminar in the use of historical insights and methods in policymaking, with emphasis on domestic issues. Assessment and use of primary sources for policy analysis and the use of historical analogy in policy formulation.

Internship in History and Public Policy (3 or 6)

Berkowitz

Supervised participation in an office or agency concerned with the formulation of public policy; terms of the internship are arranged with the director of the history and public policy program. Enrollment restricted to students in the history and public policy program.

Uses of History in International Affairs (3)

H. Harrison

The multiple interconnections among history, politics, and international affairs, including how policymakers use or misuse "lessons" of history and how countries attempt to deal with difficult aspects of their past. Specific cases may vary.

History of International Economic Systems (3)

Becker

Development of arrangements and institutions designed to manage the international economy since the 19th century, with a focus on the period since World War II.

Strategy and Policy (3)

Spector

A study of the historical development of strategy and the relationship of military thought to national policy.

Topics in Modern Military and Naval History (3)

Spector

Discussion, readings, and research in 20th-century European and American military and naval history.

The Age of the Battleship: An Introduction to Modern Naval History (3)

Spector

The rich and varied literature of naval history, with emphasis on interactions among technology, nationalism, and domestic political/social developments in the late 19th and early 20th century. The social history of navies is included.

World War II (3)

Spector

Examination of statecraft and the management of force before, during, and after World War II. Special attention to broad aspects of military policy and strategy and their interaction with international politics and diplomacy.

Modernization, Imperialism, Globalization (3)

Zimmerman

Readings seminar in classic and recent theories of modernization, imperialism, and globalization.

Re-thinking Cold War History (3)

H. Harrison, Hershberg

A reading and research course that relies heavily on documents from formerly closed communist archives and recently declassified Western materials. Various issues and events of the Cold War; old and new historiographical controversies. Students write a primary-source research paper to elucidate one of the many aspects of the Cold War about which new evidence is available.

Independent Readings/Research (3)

Staff

Written permission of instructor required. May be repeated for credit with permission.

Topics in European History (3)

Staff

European Intellectual History (3)

Staff

Topics in 18th- and 19th-century European thought, with an emphasis on France. Specific topic announced in the Schedule of Classes.

Early Modern European History (3)

Norton

Topics selected from Western European history of the 14th through 17th centuries.

Modern European History (3)

Schultheiss

20th-Century European History (3)

Staff

Research or readings on selected topics.

Europe and the World, 1500-Present (3)

Kennedy

An introduction to some of the key debates and scholarship concerning European imperialism.

Early Modern Britain (3)

Peck

Analysis of some current issues in early modern historiography; contextualization of recent works in the field; consideration of different methodologies and the types of evidence on which they rely or that they illuminate.

English People and Institutions (3)

Peck

Selected topics in the political, social, intellectual, and economic history of England. Focus upon one time period and special area of interest. May be taken for research credit with instructor's approval.

British Imperialism (3)

Kennedy

Research seminar. Major debates and schools of thought on the history of British imperialism.

Folger Institute Seminars (3-3)

Staff

Topics will be announced in the Schedule of Classes. May be repeated for credit provided the topic differs. Consult the chair of the department before registration.

Eastern European History (3-3)

Agnew

Hist 6170: 1772-1918; Hist 6171: 1919-1945.

History of Modern Russia and the Soviet Union (3)

Atkin

Selected topics in the domestic history of modern Russia and Soviet Union. May be taken as a readings seminar or, with instructor's approval, as a research seminar.

Research Seminar: Russian and Soviet Empires (3)

Atkin

Selected topics in the evolution of the Russian empire and Soviet Union as multi-ethnic states from the perspective of the Russian and non-Russian peoples from the 18th century to the early post-Soviet years.

Russian and Soviet Thought (3)

Atkin

Selected topics in the intellectual and cultural history of 18th- to 20th-century Russia and Soviet Union. May be taken as a readings seminar or, with instructor's approval, as a research seminar. Admission by permission of instructor.

Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1991 (3)

H. Harrison

Concepts and perceptions guiding Soviet relations with the outside world. From the blockade and intervention, through years of isolation, World War II, the Cold War, to "peaceful coexistence."

Topics in U.S. History (3)

Staff

Colonial North America (3)

Silverman

The complex and turbulent world of colonial North America from the late 16th to the late 18th century. Inter-cultural negotiations, Atlantic world connections, imperial conflict, gender construction, and race consciousness.

Revolutionary America (3)

Silverman

The political and social conditions of the revolutionary era: the spiral of events that led to the American independence movement, the various meanings of the war to its participants, and the consequences of victory for the nation, its various subgroups, and other peoples of the colonial Atlantic world.

American Indian History to 1890 (3)

Silverman

North American Indian history from indigenous societies on the eve of first contact with Europeans until the conclusion of the Great Plains Wars of the late 19th century.

Readings in 19th-Century American History (3)

Anbinder, Stott

Important trends in historical writing about 19th-century America.

The Era of the Civil War, 1850-1877 (3)

Anbinder

The sectional crisis that led to the Civil War; the conflict itself in its military, political, and social dimensions; attempts at racial and sectional reconciliation made during Reconstruction.

The Law of Race and Slavery (3)

Cottrol

The role of legal norms and processes in developing patterns of slavery and race relations in the United States and other societies. Admission by permission of instructor. Same as Soc 6286 and Law 6596.

Readings/Research Seminar: Recent U.S. History (3-3)

Ribuffo

Prerequisite: 6 credit hours of upper-level/undergraduate American history courses. Research or readings, depending on students' interests and curricular needs.

American Business History (3)

Becker

The history of American business institutions in manufacturing, distribution, transportation, and finance. Particular attention will be given to the period since industrialization, with consideration of business institutions in their economic, legal, governmental, and social contexts. Same as SMPP 6293.

Modern U.S. Foreign Policy (3)

Hershberg

Readings, lectures, discussion on major developments in the conduct of American diplomacy from 1898 to 9/11.

American Social Thought Since World War II (3)

Ribuffo

Consideration of C. Wright Mills, Daniel Bell, Abraham Maslow, Christopher Lasch, Paul Goodman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barbara Ehrenreich, and other major social critics.

Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States (3)

Anbinder

Trends and theoretical issues in the study of American immigration and ethnicity.

U.S. Legal History (3)

Cottrol

The legal history of the United States from the 17th century to the present. The course examines legal change within the broader context of political, social, and economic change. Admission by permission of instructor. Same as Law 6591.

Readings in American Cultural History (3)

Staff

Same as AmSt 6410.

Religion and American Culture (3)

Staff

Same as AmSt 6420.

Gender, Sexuality, and American Culture (3-3)

Staff

Same as AmSt/WStu 6430-31.

Readings on Women in American History (3)

C. Harrison

Important works in American women's history; evolution of the field in historiographical context. Same as AmSt/WStu 6435.

Race in America (3)

Staff

Same as AmSt 6450.

American Social Movements (3)

Staff

Same as AmSt 6455.

Cityscapes (3)

Staff

Same as AmSt 6470.

U.S. Urban History (3)

Staff

Same as AmSt 6475.

Theory and Practice of Public History (3)

Staff

Same as AmSt 6480.

Historic Preservation: Principles and Methods (3-3)

Longstreth

Same as AmSt 6495-96.

Topics in African History (3)

Staff

Western Representations of Africa (3)

Blyden

Representations of Africa by non-Africans from the earliest contact to more recent encounters.

Topics in Asian History (3)

Staff

Readings Seminar: Late Imperial China (3)

McCord

Selected topics in the history of modern China in the late imperial period, with a particular focus on the internal and external challenges to the last Chinese dynasty in the 19th century.

Readings Seminar: 20th-Century China (3)

McCord

Selected topics in the history of modern China from the 1911 Revolution to the Cultural Revolution.

Modern Japanese History (3)

Yang

Selected topics in modern Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the present. Research or readings depending on students' interests and curricular needs.

Japan's Empire and Its Legacies (3)

Yang

The history of Japanese imperialism, focusing on colonial modernity, resistance and collaboration, politics of memory, and historical reconciliation.

Topics in Korean History (3)

Brazinsky, Kim

Intensive exploration of the history of Korea in modern times (1850-present). Korean identity and the challenges of foreign imperialism, industrialization, modernization, and globalization.

Modern Southeast Asia (3)

McHale

The modern history of Southeast Asia from the 1800s to 1975. Colonialism, rise of postcolonial states, revolutions and persistence of the past.

Topics in Latin American History (3)

Staff

Readings/Research Seminar: Modern Latin America (3-3)

Klarén

Topics in Middle Eastern History (3)

Staff

The Modern Middle East (3)

Robinson, Khoury

Readings, discussion, and research in selected political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual trends.

Islam and Social Movements (3)

Khoury

An examination of the relationship of religion and religious symbols to social and political movements in the Islamic world.

Nationalism in the Middle East (3)

Khoury

Different interpretations of nationalism and their applicability to nationalism in the Middle East.

Imperialism in the Middle East (3)

Khoury

An exploration of the process of European and American expansion in the Middle East.

Research Seminar: Modern Iran (3)

Atkin

Selected topics in Iran's domestic and international history from about 1800 to 1989.

Thesis Research (3-3)

Staff

Advanced Reading and Research (arr.)

Staff

Limited to students preparing for the Doctor of Philosophy general examination. May be repeated for credit.

Dissertation Research (arr.)

Staff

Limited to Doctor of Philosophy candidates. May be repeated for credit.