History

Instructor: Professor Liam Riordan Course Number:  Days and Time: Location: Description: This course examines the historical development of the geographical areas now referred to as New England and Eastern Canada from 1815, the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, the last major Anglo-American conflict, to the present. An emphasis will be placed […]

Instructor: Joel Anderson Time: MWF 11:00- 11:50 AM Location: Stevens Hall 375 Course Number: 8503 Course Descriptions: Marauding barbarians with a lust for blood and plunder, the Vikings retain their grip on the popular imagination. To what extent are our images of the medieval Norse grounded in historical reality? This course will begin by asking what archaeological finds, […]

Instructor: Professor Anne Knowles Days/Times: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30- 1:45 PM Course Number: 6879 Location: Little Hall 110 Description: Investigates the shaping of American landscapes and interpretation of those landscapes in history, fiction and art. In particular, the course explores the ways in which Americans used idealizations of the physical environment to define certain cultural attributes […]

Instructor:  Professor Michael Lang Time:  Wednesday 3:00-4:50 p.m. Course Number: 86706 Location: Stevens Hall 175 Description:  Introduction to historical skills and recent historical techniques: psychohistory, demography, quantitative history. Prerequisites & Notes:  Graduate standing.

Instructor: Professor Howard Segal Days/Times: Tuesday, Thursday 11:00 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. Course Number: 86838 Location: Stevens Hall 370 Description: Changes in American politics, economics, society, and culture including the Wilson era of reform and intervention in World War I, the age of business, depression, and the New Deal of FDR, World War II and American […]

Instructor: Professor Beth McKillen Days/Times: Tuesday, Thursday 12:30-1:45 Course Number: 87328 Location: Stevens Hall 375 Description: Examines changes in the world of work during successive phases of capitalist development since the Revolutionary War. Focus on skilled and unskilled labor; the evolving factory system; public policies and effects of technological change; ethnicity, race, and gender on worker […]

Instructor: Professor Nathan Godfried Days/Times: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 11:00 – 11:50 a.m. Course Number: 86837 Location: Stevens Hall 155 Description: Changes in American politics, economics, society, and culture including the Wilson era of reform and intervention in World War I, the age of business, depression, and the New Deal of FDR, World War II […]

Instructor: Professor Long Days/Times: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. Course Number: 88948 Location: Stevens Hall 365 Description: Focuses on key periods in the historical development of the United States and Vietnam and trace the history of their relations since the beginning of World War II. The economic, social, political, ideological, and cultural […]

Instructor: Professor Mark McLaughlin Days/Times: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. Course Number: 86836 Location: Stevens Hall 155 Description:  Canada’s history from Confederation to the present, emphasizing political, social, and economic developments and Canada’s relations with the United States. General Education Requirements:  Satisfies the Cultural Diversity & International Perspectives and Ethics requirements.

Instructor: Professor Mark McLaughlin Day/Time: Tuesday, 4:00-5:50 Course Number: 41907 Location: Online. Course Description: This is a seminar class for history graduate students.