Major historical developments from the beginning of secular state systems in the 17th century, with emphasis on Europe. Topics include the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, nationalism, socialism, diplomacy and war. Coverage extends to the declining role of Europe in world affairs since World War II. (Gen.Ed. HS)

Major historical developments from the beginning of secular state systems in the 17th century, with emphasis on Europe. Topics include the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, nationalism, socialism, diplomacy and war. Coverage extends to the declining role of Europe in world affairs since World War II. (Gen.Ed. HS)

This class explores recent scholarship on the tumultuous era of the Atlantic Revolutions. We look comparatively at the major Revolutions of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly the French and Haitian Revolutions, but also the American Revolution, other European and Latin American Revolutions, and various contemporary upheavals. We also investigate the transnational movements of peoples-men and women, free and enslaved,-ideas, and laws.

This course traces the history of Japan from the distant past through the centralization and prosperity of the Tokugawa period (1600-1868). It will focus on social, political, cultural, and religious history and will place familiar figures like the Japanese samurai, sumo wrestler, geisha, haiku poet, and Buddhist monk in their proper historical context.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

This course examines the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the era of Reconstruction and Reunion. We will investigate the forces that drove Reconstruction in the North, South, West, and abroad during and after the U.S. Civil War and the destruction of slavery. We will attend to conflicts over the meanings of freedom and the government's role in securing freedom for its citizens among freed people, white and black northerners, suffragists, white southerners, western farmers, and Native Americans in the postbellum period.

Survey of Russian history from the 9th to the 20th century. Development of absolute, centralized monarchy; Russia's cultural and political interaction with its neighbors, including the Byzantine Empire, the Tartars, Poland, and western Europe.