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The study of Nazi Germany forces historians to look more closely at a larger period of time and pose (and answer) important questions about a wide variety of topics relating to the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), the Nazi Era (1933-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945). The events during these periods are of epic proportions - strikes, assassinations, hyperinflation, street fighting - and that is just in the years between the two world wars! These events, however, must be placed within the context of larger trends. We'll be considering topics ranging from avant-garde artists to genocide.

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The foundations of modern science and scientific method were laid in the Scientific Revolution of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century. This period would be seen as a golden age by the philosophers of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the founders of the history of science in the twentieth century. Yet the period from 1550 to 1650 also saw widespread interest in occult powers and natural magic, and it was the height of the "witch craze" in Europe, a period in which about fifty thousand Europeans, most of them women, were tried and executed for the crime of diabolical witchcraft.

This course will be an in-depth investigation of China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), in which Mao Zedong urged the people to wrest control away from the Communist Party itself and recreate Chinese culture and society based on revolutionary principles. What motivated people, and particularly youth, to participate in activities that often brought suffering to themselves and their families and destruction to China's cherished cultural sites? What were the ideals they strove to realize, and to what extent can anything they did be considered in positive light?

This course explores the histories of women in South Asia from 1800 to the present. Using a combined thematic and chronological approach we will examine the following: the gendered social and economic policies of the British colonial state, women and social reform movements; debates about women's education, women and identity politics, and the gendered language of anti-colonial nationalism(s). Throughout the course, we will analyze the development of a heterogeneous women's movement in colonial and post-colonial South Asia.

This course looks at the changing nature of work, the rise of labor unions, class culture, the articulation of capitalism, the impact of industrialization, and the emergence of a global and postindustrial economy. It's major focus will be on the period from 1870 to the present, with a heavy emphasis on the political and social intersections of ethnicity, race, gender, and social class.

This course offers students an opportunity to understand the historical development of ideas, people's behavior, and various controversies and debates regarding reproductive rights. We will investigate relevant social and political movements and their leaders, major laws and court decisions, as well as the impact of media and arts.