This course connects genealogy to history. What do they have in common? How can one make the other better? Students will identify a problem or issue in their family history and use historical research and writing to illuminate it.
This course is the capstone of the History major. Students are required to produce a substantial research paper based on their reading of primary and secondary sources focused on forgotten and erased histories in the region. Students will explore topics based on a set of methodologies that will allow...
Explores the intersection of sport history and film and how feature movies, documentaries, shorts, and newsreels can be used to study U.S. history as well as global history. Among the subjects examined are sport and early filmmaking; global issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, doping, and identi...
In HIST 499, students build on their experience in HIST 300 and the skills and knowledge they have developed as history majors to write an original research paper of about 20 pages. In this section of HIST 499, we will focus on late 20th century U.S. history (approximately the 1960s-1980s) and paper...
Explores the intersection of sport history and film and how feature movies, documentaries, shorts, and newsreels can be used to study U.S. history as well as global history. Among the subjects examined are sport and early filmmaking; global issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, doping, and identi...
The course will introduce students to the theory and practice of history. It will use the Underground Railroad and its connections to enslavement and abolition as the vehicle for teaching skills in historical thinking, research, and writing. The Underground Railroad was a loose network of individuals...
George Washington (b.1732-d.1799) played a pivotal role in American history during the French and War, the American Revolution, as the first President of the United States. He was also a major Virginia planter and slaveowner. This course is the capstone of the History major. Students are required to ...
This course is designed to train students to think and write as historians. Students will learn to develop research questions, find and analyze both primary and secondary sources, organize their thoughts into arguments that are supported by evidence, and present those arguments effectively in both wr...
George Mason University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to announce that Zachary Schrag, professor in the Department of History and Art History, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) award for his proposal, “Rail Against Sprawl: A History of Dulles Corridor...
What are sexuality and gender identity, what do they have to do with each other, and how have they changed over time? Why have different regimes regulated sexuality in different ways and for different reasons? How have individuals understood their sex and sexuality in different times and places? Thes...
