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HIST 300-003: Family History

Fall 2024 -  Michael O'Malley 

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.

HIST 499-003: History and Memory in NoVA

Fall 2024 -  George Oberle 

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...

HIST 387-002: Sport History and Film

Fall 2024 -  Christopher C Elzey 

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...

HIST 499-002: History of Technology

Fall 2024 -  Zachary Schrag 

Today, we debate how we should develop, use, or perhaps reject new technologies, from ChatGPT and military drones to Covid tests and induction stoves. In this section of HIST 499, students will ask how previous generations made choices about once-new technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centu...

HIST 389-005: Sport History and Film

Fall 2024 -  Christopher C Elzey 

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...

HIST 300-001: Slavery,Abol,Undrgrnd Railroad

Fall 2024 -  Spencer Crew 

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...

HIST 499-004: Age of Washington

Fall 2024 -  Rosemarie Zagarri 

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 ...

HIST 300-002: Hiroshima in Hist & Memory

Fall 2024 -  Brian W. Platt 

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...

HIST 635-002: Global History Sexuality & Gender

Fall 2024 -  Samuel Clowes Huneke 

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...

HIST 615-DL1: Antebellum African American Women's History

Fall 2024 -  Yevette Richards Jordan 

This course examines the history of African American women in antebellum America, both the general experiences of enslaved and nominally free women, and the lives of noted women who were involved in the public arena as orators, writers, preachers, abolitionists and women’s rights activists.