Category: Law, History, & Society (LHS)
Spring 2023; T/TH 11:20- 12:20 PM Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This introductory-level course explores over 500 years of Latin American history from the rise and fall of the Aztec…
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am- 12:20 pm Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This introductory-level course explores over 500 years of Latin American history from the rise and fall of the…
This course explores 10 of the greatest moments of sociopolitical movement and institutional change in American History. The Civil War, twentieth-century labor movements, women’s suffrage, anti-globalization, gay rights, …
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11:15 am – 12:20 pm Instructor TBA (AFST) This course is Cross-Listed with JUDC 1027. Beginning on the African continent, this course follows African captives…
Spring 2023; This course is cross-listed with AFST 2014. This course surveys major themes in African American History from the start of the Civil War through Reconstruction’s “long…
This course takes an in-depth look at the national events and controversies that led to the American Civil War, the most tumultuous era and momentous event in our…
Spring 2023; MWF 1:25-2:20 PM Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is the second of a two-semester sequence on the Civil War era. This course introduces students to the…
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 am- 10:50 am Dr. Jason Krupar This class provides students an opportunity to study the history of Native Americans, the interactions between indigenous peoples,…
Online Synchronous; Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:00 pm -7:20 pm Dr. Casey Huegel This mixed lecture and discussion course examines the development of American environmentalism in the twentieth century….
This lecture and discussion course examines some of the most unspeakable crimes and greatest tragedies of late modernity. It focuses primarily on the emergence and varieties of mass…
This mixed lecture and discussion course will examine the construction and consequences of race and ethnicity in American history. Through an exploration of controversies, debates, and critical events in American…
This course will introduce students to the history of the American South from its colonial beginnings to the conclusion of the American Civil War. The region’s history was…
This class will examine the South and its people, black and white, as well as its institutions, political ideology, and ultimately, its meaning in the early American continuum from the end of…
Dr. Erika Gasser This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses about “Colonial America” have traditionally followed…
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 am -10:50 am Dr. Isaac Campos This course will explore the history of intoxicants in the Americas from a comparative global perspective. Primarily the…
Dr. Isaac Campos This course uses the history of marijuana as a vehicle for the study of Modern Mexican history. Students will learn how marijuana came to be…
This class is cross-listed with WGS 2077 & URBN 2077. This course will introduce students to the rich and varied history of LGBTQ people and movements in American…
Dr. Jason Krupar Historically Irregular Warfare has also been referred to as Revolutionary War, Unconventional War, Asymmetric Warfare, Insurgency, or Terrorism depending on the goals of the groups involved…
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am -12:20 pm Dr. Susan Longfield Karr Pirates, robbers, and tyrants: the common enemies of all mankind. Murder, treachery, deception, fraud, abduction, ambush, and…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores the origins, sources, and nature of the so-called modern ‘western legal tradition’ from the fall of Rome to the formation of…
Mondays & Wednesdays 11:15 am -12:10 pm Online Synchronous + Fridays Online Asynchronous Dr. Erika Gasser This course focuses on the Salem/Essex County, Massachusetts witchcraft trials in 1692….
This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses in “Colonial America” have traditionally followed the beginnings and development of…
Spring 2023; T/TH 2:00 – 3:30 PM Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This course focuses on the central role played by women, sex, gender, and race in the conquest and colonization of Latin…
T/Th 12:30 – 1:50PM Dr. Wayne Durrill This course will examine the origins and development of race-based chattel slavery in British North America and the United States, the…
Dr. Stephen Porter This course investigates the major ideologies, movements, and laws from the 17th through 19th centuries that gave shape to the “Atlantic World “, helped to define…
Dr. Stephen Porter This course explores the intersections between international human rights and U.S. foreign relations, broadly construed, focusing primarily on developments since World War I, to create…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 am -10:50 am Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is an introduction to the life of Abraham Lincoln in the era of the Civil War….
This course will examine the struggle of African-Americans to achieve equality and civil rights from the beginning of the “Jim Crow” era through to the present with emphasis…
Spring 2023; T/TH 3:30 – 4:50 PM Dr. Tracy Teslow This class will examine the thinking and practices that lie behind collecting and exhibiting artifacts of history, science, and culture….
This course explores the rise of protest movements that emerged from the 1960s through the early 2000s that self-consciously embraced an international framework, often operating on a transnational scale.
Dr. Longfield Karr This class examines the institution, meaning, and historical significance of the development of the rule of law and due process by critically examining some of…
Dr. Sigrun Haude The course explores the roots of the reformations, their theological and religious profiles , and their social, political, economic, and cultural underpinnings. It evaluates these movements in the context…
Online – Asynchronous Dr. Katherine Sorrels This course investigates the rise of the Nazi Party, the National Socialist seizure of power, and the policies of the Nazi state…
Dr. Stephen Porter Explores the historical roots of contemporary international refugee crises global migration, and the role played by American people, institutions, politics, and culture in these affairs….
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara People in the U.S. often think of African slavery as a North American story. But the vast majority of enslaved Africans went to Latin America, ten…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm Dr. Brianna Leavitt- Alcantara We tend to imagine the Mexica (“Aztec”), Inkan, and Mayan empires as timeless ancient dynasties reigning…
Spring 2023; Dr. Holly McGee It is impossible to understand the true history of this nation, or place into proper context the current racial crisis in society, without…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr Although Human Rights issues continue to be debated and contested, the longer history and intellectual tradition of Human Rights is often unexamined and even…
Dr. Erika A Gasser This course focuses on the trades in three commodities, each of which played a central role in the economic, social, and military development of the…
Dr. Erika Gasser Drawing upon primary and secondary sources, literature, and images, this course explores how women and men negotiated social and cultural identities in early modern Britain, colonial British North…
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm Dr. Isaac Campos This course explores the history of the Cold War in Latin America, with particular emphasis on the way…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This course examines the development of the Spanish Inquisition from its medieval roots to its early nineteenth-century demise. The focus of the course is both…
This course is co-taught by Dr. Susan Longfield Karr & Dr. Stephen Porter Human rights are everywhere. We see them as affirming the core values of human life,…
Dr. Isaac Campos This course examines the business, culture, policy, legal, and public health implications of drugs and the broader category of addiction since 1980. Over the course of the semester, we…
This course analyses the development of American cities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. With a mix of environmental and urban history techniques, the class addresses both…
