HISTORY 1100. SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1865. (Eight Week Session). Introduction to U.S. history through the Civil War, surveying political, economic, social, and cultural development of the American people. No credit will be given to students who have received credit in History 1400 (AP credit for U.S. History).

HISTORY 1200. SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1865. (Eight Week Session). Introduc-tion to U.S. history since 1865, surveying political, economic, social, and cultural development of the American people. No credit will be given to students who have received credit in History 1400 (AP credit for U.S. History).

HISTORY 4645. WITCHCRAFT AND WITCH HUNTING IN PRE-MODERN EUROPE. (Eight Week Session). In orders to examine how European peoples understood and experienced witchcraft, this course will combine lectures along with assigned readings of primary sources (i.e., historical documents) and secondary literature (i.e., what scholars have written about those primary sources). We will explore the differing—and sometimes similar—understandings and experiences of the educated and the unlettered, female and male, rural and urban, rich and poor, lay and religious. We will do this with a keen eye on the ways the study of witchcraft can enrich our historical understanding of issues such as gender relationships, modern state formation, the histories of science, law, and theology, popular and elite religion, demonology, and magic, as well as other relevant topics. Professor: J. Frymire; ARR Internet

HISTORY 4303. BLACK STUDIES IN RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND U.S. POLICY. (Four Week Session; Same as Black Studies 4303). Examines the causes and effects of the vast social and economic inequalities that exist between blacks and whites in US society, including the role federal, state, and local government play in creating and addressing such inequalities as financial, tax, environmental, trade, and foreign policies as well as issues of human and social welfare. Professor: W. Mack; ARR Internet

History 2004.3: African Oral History

“Oral history is both a process (doing an interview) and a product (the recorded interview); both a document (a source of information/data) and a text (a construc-tion of memory and language); both fun (listening to another person’s story) and challenging (making sense of another person’s story),” as historian Linda Shopes has written. Historians of Africa have pioneered innovative methods of process, product, document, and text when it comes to oral history. They have also raised important conceptual and ethical questions when it comes to this form of historical documentation, too. In this seminar, students will learn about oral history and theory from an Africanist perspective, while also conducting an oral history themselves. 

History 2004.5. Gender, Sexuality and the Global 1960s

(Same as Women’s and Gender Studies 2004.1) The 1960s invokes images of liberation, freedom, rebellion, and revolution. A time when young women and men across the world questioned their parents, their governments, and their expectations. This class explores the history of these 1960s and 1970s through the lenses of gender and sexuality, examining how the sexual revolution, second-wave feminism, gay liberation movements transformed social, cultural, and political norms in ways that proved transformative, and generated a powerful backlash. This course takes a global approach looking at how transnational calls for redefining gender and sexuality transformed ideas of family, public and private, and national liberation movements in different ways in different places. The class will provide space to think about how these global transformations inform the world we live in today. 

History 2150: The American Civil War: A Global History

In this class students will study the American Civil War from the perspective of global history. The familiar actors and events will be covered – the debate over slavery, the secession of the South, the rise of Abraham Lincoln, the great battles and generals, etc. But these familiar episodes will take on different meanings when viewed in relation to global structures of politics, economics, social relations, and ideology. The 1860s was at once a formative moment in the history of globalization and the key decade for the formation and consolidation of modern nations. There are two objectives to this class: first, to expose undergraduates to the historical, political, and moral education that the Civil War offers all of its students; and second, to introduce students to the enterprise of global history through a familiar and particularly illuminating historical event. 

History 2240/2240H: Flight in America: From the Wright Brothers to the Space Age

(Honors Section-Must be eligible for Honors Standing). This course focuses on the history of flying in the U.S. from its beginnings to the Apollo moon missions and the future of flight. In a little over a century, flying has transformed our world. We will focus on key innovations and the people behind them. The course books are mostly first-hand accounts by the men and women who lived this story and there are great videos about flight, excerpts of which we will use in class. 

History 2400: Social History of U.S. Women

(Same as Women and Gender Studies 2400). This course introduces students to the history of US women from the colonial period to the present. Lectures and readings will juxtapose the lives of individual women with larger cultural, scientific, and legal/political trends which helped to shape women’s lives. Although many aspects of women’s experiences are often assumed to be trans-historical, even the most seemingly essential do have a history. Students will explore the changing conceptions of what it means to be female as well as how understandings of female roles – e.g., mother, wife, worker – have changed over the past four hundred years. Students will also explore American’s women’s history in its more traditional legal and political contexts. Although this course will cover many events included in more conventional American history courses, students may find that seemingly familiar events and documents, from the American Revolution and the writing of the US Constitution to the counter-cultural movements of the twentieth century and beyond, look different when seen through the eyes of America’s women. 

History 2440: History of Missouri

Surveys the history of Missouri and its region from the Mississippian mound builders to modern times, sketching the changing character of the region’s society, economy, culture, and politics across the centuries. Particular attention will be paid to Missouri’s involve-ment in major national events (e.g., the Revolution, the conquest of the West, and the Civil War), the development of its major cities (especially St. Louis and Kansas City), and the surprisingly crucial Missouri roots of modern American popular culture.

History 2570: The First World War and Its Aftermath

The First World War was a war like no other one before. It lasted longer than nations had expected, was executed with new tech-nologies, and resulted in long lasting, devastating repercussions. It left roughly ten million soldiers and six million civilians dead, and countless others wounded physically and psychologically. Under the strain of war and defeat, four empires fell - Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire all collapsed. Large portions of France lay in ruins and England’s wealth shattered. Europe ceased to be the center of the world, as leadership passed to the United States in the west and Japan in the east. In the Euro-Asian territories of the old Russian Empire, a new colossus arose, the Soviet Union. Lost, too, was the 19th century’s easy confidence in human rationality, perfectibility, and progress. The war set the stage for disastrous events in the 20th century. In the wake of the “war to end all wars”, people looked for ways of dealing with the anxieties and pains of the war and that both new and old ways of living brought. There was a desire among the Europeans for stability, yet transformation. This course examines the experience of Europeans in the turbulent years during and immediately following the First World War. After investigating the origins and nature of WWI, we will then examine the political, social, and cultural climate of the interwar years. We will investigate the interwar period within the context of national and Imperial competition, trauma, and memory (e.g., shell shock and its treatment), cultural and gender politics, the rise of anti-Semitism, cultural and artistic production (e.g., Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealism), displacement and emigration, physical culture, totalitarianism, pro-natalism, and colonialism. Throughout the semester, students will work to develop their own research project based on primary documents from the period between 1900 and 1938. 

History 2950.1. Foundations of Historical Research: Living in Modern Europe

(History Majors Only-Please email Brittony Hein--corneillierb@missouri.edu, Sr. Academic Advisor for Permission Number). What does it mean to research and write like a historian? In this seminar, we will explore this question through the study of five (5) key topics of Modern European History: The French Revolution, Industrialization, the Rise of Modern Science, Commodity Culture & Empire, and the First World War. Throughout the course, students will be exposed to a wide range of people living in this period in order to reflect upon the diversity of experience. Students will learn tools with which to analyze primary documents and scholarly sources in order to understand what life was like for people living in Europe and its empires between 1789 and 1918. This Sophomore Seminar seeks to prepare students for upper-level history courses that require research papers. Throughout the semester, students will gain skills in locating historical sources (both online and at Ellis Library), developing clear and persuasive arguments, and organizing research papers that are based on primary documents. Each student will take on a research project on a subject of their choosing pertaining to the scope of the course. They will undertake this project through a variety of steps: attending library workshops, submitting an annotative bibliography, and developing a research proposal and a short research paper.

History 2950.2. Foundations of Historical Research: Reverberations of Empire and War: Europe 1914-1962

(History Majors Only-Please email Brittony Hein--corneillierb@missouri.edu, Sr. Academic Advisor for Permission Number). This sophomore seminar, introducing students to the production and consumption of historical research, focuses on the impact of global war and empire on the making of 20th century Europe and Europeans. Students will be able to research a variety of topics including, war and memory, decolonization, postwar and/or post-empire migration, the emergence of the European community, among others. As a class we will work with a variety of sources, including archival, memoir, media, and film. 

History 3220: U.S. Women’s Political History, 1880–Present

(Same as Women’s and Gender Studies 3220). "Following the end of the Civil War, American democratic institutions and notions of citizenship began to expand to embrace previously excluded groups. This course explores American women’s engagement with the American political process from the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, beginning with the organized movement to win women’s suffrage. Through readings, discussions, films, and written assignments, we will address questions of women's political history including the following: In what ways did America's founding political ideas and institutions allow for the participation of women? How has this changed over time? On what grounds have women organized as a group? What political goals have women activists sought? How have class and race affected women's political identities? How has global thought influenced women’s political development? How is women's political activism best understood in relationship to the conventional political spectrum (left vs. right)? In what ways have women political activists affected political outcomes? What is the relationship of women's politics to feminism? Is "women's politics" a useful concept?

History 3505. History of Ancient Egypt

This lecture course will explore the rise of ancient Egyptian civilization from its prehistoric origins to the late 1000’s BCE. Such an expansive survey of the world of the ancient pharaohs will emphasize diverse source materials related to some of the most significant social, political, and religious developments to impact Egyptian society from the great pyramid building dynasties of the Old Kingdom to the periods of dynamic expansion under prominent New Kingdom pharaohs. Topics include: the unification and formation of the Egyptian state; the role of the Pharaoh in society; Egyptian mythology and religion; the role of the pyramids and mummification in society, developments in science and technology, the archaeology of ancient Egypt and recent discoveries, including the legacy and reception of ancient Egypt in modernity. 

History 3545. World War II

Examines the origins, conduct, and consequences of the Second World War from a transnational perspective, with an emphasis on the wartime experience and occupation regimes of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Course materials analyze the political, military, cultural, and economic factors that shaped the nature of the war as an ideological struggle and a clash of empires. Special attention paid to assessing historical interpretations of the topic and dispelling common myths that surround it. 

History 3560. The Scientific Revolution, 1550-1800

This course covers the development of science (or “natural philosophy”) from the late Renaissance through the Enlightenment. This was an era of intellectual ferment and change that gave rise to new ideas about the natural world and how to understand it. This course will examine various aspects of this shift, including intellectual (experiment and demonstration), social (scientific societies), technological (new instruments and uses of mathematics), economic (links of colonization and science) changes. 

History 3640. Reformations and Religious Conflicts in Early Modern Europe

(1st 8-Weeks). For over 1000 years western Europeans shared the same Christian faith as defined by Roman popes and their theologians. In the wake of late medieval reform movements and Protestant theologians such as Martin Luther and John Calvin, Christian unity was replaced by multiple Christianities. Roman Catholics had their own reformation as well. We will examine religious thinking and practice (including that of common people) before and after the reformations (ca. 1400-1650), and study religious phenomena in their social, political, and intellectual contexts. We will end by considering the relation of the reformations to the creation of the modern state. 

History 3855. Japan and Britain, 1850-1940

(2nd 8-Weeks). The histories of Japan and Britain both offer a valuable insight into how imperialism shaped our world. Yet their histories are seldom examined in tandem. This course does so, by comparing the histories of the British and Japanese empires in the modern period and exploring the connections between them. Focusing on Anglo-Japanese relations in the transformative period between the Opium Wars and the Second World War, this course will be of interest to students of: - empire - international affairs/studies - East Asia - modern Britain - politics and constitutional affairs - warfare in the twentieth century. 

These Courses Are Restricted To History Majors Only Department Consent Required

Please email Brittony Hein--corneillierb@missouri.edu, 

Sr. Academic Advisor for Permission Number

All Seminars Are Writing Intensive

History 4972W. Oil and Energy

(History Majors only and Require Department Consent, Writing Intensive Capstone; Please email Brittony Hein--corneillierb@missouri.edu, Sr. Academic Advisor for Permission Number). This seminar examines the history of energy sources like oil, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Understanding the evolution of energy use over time helps illuminate the history of the American economy, U.S. foreign policy, the growth of cities and suburbs, climate change, and other developments that have shaped today’s world. As a Writing Intensive course, this seminar will include weekly responses to the readings and two longer papers. Students will employ a multi-step writing process, with steps that include developing a preliminary version of their arguments in outlines and rough drafts, incorporating feedback, revising, and creating polished final drafts. 

History 2004.6. Topics: Black Studies and the American Revolution at 250
(Same as Black Studies 2004.3). 

In light of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, this course will explore the founding of the United States and how it has been remembered from a Black Studies lens. The course will begin by exploring the experiences and perspectives of Black people during the American Revolutionary era. We will go on to study how Black people have remembered the American Revolution through time, including during similar commemorative moments (such as the 100th and 200th anniversaries). A central element of the course will be comparing and contrasting Black perspectives with other perspectives on the American Revolution and the country it produced." 

History 2100. The Revolutionary Transformation of America
(Same as Constitutional Democracy 2100)

This course covers the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution. Our readings and discussion will push us consider what made the Revolution so revolutionary and what the Revolution meant to the broad spectrum of people who lived through it. In answering these questions, students will begin to make their own assessments of just how radical, transformative, and global the Revolution truly was. Students will engage with both primary sources and scholarly assessments and take part in a role-playing game that simulates the experience of men and women considering Independence in the 1770s as they explore the origins and outcomes of the Revolution from wide-ranging perspectives. 

History 2120. The Young Republic
(Same as Constitutional Democracy 2120)

This seminar examines significant political, social, and cultural developments in the United States during the formative period from the ratification of the Constitution to the antebellum era and the competing interpretations of those developments. Topics will include elements of Constitutional Democracy (i.e. politics, political culture, and legal history) and the history of social and economic developments (i.e. race, class, slavery, capitalism, western expansion, gender, and religion) with a particular emphasis on understanding how this period set the stage for modern American politics and culture. Students will engage with primary source materials as well as scholarly studies that explore what the “Young Republic” was like for those who lived it. 

History 2630W. History of Christian Tradition
(Same as Religious Studies 2630W; Writing Intensive)

An overview of the origins and development of Christianities from the first century of the Common Era to the present day. Topic will include competing Christian theologies, colonialism, conversion narratives, globalization, religious violence, and heresy. 

History 3000. History of Religion in America to the Civil War
(Same as Religious Studies 3000)

A study of religion in America from the Pre-Columbian era to the Reconstruction era with emphasis on the social history of religion and a focus on the intersection of religion and race. We will pay special attention to the religious practices of Indigenous communities and enslaved Black Americans, as well as the role women played in American religion. 

History 4004.1. Topics in History-Social Science: The History of Policing and Incarceration in the U.S.
(Same as Black Studies 4004.1)

From seventeenth-century Colonial America to the George Floyd anti-police protests of 2020-21, this course will look at the history of policing and incarceration in United States’ history. This course will ask how has policing and incarceration evolved since the seventeenth century, and why? It will do this by interrogating the ways in which historians and other social scientists have examined policing and incarceration, paying particular attention to how these institutions have reflected specific eras of U.S. history. Moving chronologically, this course will look at policing and incarceration in Colonial America, the Antebellum South, Reconstruction and the post Reconstruction eras, the Progressive era, World War I, the 1920s-1950s, and into the modern era of militarized policing and mass incarceration. Lastly, it will pay particular attention to how policing and incarceration have interacted with and reacted to the post 1950s civil rights movements, post-1965 immigration, and the emergence of the New Right and neoliberalism in the 1980s. This course will also incorporate a transnational aspect to assess the ways the U.S. has implemented policing and incarceration to build and sustain U.S. empire. Finally, this course will examine the legacy of the criminal justice system in the U.S. and ask students to think critically about the ways it functions in our society and impact the ways in which live. 

History 4235. The Wire: Race, Urban Inequality and the “Crisis” of the American City
(Same as Black Studies 4335)

The HBO/MAX series “The Wire”, a crime drama based on the city of Baltimore, exposed the interlocking, structural realities giving shape to the landscapes, neighborhoods, and lived experiences of urban American during the early twenty-first century. Through vivid storytelling, “The Wire” complicates understandings of the “urban crisis” through a focus on the inner

workings of major institutions such as the media, public schools, politics, underground economies, public housing, and the criminal justice system and on the ways in which poor and working-class black residents negotiate power and survival. Using the show as a lens, this course will explore the way in which the carceral state – policing, incarceration, capitalism, racism, and public policy, has contributed to urban inequality in the post-1945 United States. 

History 4400. History of American Law
(Same as Constitutional Democracy 4400)

This course will provide an overview of the history of American law from the colonial period to the present. This course will emphasize the social construction of law. How does law influence the broader social world, and how do social currents and movements inflect legal change? This course will also focus on how law intersects with questions surrounding race, gender, sexuality, and class, and vice versa. No matter the field that students are interested in, the ability to critically analyze their world, and convey that analysis in writing, will be vital skills that students will be able to deploy going forward. 

History 4573. Religion in Missouri
(Same as Religious Studies 4573)

This research-intensive course introduces students to the people who have lived, died, travelled through, and settled in Missouri through representative case studies selected to interrogate essential questions of identity, Americanness, and the meanings of religion. Students will develop skills in ethnographic writing, oral history, archival research, and participate in site visits to communities and places of religious significance.