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HIST 5000-801: Historical Methods: Introduction to the Professional Study of History - John Willis

This course is designed to introduce graduate students in the Department of History to the study of the discipline. Students learn about a wide range of historical methodologies and ideas that have shaped - and continue to shape - our field. We will critically engage and analyze the work of prominent (and lesser known) scholars whose writings reflect important historical themes. We will disagree with some, challenge the methodologies, sources, and argumentation of others, and find inspiration in thinking of new ways to further our own research. One of the course's main focuses is on writing, analysis, and argumentation, all of which are skills that we will continue to hone throughout the semester. We will also spend time learning about professional aspects of the field, from writing book reviews, to submitting articles to journals, to attending national conferences.

HIST 5012-801: Graduate Colloquium in European History: Europe Since 1789 - Erin Hutchinson

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to historical scholarship on modern Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. The readings are designed to highlight major topics in the history of the period while also serving as an introduction to major approaches to writing history. We will examine significant events like the French Revolution, the world wars, the collapse of communism, and the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. We will also explore important themes, such as empire, nationalism, and memory. The books we will be reading offer a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches. Each seminar meeting will focus on an individual book (or sometimes a book with a companion article). Our goal during discussion will be to rip these books apart (in a positive way!) to understand how they are constructed and what we might learn and apply in our own work.

HIST 5106-801: Graduate Colloquium in United States History to 1865 - Honor Sachs

This course is the first half of a two-part graduate colloquium in American History. This course introduces the major themes and historiographies that have shaped scholarship on early North America and the Atlantic World using both new works and classic texts. We will engage the historiography from a variety of perspectives – imperial, social, political, and ideological, among others – in order to understand how North American populations of men and women, elite and common, Indigenous and European, free and enslaved, forged diverse experiences through violence, religion, gender, law, diplomacy, and culture. Over the course of the semester, you will develop a foundation of knowledge about colonial, revolutionary, and early national experience that will guide you through your graduate examinations, assist you in future research, and help you become better teachers, writers, and thinkers.

HIST 5554-801: Researching European Jewish Life - Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

This class is a research and learning initiative of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·'s History Department with the Department of History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies at the Open University of Israel and the Center for Research in Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. It revolves around an in-person research seminar in Europe. Topics will vary, beginning with a focus on autobiographical documents in the study of twentieth-century German Jewish life.

HIST 6800-801: Readings in Global History: Capitalism and Global Labor - Tony Wood

This course is designed to introduce students to historical writing on two intertwined themes: the development of capitalism and its transformative impact on labor across the world. We will discuss definitions of capitalism – what makes it historically distinctive? – and address key debates on the relationship between its systemic evolution and the histories of slavery, technology, race, class, gender, migration, and revolution. We will be reading books drawn from a variety of regional specialisms and periods, and that take different methodological approaches. But across that range, we will draw out common themes and questions, and we will be consistently guided by the question of what it means to think and write globally.