READINGS IN US HISTORY 1820-1898
56:512:506:01
TH 6:00 pm – 8:50 pm
Professor Woloson
History 506 offers an extensive and advanced introduction to the historiography of the nineteenth century from the Panic of 1819 and the Missouri Crisis through the 1890s. It is intended to prepare graduate students for examinations in the field and to serve as a foundation of knowledge for those who will teach and research in the period. Principal themes addressed are: the development of American capitalism and its relations with free and slave labor, the democratization of American society, culture, and politics, the conflict to control the North American Continent, the rise of sectional conflict and violence, and the remaking of economic, racial, gender, social, political, and cultural relations as the United States emerged as an industrial and nascent world power.
RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM IN US, 1945 TO PRESENT
56:512:512:01
T 6:00 pm – 8:50 pm
Professor Goodman
This graduate course is an intensive collaborative research seminar designed to help students produce an original research paper on the United States and the world since 1945.
READINGS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877
56:512:541:01
M 6:00 pm – 8:50 pm
Professor Boyd
This course provides an introduction to the history of black people in America, with a survey of African backgrounds, the history of enslavement and resistance to slavery, and the evolution of black leadership through the Civil War (ending in 1865). Focal points include the transatlantic slave trade, the transition from African to African American culture, the black family, the movement for abolition, and African American’s participation in the Civil War. We will explore the major political developments of the era, as well as how slavery and the Civil War were memorialized through monuments and celebrations.
READINGS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: THE RISE OF THE STATE
56:512:552:01
T 2:00 pm – 4:55 pm
Professor Mokhberi
Early Modern Europe describes the period that ushered Europeans from the “Middle Ages” to the “Modern” period. This course will focus on Europe’s transformation from a weak backwater to a world power by investigating the birth of the state. Students will be introduced to the most influential historical arguments regarding the emergence of the state from a set of fragmented feudal kingdoms to the modern “information” state and capable of colonial power. The course will move chronologically from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century and expose students to the historiography of early modern Europe from the Annales school to current methods of cultural and world history.
WRITING SEMINAR
RESEARCH TOPIC: 20TH CENTURY GLOBAL HISTORY
56:512:650:01
W 2:05 pm – 5:05 pm
Professor Marker
Research course on the principal themes of twentieth-century global history.
ADVANCED TOPICS IN PUBLIC HISTORY
DIGITAL HISTORY
56:512:679:01
TH 2:00 pm – 4:55 pm
Professor Bayker
For more information about this course and this year’s theme and our collaboration with the Paul Robeson Library, see go.rutgers.edu/dighist
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of digital history. Readings examine the emergence of digital history as a field and its relationship to public history and digital humanities. Students experiment with a variety of digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and presenting history to public audiences.
INTERNSHIP IN PUBLIC HISTORY
56:512:699:01
By arrangement
Professor Woloson
Supervised work experience in a public history office or private institutional setting, involving project work for one semester or a summer.
Independent Study in History
56:512:698:01, section 02
By Arrangement
Staff
Independent reading under the direction of a member of the department.