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HIST 612 Cities and Politics of Memory

This course investigates how modern turmoil and traumas have transformed urban spaces into commemorative battlegrounds. Focusing especially on post-1945 European urban transformations, students explore the intersection of cities with modernism, nationalism, forced migration, and memory.

HIST 619 The Holocaust

This course traces the history of anti-Semitism and the development of racism that led to the Holocaust. It examines the historical development of the Final Solution and considers the variety of responses to Jewish persecution by the Nazi perpetrators, the Jews, and the nations of the world.

HIST-643 History of Israel

This course traces the development of modern political Zionism in nineteenth-century Europe; the historical background leading to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948; and the history of Israel since then, including patterns of Jewish immigration and its relationship to the Arab world.

HIST-645 The Cold War and the Spy Novel

This course explores the history of the Cold War, introducing students not only to relevant historical documents, but also to spy novels and films to analyze the relationship between history, ideology, literature, and film. The course deconstructs the Cold War's most important ingredients--smokescreens and stereotypes

HIST-648 Amer Culture in Nuclear Age

This course examines the evolution of American culture in the nuclear age, with particular emphasis on how the threat of nuclear war and annihilation have shaped American thought and behavior. Central to this study is an exploration of the history of the nuclear arms race in the context of the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the Cold War.

HIST-653 Civil War and Reconstruction

This course covers Civil War history from the compromise of 1850 to the final withdrawal of federal troops from the South in 1877. It includes Antebellum reform, sectional conflict, black slavery, secession, and post-war racial and political problems. Political and social issues are emphasized, rather than a narrative of battles and skirmishes.

HIST-673 American Jewish History

Today American Jewry constitutes the preeminent diaspora Jewish community. This course traces its historical development by examining the waves of Jewish immigration to the United States and the institutions that American Jews created to sustain their community.