An introduction to the skills of historical research writing. Preferably to be taken during the sophomore year. Required of all history majors.

An introduction to the skills of historical research writing. Preferably to be taken during the sophomore year. Required of all history majors.

This course provides students with a grounding in the ways computing can improve and extend our understanding of historical evidence. The first third of this course is devoted to learning narrative history of a particular thematic, geographic, or chronologically bounded historical topic. This portion of the course introduces a relevant historical corpora that will serve as the archive or dataset that students will draw upon to create original research projects during the final third of the course.

This course will examine the role of the United States in the Cold War, focusing on the social, cultural, economic, and political facets of this conflict in U.S. history between 1945 and 1991.

This course will furnish upper level UK ROTC Cadets, and qualified History majors or minors with the methodological tools and materials needed to gain a more detailed understanding of American Military History and to put together a major research paper.

An exploration of the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in literature, film and historical writing and an assessment of the limits of representation of catastrophe and trauma.

A history of Judeo-Christian religious thought from the rise of Judaism through the Protestant Reformation.

Historically how do we define crime? From ancient civilizations to the present, humanity has suffered, defined and dealt with crimes---civil, religious and criminal. Taking a global approach to the historical development of crime and criminal law, we explore how the past continues to affect our present and why we still have crime after centuries of attempting to eradicate it --just as Hammurabi did 1792- 1750 BCE. This course and the resulting research project allow you to pursue in depth a historical topic on crime and present this analysis to your peers.

Readings, research, and discussions in seminar format to illuminate problems of historical and contemporary significance, in areas of special faculty competence. This topics course is not restricted to geographical region or time period. May be repeated up to fifteen credits.

Readings, research, and discussions in seminar format to illuminate problems of historical and contemporary significance in areas of special faculty competence. Covers topics related to U.S. history since 1789. May be repeated up to 15 credit hours under different subtitles.