Examines the connections between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 to the present day, focusing especially on the legacies of slavery, race, and imperialism in Central America and the Caribbean.

Covers the conquests of Alexander the Great, and the main features of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire to the death of Constantine.

A general survey of the chief periods of Kentucky's growth and development from 1750 to the present.

This course provides an introduction to the history of Latinxs (and Hispanics, a distinction in terms the course will address) in the United States. It explores the diverse roots, changing identities, and social and political impact of various historical actors-women and men, natives and immigrants, political leaders and political dissidents, exiles and refugees-whose actions, interactions, and dynamics shaped the country and defined its character, its politics, its culture, its economics, and its social structures-in other words, its history.

Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. The rise of segregation and the ghetto and aspects of race relations are examined.

What we think of today as East Asia has a long history of both shared culture and separate experiences. In premodern East Asia, cultural contacts led to commonalities including systems of writing and ways of thought such as Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. In modern times and in becoming nations, China, Japan, and Korea each sought their own identity. The reforms and revolutions that Asia has experienced since 1600 can be viewed both in the context of the region and through the experience of each nation.

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 will furnish University of Kentucky Students 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.

This course will attempt to help students understand the events that resulted in the virtual destruction of Europe's Jews during the Second World War. Topics will include the history of anti-semitism, the ways in which Nazi policy against the Jews was implemented, Jewish resistance response of non-Jews and other governments to the Holocaust.