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Fall 2025

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Fall 2023

Spring 2023

Fall 2022

Spring 2022

Fall 2021

  • History 200F
    Nationalism in Theory and History
  • History 203A
    Reacting to the Past: Days of Rage: Vietnam, 1968, and the Fall of the Presidency.
  • History 207A
    Digital Documentary Publishing.
  • History 279 [Guide no longer available]
    Mexican American History
  • History 498A
    Race, Ethnicity, and U.S. Cities.
  • History 498B [Guide no longer available]
    The U.S. in the Bad Neighbor Era

Spring 2021

  • History 172
    U.S. History since 1877 (Assignment Guide)
  • History 200A
    The Sexual Revolution in Global Perspective.
  • History 200B [Guide no longer available]
    Hong Kong Cinema: Between China and the World
  • History 200C
    The Atlantic World: Slavery, Disease, and Society.
  • History 200D
    Monarchy, From the Middle Ages to the Present
  • History 200E [Guide no longer available]
    Latinos, Labor, and Migration
  • History 200F
    U.S. Cultural History Since 1968.
  • History 498C
    Gender & Sexuality in US History.
  • History 498B
    History and Violence in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World.

Fall 2020

  • History 200B
    Family, Gender, and Law.
  • History 200E [Guide no longer available]
    Latinos, Labor, and Migration
  • History 203A [Guide no longer available]
    Reacting to the Past: Riots, Revolutions, and Revolts
  • History 498C
    Gender & Sexuality in US History

Spring 2020

  • History 105 [Guide no longer available]
    Latin America to Independence.
  • History 200B
    Gender and Crime in the Early Modern World, 1450-1815.
  • History 200C [Guide no longer available]
    Queer Sexualities.
  • History 200D
    Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Apartheid in South Africa.
  • History 381A [Guide no longer available]
    Urban History.
  • History 498A
    U.S. Labor History.
  • History 498B [Guide no longer available]
    Sex and Science.
  • History 498D
    African History.

Fall 2019

  • History / East Asian Languages and Cultures 120 (Sections AD1, AD3, AD6) [Guide no longer available]
    East Asian Civilizations.
  • History 259 [Guide no longer available]
    Global History of World War II
  • History 200D [Guide no longer available]
    Race, Sports, and Politics: Developing a Historical Perspective.
  • History 498D
    U.S. Empire.

Spring 2019

  • History 101 [Guide no longer available]
    History Now! European Nationalism Now – and Then
  • History 105 [Guide no longer available]
    Latin America to Independence.
  • History 200B
    The American Family.
  • History 498 [Guide no longer available]
    Revolution in Science.

Fall 2018

  • History 200A
    The Atlantic World: Slavery, Disease, and Society.
  • History 200B [Guide no longer available]
    Music in History.
  • History 200D [Guide no longer available]
    A Queer America.
  • History 495A/498A
    Family in History.
  • History 498B
    American Empire.
  • History Proseminar
    Basic information on using the University Library for new History graduate students.

Spring 2018

  • African American Studies 495 [Guide no longer available]
    Senior thesis seminar
  • History 101C [Guide no longer available]
    History Now: LGBTQ Rights, from the Streets to the Supreme Court.

Fall 2017

  • History 105 [Guide no longer available]
    Latin American to Independence.
  • History 170/171 [Guide no longer available]
    U.S. History to 1877.
  • History 200A [Guide no longer available]
    Crime, Civil Disobedience, and Gender at the University of Illinois, 1867-Present.
  • History 200D
    The History of the Family.
  • History 203 [Guide no longer available]
    Reacting to the Past: Riots, Revolutions, and Revolts.
  • History 276 [Guide no longer available]
    African American History since Reconstruction.
  • History 498A
    The Room Where it Happens: U.S. Presidential Leadership in the Long 19th Century (Stretching to 1913).
  • History 498B
    The History of Travel

Summer 2017

Spring 2017

  • African American Studies 220
    An introduction to research methods in African American Studies.
  • History 200C
    The 1970s
  • History 200D [Guide no longer available]
    Film and Historical Narrative.
  • History 492
    Historiography and Methodology (History Honors Seminar).
  • History 495/498A [Guide no longer available]
    The Age of Democratic Revolutions 1776-1825.
  • History 495/498D
    American Empire: Global Power and Its Limits.
  • History 495/498E [Guide no longer available]
    Race and Ethnicity in the Global Nineteenth Century.

Fall 2016

  • History 200D [Guide no longer available]
    Music in History.
  • History 472
    Immigrant America.
  • History 498C [Guide no longer available]
    The Foreign Gaze: Latin America in the Eyes of Travelers, 1750-1950.
  • History 498D/495D
    The Family in History.

Spring 2016

  • African American Studies 495 [Guide no longer available]
    Senior Research Seminar.
  • History 101 (Parkland College) [Guide no longer available]
    Western Civilization, Antiquity to 1715.
  • History 143 [Guide no longer available]
    A Guide for the Final Paper Writing Assignment.
  • History 381 [Guide no longer available]
    Exploring the Modern City: New York, London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, and Beyond.
  • History 495/498C [Guide no longer available]
    Islam in Africa.
  • History 498B
    The Global 1960s.

Fall 2015

Fall 2014

  • History 200E
    Family, Gender, and Law: Transitions, East and West.

Spring 2014

  • History 200C
    History of Emotions: United States, 1880s-1960s

Fall 2013

  • History 498A/495AH [Guide no longer available]
    The Family in History
  • Religious Studies 435 / History 486 [Guide no longer available]
    Revivalism and Evangelicalism.

Spring 2012

  • African American Studies 495 [Guide no longer available]
    Senior Thesis Seminar
  • History 379 [Guide no longer available]
    Latina/os and the City.
  • History 472
    Immigrant America.
  • History 495AH/498A [Guide no longer available]
    American Public Health and Health Policy, ca. 1865-1970.
  • History 498B [Guide no longer available]
    U.S. Cultures of Space and Place, 1830-2000.
  • History 498C [Guide no longer available]
    Orientalism and Its Critics.
  • History 498D
    Global Encounters: Narratives of Conquest, Exploration, and Settlement.
  • History 498H [Guide no longer available]
    Europe and the World, 1600-1750.

Fall 2011

  • Educational Policy Studies 421 [Guide no longer available]
    Racial and Ethnic Families.
  • History 200C [Guide no longer available]
    Visual History.
  • History 200E [Guide no longer available]
    Women and Gender in East Asia.
  • History 200I
    Immigrant Communities.
  • History 498A/495A [Guide no longer available]
    U.S. Inequalities.
  • History 498D [Guide no longer available]
    The Foreign Gaze: Latin America in the Eyes of Travelers, Missionaries, Scientists, Engineers, Businessmen, and Diplomats, 1750-1950.
  • History 498K [Guide no longer available]
    The Jewish Atlantic World, 1450-1800.

Summer 2011

  • History 352 [Guide no longer available]
    Europe in the World, 1750 to the Present.

Spring 2011

  • History 200A [Guide no longer available]
    Exploring the Modern City: London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg.
  • History 200B [Guide no longer available]
    Poverty.
  • History 472
    Immigrant America.
  • History 352 [Guide no longer available]
    Europe in the World, 1750 to the Present
  • History 498D [Guide no longer available]
    Europe in the World, 1750 to the Present
  • History 392A
    The Global 1960s
  • History 498M
    American Empire.
  • History 573A [Guide no longer available]
    Immigration, Race, and Class in the 20th Century United States.

Fall 2010

  • History 200B
    The European Image of Africa.
  • History 200I
    Immigrant Communities.
  • History 396C [Guide no longer available]
    History of Israel.
  • History 498A [Guide no longer available]
    History and Film.
  • History 498B [Guide no longer available]
    Chicago: An Ethnic and Racial History.
  • History 498D [Guide no longer available]
    The Eastern Question.

Summer 2010

  • Religious Studies 235 [Guide no longer available]
    History of Religion in America: Diversity, Discord, Dialogue.

Spring 2010

  • East Asian Languages and Cultures 550 [Guide no longer available]
    Legal History of China
  • Educational Policy Studies 421 [Guide no longer available]
    Racial and Ethnic Families.
  • History 200F [Guide no longer available]
    Class and Citizenship in Postwar America.
  • History 295 [Guide no longer available]
    Chicago: a Social History.
  • History 492C
    Historiography and Methodology.
  • History 495 [Guide no longer available]
    Africa and Decolonization
  • History 498 [Guide no longer available]
    Visual History.
  • History 498M
    History of Travel.
  • History 551 [Guide no longer available]
    Problems in East European History

Fall 2009

  • History 200A
    Family, Gender, and Law: Transitions, East and West.
  • History 200C [Guide no longer available]
    Children.
  • History 200E
    Race and the City.
  • History 200F [Guide no longer available]
    Class and Citizenship in Postwar America: the Rise and Fall of the American Working Classes.
  • History 200I
    Immigrant Communities in the United States.
  • History 495 [Guide no longer available]
    Chicago: a Social History.
  • History 498A [Guide no longer available]
    Confronting the Great Depression.
  • History 498F [Guide no longer available]
    Nation and the Geographic Imagination.
  • History 498K
    A Catastrophic Dependence or “More oil, ever more oil!”
  • History 498R
    History and Film.
  • Religious Studies 435 / History 486 [Guide no longer available]
    Revivalism and Evangelicalism in America

Summer 2009

  • Religious Studies 235 [Guide no longer available]
    History of Religion in America: Diversity, Discord, Dialogue.

Spring 2009

  • Educational Policy Studies 199BAR [Guide no longer available]
    Vietnam and the Globalization of Student Protests in the 1960s.
  • History 200 [Guide no longer available]
    Baseball and Integration.
  • History 200D [Guide no longer available]
    Children.
  • History 200C [Guide no longer available]
    Visual History
  • History 498D [Guide no longer available]
    The Eastern Question
  • History 470/African American Studies 453 [Guide no longer available]
    Plantation Societies in the Americas.
  • History 472
    Immigrant America.
  • History 495A [Guide no longer available]
    Incredible India?
  • History 498B [Guide no longer available]
    Lincoln, Visual Culture, and Nation Building.
  • History 498C
    American Empire.
  • History 498H [Guide no longer available]
    Obscenity, Censorship, and the Regulation of Morals in the United States from 1873 to the Present.
  • History 502B [Guide no longer available]
    Comparative Nationalism.
  • Journalism 420 [Guide no longer available]
    News Editing.
  • Religious Studies 436 [Guide no longer available]
    Religion in America, 1900-1941.

Fall 2008

  • Theater 399/591 & African American Studies 389 [Guide no longer available]
    African American Women in Theater.
  • History 200A
    Crime and Gender in Early Modern Europe.
  • History 498A [Guide no longer available]
    Baseball and Integration.
  • History 498B [Guide no longer available]
    The French Revolution.
  • History 498D [Guide no longer available]
    Local History in a Global Context.

Summer 2008

  • History 200A [Guide no longer available]
    History of Travel and Mobility in America
  • Religious Studies 235 / History 239 [Guide no longer available]
    History of Religion in America

Spring 2008

  • African American Studies 100 [Guide no longer available]
    Introduction to African American Studies
  • History 200D [Guide no longer available]
    Poverty
  • History 295 [Guide no longer available]
    Chicago: A Social History
  • History 492C
    Historiography and Methodology
  • History 498B [Guide no longer available]
    Getting Personal: Life Writing as History in Modern Europe
  • History 498F [Guide no longer available]
    Finding Book Reviews
  • History 498H [Guide no longer available]
    Romantic Democracy, Politics and Literature in the Age of Jackson
  • Religious Studies 435 / History 486 [Guide no longer available]
    Revivalism and Evangelicalism in America

Fall 2007

  • English 116-U1 [Guide no longer available]
    Introduction to American Literature
  • HIS 498-D [Guide no longer available]
    Women Candidates for US President
  • HIS 498-I [Guide no longer available]
    Americanism and Anti-Americanism: 1890-1990
  • HIS 498-J [Guide no longer available]
    Nation and the Geographic Imagination
  • HIS 507 [Guide no longer available]
    Recovering the Voices of the Colonized: Trends in Latin American Ethnohistory

Spring 2007

  • EPS 421 / SOC 421 [Guide no longer available]
    Racial and Ethnic Families
    Library Assignment #1 on Race 1954-2004 (Brown v. Board of Education Pathfinder) [Guide no longer available]

Spring 2006

  • AFRO 474 / HIST 478 [Guide no longer available]
    Black Freedom Movements, 1955-present
  • Asian American Studies 199 [Guide no longer available]
    Buddhism in Asian America
  • History 498-I [Guide no longer available]
    The Jewish Atlantic World
  • History 498-J [Guide no longer available]
    The Cold War
  • History 498-K [Guide no longer available]
    Histories of Childhood: A Global Perspective

Fall 2005

  • History 200-H [Guide no longer available]
  • History 498-J [Guide no longer available]
  • History 498-K [Guide no longer available]