Course Guides

Fall 2025

• Library Research for History Students: An Introduction
  A general guide to using the library for historical research.
• History 200B
  Nationalism in Theory and History.
• History 498B
  Political Movements in U.S. History.

Spring 2025

• History 498A
  Gender and Sexuality in U.S. History.
• History 200
  Monarchy, Middle Ages to the Present.
• Urban History research guide
  A general research guide for students interested in Urban History.
• Oral History research guide
  A general research guide for students interested in Oral History.
• Twentieth-Century U.S. History
  A general research guide for students in 20th-century U.S. History courses.

Spring 2024

• History 200C
  Queer Sexualities.
• History 200F
  U.S. Expansion to 1898.
• History 202
  American Environmental History.
• History 498A
  Empires in Theory and History.
• History 498B
  Getting Medieval: Medievalisms in the Modern World
• History 498D
  The Racial Dimensions of Medicine and Public Health

Fall 2023

• Twentieth-Century U.S. History
  A general research guide for students in 20th-century U.S. History courses.
• English 200P
  Introduction to Literature and Culture: Adventures in Reading.
• History 200C
  Gender, Sexuality, and Law (U.S.).
• History 200
  Monarchy, Middle Ages to the Present.
• History 200E
  The 1970s
• History 207A
  Digital Documentary Publishing.
• History 400
  War, Society, Politics, and Culture: Viet Nam.
• History 498D
  Integration and the Transformation of American Sport.

Spring 2023

• Business Administration 383
  Global Business History.
• History 370
  Colonial American History
• History 200C
  The Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925.
• History 200D
  Nationalism in Theory and History
• History 498A
  Empires in Theory and History

Fall 2022

• History 392A
  The 1960s in U.S. History.
• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Monarchy, From the Middle Ages to the Present
• History 207A
  Digital Documentary Publishing.
• History 498B
  Histories of Sexuality.
• History 498D
  U.S. Empire.
• Philosophy 435U3/G4 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Social Philosophy.
• History 200A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The History of Human Skin from the Middle Ages to the Present

Spring 2022

• History 200B
  Race and the City.
• History 200C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Thinking Historically about Food
• History 498A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Integration and Sports.
• History 498C
  A Queer United States

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 archived, please ask for assistance]
  Mexican American History
• History 498A
  Race, Ethnicity, and U.S. Cities.
• History 498B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The U.S. in the Bad Neighbor Era

Spring 2021

• History 172 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  U.S. History since 1877 (Assignment Guide)
• History 200A
  The Sexual Revolution in Global Perspective.
• History 200B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Hong Kong Cinema: Between China and the World
• History 200C
  The Atlantic World: Slavery, Disease, and Society.
• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Monarchy, From the Middle Ages to the Present
• History 200E [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  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 archived, please ask for assistance]
  Latinos, Labor, and Migration
• History 203A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Reacting to the Past: Riots, Revolutions, and Revolts
• History 498C
  Gender & Sexuality in US History

Spring 2020

• History 105 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Latin America to Independence.
• History 200B
  Gender and Crime in the Early Modern World, 1450-1815.
• History 200C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Queer Sexualities.
• History 200D
  Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Apartheid in South Africa.
• History 381A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Urban History.
• History 498A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  U.S. Labor History.
• History 498B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Sex and Science.
• History 498D
  African History.

Fall 2019

• History / East Asian Languages and Cultures 120 (Sections AD1, AD3, AD6) [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  East Asian Civilizations.
• History 259 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Global History of World War II
• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Race, Sports, and Politics: Developing a Historical Perspective.
• History 498D
  U.S. Empire.

Spring 2019

• History 101 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History Now! European Nationalism Now – and Then
• History 105 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Latin America to Independence.
• History 498 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Revolution in Science.

Fall 2018

• History 200A
  The Atlantic World: Slavery, Disease, and Society.
• History 200B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Music in History.
• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  A Queer America.
• History 495A/498A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  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 archived, please ask for assistance]
  Senior thesis seminar
• History 101C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History Now: LGBTQ Rights, from the Streets to the Supreme Court.

Fall 2017

• History 105 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Latin American to Independence.
• History 170/171 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  U.S. History to 1877.
• History 200A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Crime, Civil Disobedience, and Gender at the University of Illinois, 1867-Present.
• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The History of the Family.
• History 203 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Reacting to the Past: Riots, Revolutions, and Revolts.
• History 276 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  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

• History 300
  Film and the Cold War

Spring 2017

• African American Studies 220
  An introduction to research methods in African American Studies.
• History 200C
  The 1970s
• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Film and Historical Narrative.
• History 492 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Historiography and Methodology (History Honors Seminar).
• History 495/498A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Age of Democratic Revolutions 1776-1825.
• History 495/498D
  American Empire: Global Power and Its Limits.
• History 495/498E [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Race and Ethnicity in the Global Nineteenth Century.

Fall 2016

• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Music in History.
• History 472
  Immigrant America.
• History 498C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Foreign Gaze: Latin America in the Eyes of Travelers, 1750-1950.
• History 498D/495D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Family in History.

Spring 2016

• African American Studies 495 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Senior Research Seminar.
• History 101 (Parkland College) [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Western Civilization, Antiquity to 1715.
• History 143 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  A Guide for the Final Paper Writing Assignment.
• History 381 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Exploring the Modern City: New York, London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, and Beyond.
• History 495/498C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Islam in Africa.
• History 498B
  The Global 1960s.

Fall 2015

• History 200B
  History of Luxury.
• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Families and History.
• History 472
  Immigrant America.

Fall 2014

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

Spring 2014

• History 200C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History of Emotions: United States, 1880s-1960s

Fall 2013

• History 498A/495AH [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Family in History
• Religious Studies 435 / History 486 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Revivalism and Evangelicalism.

Spring 2012

• African American Studies 495 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Senior Thesis Seminar
• History 379 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Latina/os and the City.
• History 472
  Immigrant America.
• History 495AH/498A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  American Public Health and Health Policy, ca. 1865-1970.
• History 498B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  U.S. Cultures of Space and Place, 1830-2000.
• History 498C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Orientalism and Its Critics.
• History 498D
  Global Encounters: Narratives of Conquest, Exploration, and Settlement.
• History 498H [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Europe and the World, 1600-1750.

Fall 2011

• Educational Policy Studies 421 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Racial and Ethnic Families.
• History 200C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Visual History.
• History 200E [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Women and Gender in East Asia.
• History 200I
  Immigrant Communities.
• History 498A/495A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  U.S. Inequalities.
• History 498D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Foreign Gaze: Latin America in the Eyes of Travelers, Missionaries, Scientists, Engineers, Businessmen, and Diplomats, 1750-1950.
• History 498K [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Jewish Atlantic World, 1450-1800.

Summer 2011

• History 352 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Europe in the World, 1750 to the Present.

Spring 2011

• History 200A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Exploring the Modern City: London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg.
• History 200B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Poverty.
• History 472
  Immigrant America.
• History 352 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Europe in the World, 1750 to the Present
• History 498D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Europe in the World, 1750 to the Present
• History 392A
  The Global 1960s
• History 498M
  American Empire.
• History 573A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Immigration, Race, and Class in the 20th Century United States.

Fall 2010

• History 200B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The European Image of Africa.
• History 200I
  Immigrant Communities.
• History 396C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History of Israel.
• History 498A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History and Film.
• History 498B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Chicago: An Ethnic and Racial History.
• History 498D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Eastern Question.

Summer 2010

• Religious Studies 235 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History of Religion in America: Diversity, Discord, Dialogue.

Spring 2010

• East Asian Languages and Cultures 550 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Legal History of China
• Educational Policy Studies 421 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Racial and Ethnic Families.
• History 200F [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Class and Citizenship in Postwar America.
• History 295 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Chicago: a Social History.
• History 492C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Historiography and Methodology.
• History 495 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Africa and Decolonization
• History 498 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Visual History.
• History 498M
  History of Travel.
• History 551 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Problems in East European History

Fall 2009

• History 200A
  Family, Gender, and Law: Transitions, East and West.
• History 200C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Children.
• History 200E
  Race and the City.
• History 200F [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  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 archived, please ask for assistance]
  Chicago: a Social History.
• History 498A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Confronting the Great Depression.
• History 498F [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Nation and the Geographic Imagination.
• History 498K
  A Catastrophic Dependence or “More oil, ever more oil!”
• History 498R [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History and Film.
• Religious Studies 435 / History 486 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Revivalism and Evangelicalism in America

Summer 2009

• Religious Studies 235 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History of Religion in America: Diversity, Discord, Dialogue.

Spring 2009

• Educational Policy Studies 199BAR [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Vietnam and the Globalization of Student Protests in the 1960s.
• History 200 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Baseball and Integration.
• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Children.
• History 200C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Visual History
• History 498D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Eastern Question
• History 470/African American Studies 453 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Plantation Societies in the Americas.
• History 472
  Immigrant America.
• History 495A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Incredible India?
• History 498B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Lincoln, Visual Culture, and Nation Building.
• History 498C
  American Empire.
• History 498H [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Obscenity, Censorship, and the Regulation of Morals in the United States from 1873 to the Present.
• History 502B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Comparative Nationalism.
• Journalism 420 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  News Editing.
• Religious Studies 436 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Religion in America, 1900-1941.

Fall 2008

• Theater 399/591 & African American Studies 389 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  African American Women in Theater.
• History 200A
  Crime and Gender in Early Modern Europe.
• History 498A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Baseball and Integration.
• History 498B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The French Revolution.
• History 498D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Local History in a Global Context.

Summer 2008

• History 200A [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History of Travel and Mobility in America
• Religious Studies 235 / History 239 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  History of Religion in America

Spring 2008

• African American Studies 100 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Introduction to African American Studies
• History 200D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Poverty
• History 295 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Chicago: A Social History
• History 492C [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Historiography and Methodology
• History 498B [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Getting Personal: Life Writing as History in Modern Europe
• History 498F [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Finding Book Reviews
• History 498H [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Romantic Democracy, Politics and Literature in the Age of Jackson
• Religious Studies 435 / History 486 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Revivalism and Evangelicalism in America

Fall 2007

• English 116-U1 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Introduction to American Literature
• HIS 498-D [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Women Candidates for US President
• HIS 498-I [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Americanism and Anti-Americanism: 1890-1990
• HIS 498-J [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Nation and the Geographic Imagination
• HIS 507 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Recovering the Voices of the Colonized: Trends in Latin American Ethnohistory

Spring 2007

• EPS 421 / SOC 421 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Racial and Ethnic Families
  Library Assignment #1 on Race 1954-2004 (Brown v. Board of Education Pathfinder) [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]

Spring 2006

• AFRO 474 / HIST 478 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Black Freedom Movements, 1955-present
• Asian American Studies 199 [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Buddhism in Asian America
• History 498-I [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Jewish Atlantic World
• History 498-J [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  The Cold War
• History 498-K [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
  Histories of Childhood: A Global Perspective

Fall 2005

• History 200-H [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
• History 498-J [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]
• History 498-K [Guide archived, please ask for assistance]