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Course Listing for HISTORY - Spring 2026 (ALL: 01/20/2026 - 05/08/2026)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
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2784 HIST-102-01 Europe Since 1715 1.00 LEC Kete, Kathleen TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  European history from 1715 to the present.
2786 HIST-117-01 Tokyo and Its Past 1.00 LEC Said Monteiro, Daniel M: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course explores Tokyo's history from its beginnings as a militarized shogunal city to the bustling capital of modern Japan. To understand this metropolis and its people, we encounter Tokyo and its predecessor Edo through specific spaces that constitute its sprawling landscape. We look at the shogun's castle and daimyo compounds, Japan's oldest zoo, revitalized neighborhoods, aging suburbs, nightclubs, and funeral parlors. You will learn about urban, cultural, and social history and acquire skills in analyzing politicized spaces across time. By the end of the course, you will not only have a better grasp of Tokyo's place in Japanese history, but also appreciate how cities emerge, grow, and decline, following a case study of one of the largest metropolitan areas on earth.
3019 HIST-206-01 Encounters in the Shogun's Era 1.00 SEM Said Monteiro, Daniel W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  After decades of political violence, Japan was unified under the hegemonic power of a single ruler, the shogun. During the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), the country was closed to foreign contact, creating a period of stability away from the vicissitudes of the world-or so goes the conventional narrative. In this course, you will learn how economic, cultural, and intellectual connections were established across boundaries under a militarized regime. We look at evidence that challenges the notion of Tokugawa Japan as a "double-bolted land." We encounter Chinese and European vessels on the southern shores, embassies from Korea and Ryukyu, and indigenous Ainu populations in the north. You will understand Japan within broader transnational contexts, tracing parallels between early modern and contemporary patterns of global interconnectedness.
2788 HIST-207-01 Law & Govt in Medieval England 1.00 LEC Elukin, Jonathan TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course will study the evolution of English law and government in the Middle Ages from the Norman Conquest to the Stuarts. It will emphasize key concepts of common law, the nature of English kingship, the development of Parliament, the status of particular groups in English society, the evolution of governmental power, as well as some comparative material from other medieval states. The course will be taught from primary source materials with supplementary readings from secondary scholarship. Qualifies for credit in the Formal Organizations minor.
2841 HIST-218-01 Modern African American Hist 1.00 LEC Miller, Channon TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-218-01
  This course journey tends to the making and meaning of Black people's lives in America upon seizing their freedom and breaking slavery's chains. It sojourns with them through Jim Crow – and its birth and re-birth through the generations. Further, the course follows the emergence and evolution of their freedom calls from Civil Rights and Black Power to Black Lives Matter. Under consideration here too, are Black people's forms of cultural expression, racial consciousness, spatial migrations, and community building.
2415 HIST-220-02 Possible Earths 1.00 SEM Cocco, Sean MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 5 seats reserved for first-year students, 7 for sophomores, and 3 for juniors.
  This seminar examines environmental thinking across histories and cultures in order to retrieve sources of hope and wisdom for a planetary future. Reading and discussion will foreground current humanity's vast inheritance when it comes to ways of existing in community with and knowing a living planet. Students will look critically at how texts, images, objects, and practices are historical evidence of the many ways humans have imagined natural communities and acted within them.
2863 HIST-220-03 Possible Earths 1.00 SEM Kete, Kathleen TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This seminar examines environmental thinking across histories and cultures in order to retrieve sources of hope and wisdom for a planetary future. Reading and discussion will foreground current humanity's vast inheritance when it comes to ways of existing in community with and knowing a living planet. Students will look critically at how texts, images, objects, and practices are historical evidence of the many ways humans have imagined natural communities and acted within them.
2416 HIST-221-01 Science,Religion&Nature 1.00 LEC Cocco, Sean TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The astronomer Galileo Galilei’s trial before the Roman Inquisition nearly four centuries ago endures as a symbol of the clash between science and religion. Undoubtedly, the rise of early modern science in 17th-century Europe provoked its share of battles, but was this the whole story? This course will lead students to consider the origin and extent of the apparently irreconcilable differences between world views. How wide was the rift between science and religion, especially before the Enlightenment? Students will be encouraged to explore this complex relationship in historical context, by weighing the coexistence of scientific curiosity and intense faith, and also by considering the religious response to the expanding horizons of knowledge. The course will highlight investigations of the heavens and the earth, thus seeking instructive comparisons between disciplines such as astronomy, botany, and geology. A number of broad themes will be the focus. These include the understanding of God and nature, authority (classical and scriptural) versus observation, the wide range of knowledge-making practices, the place of magic, and finally the influence of power and patronage. The class seeks to present a rich and exciting picture, looking forward as well to the influence of rational thinking and scientific inquiry on the making of modernity.
2789 HIST-227-01 World Histories of Wine 1.00 LEC Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 10 seats reserved for HIST majors.
  This seminar explores the history of wine, a new and growing research field in world history. We will consider how wine has been produced, traded, and consumed in both continental Europe and the “New World” since circa 1600. Topics will include: approaches to commodity history; wine, terroir and the construction of national identity; protection and global markets; technological change and modernisation; networks, trade and information exchanges; and the creation of consumers and experts. All students will write a major research paper and it is possible to gain additional course credit for Language Across the Curriculum by undertaking foreign-language research.
2418 HIST-232-01 South Africa/Anti-Apartheid Mv 1.00 SEM Markle, Seth MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with HRST
  The creation of the apartheid state in South Africa gave birth to a litany of sociopolitical movements aimed at dismantling a system of white minority rule. In what ways can a digital archive open up a window onto this rich and dynamic history of the anti-antiapartheid movement in South Africa between 1948 and 1994? This course will seek to answer this question by primarily utilizing Aluka's "Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa", a collection of over 190,000 primary and secondary sources that shed considerable light on how marginalized peoples and communities sought to realize a democratic alternative to settler colonialism during the era of decolonization in Africa. Topics such as political leadership, nonviolent civil disobedience, coalition building, state repression, armed guerilla resistance, nationalism, international solidarity and truth and reconciliation will inform the ways in which we search for sources of historical evidence contained in Aluka's digital archive.
2864 HIST-236-01 Undrstanding Lat Am & Caribbn 1.00 LEC Euraque, Dario TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: INTS-216-01
2419 HIST-238-01 Caribbean History 1.00 LEC Euraque, Dario TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUGI  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The location of the first encounter, conquest, and colonization of Native American peoples by Europeans, the Caribbean became a center of bitter rivalries between European imperial powers, and later in the 20th century a new, premiere location of the United States’ own imperial thrust. The Caribbean’s strategic location in relation to Atlantic Ocean trade routes and its tropical climate and fertile soils were key factors in shaping these imperial rivalries and the colonial and postcolonial societies that emerged in the region. The vast experience of African slavery, the later “indentured” migration of hundreds of thousands of Asians to some colonies, and the migration of similar numbers of Europeans (especially to the Hispanic Caribbean) have shaped deeply yet unevenly the nature of Caribbean societies since the 16th century, giving the Caribbean a complex multi-ethnic, yet also heavily “Western,” cultural landscape. This course will introduce students to these and other aspects of Caribbean history, from the pre-European era, through the epics of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the Cuban Revolution of 1959, to the present.
3010 HIST-250-01 Money, Merchants and Culture 1.00 LEC Elukin, Jonathan TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  From the early days of barter economies to the modern world of stocks, hedge funds and bitcoin, money (and merchants, bankers and consumers) has been a driving force in history. The course will explore the varied aspects of money's evolution: the political meaning of coins in the ancient world; the impact of traders and merchants on the expansion of early cities, states and empires; attitudes towards the rewards and dangers of money in Christianity; the rise of merchant bankers like the Medici of Florence, the crucial importance of merchants from Venice and Genoa to the Crusades; how great wealth creates standards of luxury in fashion, food, and design that shape aristocratic and popular values; and the quasi-religious beliefs about the free market in the modern world.
2791 HIST-272-01 Pacific World 1.00 LEC Alejandrino, Clark MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The Pacific Ocean has historically been regarded as a vast and prohibitive void rather than an avenue for integration. Yet over the last five centuries motions of people, commodities, and capital have created important relationships between the diverse societies situated on the "Pacific Rim." This course examines the history of trans-Pacific interactions from 1500 to the present. It takes the ocean itself as the principal framework of analysis in order to bring into focus large-scale processes -- migration, imperial expansion, cross-cultural trade, transfers of technology, cultural and religious exchange, and warfare and diplomacy. This "oceans connect" approach to world history brings these processes into sharp relief while also allowing for attention to the extraordinary diversity of cultures located within and around the Pacific.
3041 HIST-278-01 Heritage Conservation 1.00 LEC Crutcher, Megan TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  How and why do we celebrate, memorialize, and preserve/conserve the “important stuff” of history? How have our methods of conserving and preserving the past changed over time and according to place, culture, and what history is being remembered? In this course we will examine various methods and theories for conservation and preservation of cultural heritage—writ large, and including archaeology, art, and history—as practiced both nationally and abroad. This course introduces students to a wide range of classic and contemporary readings, case studies, and real-world examples of the conservation and preservation of cultural heritage around the world and in the U.S. This course is separated into two parts: the theory of conservation and preservation, and the practice of conservation and preservation in action.
2421 HIST-300-01 History Workshop 1.00 SEM Gac, Scott W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in at least one History course completed at Trinity, or permission of instructor.
  The Workshop seminar combines extensive readings on the topic of the seminar with a substantial research paper involving the use of primary source materials and original analysis. Prerequisite: At least one History Department course completed at Trinity. This course is primarily for History majors but permission of the instructor will allow other Trinity students interested to enroll.
2866 HIST-301-01 Biography as History 1.00 SEM Euraque, Dario MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This seminar deals with the theory, methodology and historiography of  historical biography. We begin with varied readings on the theory, method and historiography of biography, and then  transition to deep, critical analysis of substantial classic and contemporary biographies about personae who lived and died in different parts of the world. Students read biographies of political greats, revolutionaries, mystics, artists, poets, musicians and more. No expertise in historical analysis required, or any perquisite history courses. Students enrolled must love to read substantial books, and analyze them.
3011 HIST-302-01 The Knight in History 1.00 LEC Elukin, Jonathan W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The knight, a mounted warrior defined by his aristocratic lineage and prowess on the battlefield, was central to the society of medieval Europe. The knight began as a mounted servant in the retinue of a local strongman and evolved into the central figure of aristocratic society in the Middle Ages. The knight became the fulcrum of medieval chivalric culture, warfare, and politics. This seminar will study the changing role the knight played in medieval society by exploring a variety of primary sources, including literature, handbooks of knightly conduct, letters, sermons, chronicles and art. We will conclude by exploring how the image of the knight has survived in post-medieval culture.
2792 HIST-317-01 Modern British Cultural Hist. 1.00 SEM Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This seminar will explore the ways in which British culture and society have been shaped by its past global empire, from the mid-eighteenth century through the present day. Some of our discussions will center around consumables like sugar, silk and rubber, to investigate how the Empire influenced what people ate, drank and wore. We will consider how Empire shaped public spaces through monuments, zoos and exhibitions, and how it inspired public debates about race, women, Christianity and civic responsibility. We will conclude by analyzing the effects of migration from former colonies to Britain and considering the legacy of the Empire in contemporary British life.
2793 HIST-326-01 Mapping Disasters in Japan 1.00 SEM Said Monteiro, Daniel MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This discussion-based seminar delves into issues of preparedness, destruction, reconstruction, and resilience that emerge from calamities caused by human and non-human factors. Beginning with early modern conceptions of disasters, we make our way through moments of profound transformation in Japanese history. Notably, we explore the memories and representations of the 1855 Ansei Edo Earthquake and the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake that shook the country's capital, and conclude with the ongoing impact of the triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown) that hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. With a diversity of readings across disciplines, you will acquire new insights not only in cultural historical methods, but also anthropology, architecture, and media studies.
2867 HIST-330-01 History of Genocide 1.00 SEM Rodriguez, Allison MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Although the term "Genocide" was not coined or codified until the 1940s, it has occurred around the globe and across the centuries. This course will examine several genocidal events in various national contexts, examining their unique circumstances while also stressing common themes. Issues of race, class and gender, and how they affect genocidal actions, will be closely examined Possible topics will include the genocide of the Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the US; the Armenian genocide; the Holodomor; the Holocaust; the Khmer Rouge; the Rwandan genocide; and the genocide in Bosnia. Sources will include scholarly texts, memoirs and films.
3035 HIST-343-01 Hist/Arch West Africa 1.00 SEM Crutcher, Megan TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  West Africa is a vast region that stretches from the Sahara in the north, to the Atlantic in the south and west, to the Gulf of Guinea in the east. As a result of colonization, West Africa was bordered in such a way that split apart longstanding ethnic groups and historical states. West African societies have been shaped by trade, exchange, and contact from all directions. This diversity is reflected in the complex archaeological record of the region. This seminar course investigates the history and archaeology of West Africa from the paleolithic to the present, investigating topics from the Late Stone Age to the rise of powerful kingdoms like Mali, Ghana, and Songhai, to the transatlantic trade, colonization, and the postcolonial period. Students will engage with key archaeological sites, stories, objects, and debates in West African historiography. This course highlights how archaeology reshapes our understanding of Africa’s past beyond colonial narratives and offers a dynamic lens into one of the world’s most diverse and influential regions.
2794 HIST-349-01 Interwar Europe 1.00 SEM Rodriguez, Allison MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Sometimes seen as simply a stepping stone between the First and Second World Wars, the decades between are actually a rich period worthy of separate study. The Interwar Period is one of rapid change, vibrant culture, and deadly politics. This course will cover the Continuum of Crisis following WWI, the establishment of new nation-states, the pro-natalist policies and the birth New Woman, and the rise of Communist and Fascist governments.
3040 HIST-354-01 Black American Women's History 1.00 SEM Miller, Channon TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-354-01
  In this course, through lectures, readings, and discussion - we will follow the lives of Black women in America - a people enslaved by European powers - and then held in the bellies of ships that would sojourn through and across the Atlantic Ocean. Upon arrival to North American soil, their stationing as nonhumans would be solidified. We will trace how this intersectional, racial and gendered status, has followed them through the generations. Centrally, we will tend to the ways and means by which Black women have endeavored to live free and make a way of out of no way. We will unearth the ways in which the margins are, as scholar bell hooks states, "a position and place of resistance."
2706 HIST-364-01 Women Early Modern & Mod China 1.00 SEM Alejandrino, Clark MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with WMGS
  This seminar explores how women experienced and shaped China's transition from the early modern to the modern. What did it mean to be a woman with bound feet in the commercializing late Ming empire? How did class, ethnicity, and status shape a woman's experience in the multi-ethnic Qing empire? How did a woman negotiate questions and demands of modernity and revolution on their gender roles, bodies, and sexualities? How did Qing, Republican, and Communist regimes manage gender norms, sexualities, and deviances? How does a woman exercise agency in a patriarchal system? Students will read, discuss, and write about material (in translation) by women and about women such as novels, films, letters, and poetry.
2707 HIST-369-01 Plants in Early Modern History 1.00 SEM Wickman, Thomas MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 10 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-369-01
  NOTE: 10 seats reserved for HIST majors.
  This seminar examines people's working relationships with live plants in the early modern world, c. 1500-1800, including through their gardening, farming, foraging, and forest work. Readings will be situated within larger historiographies of Indigenous sovereignty, colonialism, capitalism, slavery, antislavery, and revolution. Plants to be studied in global context may include nutmeg, pepper, sugar, maize, sunflower, rice, coffee, tea, cacao, vanilla, potato, cassava, wheat, cotton, flax, mulberry, indigo, mahogany, maple, pine, oak, tobacco, sassafras, and cinchona. The class will engage with the interdisciplinary fields of health humanities; critical study of botany and natural history; theories and histories of bioprospecting, biopiracy, seed sovereignty, and Indigenous science; intellectual histories of the African diaspora; climate studies; historical political ecology; and environmental humanities.
2796 HIST-397-01 Slavery and Trinity 1.00 SEM Gac, Scott R: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-406-01
  How long do the reverberations of slavery last, and how far do they travel? While debates on the memory and legacy of slavery take the national stage, colleges and universities are reckoning with how their own histories of slavery and exploitation may have shaped their pasts and presents. It is Trinity's turn for an honest accounting. Recent scholarship emphasizes slavery's many facets and its far-reaching tendrils. In this course, students will discover Trinity's and Hartford's place in slavery's vast social, cultural, economic, and political networks. Combining archival research and public humanities, we will create projects and archives commemorating Trinity's past, which our community will be able to use as we plot a course for a more equitable future. This course meets the Archival method requirement.
1041 HIST-399-01 Independent Study 1.00 - 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available on the Registrar’s Office website, is required for enrollment.
1128 HIST-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)
2273 HIST-499-01 Senior Thesis Part 2 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is the second part of a two semester, two credit thesis. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis.