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Course Listing for HISTORY - Fall 2026 (ALL: 09/08/2026 - 12/23/2026)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
3307 HIST-105-01 Europe's Long 19th Century 1.00 LEC Rodriguez, Allison MWF: 9:00AM-9:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The Nineteenth Century in Europe was the Age of –Isms: Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Imperialism and, above all, Nationalism. The course will follow the social, cultural and political developments in Europe from the French Revolution to the outbreak of WWI. We will especially examine national movements among subject nationalities (Poles, Czechs and Irish, to name a few), as well as unite a country or two. Readings will consist of scholarly texts and contemporary novels.
3404 HIST-135-01 War & Gender in Europe 1914-45 1.00 LEC Rodriguez, Allison MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Between 1914 and 1945, Europe was destroyed, rebuilt and destroyed once more. All aspects of society were affected and changed by the wars, including the gender order. This course will examine the breaks, as well as the continuities, in the relationship between men and women over the course of two devastating World Wars. The wars forced women to take on jobs previously restricted to men, as well as navigate the challenges of the Home Front; meanwhile, men were tasked with reintegrating into society after facing the horrors of war, often returning to a home that was much different than the one they had left. Through memoirs, scholarly texts, and film, we will explore how the wars affected conceptions of both femininity and masculinity in Europe.
2866 HIST-201-01 Early America 1.00 LEC Wickman, Thomas MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-202-01
  NOTE: 5 seats reserved for HIST majors, 8 seats for first-year students, 2 seats for second-year students.
  This course introduces students to major developments in the political, economic, social, and environmental history of North America from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. We will study Indigenous sovereignty, European colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, the American Revolution, industrialization, abolitionism, U.S. wars with Native nations, and the U.S. Civil War. Students will be challenged to imagine American history within Atlantic and global contexts, to comprehend the expansiveness of hundreds of Native American homelands, and to center struggles for Black freedom, Indigenous sovereignty, and gender equality.
2938 HIST-204-01 Central Am. Immigration to US 1.00 LEC Euraque, Dario MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-204-01
  This course will survey the history of immigration patterns from the five countries of Central America to the U.S. between the early 19th century and the current decade in the context of Latin American history. The countries that will be surveyed are: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The methodological emphasis in the lectures will be comparative.
2868 HIST-209-01 Early African American History 1.00 LEC Miller, Channon TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-209-01
  NOTE: 5 seats reserved for first year students 2 seats for sophomores 2 for HIST majors
  Beginning in the sixteenth century and concluding in the nineteenth - this journey is one dedicated to enslaved Black people. It lends its focus to those who birthed Black America, and how they did so. From their arrival in chains, through their fight towards emancipation, and to the death of reconstruction, the course explores their struggles and triumphs. It not only focuses on the layered mechanisms of anti-Blackness that sustained their bondage, but their development of a "nation within a nation" - with its own ideals and ideologies, as well as traditions and languages. We will lean on the voices of African-Americans from these periods, and scholars who have committed themselves to holding up their lived realities.
2869 HIST-210-01 Paris:Capital of 19th Century 1.00 LEC Kete, Kathleen TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with FRENCH
  In this history of Paris we explore the revolutions in politics, culture and class which usher into being one of the most dynamic and influential spaces in European and world history. Topics include the revolutions of 1830 and 1848; the rebuilding of Paris during the Second Empire; and the invention of modern art by the Impressionists and their successors. We also discuss the Commune of 1871 (in Marx’s view, the first socialist revolution), the Dreyfus Affair (which brings anti-Semitism to the center stage of European politics), and the advent of the ‘New Woman’ whose dress and behavior crystallize a feminist challenge to the masculine politics of the age.
2582 HIST-222-01 Japan's Premodern World 1.00 LEC Said Monteiro, Daniel TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  In this course, we embark on a journey through human history in the Japanese archipelago from its Paleolithic beginnings to the late 1800s. Starting with the earliest archeological records of diverse cultures, we move through the classical and medieval worlds of courts and monasteries, see the rise of a ruling warrior class, and continue up to the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate at the end of the 19th century. We approach Japan from a transnational perspective in close connection, and sometimes in confrontation, with the Eurasian continent. You will learn about Japan's position in the broader context of East Asia and be able to identify global trends that shaped the country until the eve of its tumultuous plunge into modernity.
3310 HIST-229-01 Italian History in Four Keys 1.00 SEM Cocco, Sean MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Even if the modern Italian nation has a brief history dating to the nineteenth century, Italians are part of peninsular, regional, and urban histories that reach back many centuries. The vibrant and contradictory features of today’s nation reveal the existence of ancient substrates. This reading- and writing-based seminar examines four environmental features – stones, water, plants, and animals – that are threads connecting Italy’s national history to much older regional and local pasts, as well as to the future. Students will examine national history through four perspectives that complicate myths of nationhood. Students should expect to read from history, literature, and science, to examine historical documents, and to develop interpretations in classroom discussions and writing assignments.
2994 HIST-233-01 Whiteness in American History 1.00 LEC Staff, Trinity MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 24 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-233-01
  This introductory course delves into the origins, development, and impact of Whiteness as a racial category. Through thought-provoking readings and discussions, it explores how White identity has evolved over time, examining both its historical roots and theoretical frameworks. Beyond unpacking the concept of Whiteness itself, the course investigates its crucial role in shaping race and class dynamics in American history.
3311 HIST-236-01 Undrstanding Lat Am & Caribbn 1.00 LEC Euraque, Dario TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: INTS-216-01
  This interdisciplinary course explores major historical themes and contemporary cultural and political topics related to Latin American and Caribbean societies and cultures. The goal is to give students a panoramic view of Latin America and the Caribbean and to introduce them to various issues that are explored more deeply in upper-division courses. We will address questions of demography and geography, basic historical periods and processes, particular anthropological and cultural debates, fundamental political and gender issues, sociological approaches to daily life, aesthetic and literary movements, and the regions' positions within the historical and contemporary world economy. Open to all students, this course is required of INTS majors with a Caribbean and Latin American Studies concentration.
3373 HIST-268-01 Black Inner Lives 1.00 SEM Miller, Channon TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-268-01
  Prevailing understandings of Black life, read Black expression through a social, public lens. Their cultures, embodiments, and ideologies are often cast as responses to institutions and forms of protest. Often placed in conversation with worlds outside of themselves and their communities, they are cast as either disrupting a space, or transforming it. But what of Black life outside of public expression? This course complicates our conceptions of Black culture by tracing the inner lives of Black Americans. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and drawing from multidisciplinary works - we will trace their aspirations, longings, imaginations, as well as their fears, across race, gender, class, and time. With an emphasis on the intimate, we will redefine our sense of Black people's relationship to resistance.
3000 HIST-282-01 Maritime Archaeology Atlantic 1.00 LEC Crutcher, Megan TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 30 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Throughout human history, water transport has been the main mode of long-distance trade and travel. Maritime archaeologists frequently combine historical and archaeological data to investigate sites on the coast and underwater that help us understand this important period in the human past. This course investigates the history of the interconnected Atlantic World through the discipline of maritime archaeology, with particular emphasis on technology (ship/wrecks and ship equipment), society (networks, households, ports), commodity (cargoes, trade goods), and identity (work routines, living conditions, beliefs) in maritime communities from the North and South American, African, and European Atlantic coasts between the fifteenth century and the nineteenth century.
2872 HIST-285-01 Born in Blood 1.00 LEC Gac, Scott MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 49 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-285-01
  This course explores the formations and functions of violence in the United States from 1754 to 1900. It investigates government (federal, state, and local) and individuals-and the intersection of the government and the individual-regarding military bodies, access to weapons, and legal and extralegal violent activities. Using figures from the well-known (George Washington or Abraham Lincoln) to the lesser known (Hannah Dustan or Robert Smalls), the class questions the limits and boundaries of American violence according to race, class, and gender. In the end, students will debate whether violence belongs aside liberty, democracy, freedom, and equality in the pantheon of American political and cultural ideals.
2621 HIST-300-01 History Workshop 1.00 SEM Antrim, Zayde 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.
2874 HIST-304-01 Renaissance Italy 1.00 SEM Cocco, Sean TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course explores the origin, distinctiveness, and importance of the Italian Renaissance. It is also about culture, society, and identity in the many “Italies” that existed before the modern period. Art, humanism, and the link between cultural patronage and political power will be a focus, as will the lives of 15th- and 16th-century women and men. Early lectures will trace the evolution of the Italian city-states, outlining the social and political conditions that fostered the cultural flowering of the 1400s and 1500s. We will consider Florence in the quattrocento, and subsequently shift to Rome in the High Renaissance. Later topics will include the papacy’s return to the Eternal City, the art of Michelangelo and Raphael, and the ambitions of the warlike and mercurial Pope Julius II. Italy was a politically fragmented peninsula characterized by cultural, linguistic, and regional differences. For this reason, other topics will include: the fortunes of Venice, the courts of lesser city-states like Mantua and Ferrara, the life of Alessandra Strozzi, and the exploits of the “lover and fighter” Benvenuto Cellini. We will also look at representations of the Renaissance in film.
3319 HIST-320-01 Global 1001 Nights 1.00 SEM Antrim, Zayde TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: WMGS-320-01, INTS-320-01
  This seminar explores the history and global dissemination of the fantasy story collection known as the 1001 Nights. The recent success of movie adaptations of Aladdin is just one of the many waves of popularity that these stories have enjoyed over the centuries. We will begin with medieval story-telling and the circulation of the Nights in Arabic. We will then discuss its transformation into an international best-seller in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the context of British and French colonialism. Finally we will map its more recent reinventions in literature, film, and art across the globe. Key topics will include magic, gender, sexuality, race, empire, and orientalism. Students will undertake a final research project.
3315 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.
3316 HIST-329-01 The Holocaust 1.00 SEM Rodriguez, Allison TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This seminar will study major topics in the history of the Holocaust and focus on perpetrators, bystanders and victims. Special attention will be given to historiographical controversies.
2583 HIST-395-01 History of the Alps 1.00 SEM Kete, Kathleen W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  In the 1990s the European Union recognized the Alpine region as a distinct regional unit. This course is a history of that storied region extending from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic by way of Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Balkans. Topics include the ‘discovery’ of the Alps by European elites in the Age of Enlightenment; the Alps as archive of geological time and center of romantic science; the invention and commercialization of alpine sports; the appeal of the Alps as a place of retreat and healing, and their politicization by fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1920s and 1930s respectively. We end with a consideration of the future of the region in the face of global warming and the promises of trans-nationalism.
1485 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.
1486 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)
2204 HIST-490-01 Research Assistantship 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake substantial research work with a faculty member. Students need to complete a special registration form, available online, and have it signed by the supervising instructor.
2584 HIST-498-01 Sr Thesis Part 1 & Seminar 1.00 SEM Wickman, Thomas F: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  A two-semester senior thesis including the required research seminar in the fall term. Permission of the instructor is required for Part I.
3165 RELG-231-01 Christianity in the Making 1.00 LEC Jones, Tamsin MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 39 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLASSCIVIL, HIST
  This course will examine the philosophical, cultural, religious and political contexts out of which Christianity emerged from the time of Jesus through the 5th century. Emphasis will be placed on the complexity and diversity of early Christian movements, as well as the process that occurred to establish Christianity as a religion that would dominate the Roman Empire. Topics to be covered will include the writings of the New Testament, Gnostics, martyrdom, desert monasticism and asceticism, the construction of orthodoxy and heresy, women in the early Church, the formation of the biblical canon, and the identity and role of Jesus of Nazareth.