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Course Listing for HISTORY - Fall 2025 (ALL: 09/02/2025 - 12/17/2025)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
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3416 HIST-131-01 Travel and Self-Discovery 1.00 SEM Elukin, Jonathan TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Travel has always been part of human history, from early migrations, voyages of exploration, mercantile adventures, armed expeditions, as well as the need for individual travel, which flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries as the Grand Tour to Italy and Greece. Mass tourism soon followed and came to dominate travel in the 20th and 21st centuries. This course will explore the history of travel in all these forms, with an emphasis on discussing how travel changes the self-understanding of tourists and what tourists actually learn from the experience of travel, particularly in the age of Instagram and influencers.
3270 HIST-201-01 Early America 1.00 LEC Wickman, Thomas MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N 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.
3358 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.
3272 HIST-209-01 Early African American History 1.00 LEC Miller, Channon TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-209-01
  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.
3273 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.
3274 HIST-216-01 World War II 1.00 LEC Rodriguez, Allison MWF: 9:00AM-9:50AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 39 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Spanning multiple continents and lasting nearly a decade, the Second World War remade the world order, at the cost of millions of lives and massive destruction. This course will follow the war from its various beginnings, through multiple genocides, its atomic end and beyond. We will examine not only the military battles, but also life on the Home Front and under foreign occupation, resistance movements, the Holocaust and other genocides, and the various civil wars which were fought under the larger World War umbrella. Sources include scholarly texts, memoirs and film.
2790 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.
3424 HIST-233-01 Whiteness in American History 1.00 LEC Gac, Scott 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.
3275 HIST-242-01 History of China, Qing to Pres 1.00 LEC Alejandrino, Clark MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 9 seats reserved for first-years, 9 for sophomores, 9 for juniors, 8 for seniors
  This second half of the China survey covers the period between the establishment of the multi-ethnic Qing empire to the present. As we go through the last four hundred years of Chinese history, we will consider several questions: How did the experience of the Qing, the last imperial dynasty, influence the trajectory of modern China? How did China grapple with modernity? Why is modern Chinese history marked with upheaval and revolution? How do the global and the local intertwine in the making of modern China? In the process, we will look at the kinds of historiographical debates that have animated scholarship, primarily in English, about early modern and modern China.
3430 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.
3276 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.
2877 HIST-300-01 History Workshop 1.00 SEM Cocco, Sean M: 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.
3278 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.
3279 HIST-306-01 History of Anti-Semitism 1.00 LEC Elukin, Jonathan TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This seminar will study the history of anti-Semitism in European culture. We will consider the evolution from pre-modern religious anti-Judaism to modern racial anti-Semitism and how such animus can coexist with tolerant attitudes towards Jews and Judaism. The course readings will be largely primary sources supplemented by some articles and monographs.
3280 HIST-310-01 Animal Histories 1.00 SEM Alejandrino, Clark MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 2 seats reserved for first-years, 3 for sophomores, 5 for juniors, 5 for seniors
  Humans are animals. Most histories are about us, the most prominent and impactful animals on this planet. But we have arrived at where we are today on the backs of other non-human animals whose histories are often taken for granted. This seminar puts the animal back into our histories. It looks at how humans have shaped the ecological and evolutionary paths of animals but also how animals have influenced the course of history as agents of empire, biotechnology, and culture. We will explore the interdisciplinary methods that scholars use to understand the complex interactions between human and non-human animals and students will have the opportunity to undertake a project in animal history.
3281 HIST-311-01 Place in the Native Northeast 1.00 SEM Wickman, Thomas MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 9 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-320-01
  NOTE: 7 seats reserved for HIST majors, 2 seats for second-year students.
  This course introduces students to critical histories of Dawnland, or the Native Northeast, now more commonly known as New England. The seminar offers a place-based introduction to the ways that Native nations of the Northeast have adapted, recreated, and reaffirmed connections to their homelands and territories, from the fifteenth century to the present. Connecticut's Indigenous peoples will be centered, including Wangunk, Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan, Schaghticoke, Eastern Pequot, and Golden Hill Paugussett people. Struggles for Native sovereignty and better Indigenous futures will be discussed throughout the semester. Topics include the Pequot War, Indigenous slavery, Black-Native histories, urban Indigenous histories, language revitalization, and food sovereignty. Readings will cover major themes in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), with special emphasis on sense of place.
3283 HIST-318-01 Gender&Sexuality in ME History 1.00 SEM Antrim, Zayde W: 6:30PM-9:10PM TBA Y GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with MIDDLEAST Cross-listing: INTS-321-01, WMGS-321-01
  Through theoretical readings, historical monographs, ethnographies, novels, and films, this course explores changing discourses of gender and sexuality among Muslims in the Middle East from the foundational period of Islam to the present. Major topics include attitudes toward the body, beauty, and desire; social and legal norms for marriage, divorce, and reproduction; intersections between gender, sexuality, imperialism, and nationalism; and contemporary debates about homosexuality and women's rights.
3286 HIST-328-01 Reason in Premodern East Asia 1.00 SEM Said Monteiro, Daniel TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Why did science develop faster in Western Europe than in the rest of the Eurasian continent? Or did it? In this seminar, we examine the long history of rational and scientific thinking in the eastern regions of Eurasia, leading up to the formation of modern East Asian states between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will unravel how premodern Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese scholars engaged with a range of explanations about phenomena concerning heaven, earth, and everything in between. Finding points of convergence and divergence between disciplines such as astronomy, geography, botany, and medicine, you will learn about indigenous knowledge systems in constant dialogue with other epistemologies from around the world.
3287 HIST-368-01 Gender & War in 20th Cen. Eur 1.00 SEM Rodriguez, Allison TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with WMGS
  Between 1914 and 1945, Europe was engulfed in what can be termed its "Second" Thirty Years War. The First and Second World Wars lay waste to Europe, changing and challenging every aspect of society, including the gender order. Women were asked to make sacrifices for their nations on the Home Front, as well as enter into realms of the public sphere which had previously been forbidden. Men who took up arms had to readjust to civilian life after years spent in battle. This course will examine how the First and Second World Wars affected both men and women - how notions of femininity and masculinity were challenged and renegotiated during and after the wars. Readings will include academic texts and contemporary sources.
3209 HIST-381-01 Black Marriage in US Slavery 1.00 SEM Miller, Channon TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-481-01
  While the institution of slavery in the United States declared Black people chattel, Black people declared themselves human - and worthy of love, community, intimacy, relationships - and marriage. Accorded to the law, marriage between white women and white men was sacred and protected. For the enslaved, these unions were outlawed. This course unearths a history of how enslaved Black people defined, practiced, and sustained marital bonds under a controlling regime.
2804 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.
1498 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.
1499 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)
2291 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.
2805 HIST-498-01 Sr Thesis Part 1 & Seminar 1.00 SEM Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer 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.
3214 CLCV-218-01 Archaeology of the Holy Land 1.00 LEC Risser, Martha TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA GLB1  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY, HIST, JWST, RELG Cross-listing: LATN-318-01
  Through a survey of arts, architecture, material remains, and written accounts, this course traces the complex past of a region regarded as Holy Land by people of several major religions. We will evaluate incongruities between written texts and physical evidence; the contentious political and religious agendas that affected studies of these lands; and evidence for the ancient societies, cultures, economies, religions, and politics that contributed to shaping the modern Middle East.
3434 LATN-218-01 Archaeology of the Holy Land 1.00 LEC Cancelled GLB1  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY, HIST, JWST, RELG
  Through a survey of arts, architecture, material remains, and written accounts, this course traces the complex past of a region regarded as Holy Land by people of several major religions. We will evaluate incongruities between written texts and physical evidence; the contentious political and religious agendas that affected studies of these lands; and evidence for the ancient societies, cultures, economies, religions, and politics that contributed to shaping the modern Middle East.