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Office: Humanities Center, Room 322A
Telephone: 410‑617‑2326
Website: www.loyola.edu/academics/history

Chair: Andrew I. Ross, Associate Professor

Professors: David Carey, Jr.; Charles W. Cheape (emeritus); Kelly R. DeVries (emeritus); Steven C. Hughes (emeritus); Matthew Mulcahy; Thomas R. Pegram (emeritus); Sara Scalenghe; Elizabeth Schmidt (emerita); Martha C. Taylor; Joseph J. Walsh
Associate Professors: Charles Borges, S.J.; Katherine Stern Brennan (emerita); Bill M. Donovan (emeritus); Angela Leonard (emerita); Oghenetoja Okoh; Andrew I. Ross; Willeke Sandler
Assistant Professors: Miya Carey-Agyemang
Associate Teaching Professor: Brandon Parlopiano
Assistant Teaching Professor:  Austin Parks

The history major, traditionally a preparation for careers in law, politics, teaching, museum work, business, research, and other fields, trains students to read carefully, communicate effectively, and critically think about current issues. History majors learn how to assess arguments, complete original research, and understand the complexity of a globalized world. It combines rigorous study with close personal interaction between students and faculty. In addition to classroom contacts, departmental colloquia and events held periodically during the academic year keep history majors, minors, and faculty members current with new research and helps foster a sense of community around shared inquiry into past events and issues. 

History major and minor requirements are deliberately flexible in order to accommodate a wide variety of other subjects of study, as well as study abroad. History advisors will work with students to tailor the most appropriate individual program of study at Loyola. History majors have the opportunity to pursue an optional specialization in the history of gender and sexuality, the history of health, environment, science, and technology, or the history of law, politics, and society. A departmental honors project, centered on an extensive research paper or senior thesis, is available to selected seniors. Application is made in the junior year.

Learning Aims

Students who graduate with a history major will:

• understand how to think historically and apply historical understanding to contemporary issues and everyday challenges;
• conceptualize and develop an argument based on original research and that draws on existing historiography; 
• conduct and complete extensive research using both primary and secondary sources and express that research in writing and/or orally;
• carry on intellectual debate that offers critical appraisal of evidence and knowledge of counter-arguments;
• understand the diversity of global cultures both in the past and in the present and recognize the ways power relationships in the past have shaped inequality over time. 

Programs

• History, BA

• History Minor

Courses

• HS 100 - Encountering the Past
• HS 200 - Perspectives on Global History
• HS 205 - U.S. History to the Civil War
• HS 206 - U.S. History Since Reconstruction
• HS 207 - Europe Since 1500
• HS 210 - African American History Through the Civil War
• HS 211  -  American Environmental History
• HS 212 - America Since 1945: Cold War Years
• HS 213 - A Century of Diplomacy: United States Foreign Policy Since 1890
• HS 214 - Europe in the Age of Total War
• HS 215 - Reformation, Enlightenment, and Empire in Early Modern Europe
• HS 216 - A Queer History of Europe and North America
• HS 217 - The Bright Ages - An Introduction to the Middle Ages
• HS 218 - The Civil Rights Era
• HS 219 - African American History Since Emancipation
• HS 220 - Colonial Africa
• HS 221 - Africa in the Age of Globalization
• HS 222 - Global Environmental History
• HS 223 - Women and Gender in the Middle East
• HS 224 - Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean from Troy to Iraq
• HS 225 - Reformation Europe
• HS 226 - Introduction to the Modern Middle East
• HS 227 - Introduction to Modern Latin America
• HS 228 - Peace and War in Ancient Rome
• HS 229 - Renaissance Europe
• HS 230 - The Early Middle Ages
• HS 231 - The Later Middle Ages
• HS 232 - Law, Lawyers, and Litigants in European History
• HS 233 - Communism: A Global History
• HS 234 - The French Revolution and Napoleon
• HS 235 - Modern Germany
• HS 236 - The Black Death in Global Perspective
• HS 237 - History of the Soviet Union
• HS 238 - Europe Since 1945 through Film
• HS 239  -  History of the Crusades
• HS 240 - The Peoples of Early America
• HS 241 - Revolutionary America
• HS 242 - History of Civil Rights and Human Rights Law
• HS 243 - The Civil War and Reconstruction
• HS 244 - African American History through Film
• HS 245 - A History of American Capitalism
• HS 246 - The History of Modern China
• HS 247 - History of Modern Japan
• HS 248 - Violence and Holiness in Twentieth-Century El Salvador
• HS 249 - The History of Mexico
• HS 250 - Introduction to Islamic History
• HS 251 - Global Histories of Disability
• HS 252 - History of South Asia in the Twentieth Century
• HS 253 - Death of the Roman Republic
• HS 254 - History of Christmas
• HS 255 - Indian History, Culture, and Religion through Film
• HS 256 - Gladiators and Roman Spectacles
• HS 257 - The Golden Age of Athens
• HS 258 - Volcanoes, Fire, and Flood: Disasters of Ancient Rome
• HS 259 - Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome
• HS 260 - Roman Private Life
• HS 261 - The Multicultural Roman Empire
• HS 262 - History and Politics of the Balkans
• HS 263 - East Asian Empires Since 1600
• HS 265 - The First World War
• HS 270 - History of Science, Medicine, and Health
• HS 274 - East Asia on Film
• HS 275 - History of Ancient Greece
• HS 276 - Revolution and Reform in Nineteenth Century Europe
• HS 277  -  Histories of Poverty and Poor-Relief from Antiquity to Modernity
• HS 281 - Search for the Divine: Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Ways in India
• HS 300  -  The Historian's Craft
• HS 308 - Medieval Bodies
• HS 314 - Disasters in American History
• HS 317 - Germans in Africa, Africans in Germany
• HS 319  -  Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• HS 325 - Race and Childhood in America
• HS 328 - Sex and the City
• HS 330 - Gender, Race, and Class in Modern Europe
• HS 336 - Medieval Military History
• HS 339 - The Fall of Two Empires: Rome and Byzantium
• HS 340 - Policing and Borders: Race, Violence, and Empire in U.S. History
• HS 341 - History of American News Media
• HS 342 - Health and Illness in Latin America
• HS 344  -  History of Afghanistan
• HS 350 - World War II in America
• HS 354 - Modern Iran Between Monarchy, Democracy, and Theocracy
• HS 355 - African American History as Public History
• HS 357 - Racial Justice and Truth Telling in Baltimore and Beyond
• HS 362 - Introduction to Public History
• HS 364 - War Memory
• HS 367 - African American Women's History
• HS 372 - The Vietnam War through Film and Literature
• HS 373 - Contesting Empire: Nationalism and Decolonization in the Afro-Atlantic World
• HS 382 - Crime and Punishment in Latin America
• HS 386 - History of the Police
• HS 389 - Gender and Power in Modern Africa
• HS 390 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
• HS 391 - The Middle East in the Media
• HS 394 - Race and Geopolitics in the American Century
• HS 396 - The Modern Middle East through Film
• HS 400 - The Historian's Craft
• HS 401 - Intensive Independent Study I
• HS 403 - History Honors I
• HS 404 - History Honors II
• HS 405 - History Internship

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