2024-2025 Fall/Winter
HIS200H5S - Topics in History: The Environment (Instructor: C. Wellum)
Description: TBA
HIS221H5S - Themes in Medieval History: TBA (Instructor: TBA)
Description: TBA
HIS395H5S - Topics in History: Revolution and Counter Revolution in Central America (Instructor: K. Coleman)
Description: TBA
HIS494H5S - Advanced Topics in the History of the Americas: Biography: Reading and Writing about Dead People (Instructor: K. Coleman)
Description: TBA
HIS494H5F - Advanced Topics in the History of the Americas: Energy, Culture, Power (Instructor: C. Wellum)
This seminar offers a critical introduction to the history of energy, with particular attention to its cultural, political, and environmental dimensions in North America from the eve of the industrial revolution to the post-industrial present. We will explore how the production and use of different forms of energy (e.g., wind, water, coal, oil, nuclear, renewables) has shaped historical change and the experience of modernity, often with global consequences. In addition to reading and seminar discussions, students will develop an original research project on a topic of their choice.