History

Courses

HI 101H: Making History
Making History introduces students to the historian’s craft with a focus on a particular era or theme. Students learn research methods, source analysis and critical theory as an introduction to the field of historical scholarship.

HI 121G: Big History
Engage "big ideas" in comparative global history, from the origins of civilization to the rise of Europe. Emphasis on developing skills for historians: critical reading, analytic writing, defending a thesis, debates, maps, and timelines.

HI 202H: The European Experience
A survey of European History from the Late Middle Ages to the present, emphasizing important political, economic, social, and cultural developments.

HI 214G: Music and Social Revolt
Explore relationships between sociopolitical change and cultural production. From the shantytowns of Trinidad, Haiti and Jamaica, we follow thematic chronological arcs through The Bronx to Los Angeles, attending to connections between power, marginalization and culture.

HI 218G: Modern Middle East
This course explores the history of the modern Middle East with a particular emphasis on the diverse social and cultural arrangements that have characterized daily life in the region over the last two hundred years.

HI 221H: Women in Modern America
Feminist theory, growth of women's movements, minority women, working women, changes in women's health, birth control, images of women in literature and film. Changes in women's position in America.

HI 225E: Western Myth and Environment
This course explores how environmental issues helped to shape the myths of the American West. It begins with the first European settlements in North America and culminates with a study of ecological concerns in the contemporary West.

HI 233G: Global History in the Modern World
History of the world since 1500, with emphasis on the interaction of Western ideas and institutions with the rest of the world. Also examines the legacies of industrialization, imperialism, and globalization for today's world.

HI 234G: The Twentieth Century World
History of one of the world's most vibrant and also bloodiest of centuries. The course focuses on social, cultural, and technological change; important political and ideological conflicts; and the legacies of hot and cold wars.

HI 242H: Race & Racism in Modern Europe
This course will examine the social construction of race in Eurpoean societies, from slavery and abolitionism, through Nazi racial policies and the Holocaust, to the persistence of racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia in the 21st century.

HI 253E: Environmental History
The role and place of nature in human life, and the interactions that societies in the past have had with the environment. Concentrates on the U.S., but provides methodological approaches to the broader field.

HI 254E: European Environmental History
Covers the environmental history of Europe between 1850 and the present. In addition to industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, the course also investigates how particular intellectuals, movements, and ideologies conceptualized and interacted with the natural world.

HI 260G: France and the Islamic World
This course examines the political, cultural and social relationships forged between France and Muslim-majority societies of the western Mediterranean basin during the modern era. Course material includes primary and secondary sources, film and music.

HI 270H: Sex and Power in European Thought
This course investigates Modern European History through the lens of sex, gender, and power. Topics include: Victorian standards of masculinity and femininity, gender and sporting culture, Marxist and Freudian views of sex, Nazi policies toward men and women, and gender in Cold War myth-making (including James Bond!).

HI 280M: Space, Place, and Race
Strategies and ideologies of mapmaking for the humanities. Introduction to spreadsheets, census data, spatial projection and analysis with ArcGIS; application to historical case studies, emphasizing African-American history of St Petersburg.

HI 302H: Sport and American Culture
This course explores the place of sport in American society; It uses sport to illuminate broader historical themes: urban and community life, economic development, social relationships, social mobility, and popular cultural processes.

HI 316E: Empire and the Environment
This course explores the development of the modern colonial economy with a focus on resource exploitation and the historical relationships that humans have maintained with their natural surroundings.

HI 324G: Native American History
History of Native Americans from the time of European contact to present. Inner workings of Native American communities, Indian-White relations, changing governmental policy, Native American spirituality, economics, gender roles, decision making.

HI 326H: Automobile & American Culture
This course explores the invention and development of the automobile in the United States, and ways it transformed everyday life, our basic values, the nature of work, the environment, leisure time, sexuality, and the arts.

HI 333H: History of the Vietnam War
Establishment of Vietnamese nation in 111 B.C., its struggle for autonomy despite foreign invasion. The impact of the Vietnam War on American society, antiwar movement during Johnson and Nixon administrations, analysis of the war's legacy.

HI 336H: Civil Rights Movement: 1945-75
Black participation in World War II, the effects of the Brown Decision and various Civil Rights legislation, the rise of Black nationalism.

HI 340H: Revolutionary Women
This course explores the history of France through the lens of women's experiences from 1815 to the present. The course develops thematically as we investigate women's historical roles as subjects and objects within a series of shifting social, political, economic and cultural relationships.

HI 347H: Recent American History: Historian's View
(Directed Study Available) Current trends in interpreting U.S. history since World War II. Transformation of American society since 1945 and the new position of the U.S. in world affairs.

HI 366H: Inside Nazi Germany
This course is a detailed examination of the political, social, and cultural history of the Third Reich. It places Nazism in its historical context and investigates the persecution of European Jews and other minorities.

HI 368H: Modern German History
This course examines German History from its unification in 1870, through reunification in 1989, to the present. It includes the German Empire, WWI, Weimar, Nazism and the Holocaust, WWII, the Cold War and a United Europe.

HI 372G: World War II
A truly global look at the Second World War, focusing on its causes and consequences, on military conflict in various theaters, and on experiences at the "home front."

HI 380: Research Sem. Women in Mod. Am

HI 382: The EC History Project
Students will engage in a self-designed research project on the history of FPC/Eckerd College based on oral interviews and archival resources – all while developing research, writing, and presentation skills useful for a variety of professions.

HI 498: Comprehensive Exam

HI 499: Senior Thesis