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

Chair: Matthew Mulcahy, Professor

Professors: David Carey, Jr.; Kelly R. DeVries; Matthew Mulcahy; Thomas R. Pegram; Elizabeth Schmidt; ; Martha C. Taylor; Joseph J. Walsh
Associate Professors: Charles Borges, S.J.; Katherine Stern Brennan; Sara Scalenghe
Assistant Professors: Chad R. Diehl; Oghenetoja Okoh; Andrew Ross; Willeke Sandler
Instructor: Jane Elizabeth Edwards
Emeritus: John R. Breihan; Charles W. Cheape; Bill M. Donovan; Steven C. Hughes; Angela M. Leonard; R. Keith Schoppa

The history major, traditionally a preparation for careers in law, business, teaching, museum work, research, and other fields, combines rigorous study with close personal interaction between students and faculty. In addition to classroom contacts, departmental colloquia and lectures 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. History advisors will work with students to tailor the most appropriate individual program of study at Loyola. 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:

• have an appreciation of both change and continuity across time;
• have a broad understanding of the major developments in the world during the modern period;
• have a more specialized knowledge of particular events, time periods, and places in the United States, Europe, and the non-Western world;
• have an understanding of how historians interpret the past and use and evaluate primary and secondary sources to construct arguments;
• have an appreciation of historical methodologies and the ability to conduct research using library and web-based sources;
• have the ability to craft arguments based on evidence and present those arguments in well-written, analytical essays;
• have an appreciation of the past as a source for reflection on ethical issues and social justice, informed by the Jesuit tradition.

Programs

• History, B.A.

• History Minor

Courses

• HS 101 - Making of the Modern World: Europe
• HS 102 - Making of the Modern World: United States I
• HS 103 - Making of the Modern World: United States II
• HS 104 - Making of the Modern World: South Asia
• HS 105 - Making of the Modern World: East Asia
• HS 106 - Making of the Modern World: Africa
• HS 107 - Making of the Modern World: The Middle East
• HS 108 - Making of the Modern World: Latin America
• HS 300 - Death of the Roman Republic
• HS 301 - The Church and the Roman Empire
• HS 302 - Renaissance Europe
• HS 303 - The Early Middle Ages
• HS 304 - Reformation Europe
• HS 305 - The Later Middle Ages
• HS 307 - Peace and War in Ancient Rome
• HS 308 - White Man's Burden: Colonialism and the Historical Origins of Racism
• HS 310 - Early Modern Britain, 1450-1700
• HS 311 - Britain, Ireland, and America
• HS 312 - History of Ancient Greece
• HS 313 - History of Christmas
• HS 314 - History of the Roman Empire
• HS 315 - The French Revolution and Napoleon
• HS 317 - The Making of Modern Italy
• HS 318 - Creation of Modern Germany: 1770-1992
• HS 319 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• HS 320 - Hellenistic History
• HS 322 - Gladiators and Roman Spectacles
• HS 324 - Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean from Troy to Iraq
• HS 325 - Europe Since 1945 through Film
• HS 326 - The Golden Age of Athens
• HS 327 - Volcanoes, Fire, and Flood: Disasters of Ancient Rome
• HS 328 - Soldiers, Land, and Population Transferrals
• HS 329 - Women in Greece and Rome
• HS 330 - Crime and Punishment in Modern Europe
• HS 331 - Ideas in Conflict: European Thought Since the Eighteenth Century
• HS 332 - The Enlightenment in Europe
• HS 333 - The Second World War
• HS 334 - Roman Private Life
• HS 335 - History of the Crusades
• HS 337 - The Multicultural Roman Empire
• HS 338 - Magic, Science, and Religion: Cultural History of the Scientific Revolution
• HS 339 - The Fall of Two Empires: Rome and Byzantium
• HS 343 - American Environmental History
• HS 344 - American Women's History
• HS 345 - The Peoples of Early America
• HS 346 - Revolutionary America
• HS 347 - Our Rights: A History of Civil and Human Rights Law in America
• HS 348 - The Civil War and Reconstruction
• HS 349 - Baltimore: Its History and Architecture
• HS 350 - World War II in America
• HS 351 - American Urban Culture: A Tale of Four Cities
• HS 352 - America Since 1945: The Cold War Years
• HS 356 - American Art: Art for a Democracy
• HS 358 - African American History through the Civil War
• HS 359 - African American History through Film
• HS 360 - African American History Since Emancipation
• HS 363 - A Century of Diplomacy: United States Foreign Policy Since 1890
• HS 366 - The Civil Rights Era
• HS 367 - Black Women in the Atlantic World
• HS 368 - The Atlantic World: Readings, Approaches, and Explorations
• HS 370 - The Jesuits in Asia Since 1542
• HS 371 - East Asia in the Modern World
• HS 372 - The Vietnam War through Film and Literature
• HS 374 - East Asia on Film
• HS 375 - Indian History, Culture, and Religion through Film
• HS 376 - Memories of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
• HS 377 - History of Modern China
• HS 378 - History of Modern Japan
• HS 379 - Latin America and the United States Since Independence
• HS 380 - History of South Asia in the Twentieth Century
• HS 381 - Search for the Divine: Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Ways in India
• HS 382 - Crime and Punishment in Latin America
• HS 383 - The Cross and the Sword: Christianity and the Making of Colonial Latin America
• HS 385 - The History of Mexico
• HS 387 - Topics in Latin American History
• HS 388 - Conquest and Colonization in Africa: 1884-1965
• HS 389 - Women and Social Change in Modern Africa
• HS 390 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
• HS 391 - History of the Jesuits
• HS 392 - Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies
• HS 397 - Women and Gender in the Arab World
• HS 398 - Global Histories of Disability
• HS 400 - History Methods
• HS 401 - Intensive Independent Study I
• HS 402 - Intensive Independent Study II
• HS 403 - History Honors I
• HS 404 - History Honors II
• HS 405 - History Internship
• HS 410 - Special Topics: The Crusades
• HS 411 - Special Topics: The Second World War
• HS 412 - Gods and Monsters: An Iconography of Nineteenth-Century Europe
• HS 413 - Medieval Military History
• HS 414 - Women in Europe
• HS 415 - Scientists and Psychics: Victorian Science and the Boundaries of Belief
• HS 417 - Germans in Africa, Africans in Germany
• HS 420 - Homer and History
• HS 421 - Caesar and Augustus
• HS 423 - Disasters in American History
• HS 425 - Modern American Social Movements
• HS 428 - The Making of the Early Republic: A Study of Race, Place, and Ideology
• HS 440 - Special Topics in Latin American and Latino Studies

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