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

Chair: Kelly DeVries, Professor

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

The history major, traditionally a preparation for careers in law, politics, teaching, museum work, business, 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, BA

• 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 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 309 - Law, Lawyers, and Litigants in European History
• HS 311 - Communism: A Global History
• HS 312 - History of Ancient Greece
• HS 313 - History of Christmas
• HS 315 - The French Revolution and Napoleon
• HS 316 - History of Modern Italy
• HS 318 - Creation of Modern Germany: 1770-1992
• HS 319 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• HS 320 - The Black Death in Global Perspective
• HS 322 - Gladiators and Roman Spectacles
• HS 323 - History of the Soviet Union
• 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 329 - Women in Greece and Rome
• HS 330 - Gender, Race, and Class in Modern Europe
• HS 331 - Ideas in Conflict: European Thought Since the Eighteenth Century
• HS 332 - The Enlightenment in Europe
• 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 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 350 - World War II in America
• HS 352 - America Since 1945: The Cold War Years
• HS 355 - African American History as Public History
• HS 358 - African American History through the Civil War
• HS 359 - African American History through Film
• HS 360 - African American History Since Emancipation
• HS 361 - A History of American Capitalism
• HS 363 - A Century of Diplomacy: United States Foreign Policy Since 1890
• HS 366 - The Civil Rights Era
• HS 368 - The Atlantic World: Readings, Approaches, and Explorations
• HS 371 - East Asia in the Modern World
• HS 372 - The Vietnam War through Film and Literature
• HS 373 - Contesting Empire: Nationalism and Decolonization in the Afro-Atlantic World
• HS 374 - East Asia on Film
• HS 375 - Indian History, Culture, and Religion through Film
• HS 377 - History of Modern China
• HS 378 - History of Modern Japan
• 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 385 - The History of Mexico
• HS 389 - Gender and Power in Modern Africa
• HS 390 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
• HS 393 - Introduction to Islamic History
• HS 395 - Violence and Holiness in Twentieth-Century El Salvador
• HS 396 - The Modern Middle East through Literature and Film
• HS 397 - Women and Gender in the Middle East
• HS 398 - Global Histories of Disability
• HS 399 - Global Environmental History
• 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 406 - Seminar: History Honors Thesis I
• HS 407 - Seminar: History Honors Thesis II
• HS 410 - Special Topics: The Crusades
• HS 412 - Gods and Monsters: An Iconography of Nineteenth-Century Europe
• HS 413 - Medieval Military History
• HS 415 - Scientists and Psychics: Victorian Science and the Boundaries of Belief
• HS 416 - Sex and the City
• HS 417 - Germans in Africa, Africans in Germany
• HS 419 - Medieval Bodies
• HS 422 - Environmental History of Latin American
• HS 423 - Disasters in American History
• HS 424 - Policing and Borders: Race, Violence, and Empire in U.S. History
• HS 429 - History of American News Media
• HS 431 - Introduction to Public History
• HS 442 - Health and Illness in Latin America
• HS 447 - War Memory
• HS 463 - Seminar: Colonial British America
• HS 465 - Seminar: Inside the Civil War
• HS 466 - Seminar: Revolutionary Lives: Biography and the New Nation
• HS 474 - Holocaust Memory in Germany and America
• HS 475 - Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman World
• HS 477 - Seminar: Legends in Medieval History

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