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

Chair: Willeke Sandler, Associate Professor

Professors: David Carey, Jr.; Charles W. Cheape (emeritus); Kelly R. DeVries; Steven C. Hughes (emeritus); Matthew Mulcahy; Thomas R. Pegram (emeritus); 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); Andrew I. Ross; Willeke Sandler; Sara Scalenghe
Assistant Professors: Oghenetoja Okoh
Instructors:  Austin Parks, Brandon Parlopiano

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, science, technology, environment, and medicine history, or histories 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;
• 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;
• 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, and orally;
• 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 100 - Encountering the Past
• 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 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 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 Western Imagination
• HS 223 - Women and Gender in the Middle East
• 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 309 - Law, Lawyers, and Litigants in European History
• HS 310 - African American History to the Civil War
• 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 333 - History and Politics of the Balkans
• HS 334 - Roman Private Life
• HS 335 - History of the Crusades
• HS 337 - The Multicultural Roman Empire
• 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 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 383 - Violence and Holiness in Twentieth-Century El Salvador
• HS 385 - The History of Mexico
• 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 393 - Introduction to Islamic History
• 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 - The Historian's Craft
• 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 413 - Medieval Military History
• HS 416 - Sex and the City
• HS 417 - Germans in Africa, Africans in Germany
• HS 419 - Medieval Bodies

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