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

Chair: Steven C. Hughes, Professor

Professors: John R. Breihan; David Carey, Jr.; Charles W. Cheape (emeritus); Kelly R. DeVries; Steven C. Hughes; Matthew B. Mulcahy; Thomas R. Pegram; Elizabeth Schmidt; R. Keith Schoppa (emeritus); Martha C. Taylor; Joseph J. Walsh
Associate Professors: Charles Borges, S.J.; Katherine Stern Brennan; Bill M. Donovan; Angela M. Leonard; P. Andrew McCormick (emeritus); Francis G. McManamin, S.J. (emeritus); Sara Scalenghe
Assistant Professors: Michele Alacevich; Chad R. Diehl
Instructor: Jane Elizabeth Edwards

The history major, traditionally a preparation for careers in law, business, teaching and research, 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 each other's research and other concerns.

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 around 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 413 - Medieval Military History
• HS 414 - Women in Europe
• HS 415 - Scientists and Psychics: Victorian Science and the Boundaries of Belief
• HS 418 - Mussolini and Fascist Italy
• HS 420 - Homer and History
• HS 421 - Caesar and Augustus
• HS 423 - Disasters in American History
• HS 424 - Race, Place, and Memory in American History
• HS 425 - Modern American Social Movements
• HS 426 - Propaganda, Culture, and American Society: 1780-1830
• HS 427 - The Era of Good Stealings? Gilded Age America, 1865-1900
• 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
• HS 442 - Health and Illness in Latin America
• HS 443 - Apartheid and Its Demise in South Africa
• HS 444 - War and Revolution: East Asia, 1937-1954
• HS 446 - Modern Latin American Cities
• HS 448 - Women and Gender in the Middle East
• HS 449 - The Modern Middle East through Literature and Film
• HS 455 - Historic Preservation
• HS 460 - Seminar: American Progressivism
• HS 461 - Seminar: The African Diaspora
• HS 462 - Seminar: Taking Care of Business: The Evolution of American Business Leadership, 1600-1990s
• HS 463 - Seminar: Colonial British America
• HS 464 - Seminar: Social and Political History of Alcohol and Drugs in America
• HS 465 - Seminar: Inside the Civil War
• HS 470 - Seminar: The Hundred Years War
• HS 472 - Seminar: Frontiers and Frontier Peoples in the Middle Ages
• HS 473 - Seminar: Ending Anarchy in Seventeenth-Century Europe
• HS 475 - Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman World
• HS 477 - Seminar: Legends in Medieval History
• HS 479 - Seminar: Masculinity and Honor in Modern Europe
• HS 480 - Seminar: Cold War in Southern Africa
• HS 481 - Seminar: The History of Disability in Comparative Perspective
• HS 482 - Asian Studies Seminar
• HS 483 - Seminar: Soseki and Mishima: Mirrors of Modern Japan
• HS 484 - Seminar: The Chinese Revolution
• HS 486 - Seminar: The Great Age of the European Reconnaissance: Travel and Discovery
• HS 487 - Seminar: Comparative Revolutions in Latin America
• HS 488 - Seminar: Political Violence and Terrorism in the Modern World
• HS 489 - Seminar: America in the Middle East
• HS 490 - Capstone Project in American Studies