History Major

As a history major, you will study a wide variety of regions and areas, ranging from the ancient world to the present, and across Africa, Asia, the Mideast, Europe and the Americas. The major is structured to be flexible, and encourages students both to pursue established interests and to explore topics, time periods, and locales that may be less familiar. You will study the past in a way that informs, challenges, and inspires.

sample courses:

From St. Louis to Shanghai: Cities and Citizens in Global Urban History

This course is designed to give students an introduction to key themes and scholarship in urban history. Readings and class discussions will examine how cities change over time, how urban spaces are continually built and rebuilt, and the way in which activists and government officials assert power. The course will span a large geographical and chronological scope. Special attention will be paid to St. Louis, in relation to urban spaces around the globe, especially Chinese, Brazilian and Indian cities, to reveal how an international framework forces us to rethink what we know about cities and what the concept of "urban" means.

Native American/Euro-American Encounters: Confrontations of Bodies and Beliefs

This course surveys the history and historiography of how Native Americans, Europeans, and Euro-Americans reacted and adapted to one another's presence in North America from the 1600s to the mid-1800s, focusing on themes of religion and gender. We will examine the cultural and social implications of encounters between Native peoples, missionaries and other European and Euro-American Protestants and Catholics. We will pay particular attention to how bodies were a venue for encounter-through sexual contact, through the policing of gendered social and economic behaviors, and through religiously-based understandings of women's and men's duties and functions.

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