This course introduces students to the history of Germany's Third Reich and its international impact from its origins in the 1920s to the aftermath of...
This course explores the story of the Cold War, a conflict that dominated international relations for much of the postwar period. Topics include the...
This course examines U.S. international relations from 1898 during a time that witnessed the nation's emergence as the world's dominant state. It...
Political, financial, and religious crises under the early Stuart monarchs led to civil war and revolution, and, briefly, unparalleled liberty. The...
What historical dynamics have produced the Africa we know today? How far are today's problems rooted in the colonial experience? This course examines...
The image many Canadians have of their history is one of compromise, complacency, and of giving in to authority. In actual fact, Canadian history is...
This course deals with the emergence of modern industrial Ontario. While the growth of mining, industries, transportation, and urban areas forms the...
This course avoids the survey approach by enabling students to concentrate on certain specific aspects of 20th-century Eastern European history. Each...
This course covers the diverse years of the People's Republic of China. For the Mao Zedong period, we explore socialist reformations, the...
This course examines the intersecting histories of racial, ethnic, gender, class, and sexual difference in the United States since the turn of the...
This course addresses how North American cities fostered both commercial and non-commercial sexual cultures, sexual communities, and sex districts...
How did the First Nations of the Great Lakes defend their interests when settlers flooded the region after 1763? What happened to them in the American...
Our lives are shaped by scientific knowledge applied to new inventions. This course examines how scientific technology both reflects and transforms...
This course examines the causes, conduct, and outcomes of the world's first total war. Key themes include pivotal military events, soldiers'...
This course explores a pivotal relationship in Canada's development by looking beyond formal ties, such as treaties, to political, economic, and...
This course is a cultural and social history of the American city, focusing on late-19th and 20th-century New York and Los Angeles. We examine how...
While taking various forms, both the Renaissance and Reformation marked breaks with mediaeval Europe that radically transformed life in the early...
The dread of disease, physical pain, and mental suffering always has loomed large in human experience. How did people in the past react to sickness?...
In the early centuries of Islam, the study of the natural world was held in high esteem. Scientists and engineers were called upon to solve practical...
Today the difference between astronomy and astrology is defined with clarity, with the former recognized as an established scientific discipline and...