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Department Policy on In-Person Attendance

All Fall 2026 History courses will be taught in-person, unless indicated by the (*course note).��By signing up for a class, you have agreed to attend and participate in the��class. You should not expect to be able to attend an 'in-person' class remotely or to access class recordings. Exceptions to this policy may be granted at the instructor’s discretion. If you are unwilling or unable to commit to attending and participating in person over the duration of the semester, you should seek alternative options for all-remote or online courses. (For assistance with finding alternative classes, please contact your advisor and/or the History Advisor, Hayes Moore,��hayes.moore@colorado.edu.)

Expanded course descriptions

This page does not list all Fall 2026 History courses, only those for which we have expanded descriptions. To see all courses, please use the Course Search button above. If you would like an expanded description of a course which is not on this list, please reach out to the instructor.

HIST 1438-001/ Episodes in Korean History - Jeanne Cho

Surveys the history of Korea from the archaeological period to the present. What is Korea, and what does it mean to be "Korean"? The course explores this question by examining changes and continuities in the following themes throughout history: political authority, religion, economy, women and family, social hierarchy, and external relations. Topics may include the early states, the Koryo dynasty, early to mid-Choson society, Japanese colonialism, World War II, Korean War, state building and everyday life in North and South Korea, democratization, the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, and contemporary issues.

HIST 1830-001/ Global History of Holocaust and Genocide - Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Crosslisted with JWST 1830 and RLST 1830. If HIST section is full, check the JWST and RLST sections for availability. They will all count the same in the degree audit. MORE TO COME

HIST 2028-001/ Latin America Behind the Headlines - Tony Wood

This new course is designed to give students the deeper historical context behind current events in Latin America, looking beyond the headlines at the longer histories that shaped the present. It will also prompt students to think critically and ask questions about the news stories they consume, helping them to develop their media literacy skills.

HIST 2220-002/ History of War and Society: Spies and the Great Game - Sanjay Gautam

This course focuses on the history of the Anglo-Russian rivalry, popularly known as the Great Game, that has been one of the most defining and enduring features of modern world history. The Great Game was a ‘shadow war’ between the British empire in India and Tsarist Russia for influence over Central Asia, Persia/ Iran, Afghanistan, and Tibet. Consisting largely of high stakes intelligence operations, clandestine diplomacy, military reconnaissance, it also included secret geographical survey missions into the Himalayan and Pamir mountains in search of strategic routes for possible military occupation and operations. And though the British empire in India ended in 1947, the Great Game did not—it was reborn as the Cold War. Indeed, the legacy of the Great Game in its many manifestations is all too visible even today. The course begins in 1831 with Alexander Burns’ dangerous intelligence expedition through Afghanistan to Central Asia and Persia that set off the Great Game and ends with Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech of 1946 that launched the Cold War.

HIST 2326/ Issues in the History of U.S. Society and Culture:��

(001) American Identities - WWII Era - Natalie Mendoza

This course focuses on the WWII home front to explore how US society has defined "American"--in terms of identity as well as the ideals and priorities of the era. We will examine the tension between wartime democratic rhetoric and the various forms of discrimination African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Japanese Americans--among others--experienced by considering events such as the Double Victory campaign, the so-called Zoot Suit Riots, and Japanese American internment. In particular, we will consider the government's role in hindering or promoting a sense of belonging in American society, and how the war shaped citizens' rising expectations of the nation.

(002)Environmental Justice - Maggie McNulty

This course explores environmental justice in the United States since 1945. Although the environmental justice movement is typically thought of as beginning in Warren County, North Carolina in 1982, this course will examine the movement's more extensive history. Key themes will include: labor and civil rights movements, public health and housing, race and recreation, disasters and resistance, and environmental activism. This class is designed to challenge students to think about the past, and subsequent social and environmental inequities, from various perspectives to illuminate how students view "where we live, work, and play" today.

HIST 2629-001/ China in World History: China's Global Connections - William Wei

This course will be an examination of how global connections shaped China and the world via the Silk Road.

HIST 3020/ Historical Thinking and Writing

(001) International Human Rights Courts, 1807-1900 - Henry Lovejoy

This course will look at the process surrounding Great Britain’s global effort to abolish the African slave trade and subsequent formation of some of the world’s first international courts of humanitarian effort. By looking at a global shift in the demise of slavery as a legal institution, this course will hone students reading, writing, listening and speaking skills involving primary and secondary sources. Additional components of this course will also introduce students to techniques in the Digital Humanities involving “Big Data,” historical cartography, digital exhibits and website design.

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(003) Misinformation and Revolution - David Paradis

The printing press unleashed a torrent of information, some of it reliable, some not so much. ��Utilizing materials in the Norlin Library Special Collections, we will investigate the perpetuation of reliable information and falsehoods in the centuries following the introduction of the printing press in the 1450s. ��The class will explore how early printed materials contributed to the revolutionary developments in science, medicine, commerce, religion, and politics across early modern Europe. ��We will pay special attention to how print perpetuated misunderstandings that led to social tensions.

HIST 3417-001/ Seminar in African American History - Ashleigh Lawrence Sanders

About a decade ago, the United States began a rapid and contentious movement to address the long-lasting ramifications of the Civil War and whether its commemorative landscape adequately reflected the nation's ideals in the 21st century. While these debates have centered on contemporary questions of race and social justice, a less explored historical question remains: ��What did the Civil War mean to African Americans? African Americans fought in the Civil War, aided war efforts as enslaved and free people, and shaped the War's trajectory--both militarily and ideologically. This class will explore the Civil War and its legacy from an African American historical perspective that covers the War itself, its aftermath, and African American memory and commemoration of the war. Because the class is about culture and memory as well as history, students will also learn to research and write about how popular culture (literature, film, art, television, etc.) influences historical memory. The course will culminate in a major, original research paper.

HIST 3713-001/ Seminar in Russian History - Erin Hutchinson

The Collapse of the Soviet Union: why and how did communism end in the Soviet Union? In this seminar, we will examine the implosion of the Soviet state in 1991 and explore how 15 new nations emerged from the rubble. Topics include Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, memory of the Stalin era, environmental activism, rock music, nationalism and ethnic conflict, and democratization. In addition to learning about the period, students in the course will write a major research paper about a topic of their choice using available sources in English.

HIST 4123-001/ Kings & Commoners in an Age of Crisis: English History 1327-1487 - Paul Hammer

English history in the 14th and 15th centuries (1300s-1400s) can read like a catalog of catastrophe: climate change, the Black Death, peasant revolts, long periods of foreign and civil war and five kings forcibly removed from the throne. Yet this period is also saw renewed forms of religious devotion, famous military victories, and the exaltation of kingship and. anew English national identity. At the same time, these centuries also witnessed the growing importance of the common people in English politics and forged the notion that English government should aspire to serve the common good of the realm.

HIST 4358-001/ Childhood in Modern Israel/Palestine - Hilary Kalisman

When are children objects or subjects? How are international and local interventions targeting children framed? At what point are children no longer considered children? This course uses memoirs, academic articles and monographs as well as fictional works to think about the answers to these questions, not only in Israeli and Palestinian histories, but also how they relate to the history of childhood, as both a specific period in humans' lifespans, as well as a cultural and political category.

HIST 4378-001/ Jews in and of the Middle East - Hilary Kalisman

This course traces Jewish history in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in the 19th century, while also following Jewish immigrants to these territories and how the encounter between both shaped the role of Jews both in local societies and globally as well.

HIST 4442-001/ Europe since 1945 - John Hatch

This course examines the political, economic, social, and cultural evolution of Europe since 1945. How did Europe rebuild from the ashes of World War II? What was the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust? How did the Cold War and superpower rivalries shape the postwar European landscape? How do we account for the postwar economic boom in Western Europe and the development of the European Union? What was life like in the communist societies of Eastern Europe, and why did communism ultimately collapse? How did that collapse drive the rebirth of nationalism in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, and, thirty years later, Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

HIST 4527-001/ Mexican-American History since 1848 -

Natalie Mendoza

This course examines Mexican-origins people in the United States from the 19th century through the present. Focuses on Mexican American history as both an integral part of American history and as a unique subject of historical investigation. Using primary and secondary sources, students will examine how Mexicans and Mexican Americans have negotiated, influenced, and responded to political, social, cultural, and economic circumstances in the U.S.

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