History (HIST)

Description: Explore career diversity options for humanities and social sciences. Assemble application materials. Build professional networks. Practice interview skills.

Description: Develop inclusive leadership models. Apply leadership principles. Build professional networks. Apply foundational development skills such as fundraising and grant writing.

Description: Develop research communication and grant writing skills.

Description: Sexual practices and ideologies in American history from the 1800's to the present.

Description: Significance of military affairs in the context of American political, economic, and social history from the formation of the earliest colonial militias to the pre-WWI preparedness movement. Discusses all of the major wars of this period but also emphasizes such themes as the professionalization of the officer corps, the relationship between war and technology, and civil-military relations.

Description: Significance of military affairs in the context of American political, economic, and social history from America's entry into WWI to the present. Discusses all of the major wars of this period but also emphasizes such themes as the professionalization of the officer corps, the relationship between war and technology (especially nuclear weapons), and civil-military relations.

Description: Life, literature, thought, and institutions of the Christian movement from Jesus to Constantine. A critical, historical approach to the sources in English translation and how they reflect the interaction of Christian, Jew, and pagan in late antiquity. Includes the historical Jesus vis-a-vis the Christ of Faith, the impact of Paul's thought, the formation of Christian dogma, methods of interpreting canonical and extra-canonical Christian literature, the problem of heresy and orthodoxy.

Description: Examination of the religious institutions, philosophies, and lifeways of the Hellenistic Age from Alexander to Constantine. Includes civic religion of Greece and Rome, popular religion, mystery cults, Judaism, Christianity, popular and school philosophies (Platonism, Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, Stoicism), Gnosticism. History, interrelationships, emerging world view of these movements.

Description: Transformation of unlimited popular sovereignty and ruthless imperialism in 5th century BCE Athens to the sovereignty of law over the course of the Peloponnesian War.

Description: Historical context of changes in religion, literature, philosophy, and the arts, 400-1450.

Description: Critical period in Roman history when the republic was transformed into the rule by one man: Political and social functioning of the republic, causes for change, and factors influencing its final shape. Careers of the Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, Anthony, and Augustus.

Description: Augustus' constitutional transformation of Rome, and enforcement of a national identity and values through religion, social legislation, provincial governance policies, and patronage of public works, display, and literature.

Description: The cultural and intellectual developments of the German Reformation against its social background. The religious and political events of the first half of the sixteenth century. Transition from medieval to modern Christianity. The transmission and revolutionary nature of evangelical doctrines. The gradual institutionalization of the new churches.

Description: Life and thought of significant figures and schools of thought in the Reformation period

Description: Conflict and consensus in the history of Germany from World War I to the present. The Nazi dictatorship in European context, World War II and the Holocaust, the two Germanies from 1945, changes in 1989 and German unification, and developments in Germany and Europe since 9/11.

Description: Comparative study of the rise of fascism in Europe during the twenties; the drift to totalitarianism and the transition to dictatorship. Evolution of domestic and foreign policy to 1945.

Description: Individuals from late medieval/early modern Europe, such as Joan of Arc, Henry V, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Examines how history can be used to serve social, cultural, and political needs, and the difficulties of determining historic truth about a person or event.

Description: Political, social, economic, institutional, and intellectual history of England from the Roman invasions through the accession of the Tudor dynasty in 1485.

Description: History of English society, politics, and culture from the time of Henry VIII through that of Elizabth I, Shakespeare, Donne, Charles I, Cromwell, and Milton.

Description: Survey of the diplomatic and military history of Europe from World War I to the present. Includes the strategy, tactics, and diplomacy of the two world wars; international relations in the years between the wars; the emergence of a new postwar Europe; and Europe's involvement in the rivalry between the superpowers since 1945.

Description: Europe-wide programs of persecution and genocide carried out under the auspices of the Nazi-German regime between 1933 and 1945. Focuses primarily on the Jewish dimension of the Holocaust, but also examines Nazi policies targeted against Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled Germans, and other groups. Events analyzed from the perspectives of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders.

Description: Analysis of fundamental debates and dilemmas over the attainment and distribution of rights and obligations in American legal history from colonial times to the present.

Description: Survey and analysis of the impact of metropolitan development, mass-oriented industrialization and economic development, and the modernization of values, ideas, and mores on American society between the Civil War and the recent past. Includes the breakdown of old criteria of class or group definitions and their replacement by newer, more impersonal, economic categories. Attention to the declining role of the farmer in American life, the rise and fall of elite "society", and the further development of mass-oriented middle and working classes after World War II.

Description: Development of the sectional crisis, war and its impact on American institutions, reconstruction and reunion, from 1850 to 1877.

Description: Sectional adjustment, national politics, the "Gilded Age," economic growth, and the revival of imperialism in the period 1877 to 1901.

Description: Work with members of the community on a collaborative, team-oriented, community-based project and learn to utilize digital technologies to share the experiences and artifacts of everyday people and local historical institutions and learn to build a digital archive.

Description: Analysis of major events and trends in the history of the American West, including: competing claims to rights and resources; debates over development; overlapping federal, state, and tribal legal jurisdictions; racial/ethnic and gendered interactions; and/or historical roots of contemporary Western concerns.

Description: The Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, the road to Pearl Harbor, and World War II.

Description: Surveys the major developments in domestic politics, in foreign affairs, and the economic, social, and cultural spheres from the end of World War II to the present.

Description: Transformation of the United States economy from an agrarian to an industrial society and the impact of that transformation on people's livelihoods. The economic of slavery, the impact of the railroads, immigration, and the collective response of business and labor to industrialization.

Description: Transformation of the United States economy in the twentieth century. Attention to the continued consolidation of the business enterprise, business cycle episodes including the Great Depression of the 1930's, organized labor, and the role of government in managing and coping with this transformation in economic life.

Description: Explores how the contemporary women's movement has emerged within Africa and its relationship to social change.

Description: Survey and analysis of the origins, contours, activities, ideas, movement centers, personalities, and legacies of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in the U.S. A. from the 1950's through the 1970's. The roles of the African-American masses, college and high school students, and women. The points of conflict and cooperation between African-American and mainstream American society.

Description: Study of geographic concepts and critical analysis of applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in humanities and social sciences and application of geospatial tools for humanities and social science research; learn how to collect, manage, analyze, and visualize spatial data for real-world projects

Description: Fifty years of effort at implementing the mandate of the so-called "October Revolution" both domestically and in foreign affairs. The Soviet Union today.

Description: Includes Indian politics, ideologies about Latin American indigenous peoples, global issues, and inter-ethnic relationships in Latin America.

Description: Issues in Native American History. Topics may include: Native Americans and the environment; Native Americans in the 19th or 20th century; Native Americans and federal Indian policy; Native Americans and gender; and Native Americans of regions other than the Great Plains.

Description: Past interactions among societies and nature in a comparative world perspective. Indigenous peoples' resource management; ecological impacts of colonization; how political economies shape resource use; changing ideas about nature; and the historic roots of current environmental problems and possible solutions.

Description: Analysis of the theory, methods, and readings in humanities computing and digital history.

Description: Provide students with real, in-depth experience in collaboratively creating digital humanities projects. Guided by faculty with expertise in a broad range of digital humanities methods and resources, students work in teams to tackle challenges proposed by UNL researchers and/or local and regional humanities organizations.

Description: Experience of femininity and masculinity compared according to time and place, revealing the intimate connections with nation, modernity, race, and ethnicity.

Description: The experience of race and ethnicity in the 20th and 21st centuries compared according to time and place, revealing the intimate connections with nation and modernity.

Description: Indigenous peoples worldwide and current issues concerning them. Tribal sovereignty, territorial conflicts, globalization, ecosystem destruction, human rights, and the World Indigenous Movement.

Description: An interdisciplinary analysis of topical issues in Latin American Studies.

Description: Topic varies.

Description: Establishment of a modern state; foundations of economic power; liberalism and oligarchical rule; militarism; post-World War II developments.

Description: Survey of the history of South Africa from the Stone Age to the evolution of the political, economic, legal and social framework of apartheid, and the recent efforts to achieve political accommodation.

Description: Examination of the history of education in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Focus on shifts in formal educational policy and the influence of those policies on diverse demographic groups. Themes include the emergence of a public and private school systems, the spread of segregated schools, the development of curricular standards, the history of teachers, the push for desegregation, as well as debates over students' rights, language, affirmative action, and the public/private nature of charter schools, especially in terms of social justice.

Description: Active participation in an ongoing digital humanities project in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, including weekly meetings designed to build technical and project management skills.

Description: Examination of the transformation of the field of history in the past two centuries. Topics include 19th century philosophical foundations, historiography, contemporary historical practices, and how theoretical approaches enhance our understanding of history.

Description: Invention of the nineteenth century, gender, colonialism, class, realism science and technology.

Description: Introduction to the nineteenth century in North America (focusing on the US), Great Britain, and Europe (focusing on France, Germany, Russia, and Spain), organized through themes such as constructions of gender and sexuality, democracy in the nation-state, and challenges to religion.

Description: Overview of American history from colonial to present period.

Description: Methods, theories, and practices of digital humanities scholarship.

Description: Leads students through intensive primary source research and writing project on historical topic of student's choice. Letter grade only.

Description: A comparative approach, offering readings on a central theme from a variety of periods and/or areas. Themes vary.

Description: Exploration of particular topics or approaches to history across multiple time frames and geographical areas. Topics and approaches will vary depending on professor's area of expertise.

Description: Overview of world history from late medieval to modern eras. Examines ecological, economic, political, and cultural perspectives. Letter grade only.

Description: Introduction to major problems and debate in non-Western history. Rotates among faculty who specialize in African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern history. Letter grade only.

Description: Engages with recent and classic scholarship on race, ethnicity, and identity, primarily in American history. Covers new comparative and transnational scholarship. May emphasize different themes and readings depending on area of expertise of faculty. Letter grade only.

Description: Examines recent and classic scholarship on German and Central European History. Covers different periods, topics, and regions depending on professor's expertise. Letter grade only.

Description: Methods and state of research in the disciplines--art, music, literature, language, history, philosophy--dealing with the Renaissance. Assistance in independent reading and research in subjects related to the student's own research interests. Taught jointly by faculty members in art, music, theatre, English, history, classics, modern languages, and philosophy.

Description: History of the North American West with special attention to Great Plains. Past and present historiography; modern themes and methodologies; and topical and comparative historical treatments.

Description: Internship at the University of Nebraska Press.

Description: Allows graduate students to volunteer or intern at a museum, archive, historical society, or other history-related organization. Pass/No Pass only.