History B.A.

(AM) Offered autumn. Same as AAS 141H. This course introduces students to the primary questions, themes, and approaches to African-American Studies. In addition to examining key historical periods such as Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights era, students will encounter Hip-Hop, African-American film, African-American religion, and contemporary identity politics. This course concludes by discussing the reasons for and new directions in African-American studies, including diaspora studies, Pan-Africanism, and post-colonial studies. Overall students will gain new insight into the social, cultural, political, and intellectual, experiences of a diverse people and into the history and contemporary experience of the United States.

(R-6) Offered intermittently.  Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

Offered intermittently.  Prereq., consent of department. Extended classroom experience which provides practical application of classroom learning during placements off campus. Prior approval must be obtained from the faculty supervisor and the Internship Services office.  A maximum of 6 credits of Internship (198, 298, 398, 498) may count toward graduation.

(AM) Offered autumn.  An introductory and interpretive history from Lewis and Clark to 2000.

(AM) Same as AAS 262. Offered spring.  Interdisciplinary, historical perspective on early 19th century movement to abolish slavery and racial discrimination in the United States.

(R-12) (AM) Offered intermittently.  Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

(AM) Offered even-numbered years.  Emphasis changes from year to year. Can touch upon the political economy of Puritanism, through gender and family to the preconditions for the American Revolution.

(AM) Offered alternate years. This course examines the entangled processes of human and environmental change in America and the Atlantic world from prehistoric times through the nineteenth century. We will examine the ways Native Americans and Europeans interacted with land and sea and the social and ecological repercussions that ensued. We will also look at the ways Atlantic world systems of exchange, including the movement of animals, disease, commodities, manufactured goods, and slaves effected environmental change. Finally, we will also explore the ways Renaissance and Enlightenment thought shaped the ways people understood the natural world and how that radically changed with industrialization and the shift to Romanticism.

(AM) Offered spring odd-numbered years. Democracy, nationalism and sectionalism, the War of 1812, the second party system, social order and disorder, the capitalist revolution.

(AM) Offered autumn odd-numbered years.  Civil War and Reconstruction; the triumph of the industrialist and capitalist ethic.

(AM) Offered autumn odd-numbered years.  The history of the U.S. from 1877 to 1920 is largely the story of Americans responding to profound social, cultural and economic change.  In an effort to bring order to their changing world, Americans created new institutions, retooled their ideologies, and improved the nation's infrastructure.  The order they created is, in modified form, still with us today.  Students will explore the myriad changes that transformed the United States during this period and study the social, political, and cultural struggles that shaped the emergence of Modern America.

(AM) Offered autumn. This era in U.S. history was marked by a series of crises: the contested transition to modernity during the 1920s, the Great Depression, and World War II and its aftermath.  This course will explore how Americans responded to these crises, why they responded to them the way they did, and how their responses altered the society in which they lived.

(AM) Offered spring.  The Cold War and its consequences, the civil rights revolution, affluence and anxiety, counter-culture, political radicalism, feminism, the Nixon years, Watergate and after.

(AM) Offered alternate years, Examines the political, social, cultural, intellectual developments of America in the 1950s.  Particular emphasis is placed on cultural history. 

(AM) Offered alternate years, Examines the political, social, cultural, intellectual developments of America in the 1960s.  Topics include the Great Society, political radicalism, the counter culture, black radicalism, and Vietnam. 

(AM) Offered alternate years. This course will examine the development and demise of slavery in the early modern Atlantic world, from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. Specifically, we will explore the ways the transatlantic slave trade forged economic and cultural connections between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, thereby causing immeasurable suffering while conditioning conceptions of race, reshaping politics and religion, and transforming the ecology of nearly a third of the globe.

(R-6) (AM) Offered intermittently. The French and Indian Wars to Vietnam and beyond; chronological and topical accounts.

(AM) Offered intermittently. This course examines major topics and themes in United States history from the early twentieth century to the present using movies as primary sources.

(AM) Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 378. Survey of the African American experience from the African background to the end of the Civil War.  Focus on Black American quest for the American Dream, and how Blacks attempted to deal with the challenges of enslavement and racism.

(AM) Offered intermittently.  Same as AAS 343H.  Study of the African American experience since the Civil War.  Change and continuity in the African American experience, the fight against Jim Crow, the struggle for civil rights, and post-civil rights economic, political, social and cultural developments and challenges.

(AM) Spring, odd years. The African American religious experience encompasses Islam, Christianity, Santeria, voodoo, and many others. In this course, students will examine the history of religious expression within the African-American community from the colonial era through the twentieth century. Central to the course question, "How did religion shape the experience of the African-American community?" Students will also examine the ways in which religious practice influenced social, political, and cultural changes in American history.  Same as AAS 347.

(AM) Offered autumn odd-numbered years.  Same as ANTH 324X and NAS 324X.  Examination of the history of Montana Indians since the establishment of the reservations, contemporary conditions, and issues among both reservation and non-reservation Indian communities in the state.  Special attention given to social and economic conditions, treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, and legal issues.

(AM) Offered even-numbered years.  The roles that artists, artistic works and illustrations, and symbolic images have played in the history of the American West.

(AM) Offered intermittently.  Social history of the American South with particular attention to race, class, and gender.

Offered autumn.  Interpretive overview of major themes and events in U.S. womens history to 1865. Same as WGS 370H.

Offered spring. Interpretive overview of major themes and events in U.S. women’s history from 1865 to the present. Same as WGS 371.

(AM) Offered alternate years. Delving into the history of the early modern Atlantic world, this course examines the transnational ramifications of the American Revolution. Specifically, it examines the Revolution’s economic and ideological origins, European involvement in the Revolutionary War, as well as the Revolution’s impact on African American slavery and the slave trade. We will also consider its implications for Haitian and Latin American independence. And finally, we will discuss the creation of the U.S. Constitution, America’s struggle for political sovereignty, and the Revolution’s impact on Native Americans, women and families, and conceptions of American identity during the Early National period.

(AM) Offered intermittently. An examination of major issues in the American constitutional past. Topics include the creation of the U.S. Constitution and the problem of ?original intent,? courts and judicial review, slavery and anti-slavery, the bill o frights, industrial capitalism and the welfare state, and majority rule and minority rights in American democracy

(AM) Offered intermittently. Issues in the social history of law from the colonial period to the present.

(AM) Offered intermittently.  Historical overview of families and children in the United States from the colonial era to the present.  Topics include changing patterns of family life, the evolution of attitudes toward children and youth, the relationship between the American family and the nation-state, and debates over "family values" from the nation's founding to the present.

(R-12) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

(AM) Offered autumn, odd years. From slave revolts through to the Move rebellion in Philadelphia, this course examines how the African-American community has engaged in radical efforts to change the status quo in the name of seeking justice. Formally cross listed with AAS 415.

(AM) Offered autumn, even years.  Same as AAS 417 and RELS 417.  This course explores the meaning of public prayer in the Civil Rights Movement.  Built around the question, "Does religion help or hinder the pursuit of social change?" this class combines historical and religious studies inquiry to trace changes in civil rights activists' efforts to make use of religion.  By focusing on a particular religious practice - in this case prayer - in a specific, but limited period of time, this course challenges students to consider how meaning is formed through historical action and study the social significance of religious practice.  This formed through historical action and study the social significance of religious practice.  This course complicates prevailing ideas about the normalcy of  African-American religious practitioners' prayer, invites students to examine their assumptions about the nature of prayer, and traces how religion spilled out of sanctuaries into the streets during the civil rights era.

(AM) Same as WGS 418. Offered intermittently.  Prereq., upper-division standing.  Study of the connection between women's status and slavery in antebellum America, looking at slave women, slaveholding women, and antislavery women. Upper division writing course for the history major.

(AM) Same as WGS 419. Offered intermittently.  Examination of the connections between race, class, and gender in the South.  Conflict and cooperation among black and white women in politics, reform, and work. Upper division writing course for the history major.

(AM) Offered intermittently.  Same as AAS 420.  This course explores the period in American history from the close of the Mexican War through the conclusion of the Civil War.  Topics include slavery and sectionalism; race and racism; immigration and ethno-religious conflict; military mobilization and wartime dissent; the meaning of freedom in the age of emancipation.  This course is intended to hone skills fundamental to the historical discipline: the critical analysis of primary sources; independent primary research and historical writing; engagement with and assessment of historical scholarship; the construction of a historiographical essay. Upper division writing course for the history major.

(AM) Offered alternate years. This course offers students an opportunity to do original research and produce an article-length research paper on a topic in post-war American history. It meets the department’s requirement of an upper-level research seminar as well as the upper-division writing expectation in the major.

(AM) Offered autumn odd-numbered years.  Historical interaction between Native American societies, horses and bison in North America. A writing intensive course. Upper division writing course for the history major.

(AM) Offered intermittently. This course is a research and writing seminar in Montana history. Students will learn advanced research methodology in history and will be exposed to a variety of databases and source collections in Montana history that are available locally and online. Students will research and write a primary-source based paper on a topic in Montana history. This course fulfills the upper-division writing requirement for the history department and the university.

(AM) Offered spring odd-numbered years. Same as GEOG 401.  Investigation of regionalism as a concept and its future in the Rocky Mountain West.  Regionalism as a geographical, economic, political and cultural entity. An intensive writing class.

(AM) Offered alternate years. This seminar is designed to teach advanced undergraduate and graduate students the fundamentals of original research in the fields of early American and Atlantic world history. Every student will pursue an original research project, based on primary materials, and focused chronologically within the period of early contact to the U.S. Civil War. You will read texts that will serve as models of historical writing and others that will help you develop your skills as a researcher, writer, and editor. We will hone our writing skills through drafting and discussion. Consent of instructor required.

(AM) Offered intermittently. Consent of instructor required. Upper-division writing-intensive seminar in women’s history. Students will write an original research paper based on primary source materials.

(R 12) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.

(R 6) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr.

(AM) Offered intermittently. Prereq., lower-division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. A history of the human-nature interaction in the United States.

(AM) Offered intermittently. Euro-American movement and conflict in the nineteenth century trans-Mississippi west.

(AM) Offered spring.  The contemporary trans-Mississippi West.

(WRLD) Offered autumn and spring. Same as AS and ANTH 106H.  Introduction to the study of the human communities, cultures, and economies in Central and Southwest Asia along the ancient four thousand mile-long Silk Road.

(R-6) Offered intermittently.  Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

(WRLD) Offered autumn.  Latin America from the conquest to wars for independence.  Focus on social relations, imperial and local politics, hegemony, resistance, and change.

(WRLD) Offered spring. Latin American history from wars of independence to the present.  Focus on social relations, development models, politics, and popular movements.

(WRLD) Offered autumn.  Same as AS 201.  An interdisciplinary, pluralist, and exploratory introduction to civilizations of East Asia.  Primary focus on China, Japan, and Korea, the relations among them and their patterns of interaction with the outside world in pre-modern and modern periods.

(WRLD) Offered autumn. Same as ANTY 241H. Introduction to Central Asia's history, culture and ways of thinking. Focus on the political and social organization of Central Asia and cultural changes as expressed in art and interactions with China, India and the Middle East.

(WRLD) Offered autumn. A concise history of the Islamic world from the 6th century to the fall of the Abbasid Empire in the 13th century, focusing primarily on the teachings of Islam and the causes for the rapid expansion of the Islamic empire.

(WRLD) Offered spring. History of the Islamic world and particularly the Persian, Arabic, and Turkish speaking lands between 1453 and 1952.

(WRLD) Offered autumn.  Prereq., lower-division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. The rise and spread of terrorism in the modern world, from the French Revolution to the present.

(R-12) Offered intermittently.  Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

(WRLD) Offered intermittently.  Different ideologies and projects in Latin America aimed at gradual or radical transformation of political systems and/or socio-economic relations.  Case studies range from the Haitian Revolution to the Bolivarian vision of Hugo Chavez.

(WRLD) Offered autumn. China since 180, emphasizing internal weaknesses of the Manchu dynasty, confrontation with the west, and the emergence of Nationalist and Communist regimes.

(WRLD) Offered intermittently.  Begins with a discussion of the classical system of diplomacy and then moves into the causes and results of the First World War, the rise of Hitler and the Second World War, America's emergence as a superpower, the Cold War, the influence of Asia, the implications of the 9/11 attack and terrorism, and the continuing search for peace and stability in a world of conflict.

(WRLD) Offered intermittently.  A treatment of the powerful global influence of visions of human rights upon the historical and contemporary world in which movements such as abolitionism, women's rights, humanitarian law, racial equality, decolonization and democratization, and the impact of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

(R-12) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

(R 12) Offered intermittently.

(WRLD) Offered intermittently. The legacy of state violence and ongoing struggles for truth and justice in select Latin American case studies.  Different uses of memory and narration in bearing witness to social and political conflict and human rights violations. 

(WRLD) Prereq., history majors or minors or consent of instr. Research and writing seminar on U.S.-Latin American relations from the late 18th century through the 20th century.  Upper division writing course for the history major.

(WRLD) Offered autumn.  A history of the rise and fall of the Maoist regime and the complicated impact of the epochal post Mao reform movement.

(WRLD) Offered intermittently.  Prereq., lower-division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. Contemporary and historical problems of civilian policy and military strategy, power and technology, intelligence operations in democratic societies, human rights and security issues, conscription, and ethics in statecraft.

(R 12) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.

(R 12) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr.

(EU) Offered intermittently. Same as MCLG 301H. Greek history from the earliest times through the Macedonian ascendancy, based on the writings of the Greek historians. Cannot receive credit for both HSTR 302 and MCLG 301H.

(EU) Offered intermittently.  The political, economic, intellectual, and social development of Europe 1648-1789.

(EU) Offered autumn. The influence of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Ages, and the Enlightenment on early modern history.

(EU) Offered autumn. Romanticism, Realism, and the Avant-Garde against the historical background of the Industrial Revolution and urbanization.

(EU) Offered autumn. Social, political, religious, and intellectual history of the British peoples during the tumultuous period of reformation, exploration, constitutional crisis, and civil war.

(EU) Offered spring. The social, political, cultural, and intellectual consequences of British expansion, financial and industrial revolutions, and revolutionary movements.

(EU) Offered autumn.  Political, economic, and social upheaval and development.

(EU) Offered intermittently. Political, economic and social development.

(EU) Offered autumn odd-numbered years.  The emergence of the Italian states with an emphasis on cultural achievements in the late Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical periods.

(EU) Offered spring even-numbered years.  The emergence of a united Italy, the triumph of fascism and contemporary Italian society.

(EU) Offered autumn.  Emphasis on the autocratic political tradition, Westernization, and territorial expansion.

(EU) Offered spring.  Emphasis on modernization and the revolutionary movement; the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalinist era; the decline of Soviet system.

(EU) Offered intermittently.  Political, economic and social development of the states of the Holy Roman Empire from 1555-1866.

(EU) Offered spring. Main currents in the history of Eastern Europe from earliest times to the present. Focus on the lands of Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and the Balkan region.

(R-12) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

(R 12) Offered intermittently.

(EU) Offered spring alternate years. Prereq., consent of instr. HSTR 348 or 349 recommended. Students will discuss specific issues in the historiography of the early modern period in British history (c1500-1800) and produce research papers grounded in primary sources.

(R 12) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.

(R 12) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr.

(AM) Offered intermittently.  Same as AAS 420.  This course explores the period in American history from the close of the Mexican War through the conclusion of the Civil War.  Topics include slavery and sectionalism; race and racism; immigration and ethno-religious conflict; military mobilization and wartime dissent; the meaning of freedom in the age of emancipation.  This course is intended to hone skills fundamental to the historical discipline: the critical analysis of primary sources; independent primary research and historical writing; engagement with and assessment of historical scholarship; the construction of a historiographical essay. Upper division writing course for the history major.

(AM) Offered intermittently. This course is a research and writing seminar in Montana history. Students will learn advanced research methodology in history and will be exposed to a variety of databases and source collections in Montana history that are available locally and online. Students will research and write a primary-source based paper on a topic in Montana history. This course fulfills the upper-division writing requirement for the history department and the university.

(AM) Offered alternate years. This seminar is designed to teach advanced undergraduate and graduate students the fundamentals of original research in the fields of early American and Atlantic world history. Every student will pursue an original research project, based on primary materials, and focused chronologically within the period of early contact to the U.S. Civil War. You will read texts that will serve as models of historical writing and others that will help you develop your skills as a researcher, writer, and editor. We will hone our writing skills through drafting and discussion. Consent of instructor required.

(AM) Offered intermittently. Consent of instructor required. Upper-division writing-intensive seminar in women’s history. Students will write an original research paper based on primary source materials.

Offered autumn and spring.  Topics vary according to the instructor.  Enrollment for history majors and minors, graduate students in history, or by consent of the instructor.  Undergraduates enrolling in this course must have completed HSTR 200: Introduction to Historical Methods.  The goal of this course is for students to propose and execute a substantial research project. Upper division writing course for the history major.

(EU) Offered spring alternate years. Prereq., consent of instr. HSTR 348 or 349 recommended. Students will discuss specific issues in the historiography of the early modern period in British history (c1500-1800) and produce research papers grounded in primary sources.

(WRLD) Prereq., history majors or minors or consent of instr. Research and writing seminar on U.S.-Latin American relations from the late 18th century through the 20th century.  Upper division writing course for the history major.