2015-2016 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Department of History
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About the History Program
The Department of History at Purdue University was established on July 1, 1964, but instruction in History has been offered at Purdue since the 1876-1877 school year when Edward P. Morris, A.B., taught history and Latin. In 1962 the department received authorization to offer the M.A. degree and in 1969, the Ph.D. degree. The 1960s also witnessed the complete remodeling and modernization of University Hall, the home of the department and the only building surviving from the original Purdue campus of the 1870s. Between 1960 and 2008 the department grew to thirty-seven faculty members.
In 1963 the department offered seven undergraduate courses–four Western Civilization and American history surveys and courses on Roman history, the history of science, and the modern Far East from the American perspective.
Today the department offers more than 156 courses on American Indians, China, Japan, Islam and the Middle East, Latin America, the African American experience, women in European history, Middle Eastern, and United States history, the Holocaust, the Crusades, World War II, the Vietnam War, and many others.
The 34 faculty who teach and conduct research in the department came to Purdue from leading history graduate programs at the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, University of Virginia, Georgetown University, Yale University, Stanford University, Brown University, and Columbia University among others. Purdue’s History faculty have published their work with leading university presses including Johns Hopkins, Cambridge, Oxford, California, Chicago, Indiana, North Carolina, Louisiana State, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, and others.
Faculty
https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/history/directory/index.aspx
Contact Information
Department of History
University Hall, 672 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2087
Phone: (765) 494-4132
Fax: (765) 496-1755
history@purdue.edu
Graduate Information
For Graduate Information please see History Graduate Program Information .
ProgramsBaccalaureate Minor
CoursesHistory- HIST 10300 - Introduction To The Medieval World
- HIST 10400 - Introduction To The Modern World
- HIST 10500 - Survey Of Global History
- HIST 15100 - American History To 1877
- HIST 15200 - United States Since 1877
- HIST 19500 - The Historian’s Craft: Historical Research And Film
- HIST 20100 - Special Topics In History
- HIST 21000 - The Making Of Modern Africa
- HIST 21100 - The Global Field: World Soccer And Global History
- HIST 22800 - English History To 1688
- HIST 22900 - English History Since 1688
- HIST 23800 - History Of Russia From Medieval Times To 1861
- HIST 23900 - History Of Russia From 1861 To The Present
- HIST 24000 - East Asia And Its Historic Tradition
- HIST 24100 - East Asia In The Modern World
- HIST 24300 - South Asian History And Civilizations
- HIST 24500 - Introduction To The Middle East History And Culture
- HIST 24600 - Modern Middle East And North Africa
- HIST 25000 - United States Relations With The Middle East And North Africa
- HIST 27100 - Introduction To Colonial Latin American History (1492-1810)
- HIST 27200 - Introduction To Modern Latin American History (1810 To The Present)
- HIST 30000 - Eve Of Destruction: Global Crises And World Organization In The 20th Century
- HIST 30200 - Historical Topics
- HIST 30400 - America In The 1960s
- HIST 30505 - The United States In The World 1898-Present
- HIST 31005 - The Civil War And Reconstruction, 1850 To 1877
- HIST 31200 - The Crusades
- HIST 31505 - American Beauty
- HIST 31700 - A History Of The Christian Church And The Expansion Of Christianity I
- HIST 31800 - A History Of The Christian Church And The Expansion Of Christianity II
- HIST 32000 - The World Of Charlemagne
- HIST 32200 - Monarchy: Its Rise And Fall
- HIST 32300 - German History
- HIST 32400 - Modern France
- HIST 32501 - Twentieth Century Europe Through Autobiography
- HIST 32600 - Popular Culture In Preindustrial Europe (1400-1800)
- HIST 32700 - The Habsburg Legacy: Central Europe, 1500-2000
- HIST 32800 - History Of Women In Renaissance Europe
- HIST 32900 - History Of Women In Modern Europe
- HIST 33000 - History Of The British Empire And Commonwealth, 1783 To 1960
- HIST 33100 - Great Figures In History
- HIST 33300 - Science And Technology In Western Civilization I
- HIST 33400 - Science And Technology In Western Civilization II
- HIST 33505 - Nationalism And Socialism In East Central Europe
- HIST 33700 - Europe In The Age Of The Cold War
- HIST 33900 - Traditional China
- HIST 34000 - Modern China
- HIST 34100 - History Of Africa South Of The Sahara
- HIST 34200 - Africa And The West
- HIST 34300 - Traditional Japan
- HIST 34400 - History Of Modern Japan
- HIST 34901 - The First World War
- HIST 35000 - Science And Technology In The Twentieth Century World
- HIST 35100 - The Second World War
- HIST 35400 - Women In America To 1870
- HIST 35500 - History Of American Military Affairs
- HIST 35600 - America In Vietnam
- HIST 35700 - History Of Southern Africa Since 1400
- HIST 35900 - Gender In East Asian History
- HIST 36000 - Gender In Middle East History
- HIST 36101 - Violence, War, And Militarism In Modern Africa
- HIST 36600 - Hispanic Heritage Of The United States
- HIST 37100 - Society, Culture, And Rock And Roll
- HIST 37200 - History Of The American West
- HIST 37500 - Women In America Since 1870
- HIST 37600 - History Of Indiana
- HIST 37700 - History And Culture Of Native America
- HIST 37900 - Gandhi: Myth Reality And Perspective
- HIST 38001 - History Of United States Agriculture
- HIST 38200 - American Constitutional History
- HIST 38300 - Recent American Constitutional History
- HIST 38400 - History Of Aviation
- HIST 38700 - History Of The Space Age
- HIST 39001 - Jews In The Modern World: A Survey Of Modern Jewish Society, Culture, And Politics
- HIST 39100 - History Of Russian Popular Entertainment
- HIST 39200 - Caribbean History And Culture
- HIST 39400 - Environmental History Of The United States
- HIST 39500 - Junior Research Seminar
- HIST 39600 - The Afro-American To 1865
- HIST 39800 - The Afro-American Since 1865
- HIST 40300 - Europe In The Reformation
- HIST 40400 - Kings And Philosophers: Europe 1618-1789
- HIST 40500 - The French Revolution And Napoleon
- HIST 40600 - Rebels And Romantics: Europe 1815-1870
- HIST 40700 - Road To World War I: Europe 1870-1919
- HIST 40800 - Dictatorship And Democracy: Europe 1919-1945
- HIST 41100 - The Four Horsemen Ride: Crisis And Change In Europe 1300-1648
- HIST 41200 - The Cultural History Of The Middle Ages
- HIST 41300 - Modern European Imperialism Repression and Resistance
- HIST 41800 - European Society And Culture 1450-1800
- HIST 42100 - Honors Historical Methods
- HIST 42200 - Honors Thesis In Historical Research
- HIST 42300 - Advanced Topics In Modern Germany
- HIST 42700 - History Of Spain And Portugal
- HIST 43000 - Women In African History
- HIST 43900 - Communist China
- HIST 44100 - Africa In The Twentieth Century
- HIST 45000 - The English Landscape:Integrating History, Horticulture & Landscape Architect
- HIST 45500 - Modern Iraq
- HIST 46000 - American Colonial History
- HIST 46100 - The Revolutionary Era, 1763 To 1800
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