History

Ideas, Religion, Culture, and Education

To see all courses, with links to descriptions, view the Vassar College Catalogue.

Area of interest includes:

1. Technology, Medicine and Science
2. Religion and Society
3. Intellectual History, Ideas, Education history and Literature
4. Cultural History

100-level Courses

• 101 Martin Luther King Jr.
• 103 Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, 712-1857
• 116 The Dark Ages c. 400–900
• 122 Encounters in Modern East Asia
• 124 Europe 1945
• 126 Terrorism in Russia and Eurasia
• 151 British History: James I (1603) to the Great War
• 160 American Moments: Rediscovering US History

200-level Courses

• 215 The High Middle Ages c.950-1300
• 218 The Crusades, 1095-1291
• 225 Renaissance Italy
• 226 Northern Europe in the Renaissance, 1300-1550
• 230 From Tyranny to Terror: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
• 236 Germany, 1740 – 1918
• 253 The Jungle in Indian History
• 254 Victorian Britain
• 259 The History of the Family in Early Modern Europe
• 261 History of Women in the United States Since 1890
• 262 Contesting Colonialism: Latin America 1450-1750
• 264 The Revolutionary Option? Latin America in the Twentieth Century
• 274 Beyond Jamestown and Plymouth Rock: Revisiting, Revising & Reviving Early America
• 276 Democracy in America? US Politics and Power, 1828-1896
• 277 The Making of the “American Century”: 1890 – 1945

300-level Courses

• 304 Approaching the Taj Mahal
• 316 Constantinople/Istanbul: 1453
• 326 Machiavelli
• 332 Dangerous Ideas: Challenging Authority in 18th Century France
• 337 The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany
• 357 The First World War
• 360 Black Business and Social Movements in the Twentieth Century
• 365 Race and the History of Jim Crow Segregation
• 369Themes in 20th Century Urban History
• 374 The African Diaspora
• 386 Central Asia and the Caucasus: Nation Building and Human Rights