Diversity in History
Students who have declared a History Major, Double Major, Honours, or Combined Honours, and who are planning to take a minimum of 36 credit hours in History (above the 1000 level) will be required to choose 3 credit hours above the 1000 level in each of four categories (A,B,C,D). Students may not satisfy two areas with the same course.
Group A
The Pre-Modern Era
2nd-Year Courses
- 2002 Late Medieval Europe
- 2006 Atlantic World 1450-1650
- 2007 Atlantic World 1650-1800
- 2012 Absolutism and Revolution in Europe
- 2015 War and Society 1550-1750
- 2022 Imperial Russia
- 2060 The Civilization of Baroque Italy
- 2061 Civilization of Baroque Italy
- 2064 Economic History of Early Modern Europe
- 2101 Medieval England
- 2106 Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1688
- 2135 The Rule of Law? Topics in British Legal History
- 2153 Scotland from the Earliest Times to the Reformation
- 2205 Historical Issues in Indigenous Studies
- 2207 Canada from Its Origins to 1763
- 2211 Social History of Canada before 1870
- 2221 Rough Justice: Order, Disorder and Canadian Popular Culture to the 1890s
- 2271 Atlantic Canada to Confederation: The Northeast in the Age of Empire, 1450-1867
- 2525 Heretics and Infidels: Schisms, Persecution, and Religious Violence in Global Context, 1450-1600
- 2331 Creation of an American Republic: The United States 1580-1865
- 2381 Latin America
- 2386 Colonial Latin America
- 2392 Introduction to Caribbean History (1450-Present)
- 2425 Africa before 1900
- 2503 Medieval Islamic Civilization
- 2509 Hindu, Muslim Sikh: Identity, Culture and State in Pre-Colonial South Asia
- 2614 Making Gender: Women and Men, Sex and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe
- 2711 Struggles that Shaped the Modern World: 1600-1900
- 2714 Slavery and Slaving in Global History
3rd-Year Courses
- 3000 Topics in Early Modern European History
- 3002 The Medieval Church
- 3003 Celtic Britain and Ireland to 1400
- 3006 Renaissance and Reformation Europe, 1348-1559
- 3008 Florence Tuscany under Medici
- 3013 Sex and Gender in Reformation Europe
- 3030 Russian Intellectual History
- 3037 The Age of Kings: Apex of Royalty 1660-1715
- 3040 Culture and Behavior in Early Modern France
- 3102 Seminar in Tudor History, 1485-1603
- 3103 Seminar in Stuart History, 1603-1688
- 3105 English Civil War
- 3107 The English Family and Household
- 3108 Topics in the Social and Cultural History of England, c. 1500-1850: Madness and Marginality
- 3109 Topics in the Social and Cultural History of England, c. 1500-1850: Everyday Life
- 3210 Canadian Cultural Landscapes
- 3226 Law and Justice in Canadian Society to 1890
- 3245 French Canada
- 3260 History of the Canadian West
- 3273 Nova Scotia: Pre-Confederation
- 3300 Topics in the History of the Americas, 1450-1870
- 3350 Family and Community in North America, 1600-1900
- 3360 Enslavement and Emancipation: African Americans in the US South to 1900
- 3370 North American Landscapes
- 3380 Slavery and Freedom in the Americas
- 3394 Slavery, War and Piracy in the Early Caribbean
- 3435 The Rise and Fall of Slavery
- 3451 South Africa to 1860
- 3470 Wars and Revolutions in 19th-Century Africa
- 3509 Arab Caliphs, Turkish Commanders and Persian Viziers: Islamic History, 750-1200
- 3510 Sultans and Shahs: Politics and Religion in the Islamic Gunpowder Age (1500-1800)
- 3511 Ancient and Medieval History of the Persianate World
- 3515 Food for Thought: History and the Culinary Cultures of the Islamic World
- 3520 Empire & Resistance: Sri Lanka
- 3705 History of the Book in Europe, from Medieval Codices to the First Newspapers
- 3750 Social History of Seafaring: Maritime Culture in the Age of Sail
4th-Year Courses
- 4003 Medieval Civilization
- 4004 Crime and Society in Post-Conquest England
- 4060 Civilization of Baroque Italy
- 4104 Punishment, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England, c. 1550-1850
- 4105 The English Civil War: Society, Religion and Politics, 1603-1660
- 4106 Topics in Early Modern English History
- 4162 Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture
- 4175 Baroque Europe
- 4250 Popular Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850
- 4360 Slavery and American Political Culture
- 4545 Scripture & Statecraft: History of Islamic Political Thought
- 4550 Orientalism and Occidentalism
Group B
The Modern Era
2nd-Year Courses
- 2021 Soviet Russia
- 2022 Imperial Russia
- 2032 20th-century Germany
- 2041 France From the Revolution to the Great War
- 2049 The First World War
- 2055 War & Society Since 1945
- 2064 Economic History of Early Modern Europe
- 2082 Twentieth-Century Europe in Literature, Art and Film
- 2111 Modern Britain to 1884
- 2112 Modern Britain From 1880 - 1980
- 2205 Historical Issues in Indigenous Studies
- 2208 Patriots, Rebels, Refugees: Canada's Roots in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1860
- 2210 Many Canadas: 1930-present
- 2211 Social History of Canada Before 1870
- 2212 Social History of Canada Since 1870
- 2221 Rough Justice: Order, Disorder and Canadian Popular Culture to the 1890s
- 2222 Rough Justice: Order, Disorder and Canadian Popular Culture, 1890s to the Present
- 2231 The Making of Modern Canada: Canadian Political History, 1896 to the Present
- 2235 History of Canadian Culture
- 2250 History of the Canadian West
- 2260 True Believers, 1800-1914: The Left and the Right in Canadian Politics
- 2261 True Believers, 1914 to Present: The Left and the Right in Canadian Politics
- 2272 Atlantic Canada Since Confederation: Regionalism, Identity and Development, 1867-2000
- 2280 African Nova Scotian History
- 2325 US Black History to 1865
- 2333 The Politics of Reform in 20th-Century America
- 2335 Modern American Culture
- 2340 Cold War Histories
- 2381 Latin America
- 2382 Central America to 1979
- 2383 Area Studies on Mexico and Central America
- 2387 Latin America since Independence
- 2388 Latin American Dictators: From Fact to Fiction
- 2392 Introduction to Caribbean History
- 2425 Africa before 1900
- 2426 Africa since 1900
- 2502 The Ottoman Empire and Its Legacy, 1750-1923
- 2504 A History of the Modern Middle East
- 2505 Turbans and Berets: A History of Modern Iraq
- 2510 Modern History of South Asia
- 2615 Making Gender: Male and Female from the American Revolution to the Present
- 2711 Struggles that Shaped the Modern World, 1600-1900
- 2712 Freedom Fighters or Terrorists? Revolution, Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism in the 20th Century
- 2714 Slavery and Slaving in Global History
- 2715 Locked Up: A Global History of Incarceration
- 2900 Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to Art History & Visual Culture
- 2920 Environmental History
- 2950 Introduction to Heritage Studies and Public Humanities
3rd-Year Courses
- 3007 The European Enlightenment
- 3030 Russian Intellectual History
- 3043 Napoleon Bonaparte
- 3045 The French Revolution
- 3049 The First World War
- 3050 Europe and World War Two
- 3051 Fascist and National Socialist Movements in Europe, 1900-1945
- 3056 The Holocaust: The Destruction of the Jews of Europe, 1933-1945
- 3088 History and Memory in Modern Russia and the West
- 3090 Russian Society
- 3092 Russian Topics
- 3094 Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky: Their Life and Works
- 3096 The History of Ideas in Russia: From Official Nationality to Solzhenitsyn's Neo-Slavophilisim
- 3113 Britain in the Age of the First World War
- 3114 Britain in the Age of the Second World War
- 3210 Canadian Cultural Landscapes
- 3220 Youth Culture in Canada, 1950s-70s
- 3222 Topics in Canadian Social History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 3223 The Caring Society? Welfare in Canada Since 1900
- 3227 Criminal Law, Crime and Punishment in Canadian Society, 1890 to the Present
- 3245 French Canada
- 3260 History of the Canadian West
- 3274 Nova Scotia: Post-Confederation
- 3282 Public History
- 3292 Weath and Power in North America
- 3293 The Political Economy of the Car: Fordism and Post-Fordism in International Perspective
- 3333 The American Archives
- 3350 Family and Community in North America, 1600-1900
- 3358 Slavery, Gender and Power: Women in Nineteenth-Century America
- 3360 Enslavement and Emancipation: African-Americans in the U.S. South to 1900
- 3361 The American Civil War and Reconstruction
- 3365 Vietnam War
- 3367 The History of Modern Intelligence in War and Diplomacy
- 3369 America in the 1960s
- 3370 North American Landscapes
- 3372 The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 3380 Slavery and Freedom in the Americas
- 3390 Latin America: Revolution and Repression
- 3393 Indigenous Movements in Latin America
- 3402 Baroque to Bustles: Dress from 1700 to 1900
- 3430 The Making of Colonial Africa, c. 1850-1930
- 3431 Struggles in the City: Labour, Migration and Urban Life in Colonial Africa
- 3435 The Rise and Fall of African Slavery
- 3451 Southern Africa to 1860
- 3452 South Africa since 1860
- 3470 Wars and Revolutions in 19th-Century Africa
- 3471 Wars and Revolutions in 20th-Century Africa
- 3512 History of Modern Iran
- 3513 From Cairo to Cape Town: Religious Revival, Identity, and Colonisation in Muslim Africa
- 3515 Food for Thought: History and the Culinary Cultures of the Islamic World
- 3551 Topics in Modern History
- 3552 Topics in Modern History
- 3750 Social History of Seafaring: Maritime Culture in the Age of Sail
4th-Year Courses
- 4045 The French Revolution
- 4090 Soviet History Seminar
- 4117 Winston Churchill
- 4210 Museums, Archives, and Material Culture
- 4222 Topics in Canadian Social History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 4255 Justice, Freedom, and the State in 20th-Century Canada
- 4260 Cowboys in North American History and Culture
- 4300 Topics in Latin American History
- 4355 Becoming the State
- 4360 Slavery and American Political Culture
- 4400 Topics in African History
- 4401 State Violence, Communal Conflict and Criminality in Modern South Africa
- 4500 Topics in Modern History
- 4510 Topics in Islamic and Middle Eastern History
- 4550 Orientalism & Occidentalism
- 4555 A Dream Palace or a Bitter Reality?: Arab Intellectuals and Their Ideologies in the Modern Period
- 4600 Topics in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American and British History
- 4613 Women's Suffrage from the French Revolution to World War 1
- 4614 Topics in the History of Sexuality
- 4639 Britain, Appeasement, and the Origins of the Second World War
- 4710 Heritage Studies
- 4987 Historiography of American Foreign Relations, 1776-1945
- 4988 Historiography of American Foreign Relations, Post-1945
Group C
The Euro-Americas
2nd-Year Courses
- 2002 Late Medieval Europe
- 2006 Atlantic World 1450-1650
- 2007 Atlantic World 1650-1800
- 2012 Absolutism and Revolution in Europe
- 2015 War and Society 1550-1750
- 2021 Soviet Russia
- 2022 Imperial Russia
- 2032 20th-century Germany
- 2041 France From the Revolution to the Great War
- 2049 The First World War
- 2055 War & Society Since 1945
- 2060 The Civilization of Baroque Italy
- 2061 Civilization of Baroque Italy
- 2064 Economic History of Early Modern Europe
- 2082 Twentieth-Century Europe in Literature, Art and Film
- 2101 Medieval England
- 2106 Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1688
- 2111 Modern Britain to 1884
- 2112 Modern Britain From 1880 - 1980
- 2135 The Rule of Law? Topics in British Legal History
- 2153 Scotland from the Earliest Times to the Reformation
- 2205 Historical Issues in Indigenous Studies
- 2207 Canada from Its Origins to 1763
- 2208 Patriots, Rebels, Refugees: Canada's Roots in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1860
- 2210 Many Canadas: 1930-present
- 2211 Social History of Canada Before 1870
- 2212 Social History of Canada Since 1870
- 2221 Rough Justice: Order, Disorder and Canadian Popular Culture to the 1890s
- 2222 Rough Justice: Order, Disorder and Canadian Popular Culture, 1890s to the Present
- 2231 The Making of Modern Canada: Canadian Political History, 1896 to the Present
- 2235 History of Canadian Culture
- 2240 French Canada
- 2250 History of the Canadian West
- 2260 True Believers, 1800-1914: The Left and the Right in Canadian Politics
- 2261 True Believers, 1914 to Present: The Left and the Right in Canadian Politics
- 2271 Atlantic Canada to Confederation: The Northeast in the Age of Empire, 1450-1867
- 2280 African Nova Scotian History
- 2272 Atlantic Canada Since Confederation: Regionalism, Identity and Development, 1867-2000
- 2325 US Black History to 1865
- 2331 Creation of an American Republic: The United States 1580-1865
- 2333 The Politics of Reform in 20th-Century America
- 2335 Modern American Culture
- 2340 Cold War Histories
- 2381 Latin America
- 2382 Central America to 1979
- 2383 Area Studies on Mexico and Central America
- 2386 Colonial Latin America
- 2387 Latin America since Independence
- 2388 Latin American Dictators: From Fact to Fiction
- 2392 Introduction to Caribbean History (1450-Present)
- 2614 Making Gender: Women and Men, Sex and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe
- 2615 Making Gender: Male and Female from the American Revolution to the Present
- 2714 Slavery and Slaving in Global History
- 2900 Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to Art History & Visual Culture
3rd-Year Courses
- 3000 Topics in Early Modern European History
- 3002 The Medieval Church
- 3003 Celtic Britain and Ireland to 1400
- 3006 Renaissance and Reformation Europe, 1348-1559
- 3013 Sex and Gender in Reformation Europe
- 3030 Russian Intellectual History
- 3037 The Age of Kings: Apex of Royalty 1660-1715
- 3040 Culture and Behavior in Early Modern France
- 3043 Napoleon Bonaparte
- 3045 The French Revolution
- 3049 The First World War
- 3050 Europe and World War Two
- 3051 Fascist and National Socialist Movements in Europe, 1900-1945
- 3056 The Holocaust: The Destruction of the Jews of Europe, 1933-1945
- 3088 History and Memory in Modern Russia and the West
- 3090 Russian Society
- 3092 Russian Topics
- 3094 Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky: Their Life and Works
- 3096 The History of Ideas in Russia: From Official Nationality to Solzhenitsyn's Neo-Slavophilisim
- 3102 Seminar in Tudor History, 1485-1603
- 3103 Seminar in Stuart History, 1603-1688
- 3105 English Civil War
- 3107 The English Family and Household
- 3108 Topics in the Social and Cultural History of England, c. 1500-1850: Madness and Marginality
- 3109 Topics in the Social and Cultural History of England, c. 1500-1850: Everyday Life
- 3113 Britain in the Age of the First World War
- 3114 Britain in the Age of the Second World War
- 3210 Canadian Cultural Landscapes
- 3220 Youth Culture in Canada, 1950s-70s
- 3222 Topics in Canadian Social History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 3223 The Caring Society? Welfare in Canada Since 1900
- 3226 Law and Justice in Canadian Society to 1890
- 3227 Criminal Law, Crime and Punishment in Canadian Society, 1890 to the Present
- 3245 French Canada
- 3260 History of the Canadian West
- 3273 Nova Scotia: Pre-Confederation
- 3274 Nova Scotia: Post-Confederation
- 3282 Public History
- 3292 Weath and Power in North America
- 3293 The Political Economy of the Car: Fordism and Post-Fordism in International Perspective
- 3300 Topics in the History of the Americas, 1450-1870
- 3333 The American Archives
- 3350 Family and Community in North America, 1600-1900
- 3358 Slavery, Gender and Power: Women in Nineteenth-Century America
- 3360 Enslavement and Emancipation: African-Americans in the U.S. South to 1900
- 3361 The American Civil War and Reconstruction
- 3365 Vietnam War
- 3367 The History of Modern Intelligence in War and Diplomacy
- 3369 America in the 1960s
- 3370 North American Landscapes
- 3372 The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 3380 Slavery and Freedom in the Americas
- 3390 Latin America: Revolution and Repression
- 3393 Indigenous Movements in Latin America
- 3394 Slavery, War and Piracy in the Early Caribbean
- 3435 The Rise and Fall of Slavery
- 3705 History of the Book in Europe, from Medieval Codices to the First Newspapers
- 3750 Social History of Seafaring: Maritime Culture in the Age of Sail
4th-Year Courses
- 4003 Medieval Civilization
- 4004 Crime and Society in Post-Conquest England
- 4045 The French Revolution
- 4060 Civilization of Baroque Italy
- 4090 Soviet History Seminar
- 4104 Punishment, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England, c. 1550-1850
- 4105 The English Civil War: Society, Religion and Politics, 1603-1660
- 4106 Topics in Early Modern English History
- 4117 Winston Churchill
- 4162 Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture
- 4175 Baroque Europe
- 4210 Museums, Archives, and Material Culture
- 4222 Topics in Canadian Social History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 4250 Popular Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850
- 4255 Justice, Freedom, and the State in 20th-Century Canada
- 4260 Cowboys in North American History and Culture
- 4300 Topics in Latin American History
- 4360 Slavery and American Political Culture
- 4550 Orientalism and Occidentalism
- 4600 Topics in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American and British History
- 4613 Women's Suffrage from the French Revolution to World War 1
- 4614 Topics in the History of Sexuality
- 4639 Britain, Appeasement, and the Origins of the Second World War
- 4987 Historiography of American Foreign Relations, 1776-1945
- 4988 Historiography of American Foreign Relations, Post-1945
Group D
Africa/Asia
2nd-Year Courses
- 2021 Soviet Russia
- 2022 Imperial Russia
- 2425 Africa before 1900
- 2426 Africa since 1900
- 2502 The Ottoman Empire and Its Legacy, 1750-1923
- 2503 Medieval Islamic Civilization
- 2504 A History of the Modern Middle East
- 2505 Turbans and Berets: A History of Modern Iraq
- 2509 Hindu, Muslim Sikh: Identity, Culture and State in Pre-Colonial South Asia
- 2510 Modern History of South Asia
- 2525 Heretics and Infidels: Schisms, Persecution, and Religious Violence in Global Context, 1450-1600
- 2711 Struggles that Shaped the Modern World, 1600-1900
- 2712 Freedom Fighters or Terrorists? Revolution, Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism in the 20th Century
- 2714 Slavery and Slaving in Global History
- 2715 Locked Up: A Global History of Incarceration
3rd-Year Courses
- 3088 History and Memory in Modern Russia and the West
- 3430 The Making of Colonial Africa, c. 1850-1930
- 3431 Struggles in the City: Labour, Migration and Urban Life in Colonial Africa
- 3435 The Rise and Fall of African Slavery
- 3451 Southern Africa to 1860
- 3452 South Africa since 1860
- 3470 Wars and Revolutions in 19th-Century Africa
- 3471 Wars and Revolutions in 20th-Century Africa
- 3509 Arab Caliphs, Turkish Commanders and Persian Viziers: Islamic History, 750-1200
- 3510 Sultans and Shahs: Politics and Religion in the Islamic Gunpowder Age (1500-1800)
- 3511 Ancient and Medieval History of the Persianate World
- 3512 History of Modern Iran
- 3513 From Cairo to Cape Town: Religious Revival, Identity, and Colonisation in Muslim Africa
- 3515 Food for Thought: History and the Culinary Cultures of the Islamic World
- 3520 Empire, War, and Resistance in Sri Lanka
4th-Year Courses
- 4090 Soviet History Seminar
- 4355 Becoming the State
- 4400 Topics in African History
- 4401 State Violence, Communal Conflict and Criminality in Modern South Africa
- 4500 Topics in Modern History
- 4510 Topics in Islamic and Middle Eastern History
- 4545 Scripture & Statecraft: History of Islamic Political Thought
- 4550 Orientalism and Occidentalism
- 4555 A Dream Palace or a Bitter Reality?: Arab Intellectuals and Their Ideologies in the Modern Period