History Summer Courses

HIST-1000-PW1- Understanding Historical Change: Modern Europe
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous

Introduction to the nature and methods of historical study and the examination of specific topics essential for understanding the evolution of modern institutions, ideologies, and political situations.

CRN: 16541

Instructor: Gauthier, Brandon
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: HC, INST, IPE, IRST, ISEU

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HIST-1100-L21- Understanding Historical Change: American History
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Lincoln Center: TWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

Introduction to the nature and methods of historical study and examination of specific topics focusing on significant periods in the development of the U.S. and considering them in the light of certain elements shaping that history. Among these elements are the constitutional and political system; and the society's ideals, structure, economic policy, and world outlook.

CRN: 16536

Instructor: Wright, Christopher
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, FRHE, FRHI, HC

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HIST-1100-V11- Understanding Historical Change: American History (EP1)
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Introduction to the nature and methods of historical study and examination of specific topics focusing on significant periods in the development of the U.S. and considering them in the light of certain elements shaping that history. Among these elements are the constitutional and political system; and the society's ideals, structure, economic policy, and world outlook.

CRN: 14875

Instructor: Acosta, Salvador
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, EP1, FRHE, FRHI, HC, PLUR

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HIST-1220-V21- Understanding Historical Change: Ancient Rome
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Introduction to Roman History focusing on problems and sources.

CRN: 15803

Instructor: Keil, Matthew
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CC, CLAS, HC

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HIST-1400-V11- Understanding Historical Change: Latin America
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course provides an introduction to the nature and methods of historical study and the examination of specific topics essential for understanding the history of Latin America, from the independence movement to the present.

CRN: 15785

Instructor: Huezo-Jefferson, Stephanie
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMCS, AMST, ASHS, GLBL, HC, INST, IPE, ISLA, LAIN, LALS, PJRC, PJST

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HIST-1600-L11- Undrstnd Hist Chnge: Africa
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Lincoln Center: TWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

Introduction to the political, social, economic and institutional history of Africa.

CRN: 14811

Instructor: Idris, Amir
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AFAM, GLBL, HC, INST, IPE, ISAF, MEST, PJRC, PJST

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HIST-3430-L11- The World of Queen Elizabeth I
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Hybrid LC/Online: TR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course explores the world of Queen Elizabeth, the last Tudor sovereign, by looking at four overlapping themes which together shaped the Elizabethan period: state and society in the kingdom of England; overseas discovery; European diplomacy; and the kingdom of Ireland.

CRN: 14804

Instructor: Maginn, Christopher
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AHC, EP3, HIEH, HIUL, IRST

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HIST-3555-R11- Hitler's Germany
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Rose Hill: MTWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

Study of the problem of how Nazism arose in German society, the ways in which it triumphed, and its significance for Germany and modern world history.

CRN: 16537

Instructor: Hamlin, David
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AHC, HIEH, INST, IPE, ISEU, PJRC, PJST

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HIST-3860-L21- The "Long" 1990s in United States History (1989-2008)
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Lincoln Center: MTWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course examines the 1990s as a "long decade" in United States history, spanning from the end of the Cold War to the 2008 financial crisis. Students will explore how alternating historical frames of abundance and anxiety may help explain this unsettled period of the recent past. This course foregrounds the historical question of change versus continuity in recent United States history. Among other topics, students will investigate the relationship between the First Gulf War and the Global War on Terror; the changing social and political significance of "terrorism" before and after the September 11 attacks; the rise of the internet and digital cultures; developments in popular media such as music, television, and video games; the rise of popular awareness and activism regarding anthropogenic climate change; and alternating economic visions of abundance and austerity. This course is rooted in a cultural and social approach to history but includes significant discussion of high politics and foreign policy. In addition to a wide range of discussions, readings, and written assignments, students will collaboratively construct a “primary source reader” for the American 1990s based on subtopics of their own interests.

CRN: 16538

Instructor: DeAntonis, Nicholas
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AHC, AMST, APPI, ASHS, HIAH, HIUL

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HIST-3880-L11- History of the Cold War
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Lincoln Center: MTWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

The course will examine the Cold War as a political, economic, ideological, and military contest on a global scale. It will give special attention to the American role and experience in the origins of the conflict and its historical significance.

CRN: 16539

Instructor: Dietrich, Christopher
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AHC, AMST, INST, ISIN

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HIST-3881-RP3- New York City's Cold War
Summer Session 2, July 21, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Rose Hill: MTWRF, 09:30AM - 03:30PM

This course is a part of the Summer Leaders Academy for high school students.

This course will provide students with an understanding of the Cold War era of U.S. history through the intensive lens of New York City. Students will analyze the ideology, politics, and culture of the Cold War in the United States through the distinct eyes of New Yorkers—including immigrants, social activists, and local and international government officials. Through that analysis, they will gain a close understanding of major issues that New Yorkers faced related to the Cold War, including McCarthyism and censorship, the United Nations and the international Cold War, the fear of nuclear war and the movement for disarmament, and the Vietnam War and antiwar protests. Students will also have the opportunity to explore these questions in visits to archives, museum exhibits, and the analysis of historical artifacts from the Museum of the City of New York and the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives.

CRN: 16540

Instructor: Dietrich, Christopher
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AHC, AMST, ASHS, HIUL

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HIST-3928-V11- History of Asian American Communities in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MTWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course explores the pivotal role of Asian American communities at the intersection of American history and the history of global diaspora. In this complex mix of local and international dynamics, immigrants from Asia to the U.S. labored to find their footing in a shifting nation while grappling with new questions of identity and belonging. These struggles created an emerging and often challenging notion of "Asian America" that left an indelible imprint on U.S. politics, the legal system, art and culture, urbanization, education, and the ongoing struggle for gender and racial equality. Our course will examine the rich and entangled histories of East Asians, Southeast Asians, South Asians, and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. to understand the ways that intimate choices and community formation have shaped some of the most important narratives of the past two centuries.

CRN: 16542

Instructor: Shen, Grace
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AAST, AHC, AMST

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HIST-3950-V11- Latino History
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MTWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course explores the development of the Latina/o population in the U.S. by focusing on the questions of migration, race, ethnicity, labor, family, sexuality, and citizenship. Specific topics include: United States colonial expansion and its effects on the population of Latin America; Mexican-Americans, and the making of the West; colonialism and the Puerto Rican Diaspora; Caribbean revolutions and the Cuban-American community; and globalization and recent Latina/o migrations (Dominicans, Colombians).

CRN: 15786

Instructor: Acosta, Salvador
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AHC, AMST, APPI, ASHS, COLI, EP3, HIAH, HIUL, INST, ISIN, ISLA, LALS, LAUH, PJRC, PJST, PLUR, URST

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HIST-4009-V11- Film, Fiction, and Power in the American Century
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MTWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Visual and written representations of American power have influenced, challenged, and even transformed U.S. relations in the world. With their capacity to reach millions, films and fiction do more than tell stories or entertain audiences. They also have the unparalleled means to shape values and beliefs and to convey attitudes toward the nature and practice of American power. What sort of themes of international power did authors, screen-writers, and directors address in the twentieth century? What do these reflections on power reveal about American society, its politics, and its place in the world?

CRN: 16543

Instructor: Dietrich, Christopher
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AMST, APPI, ASAM, ASHS, HIAH, ICC

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HIST-5205-V31- The Fall of the Roman Empire
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous

Graduate Course. This graduate seminar introduces students to the historiographical paradigm of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire and examines modern responses to it.

CRN: 15789

Instructor: Bruce, Scott
4 credits

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HIST-5424-V12- Women in the History of Science and Technology
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: TR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Graduate Course. Natural knowledge and the manipulation of nature have often been gendered, but how, why, and by whom? This seminar will explore the multitude of ways that women have shaped and been shaped by these gendered visions of nature and the tools for controlling it. What forms of natural knowledge were deemed appropriate for women? Why were women understood to be particularly adept at specific technologies or handicrafts? How were spaces for scientific practice or technological production rendered hospitable or, more often, inhospitable for women? In what ways have systems of scientific authority limited or encouraged the participation of female researchers? How have science and technology been used to act on women's bodies? Are there specifically "womanly" ways of knowing? These and other questions will be explored through cases across a wide range of periods, disciplines, and geographies, allowing us not only to question the shifting place of women within the worlds of science and technology but also to question our assumptions about the place of science and technology within different societies.

CRN: 16544

Instructor: Shen, Grace
4 credits

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