Main Departmental Office
Wooten Hall, Room 225

Mailing address:
1155 Union Circle #310650
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-2288
Fax: 940-369-8838

Email: history@unt.edu

Website: http://history.unt.edu

Harold M. Tanner, Chair

Faculty  

History encompasses all aspects of past human endeavor; it encourages students to think broadly and to integrate all of their knowledge into a meaningful whole. From history a person develops a better understanding of current events and a better appreciation of art, architecture, ideas, politics, and fellow human beings and their activities. It also provides a guide for the future. The study of history is important for journalists, teachers, business people, theologians, politicians, scientists, lawyers, librarians, archivists, museologists and those in many other professions. Students planning any career could benefit from majoring or minoring in history or from choosing history as the lead subject in a social science major or for elective credits. History is an interest that students may retain for life.

U.S. history requirement

Texas state law requires that the university may not award a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic certificate unless the student has credit for 6 semester hours in American history. A student is entitled to submit as much as 3 hours of credit, or its equivalent, in Texas history in partial satisfaction of this requirement. The university may determine that a student has met the requirement by work transferred from another accredited college or upon successful completion of an advanced standing examination. The student may satisfy the entire 6-hour United States/Texas history requirement by advanced standing examination. This requirement may be satisfied by credit in HIST 2610  (HIST 1301) and HIST 2620  (HIST 1302) (United States history) or HIST 2675  and HIST 2685  (Honors United States history).

Scholarships

The Department of History offers the following undergraduate scholarships:

• Hagler-Marquis History Scholarship
• History Excellence Scholarship
• Howard H. Schultz Scholarship and Watt Family Scholarship in Jewish Studies
• Harry and Ruth Kamman Scholarship
• Gus Seligmann History Scholarship
• Ledbetter Family Scholarship
• CBS Mechanical Inc. History Scholarship
• Nation’s Heritage Scholarship
• Benjamin Lyon Chapter DAR Scholarship
• Kingsbury-Thomason Scholarship (for students who intend to major in history and to teach history in Texas public schools).

History majors who are entering freshmen, transfer students or continuing students may apply. The application deadline is February 20. For information and application forms, contact the department chair, associate chair or administrative assistant.

Programs

• History, BA

• African-American Studies minor
• Asian Studies minor
• Classical Studies minor
• History minor
• Jewish and Israel Studies minor
• Mexican-American Studies minor

• History teacher certification

Courses

• HIST 4455 - History of Black Women in America
• HIST 4460 - History of Sexualities in U.S.
• HIST 4461 - Gender, Race, Class and Policy since World War II
• HIST 4465 - Women in the United States to 1900
• HIST 4470 - Women in the United States Since 1900
• HIST 4475 - Jewish Women in Modern America
• HIST 4480 - Colonial America
• HIST 4490 - The American Revolution – Causes and Consequences
• HIST 4495 - United States Food History
• HIST 4550 - Imperial China
• HIST 4560 - Modern China
• HIST 4565 - Chinese Military History, 1750-Present
• HIST 4570 - Japanese History
• HIST 4580 - Africa to the Nineteenth Century
• HIST 4590 - Modern Africa
• HIST 4605 - History of South Asia, 1757–1947
• HIST 4610 - Contemporary South Asia
• HIST 4630 - U.S. Navy, 1775–Present: Sails
• HIST 4640 - Early United States Military History to 1815
• HIST 4641 - History of U.S. Military in 20th Century
• HIST 4642 - War and American Society, 1608-2001
• HIST 4650 - Evolution of Warfare to Napoleon
• HIST 4660 - Evolution of Warfare from Napoleon
• HIST 4700 - Texas
• HIST 4750 - Social Studies Teaching Methods
• HIST 4770 - U.S. in the World to 1898
• HIST 4771 - U.S. in the World 1898-1945
• HIST 4772 - U.S. in the World Since 1945
• HIST 4780 - Indian Policy in United States History
• HIST 4800 - The Relations Between the United States and Latin American Countries
• HIST 4830 - The Old South
• HIST 4840 - The New South
• HIST 4850 - The Early National Period of the United States, 1789–1848
• HIST 4860 - The Civil War and Reconstruction
• HIST 4870 - Making of the Modern United States, 1877–1929
• HIST 4875 - Prosperity, Depression and a New Deal, 1918-1941
• HIST 4880 - United States Since 1929
• HIST 4890 - Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the U.S.
• HIST 4895 - American Economic History
• HIST 4900 - Special Problems
• HIST 4910 - Special Problems
• HIST 4951 - Honors College Capstone Thesis