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/

Jennifer Jensen Wallach, 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 Jamie McQueen Thomas, Administrative Coordinator, at 940 565-2814 or jami.mcqueen@unt.edu.

Programs

• History, BA

• Africana Studies minor
• Classical Studies minor
• History minor
• Mexican-American Studies minor

• History teacher certification

• Africana Studies certificate
• Food Studies certificate

Courses

• HIST 4260 - Topics in History
• HIST 4261 - Topics in United States History
• HIST 4262 - Topics in European History
• HIST 4263 - Topics in African-, Asian- or Latin American History
• HIST 4270 - The American West
• HIST 4271 - Hollywood and the Wild West
• HIST 4272 - Explorers of North America
• HIST 4275 - American Environmental History
• HIST 4276 - Animal Histories
• HIST 4282 - Settler Colonialism and Empire
• HIST 4283 - Decolonization in Asia and Africa
• HIST 4290 - Intellectual, Cultural and Social History of Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• HIST 4300 - The French Revolution, 1774–1799
• HIST 4301 - Napoleonic Europe, 1799–1815
• HIST 4302 - Wars of Napoleon, 1792–1815
• HIST 4303 - Age of Empire 1848-1914
• HIST 4310 - Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
• HIST 4311 - Rebellious Women in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
• HIST 4315 - History of Anti-Semitism from Ancient Times to the Present
• HIST 4320 - Anti-Semitism in Europe, French Revolution to Present
• HIST 4330 - Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1648–1789
• HIST 4335 - Age of Revolutions: Europe, 1700–1918
• HIST 4350 - Europe, 1914–1945
• HIST 4360 - Europe since 1945
• HIST 4364 - Germany from Luther to Napoleon, 1500 to 1815
• HIST 4365 - Modern Germany, 1815–Present
• HIST 4370 - Intellectual, Cultural and Social History of Modern Europe since 1789
• HIST 4380 - The European Witch Hunts
• HIST 4385 - Nazi Germany
• HIST 4390 - The Holocaust, 1933–1945
• HIST 4391 - War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice
• HIST 4395 - The State of Israel
• HIST 4405 - History of the Body
• HIST 4406 - Sickness and Health in U.S. History
• HIST 4411 - Pirates, Smugglers, and States in the Atlantic World, 1600-1856
• HIST 4435 - American Jewish Experience
• HIST 4451 - African American History During Segregation Era
• HIST 4455 - History of Black Women in America
• HIST 4461 - Gender, Race, Class and Policy since World War II
• HIST 4462 - Religion in American History
• HIST 4475 - Jewish Women in Modern America
• HIST 4490 - The American Revolution – Causes and Consequences
• HIST 4565 - Chinese Military History, 1750-Present
• 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 4631 - North Atlantic Maritime History: 1427-1838
• 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 4750 - Social Studies Teaching Methods
• HIST 4771 - U.S. in the World 1898-1945
• HIST 4772 - U.S. in the World Since 1945
• HIST 4830 - Rise and Fall of the Slave South
• HIST 4840 - Making of the Modern South
• HIST 4860 - The Civil War and Reconstruction
• HIST 4870 - Making of the Modern United States, 1877–1929
• HIST 4881 - Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in U.S. History
• HIST 4882 - The United States During the 1960s
• HIST 4885 - History of Sports and American Society
• HIST 4890 - Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the U.S.
• HIST 4900 - Special Problems
• HIST 4910 - Special Problems
• HIST 4951 - Honors College Capstone Thesis