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 endeavors. 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, businesspeople, 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 Miranda Leddy, Administrative Coordinator, at 940-369-8932 or miranda.leddy@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 1050 - World History to the Sixteenth Century
• HIST 1060 - World History from the Sixteenth Century
• HIST 2610 - United States History to 1865
• HIST 2620 - United States History Since 1865
• HIST 2675 - Honors United States History to 1865
• HIST 2685 - Honors United States History Since 1865
• HIST 2900 - Special Problems
• HIST 2910 - Special Problems
• HIST 2996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience
• HIST 3000 - The Historian’s Craft
• HIST 3060 - History of Sexualities in U.S.
• HIST 3061 - Women in the United States to 1900
• HIST 3062 - Women in the United States Since 1900
• HIST 3065 - United States LGBTQ History
• HIST 3080 - 20th Century U.S. Anti-War Movements
• HIST 3090 - Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603–1832
• HIST 3150 - Historical and Cultural Development of the Mexican-American Community
• HIST 3160 - Latinx Civil Rights Movements
• HIST 3200 - The Spanish Frontier in North America
• HIST 3210 - Indigenous Peoples of the Southern Plains
• HIST 3240 - African American History and Culture to 1865
• HIST 3250 - African American History and Culture Since 1865
• HIST 3280 - French Frontier in North America
• HIST 3300 - Ancient Near East
• HIST 3301 - Ancient Egypt
• HIST 3302 - Ancient Greece
• HIST 3303 - The Roman Republic and Augustus
• HIST 3305 - The Early Byzantine Empire
• HIST 3307 - Roman Warfare
• HIST 3308 - Ancient Israel
• HIST 3333 - Horticultural Histories of North Texas
• HIST 3407 - Fitness Culture in U.S. History
• HIST 3408 - Madness and Mental Health in U.S. History
• HIST 3410 - History of American Childhood
• HIST 3420 - United States Constitutional Development, 1783–Present
• HIST 3430 - United States Political Parties, 1783–Present
• HIST 3450 - Islam and its Empires
• HIST 3460 - Modern Middle Eastern History
• HIST 3470 - History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• HIST 3480 - Colonial America
• HIST 3495 - United States Food History
• HIST 3550 - Imperial China
• HIST 3560 - Modern China
• HIST 3570 - Japanese History
• HIST 3600 - Evolution of Warfare to Napoleon
• HIST 3610 - Evolution of Warfare from Napoleon
• HIST 3620 - Nazism: Symbolism and Archaeology
• HIST 3630 - U. S. Navy, 1775–Present: Sails
• HIST 3700 - Texas History
• HIST 3762 - Rome: The Biography of a City
• HIST 3770 - Ancient and Medieval Women, Gender and Sexuality
• HIST 3800 - History of the Present
• HIST 3850 - The Early National Period of the United States, 1789–1848
• HIST 3871 - America in the Gilded Age
• HIST 3875 - Prosperity, Depression and a New Deal, 1918-1941
• HIST 3996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience
• HIST 4004 - The Roman Empire
• HIST 4006 - Roman Law and Order
• HIST 4008 - Ancient Religion and Magic
• HIST 4050 - Russia from the 9th to the 19th Century
• HIST 4055 - The Russian Empire from 1700 to 1917
• HIST 4060 - Russia in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• HIST 4061 - Russian Cultural History of the 19th and 20th Centuries
• HIST 4065 - Warfare and Society in Europe from the French Revolution to World War II
• HIST 4066 - World War I
• HIST 4070 - World War II: European Theater
• HIST 4072 - World War II in Asia and the Pacific
• HIST 4073 - World War II: The Soviet-German War
• HIST 4075 - The Korean and Vietnam Wars
• HIST 4080 - History of Early England from the Anglo-Saxons Through the Tudors
• HIST 4081 - The Rise of English Sea Power: 1399-1714
• HIST 4100 - Modern Britain Since 1830
• HIST 4104 - The British Raj
• HIST 4110 - British Empire in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific
• HIST 4114 - Race and Gender in British Imperial Wars 1830-present
• HIST 4124 - Risings, Revolts, and Rebels of the British Empire, 1900-1930
• HIST 4125 - The Military History of England and its Colonies
• HIST 4150 - Mexican Immigration and the Chicano Community
• HIST 4155 - Mexican American Autobiography
• HIST 4160 - Chicano Political History: 19th and 20th Century
• HIST 4170 - History of Tejanos/as
• HIST 4171 - Latin America: The Colonial Experience, 1492–1821
• HIST 4172 - Modern Latin America: 1810-Present
• HIST 4173 - Latin American Food History
• HIST 4174 - Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Latin America
• HIST 4180 - Colonial Mexico and the Spanish Southwest
• HIST 4190 - Mexico, 1810–Present
• HIST 4215 - Jews Under Greek and Roman Rule
• HIST 4216 - Rome’s Eastward Expansion: From the Punic Wars to the Jewish Wars
• HIST 4217 - Jew, Greek and Roman: Backgrounds of Early Christianity
• HIST 4218 - Early Medieval Europe, ca. 312–1095
• HIST 4219 - Late Medieval Europe, 1095 to 1400
• HIST 4220 - The Renaissance
• HIST 4221 - Early Modern Europe and the World
• HIST 4222 - Medieval Travelers
• HIST 4223 - Crusade and Jihad
• HIST 4224 - History of the Book
• HIST 4230 - The Age of the Reformation
• HIST 4240 - Nationalism, Zionism and Islamism in Modern Middle Eastern History
• HIST 4241 - World Histories of Pop Music
• HIST 4245 - Gender, Race and Class Issues in Middle Eastern History