Main Departmental Office
Wooten Hall, Room 225

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

Web site:www.hist.unt.edu

Richard McCaslin, 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 the social science major or for elective credits. History is an interest 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. Most students meet this requirement by taking the survey of U.S. history courses (HIST 2610 -HIST 2620 ), but advanced U.S. history courses (courses numbered 3000 and 4000) may be used to satisfy the legislative mandate, and Texas history (HIST 4700 ) may substitute for 3 hours of U.S. history.

Scholarships

The Department of History offers the following undergraduate scholarships: the Howard H. Schultz Scholarship and Watt Family Scholarship in Jewish Studies, the Harry and Ruth Kamman Scholarship, the Gus Seligmann History Scholarship, the Ledbetter Family Scholarship, the CBS Mechanical Inc. History Scholarship, the Nation’s Heritage Scholarship, the Benjamin Lyon Chapter DAR Scholarship and the 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 15. 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 Studies minor
• Mexican-American Studies minor

• History teacher certification

Courses

• HIST 1050 - World History to the Sixteenth Century
• HIST 1060 - World History from the Sixteenth Century
• HIST 1075 - Honors World History to the Sixteenth Century
• HIST 1085 - Honors 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 3150 - Historical and Cultural Development of the Mexican-American Community
• HIST 3450 - Islam and its Empires
• HIST 3460 - Modern Middle Eastern History
• HIST 3650 - Representative American Leaders, Colonial Period to 1865
• HIST 3660 - Representative American Leaders Since 1865
• HIST 3710 - Diplomatic History of the United States to 1900
• HIST 3720 - Diplomatic History of the United States from 1900 to 1945
• HIST 3750 - Greek Civilization
• HIST 3760 - Roman Civilization
• HIST 3762 - Rome: The Biography of a City
• HIST 3770 - Ancient and Medieval Women, Gender and Sexuality
• HIST 3996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience
• HIST 4010 - History of Science and Technology to Newton
• HIST 4020 - History of Science and Technology Since Newton
• 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 20th Century
• HIST 4070 - World War II
• HIST 4071 - Korea, Vietnam and the American Military Experience
• HIST 4080 - History of Early England from the Anglo-Saxons Through the Tudors
• HIST 4090 - Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603–1832
• HIST 4100 - Modern Britain Since 1830
• HIST 4105 - Britain Since 1945
• HIST 4110 - British Empire and Commonwealth
• HIST 4115 - Canadian History
• 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 4171 - Latin America: The Colonial Experience, 1492–1821
• HIST 4172 - Modern Latin America: 1810 – Present
• HIST 4175 - History of Brazil: 1500–Present
• HIST 4180 - Colonial Mexico and the Spanish Southwest
• HIST 4190 - Mexico, 1810–Present
• HIST 4200 - The Spanish Frontier in North America
• HIST 4210 - Southern Plains Indian History
• HIST 4215 - Jews Under Greek and Roman Rule
• HIST 4216 - Rome’s Jewish Wars and the Roman Near East
• 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 4230 - The Age of the Reformation
• HIST 4240 - Nationalism, Zionism and Islamism in Modern Middle Eastern History
• HIST 4245 - Gender, Race and Class Issues in Middle Eastern History
• HIST 4246 - Imperialism in the Modern Middle East
• 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 4280 - French Frontier in North America
• 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 4310 - Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
• 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 4340 - Europe in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914
• HIST 4350 - Europe, 1914–1945
• HIST 4360 - Europe Since World War II
• HIST 4364 - Early Modern German, 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 4395 - The State of Israel
• HIST 4400 - Intellectual, Cultural and Social History of the United States to 1865
• HIST 4410 - Intellectual, Social and Cultural History of the United States Since 1865
• HIST 4420 - United States Constitutional Development, 1783–Present
• HIST 4430 - United States Political Parties, 1783–Present
• HIST 4435 - American Jewish Experience
• HIST 4440 - African-American History and Culture to 1900
• HIST 4450 - African-American History and Culture Since 1900
• HIST 4455 - History of Black Women in America
• HIST 4460 - History of Sexualities
• 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, 1763–1789
• HIST 4550 - Imperial China
• HIST 4560 - Modern China
• HIST 4570 - Japanese History
• HIST 4580 - Africa to the Nineteenth Century