History 338 Gender, Race and Class since 1800
This course examines gender relations from the late nineteenth century to the present.  We will analyze the varying definitions of feminity and masculinity, the changing  notions of sexuality, and the continuity and diversity of gender roles.  We will examine how political, economic, and cultural changes impacted the way society defined manhood and womanhood over the last two centuries.  We will pay particular attention to race, class and ethnicity.  The class is primarily based on discussion of historical monographs and primary documents..

History 339 Sickness and Health in American Society
The course is a broad survey of American medicine from the precolonial period to the present.  We will examine the indigenous healing methods of Native Americans; the introduction of European methods; the development of surgical techniques and the use of anesthesia; the professionalization of medicine; medical education; the changes in childbirth procedures; health care during war time; the impact of diseases such as cholera, tuberculosis, etc.; health insurance; the ethics of human experimentation; sexually transmitted diseases; and reproductive health issues.  The class is a combination of lecture and discussion, with a heavy emphasis on the latter.


History 359 Bitter Contests: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Conflict, 1877-1933
This course will examine the post-reconstructed nation with special attention to the politics of equilibrium; the economic impact of industrialization and    
agricultural revolutions; the positive and negative aspects of rapid urbanization; immigration and the class, ethnic, and religious clashes that ensued; Jim Crow  and civil rights; the growth of Big Business and labor’s response; Populism; the acquisition of an empire; Progressive reforms at city, state and federal levels;  World War I at home and abroad; and the changing notions of femininity and masculinity.  The course will end with the onset of the Depression and Hoover 's response to it.

          History 360 History of the US since the New Deal       

          This course will examine the institution of the New Deal as FDR’s response to the depression; wars at home and abroad, including World War II, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq I & II; the rise and fall of unionism; various movements from civil rights, women’s rights,  welfare rights, Native American rights, to student rights; countercultures from the 1950s through the 1980s; government regulation of the environment; mainstream and new religions; science and technology; the growth of the Imperial Presidency; Watergate and beyond; and liberalism and conservatism.

HST 390 Long Decade of the Sixties, 1956- 1974

In this seminar, we will explore changes in American society from the Eisenhower years of domesticity and cold war tensions through the Nixon years of protests and Watergate.  Students will choose their own topic with assistance from the professor.  Possible topics include electoral politics, civil rights, women's rights, student movements, antiwar protest, the counter culture, poverty and welfare, the environment/conservation, gender roles, religion, the arts, medical advancements, and scientific/technological advancements (space exploration, etc.).  As a research seminar, all students will be required to complete a twenty-five to thirty page research paper based on primary and relevant secondary sources. The first six weeks of the class will entail intensive reading and discussion of secondary materials to familiarize students with the background necessary to write the research paper.

History 102 Europe and the Modern World
This course examines the political, social, economic, and cultural experiences of Europeans since 1700. We will analyze the growing importance of nationalism and the expansion of liberalism. We will look at how Europeans interacted with each other and with non-European cultures. The class will end with an analysis of recent important events, such as the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the Gulf War and Iraq War, and the ongoing Arab-Israeli negotiations. The format of the class is a combination of lecture and discussion.

Web Sites for Research

For proper citations for history research papers, please consult Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers, at http://www.bridgew.edu/Library/turabian.cfm or http://www.heritage-education.com/article_guidetocitationstyles.htm [thanks to Bethany for pointing out my broken link here!]

The Wake Forest Electronic Resources News webpage can be found at http://www.wfu.edu/library/reference/ernews.htm

A web site dealing with American history in general is http://www.americanhistory.miningco.com For a discussion of weekly topics in American history, ranging from The Murder of Medgar Evers to the Resignation of Richard Nixon to the Battle of Gettysburg, etc., see http://www.americanhistory.miningco.com/library/weekly/mpreviss.htm

A collection of radical history sources, including topics such as the American Indian Movement, the Birth Control Movement, the Black Panthers, the Hollywood Ten, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Japanese-American Internment, the Ku Klux Klan, the Rosenberg Case, the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, Students for a Democratic Society, and Wounded Knee, can be found at http://www.lib.msu.edu/spc/digital/radicalism/subj_struct.html

More than 55,000 photos from the Great Depression through World War II collected by the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information can be found at http://rs6.loc.gov/fsowhome.html


Oral Histories and photos from the Great Depression can be found at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html and at http://www.fdrlibrary.maris.edu/gdphotss.html

Information on the Dust Bowl can be found at http://lcweb2loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

The Rocky Mountain Online Archive has more than 2,000 archival and special collections dealing with architecture, frontier and pioneer life, land grant and water rights, and wildlife conservation at http://rmoa.unm.edu


An online guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans sexual History can be found at http://pwh.base.org/

A web site dealing with songs of various social movements can be found at http://www.davidrovics.com

A twentieth-century popular culture web site is http://www.retroactive.com

A site containing information about the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, its publications, and its activities is http://www.ncis.org

The National Archives and Records Administration has placed correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and letters from Harry Truman to Bess Wallace Truman on its web site at http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html This site also contains 41 photographs of Native Americans in the Southwestern US between 1879-1894.

The National Security Archives contains 37 collections of over 90,000 indexed government documents dealing with US foreign policy from 1945 to the present: http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/home.do

A web site dealing with documents from the women's suffrage movement is http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html

For information dealing with the Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1998, see http://www.legacy98.org/

For information on women veterans from World War I to Iraq, see http://library.uncg.edu/dp/wv/

For information dealing with Margaret Sanger and her efforts in the birth control movement, see http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger

The Greensboro newspaper, The News and Record, is available on line for historical searches by topic at http://www.greensboro.com/nronline/archives

Websites for History of Medicine Research:

For the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd and http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/intro.htm

For books and manuscripts, see http://locatorplus.gov/

For Images from the History of Medicine, see http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

For Exhibitions, see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/

For Profiles in Science, see http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/

For information on the history of pharmacy and technicians, see http://www.pharmacy-technician.net/medicine-through-time

For the history of anesthesia, see http://www.medicalcodingcareerguide.com/resources/the-medical-world-before-anesthesia/

For access to health policy news and historical public opinion polls on health issues dating from 1935, see www.kaisernetwork.org

For advertisements dealing with medicine from  1850 to 1950, see http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/hartman/

For information on the history of the Food and Drug Administration, see http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/default.htm

For information on alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, see http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?site=ehost&profile=web

For a basic timeline of medical history from 1851-1995, see http://www.medhelpnet.com/medhist5.html


For  access to several hundred digitalized medical works, including several editions of the Hippocratic corpus, theses by famous 19th century doctors, and other 19th century classic monographs, see http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/histmed/medica.htm


For the papers, letters, and lectures of Frederick Banting, who discovered insulin, see http://www.newtecumseth.library.on.ca/banting/


For a history of the pregnancy test, see http://www.history.nih.gov/exhibits/thinblueline

For a history of medicine on line, see http://www.priory.com/homol/htm



For more information, contact Simone Caron at 5556 or caron@wfu.edu