The study of ancient cities provides a wide-ranging and many-textured approach to understanding Roman civilization, which has had a tremendous impact on Western European and North American architecture, art, law and literature. In this asynchronous online course, we will focus on the Roman urban envi...
Christopher Gregg received his BA and MA degrees in Latin from the University of Georgia; he earned his doctorate in Classical Archaeology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2000 with the dissertation “The Legacy of Ganymede: Homoerotic Images in Roman Art.” Gregg’s research inter...
What does it mean to become modern? Does it simply mean, for example, the building of factories and the movement of people from farms into cities? Or does it necessarily entail, or perhaps even result from, some deeper transformation of things immaterial—our values, our identities, or the structure ...
Jason A. Heppler is a historian and the senior developer at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). He earned his PhD in History from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln specializing in the North American West, with particular interests in urban history, politics and political cu...
Anne is a Ph.D. candidate in history at George Mason University. Her dissertation explores the aerial visual culture of Washington, D.C., and the surrounding region, during the World War II years. Her broader research interests include: the visual culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. cit...
Public historian: I research, I write, I teach. Follow my latest at www.thishistoryproject.com
Zachary M. Schrag [silent c, rhymes with bag and flag] studies cities, technology, and public policy in the United States in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. He is the author of four books: The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro; Ethical Imperialism: Instit...
Spencer Crew has worked in public history institutions for more than twenty-five years. He served as president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center for six years and worked at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution for twenty years. Nine of those years he se...
David J. Gerleman is an American historian specializing in 19th century U.S. history, the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln. He is an emeritus editor of The Papers of Abraham Lincoln and has appeared on multiple media outlets discussing Lincoln and Civil War topics. He has received distinguished fellows...
Spanning the Mediterranean basin and extending into Europe and North Africa, the Roman Empire included a wide variety of urban spaces. In this course, we will examine what it meant to be a city in this vast empire, with particular attention paid to Rome as capital of that empire. As such it establis...
