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John R. Legg

John R. Legg

John R. Legg is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. His research focus includes Indigenous history, the United States and Canada, and the Civil War era. His dissertation, "In Our Own Rightful Territory": Dakota Mobility, Diplomacy, and Belonging in Mni Sota M...

Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

Wendi Manuel-Scott is Professor of Integrative Studies and History and an affiliate faculty member of Women and Gender Studies, African and African American Studies, and the John Mitchel, Jr. Program for History, Justice, and Race at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolut...

Rosemarie Zagarri

Rosemarie Zagarri

Rosemarie Zagarri received her Ph.D. from Yale University and specializes in Early American history. She has published four books, the most recent of which is Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007; paperback, 2008). Her artic...

HIST 646-DL1: Stalinism

Fall 2024 -  Steve Barnes 

Explores differing interpretations of the history of Stalinism. Topics include Soviet ideology, terror, Stalinist culture and society, the politicization of everyday life, industrialization and urbanization, family and gender politics, nationalities policies, and foreign policy—all of which combined ...

HIST 615-DL1: Antebellum African American Women's History

Fall 2024 -  Yevette Richards Jordan 

This course examines the history of African American women in antebellum America, both the general experiences of enslaved and nominally free women, and the lives of noted women who were involved in the public arena as orators, writers, preachers, abolitionists and women’s rights activists. 

HIST 555-DL1: Current Issues in East Asia

Fall 2024 -  Gerrit van der Wees 

This course will focus on several interlinked current major issues in East Asia, which due to their contingent nature are difficult to incorporate into regular curricular offerings. The course will examine how US policy towards four key players in the region, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China, has...

HIST 393-001: War on the Silver Screen

Fall 2024 -  Meredith H. Lair 

This course will consider core historical concepts like patriotism, citizenship, sacrifice, American exceptionalism, and constructions of race and gender as they have been depicted, debated, and reflected upon, on film, in the last 120 years. Specifically, we will examine military history through the...

HIST 390-DL3: The Digital Past

Fall 2024 -  Jessica Marie Otis 

This section of HIST 390: The Digital Past, is themed "Tech and the Tudors." If you only know one thing about Tudor England's King Henry VIII, it's probably that he went through six wives (and made England Protestant) in his quest for a son. Or, as the rhyme goes, "Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced....

HIST 389-DL1: GMU Hist: Place,Spce,Gndr,Race

Fall 2024 -  Laura Moore 

In this course we’ll use our own university as a case study, following its growth from a small, all-white, commuter college to the most ethnically diverse campus in the U.S., to explore what GMU’s story can tell us about the political, social, and cultural history of the U.S. over the last sixty year...