United States History
With 19 full-time professors and a robust selection of courses, U.S. history is the largest field of specialty offered by IU’s History Department. Students of U.S. history at Indiana examine a rich mix of topics, ideas, and literatures. In addition to their chosen focus in the history of the United States, many take advantage of the department’s strengths in fields ranging from Latin American, African American, and European history to such thematic topics as the history of gender and sexuality, medicine, or law. The outside minor option also allows graduate students in U.S. History to pursue serious work in related disciplines such as English, Sociology, Folklore, and Political Science.
Because there is no single “correct” way to study U.S. history, our program has been designed to incorporate the diverse strengths of both the department and the University in the scholarly preparation of a diverse mix of graduate and undergraduate students.
Affiliated Faculty
Judith Allen
Steven Ashby (Labor Studies)
John Bodnar
James H. Capshew(History and Philosophy of Science)
Claude Clegg
Nicholas B. Cullather
Konstantin Dierks
Ellen Dwyer
Larry Friedman
Wendy Gamber
Helen Gremillion (Gender Studies)
Michael Grossberg
Matthew Guterl (African-American African Diaspora Studies and American Studies)
Colin Johnson (Gender Studies)
Sarah Knott
Edward Linenthal
James H. Madison
Michael McGerr
Ajay Mehrotra
(School of Law)
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
John Nieto-Phillips
David Paul Nord
(School of Journalism)
Eric Sandweiss
Steven Stowe
Kirsten Sword
Courses
A100 24054 Introduction to Latino History
A200 26131 Gay Histories/Queer Cultures
A222 26200 Law in America
A309 26204 The American South Before the Civil War
A313 21524 Origins of Modern America 1865-1917
A356 27692 Survey of African American History: Since 1865
A369 23719 Old South: New Directions in Race, Class and Gender
A383 26205 Ragtime to Rap
H105 17527 American History I
H106 17542 American History II
H593 26261 Teaching U.S. History
H650 17565 Across the Century to War: Antebellum U.S.
H650 17566 Early America
H750 17570 Seminar in U.S. History
J300 21577 Marriage and the American Nation
J300 23333 Readings in Contemporary American Religion and Culture
J400 17579 History in Public
For information on our Graduate program requirements and guidelines see the “Guide to Graduate Study in History”, “Graduate School Bulletin” and the “Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Guidelines”.