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Worcester State University (2008-present)
HI 112: US History II, 1877-present
- Fall 2023
- Fall 2023 OL
- Spring 2021 OL
- Fall 2020 OL
- Spring 2019 BL, winner of Mass College Online Blended Course of Distinction Award
- Fall 2018 OL
- Summer II 2018 OL
- Spring 2018
- Spring 2017
- Fall 2015
- Fall 2014
- Spring 2014
- Fall 2013
- Spring 2013
- Fall 2012
- Spring 2012
- Fall 2011
- Spring 2011
- Fall 2010
HI 112: US History II, 1877-1945 (“old,” now replaced by HI 112 1877-present)
HI 113: US History III, 1945-present (now replaced by HI 203, see below)
HI 193 = First Year Seminar in History *Honors
- Dark Futures: Apocalypse and Dystopia*, Fall 2022
- Roadside America*, Fall 2021
- American Carnival*, Fall 2019
- The Fifties*, Fall 2017
- Roadside America*, Fall 2015
- American Carnival*, Fall 2014
- The Fifties*, Fall 2013
- Roadside America*, Fall 2011
- American Carnival*, Fall 2010
- Roadside America*, Fall 2009
- On the Air: Radio in America, Fall 2008
HI 200 The Historian’s Craft (as HI 411 in 2011-2017)
HI 460 Senior Research Seminar in History (Capstone)
- Civil Rights Movements, Fall 2021
- The Gilded Age, Spring 2020
- Cross-Cultural Encounters in American West, Fall 2016
- Religion in America, Spring 2016
- Writing Recent History, Fall 2014
- The Fifties, Fall 2013
Elective Courses
HI 203 The United States Since 1945
HI 207 American West: Myth and Reality
HI 215: History of American Thought
HI 217: US Social History
HI 220: American Military History
HI 290: Health and Healing in America
HI/PO 320: Citizen Nation
HI 345: Religions in America
Graduate Courses
HI 908 Teaching History
HI 910 Study and Writing of History
HI 914 Gilded Age, Spring 2020
HI 990 ST: Civil Rights Movements, Fall 2021
HI 990 ST: US Constitutional History Since 1877, Spring 2012
Brandeis University (2005-2008)
AMST 111a: Images of the American West in Film and Culture, Fall 2007
AMST 135b: Radio in American Culture, Spring 2007
AMST 168b: Religions in America, Spring 2006
AMST 168b: Religions in America, Spring 2005
HIST 117a: Native American History, Spring 2008
HIST 154b: US Women’s History 1600-1865, Spring 2008
HIST 51a: US History I, Fall 2007