This tutorial sequence analyzes the formation of modern European nations, empires, and societies from the late 18th to the last quarter of the 20th century. Students use primary and secondary sources to explore the social and political consequences of the French Revolution and industrialization, the dynamics of empire, the origins Read more…
This course examines the ways in which science and technology are shaped by and in turn help constitute various notions of gender, defined intersectionally to include race, sexuality, and class, among other axes.
This course offers students the opportunity to explore aspects of the social and cultural history of London across the 19th century, including the city as a global capital, a center of immigration and ethnic politics, empire, political reform, capitalism and consumption, sexual politics, social criticism, and mass social movements.
This course explores changing uses of visual media (drawings, etchings, sketches, photographs, diagrams, X Ray images, computer-generated images, film, social media) in the life sciences and medicine from the late Renaissance to the present day.
“Guns, Germs, and Public History: A Conversation with Jennifer Tucker,” Interview by David Serlin, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 57 (1) Special Issue: Going Public: Mobilizing, Materializing, and Contesting Social Science History, ed. Alexandra Rutherford (Winter 2021).[Published online on July 7, 2020] [Free to read at Read more…
In this roundtable forum, published in The American Historical Review (4 Jan. 2022), I convened five scholars to discuss the collected essays in Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History (2019). Matthew Fox-Amato studies how powerful photographs can be as evidence when combined with other kinds of sources such as Read more…
Long before the numbing regularity of school shootings, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the current Supreme Court debate over whether to further relax gun laws, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was sounding the alarm about the role of guns in American culture. Sondheim, who died on Nov. 26, 2021, had Read more…
It is not every day that an academic history book inspires a film by one of the world’s leading directors, especially when its author is our former Wesleyan History Department colleague & former provost, Judith Brown! During the last week of our classes, in early December, Wesleyan University hosted a Read more…
