History Department

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College of Arts and Humanities
Ellensburg
Language and Literature Bldg., room 100

509-963-1655
Fax: 509-963-1654
www.cwu.edu/history
    See website for how this program may be used for educational and career purposes.

Faculty and Staff
Chair
Karen J. Blair, PhD

Professors
Karen J. Blair, PhD, 20th century U.S., women’s history
Roxanne Easley, PhD, Russia, Eastern Europe
Daniel Herman, PhD, U.S. pre-1877
Marji Morgan, PhD, 19th century British social and cultural history

Associate Professors
Jason Knirck, PhD, Britain/British Empire, Western Europe
Stephen Moore, PhD, Pacific Northwest, foreign relations, social studies education

Assistant Professor
Jason Dormady, PhD, Modern Mexico and Latin America, U.S. Borderlands

Visiting Professor
Brian Carroll, PhD, U.S. Colonial, American Revolution, Native American

Lecturers
Matthew Gile, MA
Albert C. Miller, MA
Kenneth Munsell, MA
Jalynn Padilla, PhD
Ian Stacy, MA

Emeritus Professors
Beverly Heckart, PhD, Germany, Europe
Zoltan Kramar, PhD, Ancient World
Larry Lowther, PhD, Colonial and Revolutionary America
Kent Richards, PhD, American West, Pacific Northwest

Staff
K. Angie Hill, secretary
 

Department Information
The history faculty offers courses leading to bachelor of arts and master of arts.
Students who declare a major in history must register with the department.
 

History Honors Program
Qualified students are urged to enter the Department of History’s Honors Program. To qualify for the program, students must complete 25 credits in their major and have an overall GPA of 3.0 and 3.25 in history. Honors students will complete the following requirements:

• An elective course in addition to those required for their major in an area of concentration (United States, Europe, or non-western)
• A year of coursework in one departmentally approved foreign language at an accredited college or university. If it is the same language as that taken in high school, the student must complete the coursework at the 200 level
• An honors research paper (25 page minimum) completed during HIST 481. A faculty committee will judge whether the paper meets departmental standards for honors.

Students who complete the above requirements will graduate with departmental honors. Please contact the department chair for more information.

Bachelor of Arts
(NOTE: Students seeking a BA degree must complete one year college/university study or two years high school study of a single foreign language.)

Programs

• History Major (Large Plan), BA
• History Major (Small Plan), BA
• History/Social Studies Teaching, BA

• History Minor

Courses

• HIST 101 - World Civilization to 1500
• HIST 102 - World Civilization: 1500-1815
• HIST 103 - World Civilization Since 1815
• HIST 143 - United States History to 1865
• HIST 144 - United States History Since 1865
• HIST 298 - Special Topics
• HIST 301 - Pacific Northwest History
• HIST 302 - Historical Methods
• HIST 313 - History of Rome 500 B.C. to 500 A. D.
• HIST 314 - Military History of the United States
• HIST 315 - Muslim Middle East
• HIST 316 - Modern Middle East: 1914 to the Present
• HIST 321 - Latin America Through Film, Art, and Music
• HIST 322 - World Prehistory
• HIST 325 - Renaissance and Reformation
• HIST 328 - Modern Latin America
• HIST 329 - The Tropics and the Modern World
• HIST 330 - Africa to 1800
• HIST 331 - Colonial Africa
• HIST 332 - History of the Black Diaspora
• HIST 334 - History of Gender and Sexuality in Africa from Pre-colonial Times to the Present
• HIST 339 - Colonial British America
• HIST 341 - The Constitution and the New Republic, 1783-1800
• HIST 346 - Women in American History
• HIST 348 - Economic History of the United States
• HIST 349 - Economic History of Asia
• HIST 352 - The History of the American Family
• HIST 370 - Medieval European History
• HIST 377 - Early Modern Europe, 1600-1789
• HIST 380 - Modern East Asia
• HIST 381 - History of Modern Southeast Asia: Colonial Era to the Present
• HIST 383 - East Asian Civilization
• HIST 386 - The Latin American Colonies
• HIST 395 - Research in Local History
• HIST 398 - Special Topics
• HIST 401 - Readings in U.S. History
• HIST 402 - Reading in European History
• HIST 403 - Readings in African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American History
• HIST 421 - Methods and Materials in the Social Studies, Secondary
• HIST 422 - British Isles to 1763
• HIST 423 - The Irish Revolution
• HIST 424 - Modern Ireland: 1798-present
• HIST 426 - France 1789-1945
• HIST 427 - Modern Britain and the Empire since 1688
• HIST 434 - American Indian History to 1795
• HIST 438 - Conquests and Compromises: American Indian History since 1492
• HIST 440 - The American Revolution
• HIST 443 - The West in American History
• HIST 444 - Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction
• HIST 445 - Introduction to Public History
• HIST 449 - History of Women and the West
• HIST 450 - Exploring U.S. Cultural History
• HIST 451 - 20th Century U.S.: 1896-1919
• HIST 452 - 20th Century U.S.: 1919-1945
• HIST 453 - 20th Century U.S.: 1945 to the Present
• HIST 454 - American Environmental History
• HIST 460 - Religion in Latin America
• HIST 462 - History of American Foreign Relations: 1900-1941
• HIST 463 - History of American Foreign Relations Since 1941
• HIST 464 - Latin American Revolutions
• HIST 465 - History of the People’s Republic of China
• HIST 469 - History of Russian and Soviet Women
• HIST 472 - German History since 1815
• HIST 473 - Russia to 1881
• HIST 474 - Russia Since 1881
• HIST 476 - History of Modern East Europe
• HIST 478 - Russian Far East
• HIST 481 - Senior Thesis
• HIST 481 - Understanding History
• HIST 483 - Modern China
• HIST 484 - Modern Japan
• HIST 487 - The Russian Revolutionary Movement
• HIST 488 - Mexico in the Modern Era
• HIST 490 - Cooperative Education
• HIST 496 - Individual Study
• HIST 498 - Special Topics

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