War
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Europe at War
In this course, we will study major military conflicts from the French Revolution to the Great War. Our aim will be not only to understand great battles, but also to place battles and wars in…
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Topics in Francophone History: The Great War
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Scholarship: War, Conflict, and History
War has long played a central role in the human experience and the scholarship of history; indeed, it might be said that the first “scientific historian” was the Athenian historian Thucydides, author of the History…
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War, Film, and History
Film has a powerful effect on the way we understand history, and particularly the history of war. In this course, we study a selection of films that deal directly or indirectly with war: we explore…
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The Great War
A century ago, a war that contemporaries almost immediately dubbed the “Great War” roared across Europe and the world. The war—arguable the first total war—marked the defining moment of the twentieth century. Tens of millions…