Saint Louis University History Department

02/14/2025

A day for celebrating! Congratulations to all our hardworking scholars and researchers at every level, including graduate and undergraduate researchers, and to our invaluable staff, whose efforts support them.

R1 designation is the highest classification that universities can attain for research activity. SLU’s rise to R1 is the result of a decade-long, institution-wide effort to become a national exemplar for educational and research excellence. Since 2014, the University has focused on creating a robu...

05/13/2022

History is everywhere!

Online registration for 2022 Uncivil St. Louis Community Ride.

04/25/2022

The history department invites you to attend the Phi Alpha Theta Conference this week, Thursday, April 28th. Please join us hear some great papers, supporting these history students as they present their papers on a variety of interesting topics.

Contact [email protected] for full schedule.​

Light snacks throughout the day!

And be sure to stay around or come back for the Student and Alumni Awards Night!

03/29/2022

Dr. Treadgold's Fall 2022 class offerings
HIST 1110: ORIGINS OF THE MODERN WORLD TO 1500
This course covers the history of Western civilization from its beginnings to ancient Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages until the Renaissance. Readings will include selections from Thucydides' Peloponnesian War and Suetonius' Twelve Caesars, Procopius' Secret History, Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, Villehardouin's Conquest of Constantinople, and selections from Guicciardini's History of Italy. There will be lectures, discussions of the readings, two midterm examinations, and one final examination.
Description for HIST 3000: THE GREEK MIRACLE: GREECE FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO CLEOPATRA
This course covers ancient Greek civilization from the arrival of the Greeks in Greece to the Mycenaean Age, the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian Empire, and the Greek kingdoms from Alexander to the Roman conquest. Readings will include Homer's Odyssey, Sappho's Poems, selections from Herodotus' Histories and Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, Lysistrata and other comedies by Aristophanes, Plato's Symposium, and several lives by Plutarch. There will be lectures, discussions of the readings, midterm and final examinations, and one term paper.

11/17/2021

Registration is open, interested or need more information? Contact Torrie Hester @ [email protected]

11/05/2021

HIST 1930 Geographies of Knowledge: How Peoples Experienced, Understood, and Represented the World After 149

An essential feature of the period of exploration and conquest from the 1500s to 1800 was an increasing mobility and interaction of peoples across long distances. Empire builders, merchants, diplomats, missionaries, scientists, artists, and wanders from all parts of the inhabited world crisscrossed continents to plant a flag, save a soul, make a buck, seek a cure, and create a new life. In so doing, people began to conceive of “the world” in new spatial terms and in new imaginative ways.

This course examines the importance of space in the development of new forms of knowledge across a variety of sites, routes, and exchanges. We will explore how writers and travelers of all sorts produced knowledge about the peoples, lands, plants, animals, climates they encountered. We will see how the expectations of writing travelers and their audiences actually

11/02/2021

HIST2930/ASTD 2400 also counts for US Diversity ( A&S) and Law, Religion and Politics Questions or more information contact Dr. Torrie Hester at torrie.hester@ slu.edu

10/29/2021

Have you picked your courses yet??

10/28/2021

Spring 2022 History Course Offerings - Need additional information, contact [email protected]

10/28/2021

Spring 2022 Registration is just around the corner! Check out some of these great HISTORY course offerings

HIST 1930 Geographies of Knowledge: How Peoples Experienced, Understood, and Represented the World After 149

09/09/2021

Congratulations to PhD candidate Chris Ketcherside on his award! 👏

https://armyhistory.org/awards-announced-for-excellence-in-u-s-army-history-writing-3/

Awards Announced for Excellence in U.S. Army History Writing – The Campaign for the National Museum of the United States Army
The Army Historical Foundation is the designated official fundraising organization for the National Museum of the United States Army. We were established in 1983 as a member-based, charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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Awards Announced for Excellence in U.S. Army History Writing The Army Historical Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards. The 2020 awards honor books and articles published in 2020. The winners: Book Awards Biography Courage A...