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History Department

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Whitman College

Pilgrims at Mt. Tai, China.  Photo: B. Dott

Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, USA.

Faculty of the History Department

David Schmitz, Chair

  • Julie A. Charlip. (PhD, UCLA 1995; Professor) Latin America, Nicaragua.
  • John D. Cotts (PhD, UC Berkeley 2000; Associate Professor; Sabbatical Fall 2011) Medieval Europe.
  • Brian R. Dott (PhD, University of Pittsburgh 1998; Associate Professor; Division Chair) East Asia, China, Japan, religion, gender.
  • Brien Garnand (PhD, Chicago 2006; Assistant Professor) Ancient Mediterranean History.
  • Nina E. Lerman.(PhD, University of Pennsylvania 1993; Associate Professor) 18th and 19th Century US, gender and race, History of Technology/Medicine/Science
  • David F. Schmitz. (PhD, Rutgers 1985; Robert Allen Skotheim Chair of History; Department Chair) 20th Century United States, Diplomatic History
  • Elyse Semerdjian.(PhD, Georgetown 2002; Associate Professor) Middle East, Islamic World.
  • Lynn L. Sharp. (PhD, University of California, Irvine 1996; Associate Professor) France, Germany, modern Europe: culture, society, gender.
  • Jacqueline Woodfork. (PhD, University of Texas 2001; Assistant Professor) Africa

Moving on:

  • Licón, Gustavo. (PhD, USC 2009; Visiting Assistant Professor 2009-10) 20th c. US, Latina and Latino; now at Ithaca College
  • LIU Lu. (PhD, Univ. Calif. San Diego 2002; Visiting Assistant Professor 2009-10) Modern China; now at Ithaca College
  • Spanier, Ethan. (PhD, University of Washington 2010; Visiting Assistant Professor 2010-11) Ancient Greece & Rome, Byzantium; now at U Mass Lowell

History Department Documents

 

 

 

History Courses

 

 

All courses (catalog)

 

Pre-Modern Courses

 

 

Comparisons and Encounters

 

 

 

400-Level Research Seminars

 

 

 

Getting Started in the Major

Requirements and Rationale for the Major

 

Major Exams

 

 

Internship Opportunities

 

 

Andō Hiroshige. “Two women at an outdoor teahouse.”

Part of the 36 views of Mount Fuji.  1858-59. 

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

LC-USZC4-8424

History Resources

Here at Whitman, there are many resources for historians. Check out History Resources at Penrose Library, a useful list compiled by Librarian Denise Shorey.

  • Online indexes of historical studies published since 1982 can be found through 'America: History and Life' and 'Historical Abstracts.' Both of these indexes are also available through the Penrose library homepage.
  • H-NET Humanities On-Line H-Net is an international cooperative initiative encouraging scholarly use of the internet in the Humanities and Social Sciences. H-NET sponsors discussion lists, collects announcements, and publishes book reviews.
  • The Internet Modern History Sourcebook This web page provides links to online texts, documents and sources for the history of the modern world, as well as links to many other related web pages.
  • The Library of Congress has added a new page to their excellent collection that will certainly interest those in History. The American Memory Project is a collection of historical pictures, motion pictures, sound recordings, and manuscripts that is well worth exploring.
  • The World History Center supports basic and applied research, curriculum development and institutional growth in world history. Click on Network Search for doing searches.

French WWI poster. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division:

LC-USZC2-3993

Useful Sites for:

 

US History

Latin American History

Islamic and African History

Ancient History

Medieval European History

East Asian History

 

Coffee sorters.  Nicaragua, 1903.

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division: LC-USZ62-92714
 
Resources On The Web For Research and Writing
  • Project Gutenberg The Project makes available full-text copies of literary classics. Texts range from Alice in Wonderland to Moby Dick.
  • History Journals Guide This is a great guide for finding journals about a particular topic or region. The guide includes searchable indexes for hundreds of journals. It also includes an extensive index of book reviews. In addition you can find publishing information about journals, including where they are indexed.
  • Webster's Dictionary
  • Colorado Association of Research Libraries UnCover is an online table of contents index and article delivery service for approximately 17,000 magazines and journals.
  • Resources for the Archivist

 

This page is under perpetual construction. If you have questions or comments, please contact Brian Dott.

Last update: April 2012