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Image of an etching showing a soldier, a clergyman, and a peasant carrying equally carrying the weight on their shoulders of the "dette Nationale" from France, 1789
Le Temps présent veut que chacun suporte le grand fardeau &c : dette nationale, impôt territorial : [estampe]. Carl de Vinck. Images de la Révolution française / Images of the French Revolution, Stanford Libraries.
HIST 106

The Making of Modern Europe

Winter 2021
Fall 2021
Winter 2023
An image of a coloured etching of Napoleon standing, holding a protocol up to show the Jews reaching toward him at his feet, with a menorah in the foreground.
Detail from Louis-Francious Couche, Napoleon le Grand rétablit le culte des Israelites, le 30 Mai 1806, published Paris, Ternisien d'Haudricourt, 1806. Collection Neher-Bernheim, etching and engraving.
HIST 241

Topics in History: Modern Jewish History

Winter 2023
Image of the painting Charles I on Horseback by Anthony Van Dyck
Anthony van Dyck's first equestrian painting of Charles I, Charles I with M. de St Antoine, 1633, Royal Collection of the United Kingdom
HIST 287

Early Modern England

Winter 2022
Fall 2022
A map of East Asia
HIST 318

Modern East Asia

Fall/Winter 2020/2021
Fall/Winter 2021/2022
Fall/Winter 2022/2023
A painting of a man in a blue robe holding a printed page beside a large wooden printing press
Title: Interior of the printing workshop of Johannes Gutenberg, 1863, Creator: Auguste Ledoux, after Frédéric-Désiré Hillemacher, Institution: Rijksmuseum
HIST 349

Books and Ideas in Early Modern Europe

Fall 2022
Image of iconic Harlem Renaissance painting "Blues" by Archibald J. Motley Jr., 1929
Archibald J. Motley Jr., Blues, 1929. Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 inches (91.4 x 106.7 cm). Collection of Mara Motley, MD, and Valerie Gerrard Browne. Image courtesy of the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois. © Valerie Gerrard Browne.
HIST 402

Topics in History: The Harlem Renaissance

Winter 2022
Winter 2023
Image of the painting A Meeting of the School Trustees from 1885 by Robert Harris. Depicts a female schoolteacher addressing the seated male trustees.
Robert Harris, A Meeting of the School Trustees (1885), oil on canvas, 102.2 x 126.5 cm, NGC.
HIST 439

Schooling Canadians

Winter 2023

Department of History, Queen's University

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Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

Phone
613-533-2150
Fax
613-533-6298

Undergraduate

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Email
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Queen's University is situated on traditional Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory.