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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
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An image of a Soviet Union poster from the Cold War era
HIST 211

The Cold War

Fall 2020
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Byzantium
HIST 218

Byzantium

Fall 2019
Fall 2021
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Jews on Film
HIST 220

Jews on Film

Fall 2020
Fall 2021
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A painting of the Reichstag building in Germany on fire with military tanks and soldiers
HIST 231

World War II

Winter 2023
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An image of a young Indigenous woman standing on a street with a sign that reads "Stop Cultural Genocide"
20-year-old Native Alliance for Red Power (NARP) member Gerry Larkin protests Indian residential schools outside an education conference in Vancouver, 1968. Ralph Bower/Vancouver Sun.
HIST 279

20th-Century Canada

Winter 2025
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The Holocaust
HIST 295

The Holocaust

Fall 2020
Fall 2019
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Image of a map of Europe from 1877
...Serio-comic war map for the year. , . [No Date Recorded on Shelflist Card] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003677957/.
HIST 316

European Politics and Society since 1789

Fall/Winter 2022/2023
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A black and white old image of a blurry field
HIST 318

Modern East Asia

Fall/Winter 2020/2021
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An old black and white photograph of a railroad being built
The construction of the western portion of the Amur line of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in 1908-13. Title: Ukri︠e︡plenie gri︠a︡znoĭ vyemki. Versta 35-i︠a︡ Other Title: 35-я Translated Title: Stabilization of a Muddy Railcut. Verst 35 Part of: Amur Railroad Album (327) Created / Published: Moscow, Russia, 1908-1913. Obtained from: Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/2018682676/
HIST 402

Topics in History: Environment, Infrastructure, and Modern States

Winter 2025
U.S. Public Policy and Society since 1945
WPA poster 1935 USA, color photo. PD-USGOV.
HIST 405

U.S. Public Policy and Society since 1945

Fall/Winter 2020/2021
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Twentieth Century Europe
Opening session of the Versailles peace conference at the Trianon Palace, January 1919. Photograph: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images
HIST 409

Twentieth Century Europe

Winter 2021
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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
Winter 2025
A painting showing silhouettes of black people in chains walking out to sea where there are large ships coming to shore
Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), Into Bondage, 1936, American. Oil on canvas. 153.4 × 153.7 cm. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html)
HIST 454

Thinking While Black: Black Intellectual History

Fall 2023
Fall 2024
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 472

The Harlem Renaissance

Winter 2022
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An image of two people in discussion working at a desk.
HIST 515

Independent Research Paper

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