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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
Image of two atlases
HIST 124

Canada in the World

Fall/Winter 2019/2020
Fall/Winter 2021/2022
Fall/Winter 2022/2023
Fall/Winter 2023/2024
An image of a painting showing a battle scene of the Battle of Blenheim with men on horses in a field
Battle of Blenheim, 13 August 1704. Oil on canvas by John Wootton (1682-1764), 1743.
HIST 201

Europe, 1572-1815

Winter 2024
An image of a stone carving of a woman with a hook attached
Steelyard Weight with a Bust of a Byzantine Empress and a Hook, 400-450 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
HIST 225

The Early Middle Ages

Fall 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
An image of a medieval manuscript with the title "Piers the Plowman" written across the top, and a historiated initial on the letter P on the left of the page featuring a man sleeping with his head on his hand wearing a red robe
MS CCC 201 f.1 Page of text with historiated initial depicting the dreamer, from 'Piers Plowman' by William Langland (vellum). Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK.
HIST 251

Medieval England

Winter 2024
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
Winter 2024
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
Fall 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
An Image of the painting: An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby
An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768 Joseph Wright of Derby - National Gallery, London
HIST 440

Britain in the Enlightenment Era

Winter 2022
Winter 2024
A black and white picture of a group of men in military uniform
The first President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai (front row, third from left), was photographed with foreign dignitaries on October 10, 1913, in Beijing.
HIST 498

China's Revolutions, 1911-1949

Winter 2021
Winter 2024

Department of History, Queen's University

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