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Sophomore defender Nigel Prince provides prototypical size and aerial prowess for a center back, and the former Atlanta United youth product looks to build upon a standout debut season in the purple and white.

Prince’s classmate, sophomore midfielder Jason Gajadhar, will play a pivotal box-to-box role in central midfield. Gajadhar’s grit and vision earned him a spot on the All-Big Ten Tournament team last fall.

While the Cats struggled to scorch opposing

History 201-2 Modern Europe

MWF 11:00am-11:50am

Prof. Deborah Cohen nets last season, senior forward Justin Weiss and sophomore forward Christopher Thaggard look to link up and form a speedy strike partnership this fall. jacobepstein2026@u.northwestern.edu

With graduate student midfielder Reese Mayer highlighting a dynamic group of transfers to blend with another solid recruiting class, the pieces are in place for Payne to produce a winning outfit in Evanston.

This is a course about the two centuries after 1750 when events in Europe determined the course of world history. We will ask why Europe came to dominate the world in the nineteenth century, considering especially industrialization, revolution and imperial expansion. We will investigate, too, how these apparent triumphs paved the way for the catastrophes of Europe’s 20th century – the world wars, the Holocaust, decolonization and the Cold War – and explain the relatively peaceful decades that followed World War II and the monumental experiment in European integration. Our central theme will be the transformation of social relations: how societies of subjects and serfs became societies of citizens and comrades; how intimate relations within families changed; how masters and workers came to think about their interests and what they had to do to defend them.

History 210-1 North America and the US to 1865

MWF 10:00am-10:50am

Prof. Caitlin Fitz

The setting: North America, 1400 to 1865. The characters: Indigenous, African, European, Asian, and their descendants; enslaved, free, and in-between; genders of all kinds. The plot: full of tragedy and triumph and terror and twists, including the surprising emergence of the United States, the world’s first modern republican empire, trumpeting inalienable rights and the pursuit of happiness while spreading slavery.

History 219 History of the Present

MW 3:30pm-4:50pm

Prof. Kathleen Belew and Prof. Lauren Stokes

This course takes a reverse approach to the study of history, defining issues relevant to the current moment—some determined by the students—and exploring the long stories required to understand the present. Each week we will examine a different issue with the help of guest lecturers and selected readings. Topics might include climate change, abortion, global pandemics and their aftermath, racial justice, economic inequality, labor activism, transgender rights, immigration, and the global far-right.

History 250-2 Global History: The Modern World

MWF 2:00pm-2:50pm

Prof. Daniel Immerwahr

This course introduces the main episodes and themes of modern history. Unlike other history classes, however, its focus isn't on a particular region or country, but on the whole planet. That broad scope will allow us to better understand large-scale phenomena such as empire, industrial technology, communism, the two world wars, HIV/AIDS, and globalization. We'll particularly look at humanity's adoption of fossil fuels, and the prosperity, inequality, and environmental changes that resulted.

History 251 The Politics of Disaster: A Global Environmental History

TTh 3:30pm-4:50pm

Prof. Lydia Barnett

Research from the social sciences and humanities shows that so-called "natural" disasters are not very natural at all. Instead, they are deeply political and profoundly man-made. This course adopts a historical and global approach in order to denaturalize disaster.