HIS 395 Assassins
This course explores the history of the idea and practice of assassinations in global history. It shows how assassinations have worked differently over time, and the various motivations that compel people to orchestrate political murder. It examines a range of assassins and their victims, including Archduke Ferdinand, Gandhi, Rasputin, Lumumba, King, Malcolm X, and Romero. In this course, you will conduct primary source research on the former governor of Kentucky, William Goebel, the only state governor in American history to be assassinated while in office. After 120 years, we still do not know the assassin’s identity. Perhaps you will unlock this mystery.