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3.00 Credits
This course subjects films on historical topics to discussion and analysis. It probes how filmmakers treat historical subjects and introduces students to the methods historians might use in evaluating the accuracy and impact of such films.
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3.00 Credits
This class uses primary and secondary sources to examine the many ways in which Americans have understood the existence of poverty and the poor. With emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we will investigate the roots of poverty in the American economic system, in order to examine why so many people remain poor in the richest nation on earth. We will also look at the evolution and larger macroeconomic purposes of the American welfare state. Whenever possible, we will also use first hand accounts by poor people and antipoverty activists themselves, in order to let them tell their own stories in their own voices.
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3.00 Credits
Over the past thirty or forty years, historians have gone from idolizing Progressive-Era reformers and demonizing political bosses, to practically the reverse. In this course, we will use primary and secondary sources to examine the creation of the boss-reformer paradigm during the Progressive Era, and its rediscovery by historians in the 1960s and 70s. Then we will look at more recent attempts to unpack the ethnic, racial, class, and gender dynamics behind the paradigm. We will investigate who had what kind of power in Progressive-Era cities, and what we can learn from the past about the society in which we live today. (S)
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with Roman Britain, this course traces the social, cultural, political and religious evolution of England up to the Glorious Revolution. Particular attention is given to the growth of the Common Law, the rise of parliament, and other developments of significance to our own country. (PM)
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3.00 Credits
This course will trace the process of England's transformation to modernity, concentrating on social and cultural, as well as political and economic changes. Students will also consider the rise and fall of England as an imperial power and as a great power in Europe' s state system.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar considers the long and often troubling history of German-Jewish interactions. Readings pertain to the treatment of Jews during the medieval Crusades, Protestant reformers' ideas about Judaism, Enlightenment debates over Jewish identity, Jewish ? ?mancipation? ?during the Napoleonic Era, Jewish assimilation and integration during the 19th and 20th centuries, the Nazi Era, and Holocaust commemoration. (S)
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3.00 Credits
This course will study the diverse experiences of American Indians from their initial peopling of the continent until 1815. Topics that will be addressed include the development of prehistoric cultural traditions, Indian responses to colonialism, and Indian influences on the emergence of Euroamerican communities in North America. In addition, the course will introduce students to the various scholarly methods associated with ethnohistory. (PM)
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3.00 Credits
This course will study the diverse experiences of American Indians since the era of Removal. Topics that will be addressed include the development of the reservation system, Western expansion and the Indian of the Trans-Mississippi West, and persistence and adaptation in the Twentieth Century.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the history of Latin America in the period between late pre-history (circa A.D. 1250) and the nd of the Wars of Independence in Spanish America in 1826. This course will take a broad definition of Latin America to include much of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. Our study will begin with the Native Americans who created a diverse set of societies across an environmentally diverse landscape. We will then study the classic Age of Conquest in which Spanish conquistadors brought much of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America into the Spanish Empire. Then we will study the development of colonial societies throughout not only Spanish America, but also in Portuguese Brazil and the French Caribbean. Finally we will study the Age of Independence from which a plethora of independent states emerged throughout Central and South America. (PM)
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to Brazil's colonial past. The course will cover the initial emergence of the colony as a commercial outpost in the dye wood trade to its place as the seat of the Portuguese Empire in the eighteenth century. Topics addressed will include: mameluco society, the emergence of a plantation economy, the Brazilian frontier, and the emergence of Luso-African cultural traditions. (PM)
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