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3.00 Credits
The English colonies in North America to 1760. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. (Humanities) LUCAS
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3.00 Credits
The causes of the American Revolution, the writing and the implementation of the Constitution, and the War of 1812. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. (Humanities) LUCAS
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3.00 Credits
America from 1815 to 1850, with emphasis on the growth and consequences of political and economic stability. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. (Humanities) LUCAS
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3.00 Credits
America at war with itself. The causes of the war and the attempt to rebuild the Union. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. (Humanities) LUCAS
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3.00 Credits
World War II as a turning point in civil rights, gender issues, class, foreign policy, and the consumer revolution. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. (Humanities) STEWART
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics on the nature of the Black experience in America. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (Humanities) LUCAS or STEWART
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3.00 Credits
Examination of a particular theme or set of themes in American history. Topics vary from year to year. Not o_ered every year. May be repeated for credit. See Index. Topics Courses. ( Humanities)
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3.00 Credits
Examines the relationship between Americans' working lives and their pursuit of leisure in the transformation from the Industrial to the Post-Industrial Era (1880s-1980s). Topics will include women's changing role in the workforce; the impact of popular and mass culture (such as _lm, radio, and television) upon the separation of work and leisure; the decline of public culture and the rise of privatized forms of leisure; the disappearance of industrial jobs in the emerging service-information economy; and the rise of corporate cultures, such as Disney, in the global context of the current economic revolution. We will explore how the forces of urbanization, immigration, production and consumption, technological innovation, and class strati_cation, contributed to the bifurcation of culture into \high" and \low" as well as engendering the evolution of popular to commercial to mass culture. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. O_ered every third year. (Humanities) STEWART
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Explores the relationship between historical truth and _ction through an examination of documentaries made of Depression Era America. Through our examination of di_erent types of documentary expression (e.g., photography, ethnography, literature, _lm, and oral history), students will learn to interpret these texts as historical sources. Students may experience _rst-hand the stages of documentary production by conducting oral history interviews, which they videotape and edit into a _nal documentary narrative. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. O_ered every third year. (Humanities) STEWART
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This course o_ers students the opportunity to explore the history of Chicago and complete an original research project based upon a _rst-hand exploration of the city and the holdings of the Newberry Library. The seminar will examine the crucial years in Chicago's evolution from regional center to metropolis by looking at the related themes of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration. All of these developments are richly documented in the Newberry's collections, which include archival materials pertaining to urban planning and architecture, immigrant life, African American communities, industrial growth and labor relations, political development, and diverse civic and commercial cultures. Drawing upon the Library's collections, students will discover how the spatial formation Cornell College | 2008-09 Academic Catalogue History 79 of contemporary Chicago still reects its historical origins, and will have the opportunity to use these rare materials in crafting their individual research papers. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (Humanities) STEWART
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