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  • HIST 240: Muscovy and the Russian Empire

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    Between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries the princes and political elite of Muscovy created a vast multi-national empire in Eastern Europe and Asia. Over the next 150 years their imperial heirs transformed and extended this empire, to the point that on the eve of the Crimean War (1853-1855) many believed it to be the most powerful state in Europe. But defeat in the war exposed the weakness of the imperial regime and helped to provoke a process of state-led reform that failed to avert, and may well have contributed to, the collapse of the regime in the February Revolution of 1917. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, this course will explore the character of the Muscovite and the Russian empires and the forces, processes, and personalities that shaped their formation, expansion, and, in the latter case, decline. Prerequisite:    Open to all
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  • HIST 241: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    The October Revolution of 1917 brought to power in the debris of the Russian Empire a political party committed to the socialist transformation of society, culture, the economy, and individual human consciousness. Less than seventy-five years later, the experiment appeared to end in failure, with the stunning collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, this course will explore the nature and historical significance of the Soviet experiment, the controversies to which it has given rise, and the forces, processes, and personalities that shaped the formation, transformation, and ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union. Prerequisite:    Open to all
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  • HIST 252: North American History to 1865

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    This course surveys the important themes and issues that inform the historical landscape of the United States since the Civil War nineteenth century. With special attention to how Americans defined themselves as citizens and as a nation, the class examines the settlement of the west, the nuances of progressivism, the expanding role of the United States in the world, desegregation and the rights revolution, and the emergence of conservatism. The course also tunes into connections between current affairs and the American past. Reading assignments include a range of primary sources and historical interpretations. Prerequisite:    Open to all
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  • HIST 253: History of the United States, 1865-Present

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    This course surveys the important themes and issues that inform the historical landscape of the United States since the Civil War in the nineteenth century. With special attention to how Americans defined themselves as citizens and as a nation, the class examines the settlement of the west, the nuances of progressivism, the expanding role of the United States in the world, desegregation and the rights revolution, and the emergence of conservatism. The course also tunes into connections between current affairs and the American past. Reading assignments include a range of primary sources and historical interpretations. Prerequisite:    Open to all
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  • HIST 254: Workers' Stories, Workers' Lives: Narrative Approaches to U.S. Labor History

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    This course will use novels, comics, poetry, autobiographies, zines, films, and visits to historic sites as windows into the complex histories of work and working-class life in U.S. history. Reading labor studies texts alongside these literary and cinematic accounts, we will survey major developments in the U.S. economy, labor force, types of work, and the lives of working people. Topics include: the transition from household economies to wage labor; work regimes under slavery; divergent experiences of immigrant labor and cultural assimilation; industrialization and the consumer society; deindustrialization and structural unemployment; the sexual division of labor; and the rise of knowledge and service economies. Throughout, we will focus on ways in which working people cope with or resist the burdens of their work lives and organize to seek greater control over decisions that affect them, including: union organizing, political engagement, stealing, and sharing their own interpretations and representations of their experiences.
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  • HIST 257: Social Justice Traditions from the 1960s to Occupy Wall Street

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    In 2011 Time magazine declared "the protestor" the person-of-the-year in acknowledgement of the massive social movements that swept the globe over the previous twelve months. This course is designed to clarify where movements like Occupy Wall Street came from and to evaluate how they might shape American life and politics in the near future. Taking a historical approach, we will begin by studying the civil rights, anti-war, counter-culture, and feminist initiatives of the 1960s. We will then explore how progressive and radical activists adjusted their theories and strategies as the country became more conservative in the 1970s and 1980s. Making use of movement documents, documentary films, and a variety of other sources, we will study the development of LGBTQ, ecological, and economic justice initiatives up to the present day. Throughout, we will seek to understand how movements in the United States are shaped by global events, and how the very idea of "social justice" has been reconfigured in their wake.
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  • HIST 263: The United States and the World, 1914 to the Present

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    This course explores America's engagement with the world from 1914 to the present. The First World War ushered in a new era for U.S. foreign relations. The self-identified isolationist power became a principal player on the world stage and by the end of the Second World War emerged as one of the two global superpowers, poised to compete with the Soviet Union in a protracted Cold War. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, some spoke of the United States as a "hyperpower," but how it should exercise its unrivalled power was far from clear. Through a mixture of lecture and discussion, this course introduces students to the key events of America's most powerful century and to the new wave of scholarly literature being written about the United States and the World. Readings will reflect current trends in the sub-field, which focuses not only on high-level diplomacy, but also on a range of other factors that influence foreign relations, including ideology, race, gender, culture, domestic politics, and the roles of individual personalities. Prerequisite:    Open to all
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  • HIST 286: Latina/o History From 1846 to the Present

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    This course examines the formation of Latina/o communities in the United States from 1846 to the present. Formed through conquest, immigration, and migration, these communities reflect the political and economic causes of migration, U.S. foreign policies, the connections between the United States and the countries of origin, and economic conditions in the United States. People's migration to the United States has been mediated through labor recruitment, immigration and refugee policies, and social networks. Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Dominicans, as well as more recent immigrants from Central and South American countries, then become racialized populations in the United States. This EDI course examines the racial dynamics at play in the formation of Latina/o communities, as well as the impact of dominant U.S. hierarchies of race, gender and class on the economic incorporation of Latinas and Latinos.
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  • HIST 294: Scientific Revolutions: 1543-1927

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    How much does science create the sensibilities and values of the modern world? How much, if any, technical detail is it necessary to know in order to understand the difference between propaganda and fact? This course investigates four major changes of world view, associated with Copernicus (1543); Newton (1687); Darwin (1859); and Planck (1900) and Einstein (1905). It also treats briefly the emergence of modern cosmogony, geology, and chemistry as additional reorganizations of belief about our origins, our past, and our material structure. We first acquire a basic familiarity with the scientific use and meaning of the new paradigms, as they emerged in historical context. We then ask how those ideas fit together to form a new framework, and ask what their trans-scientific legacy has been, that is, how they have affected ideas and values in other sciences, other fields of thought, and in society. Knowledge of high-school algebra is presupposed. Prerequisite:    Open to first-year students
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  • HIST 295: Technology and Science in American Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    Although technologically dependent, the American colonies slowly built a network of native scientists and inventors whose skills helped shape the United States' response to the Industrial Revolution. The interaction of science, technology, and society in the nineteenth century did much to form American identity: the machine in the garden, through the "American System of Manufactures" helped America rise to technological prominence; the professionalization and specialization of science and engineering led to their becoming vital national resources. Understanding these developments, as well as the heroic age of American invention (1865-1914), forms the focus of this course: how science and technology have helped shape modern American life. Prerequisite:    Open to first-year students
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