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George Levesque. wf 2.30-3.45 Hu (0) Fr sem A survey of American higher education from the colonial era to the Cold War. Changes in the profile of students, the role of faculty, and the scope of the curriculum. Particular attention to how these changes reflected larger developments in American intellectual, cultural, and social history. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required; see under Freshman Seminar Program.
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Paul Freedman. mw 2.30-3.45 Hu (0) Fr sem The history of food from the Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on the United States and Europe. How societies gathered and prepared food; culinary tastes of different times and places. The influence of taste on trade, colonization, and cultural exchange. The impact of immigration, globalization, and technology on food. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required; see under Freshman Seminar Program.
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John Gaddis. mw9-10.15 WR,Hu (0) Fr sem An introduction to the discipline of history. History viewed as an art, a science, and something in between; differences between fact, interpretation, and consensus; history as a predictor of future events. Focus on issues such as the interdependence of variables, causation and verification, the role of individuals, and to what extent historical inquiry can or should be a moral enterprise. Enrollment limitedto freshmen. Preregistration required; see under Freshman Seminar Program.
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Fabian Drixler. tth1-2.15 WR,Hu (0) Fr sem Training in different modes of historical writing, including narrative history, biography, and microhistory. Introduction to important debates and key moments in Japanese history. No previous knowledge of Japan required. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required; see under Freshman Seminar Program.
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Jean-Christophe Agnew For description see under American Studies.
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Jean-Christophe Agnew. For description see under American Studies.
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John Demos. tth11.35-12.50 Hu (24) PreInd Significant themes in American life, 1607-1750: politics and imperial governance, social structure, religion, ecology, race relations, gender, popular culture, the rhythms of everyday life. Freshman enrollment limited to students with scores of 4 or 5on the Advanced Placement test in U.S. history.
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Rebecca Tannenbaum. w 1.30-3.20 WR,Hu (0) Diaries as eyewitness accounts of historical events and documentation of everyday life. Ways that diaries from the colonial era through the Civil War illuminate the American past.
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Joanne Freeman. tth 2.30-3.20, 1 htba Hu (27) PreInd The American Revolution from the perspective of the colonists; their shifting identities as English subjects, colonial settlers, revolutionaries, and Americans. Readings include contemporary correspondence and eyewitness accounts.
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David Blight. tth 10.30-11.20, 1 htba Hu (23) The causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War. A search for the multiple meanings of a transformative event, including national, sectional, racial, constitutional, social, gender, intellectual, and individual dimensions.
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