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3.00 Credits
The history of Europe, west and east, since the end of the Second World War. Topics include the division of Germany, the communization of eastern Europe, the development of the welfare state, decolonization, the New Left, the dilemmas of the welfare state, the collapse of communism and the attempt to build democratic societies in eastern Europe. The several film screening will be held on Wednesday evenings, in place of class hours. Requirements include a mid-term, a final examination, and a short paper.
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3.00 Credits
The course will survey European integration history from 1945 to the present. Includes exploration of the development of the European Communities into the present European Union, the role of the member states and the European institutions in the processes of integration and governance in the EEC/EU, the national and international motives behind European integration. Finally, we will examine contemporary developments and debates.
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3.00 Credits
The first in a two-course sequence exploring the political, social, intellectual, and diplomatic history of the United States in the "short" 20th Century. This course begins with the First World war and ends with the advent of the Cold War.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates the military, political, social, and economic aspects of the war that sundered the United States in 1861. Topics include: the background of the sectional crisis; military events and political affairs during the war; the experiences of Americans on the battlefield and the home front; the destruction of slavery; and the post-war reconstruction of the South and the nation.
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This course will explore the life, presidency, and public memory of America's 16th President. By reading historians' accounts as well as the words of Lincoln and his contemporaries, we will examine his multiple roles: as antebellum lawyer and politician; as wartime executive and commander in chief; as public orator and man of ideas. We will also study how successive generations have commemorated his presidency and made him such a potent symbol for the meaning and promise of America's past.
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Examines changing gender roles, family structure, demographic patterns, and attitudes toward sex and marriage from the founding of the British colonies to 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of the U.S. South from the founding of Jamestown through the Civil War. It examines the origins and development of plantation slavery and racial ideology; the intertwined histories of masters, slaves, and non-slaveowning white Southerners; the growth of the sectional conflict; and the Confederacy?s attempt to establish an independent slaveowning republic.
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey the history of the American South from the end of the Civil War through the current day. Its purposes are two-fold: to provide students an understanding of the South and of Southerners, and to explore what the experience of the South can teach us about America as a nation. Through primary and secondary readings, lectures, and class discussions we will examine such topics as: the political and economic reconstruction of the South after the Civil War; the Populist revolt; the politics of race in the era of Jim Crow and disfranchisement; the rise of the ¿Sunbelt¿ South; the Civil Rights movement; and the question of persisting regional distinctiveness.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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