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A survey of German history from 1815 to 1945. Topics will include the Vormarz Period, Bismarck, Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the history of colonial North America from the earliest European settlements through the end of the French and Indian War, with an emphasis on the colonies' cultural diversity. While the course will focus on the 13 Britsh colonies, it will also pay attention to colonization in Florida, New Mexico, and Louisiana. Moreover, this class will study colonial America as part of the early modern Atlantic world. Major themes we will examine include the transfer of European and African cultures, ideas, and institutions to North America; the effects of colonization on Native American communities and cultures; the role of religion in the colonial settlements; slave trade and labor; conflict and cooperation between the various ethnic and social groups; regional differentiation; and the emergence of an American identity. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An examination of the causes and course of the American Revolution; the confederation period; the framing of the Constitution; and the political and diplomatic history of the early republic. Special attention will also be given to the institution of plantation slavery and the paradoxical relationship between the ideals of republicanism and human bondage in the South. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Popular interpretations of the Civil Rights Movement focus on the "heroic period," stretching roughly from 1954 to 1965. During these eleven heady years, the movement was dominated by individuals who had adopted nonviolence as a strategy and integration as a goal. It is certainly not wrong to focus on their actions. The "heroic period" witnessed the most enduring victories of the black freedom struggle: the destruction of Jim Crow segregation and the achievement black citizenship. But mass social movements do not spring forth fully formed from the ground. Why were African Americans able to secure these remarkable victories in the late 1950s and 1960s What other strategies and goals did African Americans adopt in their struggles for freedom How did nonviolent integrationists come to dominate the movement during the heroic period What has become of their victory In an effort to answer these questions, we will spend considerable time exploring African Americans struggles for freedom before and after the heroic period. Additionally, we will attempt to situate the twentieth century black freedom struggle within the struggles of colonized people for self-determination the world over. African Americans have often viewed themselves as members of "the black world," the African Diaspora, and the "Third World," depending on time and place. If we are to understand the twentieth century black freedom struggle, we must understand the ways its participants imagined themselves and the world around 1.00 units, Lecture
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For many, the 1960s were the "final frontier," as young people, African-Americans, women, conservatives, members of the "New Left" and many others struggled to re-imagine their lives and the life of their nation. Originally intended as a "Wagon Train to the Stars," Star Trek came to embody the 1960s spirit, both reflecting and reflecting on the many pressing issues of the day. This course will examine important issues in the 1960s from Vietnam to the counterculture, from race to shifting sexual norms, from new technology to workers' rights, through the television show that explored the "strange new worlds" of it 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
The war between Japan and the United States and its allies that raged across the South Pacific, Southeast and Northeast Asia from 1941 to 1945 remains one of the most destructive in human history. Although this conflict is typically viewed along with the European war against Nazi Germany and fascist Italy as part of the wider Second World War, perceptions on both sides of the Pacific about the fundamental cultural and racial difference and inhumanity of the enemy added a dimension of animosity to the conflict that still colors the way "the war" is remembered to this day. In addition to examining the historical causes and course of the conflict, we will explore how the combatants and the meaning of the conflict have been portrayed and remembered, during the war itself and since then, in film, the medium through which most non-combatants have come to appreciate and remember the conflict. Viewing and discussing films on the war produced in a variety of countries and historical contexts -- from wartime propaganda films to the most recent big-budget war movies -- will be a required part of this course. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course takes constructions of femininity and masculinity and related representations of male and female sexuality in both the pre-modern and modern Middle East, with an emphasis on the Arab world, as its focus. Through theoretical readings and primary sources, both written and visual, we will explore the ways in which gender and sexuality have shaped political, economic, and cultural life in the Middle East. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
How did medieval people and communities define themselves and what happened when new forms of identity were created What happened when individuals and communities came into conflict with other groups as they expressed these new identities Case studies will focus on, among other topics, the history of women, such as Joan of Arc, who redefined traditional female identities, and heretical and peasant movements that challenged the leadership of the Church and elite landlords. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course examines the causes, trajectory and consequences of the French Revolultion: 1789-1799. Topics covered include the Court Society, the Republic of Letters, the Financial Crisis of the Crown, the Revolutionary Elite, the Course of the Revolution, its Marxist Interpretation, and Jacobin Ideology. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Drawing on a wide and diverse variety of sources-seminal works of scholarship, travelers' accounts, planters' diaries, works of fiction, and slave reminiscences-this course will attempt to draw a balanced portrait of slavery in the American south in the years prior to the Civil War. Readings will include substantial selections from historians such as Phillips, Stampp, and Genovese, pro-slavery writings, and a variety of hostile contemporary accounts. The class will be discussion-centered and writing intensiv 1.00 units, Lecture
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