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1.00 Credits
The dual purpose of this course is to explore the meaning of race in American history and the influence of American history on race. The course is designed primarily as an introduction to the multicultural histories of African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/as, and Native Americans. We will focus on how geography, environment, expansion, class, gender, imperialism and capitalism have affected race in America. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will examine social movements of the post-emancipation United States from the perspective of black women activists. By looking at such movements as anti-lynching, progressive education, Back to Africa, suffrage, legal civil rights, black power, feminism, welfare rights, and GLBT liberation/queer rights, we will trace and analyze how black women's activisms are a continuous and constant force in U.S. history. Along the way, we will also contemplate and discuss how the trajectory of U.S. history changes when we look at the past from the perspective of black women. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An exploration of the causes of the American Civil War, including a detailed study of slavery, abolitionism, the development of Southern sectional consciousness, conflict over the Western territories, the disintegration of the national party system and the rise of the Republicans, Lincoln's election, and the secession crisis of 1860-61. The political and military history of the wartime period will also be examined, as will the post-war struggle to reconstruct the Union and define the status of four million newly freed black Americans. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
A selective examination of the social and political history of African-Americans from the Missouri Compromise till the end of the Civil War, and of the battle over plantation slavery which ended with the passage of the 13th amendment in 1865. Topics will include the black community in the North; the rise and progress of the abolitionist movements; plantations, slavery, and pro-slavery politics in the South; slave rebellion and resistance; the emergence of the "Free Soil" movement and the creation of the Republican Party; the abolition of slavery during the Civil War; and the career of the black soldier. A basic knowledge of antebellum and Civil War history is essential. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
An exploration of the origins of the American Civil War, with emphasis on such topics as slavery, race, abolitionism, growing Southern sectional consciousness, the struggle over slavery in the western territories, the dissolution of the national party system and the rise of the Republicans, the secession of seven states following Lincoln's election, 11th-hour efforts at compromise, and the Fort Sumter crisis. Lectures and discussion. Not open to students who have taken History 350. The Civil War Era. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course examines not only the military dimensions of the war years but also such topics as politics in the Union and the Confederacy, the presidential leadership of Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, women in the Union and Confederate war efforts, and the struggle over emancipation. The latter part of the course considers post-war political, social, and economic developments, including nearly four million African Americans' transition from slavery to freedom, the conflict over how to reconstruct the former Confederate states, the establishment of bi-racial governments in those states, and the eventual overthrow of Reconstruction by conservative white "Redeemers." Lectures and discussions. 1.00 units, Lecture
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The Bible is arguably the most important book ever assembled. This course will explore the changing role of the Bible from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and its impact on society. Themes addressed in this course include: the holiness of the text, the role of the Bible in medieval culture, comparisons with the Hebrew Bible and the Koran, the impact of printing, and the critical re-conception of the Bible as a created rather than divine text. 1.00 units, Lecture
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The "decline and fall" of Rome was a complicated and lengthy process. This course will examine the many aspects of that process, including the crisis of the Empire in the third century A. D., the recovery under Diocletian and Constantine, the evolution in the fourth century of a new, stable Empire, and the new crises of the fifth and sixth centuries that resulted in the emergences of the proto-medieval states in the West and the Byzantine Empire in the East. Social and economic developments will receive special emphasis throughout. The reading will consist of primary sources in translation and some interpretative material. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Gender relations were a key arena of struggle among men and women in colonial Africa. This course considers the ways in which gender ideologies and practices - both European and African - shaped the colonial encounter and were reconfigured by it. It examines how European and African gender ideologies influenced the design and implementation of colonial policies and considers the differing ways in which African men and women responded to colonial change, including the rise of cash cropping, mining, and labor migration, the establishment of customary law, Christian missionizing, and European reform efforts. Case studies of moments of gender crisis will elucidate the experiences of ordinary men and women as well as elites and officials during the rapid changes brought on by colonialism. 1.00 units, Lecture
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A critical inquiry into the ways in which Americans of diverse characteristics have thought about the promise of America 1.00 units, Lecture
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