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This graduate-level seminar investigates the causes and consequences of the Civil War using a variety of nineteenth-century writings from memoirs and letters to novels and poems. We will explore different and often competing ideas about slavery and freedom, state and nation, individual rights, and family which, in many cases, were transformed by the conflict and which, in turn, forever changed American life. Understanding these issues will provide a means for serious interrogation of the way in which modern historians frame the Civil War and suggest new ways to think about the military, social, and cultural milieu of the late nineteenth century. Authors studied will include: Mary Chesnut, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses Grant, Henry Timrod, Walt Whitman, and others. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This seminar considers what has traditionally been called the "Scientific Revolution". Students will explore a number of topics related to the expanding horizons of scientific inquiry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Major themes will include: science and religion, science and the arts, science and travel, patronage, and also the tensions between observation and authority. We will also consider the coexistence of other practices - such as magic and astrology - that were only subsequently written out of the picture. Assignments will be focused on reading primary sources, including the works of Galileo, reading interesting new scholarship, and completing a research paper on a topic of choic 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
Topics in the culture and political economy of the years 1900-1929, including progressive movements, labor organization struggles, the rise and fall of the Left, the suffrage campaign and its aftermath, immigration and Americanization, the World War home front, migrations and communities of African-Americans, and the impact of the mass media. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This seminar course explores some of the key problems, or questions, about the formation and development of Modern China, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty through the middle of the twentieth century. For example, we will examine the nature of Manchu government and autocracy, the means of peasant mobilization in the nineteenth and twentieth century, and the influence of western thought on Chinese intellectuals. This course combines aspects of historiography with a focus on contentious areas of debate in the field of Modern Chinese history. The course is appropriate for advanced undergraduates with a background in Modern Chinese history (History 242 or equivalent) and graduate students, with or without a background. 1.00 units, Seminar
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By restricting education and employment for females, the current Taliban leaders of Afghanistan have focussed world attention on issues of women's rights in the Islamic world. But Taliban policies are not representative of Islamic societies today, and have evolved in the distinctive historical context of modern Afghanistan. Taking this contemporary issue as a starting point, we will look at the diverse experiences of Muslim women across the centuries, focussing primarily on the Middle East. We will examine the ways in which Islamic laws and practices have sometimes liberated and sometimes restricted women in different times and places, beginning in the early Islamic period (c. 600-1000 AD). In the modern era (c. 1800-present), we will consider the changing roles of women and their rights and responsibilities, in familial, political, and economic affairs. We will also study Middle Eastern feminist movements. Two questions will recur: first, is there a unifying framework for gender relations in Islamic societies, past and present, or is there too much diversity to generalize Second, how variable is feminism by culture, and are there distinctive Middle Eastern or Islamic feminisms 1.00 units, Seminar
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Independent Research involves the preparation of a major research paper of your choice under the direction of the Institute's faculty, making use of resources in the Mystic Seaport Museum collection and the G. W. Blunt White Library collection of 65,000 books and 700,000 manuscript pieces, supplemented as needed by other collections. Participants must be qualified to do original research at the graduate level, using manuscripts and other primary sources. Prerequisite: History 831, American Goes to Sea or equivalent, and prior agreement with director on research topic. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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This course will study the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. We will begin with an examination of Lenin and the origins of Bolshevism and consider the reasons for the Russian Revolution. The seminar will then analyze Stalinism as a political and social phenomenon . The last part of the seminar will study the attempts of Stalin's heirs to deal with his legacy and will try to explain the connections between de-Stalinization and the final collapse of the Soviet Union. All students will be asked to do an oral book report, participate in class and write a 20 page final paper as well as a few 2-3 page reaction papers. Readings will include secondary and primary sources, as well as Soviet literature. There will also be a selection of relevant Soviet films. 1.00 units, Seminar
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
The Connecticut Historical Society offers graduate internships to matriculate American Studies students in five key areas: Museum Collections, Library, Public Programs, Exhibitions, and Technology. Interested students should contact the Office of Graduate Studies for more information. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chair must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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