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3.00 Credits
"E Pluribus Unum" ("Out of Many, One") reads the familiar motto on U.S. coins. The "pluribus" of American society and culture, divided by class, race, gender, religion, region, is a familiar condition. The "unum" has been variously a myth, an ideal, and a problem. This course will scrutinize wars, social movements, the expansion of government, suburbanization, the proliferation of mass culture, immigration, and other phenomena, to learn how they have affected the competing pulls of plurality and unity in recent U.S. history. Most of the "readings" (which will include artifacts other than bos) and most assignments will be in primary materials. Since this course will presume survey-level conversancy with the basics of recent American political and economic history, there is a prerequisite: History 202 or its equivalent. C- in History 202 or equivalent. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Slavery, colonization, revolution and economic alliances in the Atlantic world have involved the British Isles with North America from the 17th century. We explore anti-slavery and anti-apartheid in both countries, from the Amistad episode of the 19th century to South Africa in the 20th. For four centuries, English, Scots, Welsh and Irish immigrants swelled the North American cities and farmlands while immigrants from across the empire came in increasing numbers to Britain. Two 20th century wars united the two nations, while class and racial differences resulted in their participation in shared domestic and global conflicts. Demands for national independence, sexual liberation and racial justice rocked both societies in the postwar era. These themes are explored through historical documents, literature, film and drama. This is a thematic survey designed for students from several disciplinary backgrounds. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
In this course we will read a selection of novels, essays, short fiction, and poetry by African American writers of the period, including Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Jesse Fauset, and Jean Toomer. Emphasis will be on identifying the characteristics that unify this body of literature and on investigating the significance of the Harlem Renaissance within the African American literary tradition. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. 1.00 units min / 2.00 units max, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
This senior seminar will focus on travel to and across America from the colonial period through the present, expanding how we think of travel and its place in American literature and consciousness. Readings will cover a broad sweep of topics and time periods, including: Native traditions of migration, colonial encounters in the "New" world, slave narratives of the middle passage, narratives of western exploration, and European immigrant narratives. We will explore a full range of media: written forms, oral traditions, and consider the extent to which film, television, and the internet have provided new forums for recounting travel. At the core of the course will be a consideration of how stories of travel confirm or challenge individual, local, and national identities. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
Students undertake projects on American studies topics of their own choosing. The projects will be supervised by a faculty member in an American studies-related field. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the project adviser and director, are required for enrollment. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
This seminar explores the relationship in America between selected subcultures (groups with at least a partially distinct and autonomous culture) and "mainstream" society using the perspective of gender. In particular, the course focuses on the different ways men and women of these groups view American values and interact with American society. Subcultures include: Puritans, Native Americans, blacks, immigrants and the working class, with an emphasis on the 19th and the early 20th centuries. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
At some point in studies of U.S. history, students are at least briefly introduced to the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Yet few know that this "Renaissance" represents only one small piece of a much larger New Negro Movement. In this class, the more well-known literary and visual art expressions of Harlem are situated within a wider spectrum of social movements and popular cultures of film, music, sports, and public behavior that spanned the globe from Harlem to Chicago, from Paris to Port au Prince. This more comprehensive vision of the New Negro Movement serves as a lens through which to better understand U.S. national identity, urbanization processes, industrial capitalist developments, and imperial expansion in the early 20th century. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The post-Civil War history of Hartford is a history of the initial triumph of entrepreneurial power and civic will and the subsequent loss of certain forms of urban wealth. Mark Twain called the city the "center of all Connecticut wealth." Despite considerable poverty, in 1876, Hartford still boasted the country's highest per capita income and is now ranked as among the nation's poorest cities. This seminar explores the processes of cultural and social transformation that resulted in these differences. We seek to understand Hartford's late 19th and 20th century political culture and political economy. Topics include: the distribution of capital in industry, housing, charity, and welfare; the racial, ethnic, religious and class composition of the city's men and women residents; urban politics, racial and ethnic antagonisms, and the history of attempts at social change in the city; the modes of artistic and literary expressions that arose over time. Sources for study include readings drawn from other urban histories; documents and primary sources drawn from Hartford's rich archival and museum collections; the portrayal of the city in photography and film. Students will construct projects based upon research and interaction throughout the city. A speakers program and off-campus work supplement the course. (Same as History 835-03.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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