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3.00 Credits
Explores peoples, agriculture, town development, and politics in the Great Plains region, all of which have contributed to a unique regional identity as both the Great American Desert and the Breadbasket of the U.S.
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3.00 Credits
Explores U.S. territorial growth from the colonial period through Reconstruction, focusing on the various peoples who migrated and their interaction with those already living in newly opened territories; local, national, and international events and their impact; the effects of expansion on national affairs.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the role of religion in shaping American history and culture, focusing on colonial development, witchcraft, the Great Awakenings, war, fundamentalism, spiritualism, the occult, Islam and terrorism and the current state of religion in America.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the history of sex and violence in the nineteenth century, focusing on racial and gender violence rooted in concepts of masculinity and femininity. Students will explore several different types of violence; racial violence; the concept of honor and how men used violence to assert their dominant male identity; sexual violence, particularly with the rampant murder of prostitutes in major cities and how women struck back at abusive men; violence through warfare; and mob violence. Students will examine racial and gender identity. Sex and violence are tools used to examine and better understand how racial, ethnic, class and gender identities formed throughout the nineteenth century, one of the most violence in American History.
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3.00 Credits
Explores some enduring themes in Native American history, such as cultural contact and interaction, patterns of resistance and adaptation, and conflicting views about the very nature of history and control of access to information.
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3.00 Credits
Explores African Americans from the colonial period to the present, focusing on the burden of and resistance to slavery; the meaning of freedom in the United States, the Civil Rights movement, and the current status of African Americans.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the political, economic, and social development of the antebellum South, focusing on slavery, southern society and culture, and governmental changes from settlement through the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the political, economic, and social development of the post-bellum South, focusing on race relations from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights movement, southern society and culture, and governmental changes to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Explores political parties in the United States, emphasizing the founding fathers¿ attitudes, political parties throughout the nineteenth century, and political culture. Special attention will be paid to elections, party formation and structure, platforms, third party movements, and movements outside of parties.
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3.00 Credits
Explores political history in the twentieth century focusing on political parties, the electorate, and changes in the party system. Special attention will be paid to crucial presidential elections and the ideologies that determined their outcomes.
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