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3.00 Credits
Anti-slavery and the intensification of sectionalism in the 1850s; the secession crisis; political and military developments in the Civil War years; key technological innovations (including medicine); why the North won; and the political, economic, and social legacies of the conflict.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Using the American Civil War as a baseline, considers what it means to become ?modern? by exploring the war?s material and manpower needs, associated key technologies, and how both influenced the United States? entrance into the age of ?Big Business.? Readings include material on steam transportation, telegraphic communications, arms production, naval innovation, food processing, medicine, public health, management methods, and the mass production of everything from underwear to uniforms ? all essential ingredients of modernity. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
The Great Depression and World War II permanently changed American politics and society. Topics include: the Great Crash, the New Deal, Roosevelt, the home front, the Normandy Invasion, and the atomic bomb. Explores those events through film, posters, newspapers, and other historical documents.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
American experience at home and abroad from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Cold War. Topics include: America's role as global superpower, foreign and domestic anticommunism, social movements of left and right, suburbanization, and popular culture.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Examines the relationship between war and domestic politics in the US since the start of 20th century. Students engage in historical and social scientific research to analyze the ways that overseas military commitments shaped US political institutions, and how domestic politics has in turn structured US engagements abroad. Moving chronologically from World War I to the Iraq War, subject draws on materials across the disciplines, including political documents, opinion polls, legal decisions, and products of American popular culture.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Throughout American history, the experience of war has shaped the ways that Americans think about themselves, their fellow citizens, and the meanings of American citizenship. Examines how Americans have told the stories of modern war in multiple forms such as history, literature, film, and popular culture from the First World War to the war in Iraq, and interprets media representations in terms of changing ideas about American identity.
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Prereq: None
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2.00 Credits
Seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly 1850 to the present. Among the institutions to be looked at are political machines, police departments, courts, schools, prisons, public authorities, and universities. Focuses on readings and discussions.
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Prereq: None
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2.00 Credits
Seminar on the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban America. Among the features considered are parks, cemeteries, tenements, suburbs, zoos, skyscrapers, department stores, supermarkets, and amusement parks. Focuses on readings and discussions.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the evolution of New York City from 1607 to the present. Readings focus on the city's social and physical histories. Discussions compare New York's development to patterns in other cities.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Readings and discussions focusing on a series of short-term events that shed light on American politics, culture, and social organization. Events studied include the Boston Tea Party of 1773; the crisis at Boston over the case of Anthony Burns, an escaped slave, in 1854; the Pullman strike of 1891; and the student uprisings at Columbia University in 1968. Emphasis on finding ways to make sense of these complicated, highly traumatic events, and on using them to understand larger processes of change in American history.
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Prereq: None
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