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4.00 Credits
Studies the development of a new society and culture in British America from the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 through the War for Independence. Focuses on varied developments in New England, the Middle Colonies, and the South, with special attention to political institutions, social structure, race relations, and gender roles.
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4.00 Credits
Over the semester we will examine the establishment of slavery in North America, the economic and political transformation of the states and territories during the Early Republic and antebellum period through the lens of expansion of slavery and the plantation system, the decline of slavery in the North, the establishment of free black communities, the anti-slavery movement, the Underground Railroad and emancipation.. We will explore the complexities of slavery through primary and secondary sources, including slave narratives, antislavery and pro-slavery rhetoric, and the latest scholarship. We will examine the rise of race based slavery and its progeny, racism and evolving race ideologies; changing social relationships between whites and blacks (free and enslaved) throughout the period; slave narratives; the slave trade (internal and international); slave resistance, the Underground Railroad, abolition movement, African cultural retentions/assimilation/integration; women and slavery; children and slavery; free blacks; archaeology at African American historical sites; among other topics. Supplemental articles will be assigned throughout the semester ? most will be available online through the Library databases or on reserve. Finally, we will examine historical memory of American slavery. How do we, as Americans, learn about and/or remember this part of our national history? Who decides what is remembered and what is forgotten? How do interpretations of the past change? How do we reconcile different historians? Viewpoints? What are some of the myths we cling to so tenaciously, what stories prevail in spite of their fallacy? In contrast, what parts of this history do we, perhaps, learn and remember accurately and more clearly. Is this at all possible? How do we come to terms with the failure in our nation?s history to provide and ensure freedom and equality - that all men are created equal? How is that part of our nation?s history reflected in what we learn in the classroom, in public?
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4.00 Credits
Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, this seminar examines the ways in which the Cold War shaped American family life, domestic politics, popular culture, conformity and youth rebellion, increasing demands for civil rights, and changing gender roles. Readings range from historical scholarship to fiction, autobiography, and film. Prieto.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an intensive study of a specific topic in modern European history varying from year to year. Takes advantage of current issues in historiography and faculty expertise. Topics include Post- 1989 Europe, history and memory, and war and society. Leonard.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq.: Consent of the instructor. Studies history as an interpretive craft and explores various methods and models for researching, analyzing, and writing history in both academic and popular forms, from essays to public exhibits, monographs to films. Prieto.
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3.00 Credits
Institutions-law, education, policy, for example-tend to group us by our shared similarities. Must they? When does that approach disadvantage us in unfair ways? When should differences make a difference? When should differences be ignored? This course explores these questions, using readings from philosophy, literature, law and legal theory, and the social sciences to focus on the nature and meaning of difference, its relevance for us personally and politically in relation to the state, and its moral status independent of institutions.
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1.00 Credits
A one-credit seminar for all first-year students. Sophomore-entry students take this course in the spring of their sophomore year. The course develops critical thinking skills learned in HON 101 and 102, now applying them to public speaking. The class meets once a month for workshops on extemporaneous speaking, formal presentations, and the use of sources to make strong arguments.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: HON 101 and 102 or sophomore standing in the Honors Program. Explores the conflicts and rebellions in Sudan, from the North-South civil war to those in Darfur, Nuba and the Northeast. Will consider how they feed into a national crisis of political structure and identity and what steps would promote unity-in-diversity and lasting peace. Connell.
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