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4.00 Credits
Examines the social, cultural, economic, and political context of the American Revolution. Considers questions of national identity and allegiance, and assesses whether the Revolution was truly transformative. Some historians argue that the War for Independence represented a radical, progressive break with the past, others that it advanced a conservative drive to preserve endangered prerogatives. Course lectures and readings will analyze a range of historians' accounts, along with a wide variety of primary-source documents produced by participants, in order to better understand the meaning of the Revolution for all 18th-century inhabitants of North America: men, women, and children; Indians, Africans, and Europeans.
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4.00 Credits
Conducted as a reading and discussion class. Measures the shaping influence of religion on family life and gender relationships from the founding of the American colonies in 1607 to the Second Great Awakening in the 19th century. Readings examine the effects of evangelical as well as more traditional religion on the men and women, husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves in the early years of the nation.
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Social history of the Civil War and Reconstruction with crucial attention to politics and economics. Focuses on sectional conflict over systems of free labor and slave labor, with close attention to class Department of History conflicts within the North; conflicts between slaves and masters in the South; conflicts among white Southerners; and conflicts among African American freed people, white Northerners, and white Southerners after the war. Concludes with an assessment of the era's legacies.
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4.00 Credits
The political, economic, and foreign-relation developments in the period from the Spanish-American War through the Hoover years. Topics such as imperialism, the Progressive Era, issues of war and peace, dissent, political suppression, and economic collapse. Emphasis on the conflicting perceptions and evaluations of these events among historians.
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4.00 Credits
General introduction to the history of the United States from 1945 to the present. Major themes include links between domestic concerns and foreign-policy goals, especially concerning communism and the Cold War; growth of a postindustrial state with a significant impact on the economy and daily lives; demands for social equality and diversity in postwar life; and underlying social, economic, and demographic changes shaping American lives in the postwar era.
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4.00 Credits
Demonstrates that sport is an important cultural, political, and socioeconomic asset revealing much about society. Shows how sport is an instrument of control and liberation. Attempts to elevate sport's position as a legitimate scholarly subject by relating it to race, gender, class, and violence. Combines theory, fact, and interpretation, focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries with some background information on ancient sport and early American attitudes toward sport, leisure, and recreation.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the ways in which migration from abroad has had an impact on American history. Organized chronologically, this course examines immigrations to the United States from the 17th century to present times and the ways in which immigrants and their descendants constructed ethnic communities and practices. Furthermore, the course looks at changing American attitudes toward immigration as reflected in popular culture and public policy, seeking to understand the influence of American reactions on the process of ethnic cultural formation.
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4.00 Credits
The Cold War as global conflict. Focuses on Europe and the Third World, as well as on the United States and the Soviet Union, looking at international politics and diplomacy; nuclear rivalry and the culture of the bomb; Cold War economic competition and development policies; and the impact of the Cold War on culture and gender in various countries.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Asian/Pacific/American Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of historical changes within various Indian societies and the formation of major federal policies toward Native Americans, from Cherokee removal to the present. Includes an examination of the differences between Eastern, Plains, Southwestern, and Pacific Northwest peoples, Indian participation in the development of the American nation and modernity, the native experience of federal Indian policy, and the resurgence of tribalism and Indian nationalism in the 20th century.
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