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3.00 Credits
This course examines the causes and consequences of the Civil War, focusing on the rise of sectionalism, the dynamics of conflict, and reconstruction. Heavy emphasis is placed on archival research in relevant first person accounts from the period.
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3.00 Credits
Every now and again a piece of prose profoundly reshapes American society and culture. In this advanced undergraduate seminar, students will read and discuss a selection of such works under the tutelage of Professors Shulman, a specialist in the History of Science and Technology, and Sentilles, who specializes in social and cultural history. The professors will set up the context of the work's publication or creation and then lead the class in a lively dissection of both the work and its impact. The main question asked of each book is "how and why did this work have such an effect?" In attempting to answer that question, students will come to a greater understanding of society that created and then responded to each work. Offered as HSTY 359 and HSTY 459.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the intersection of crime, punishment, and popular culture in colonial British America and the early United States through 1860 by closely examining a series of popular crime genres, including execution sermons, criminal conversion narratives, criminal autobiographies, and trial reports. Readings in modern scholarship--drawing on several disciplines--will shed light on the popular literature and on underlying patterns of crime and punishment, while students will critically evaluate modern scholarly interpretations in light of the early crime publications. Types of crimes explored in the readings include witchcraft, piracy, burglary, robbery, and various types of murder, such as infanticide, familicide (cases of men murdering their wives and children), and sexual homicide. Each student will write several short analytical papers drawn from the shared readings and, at the end of the semester, produce an independent research paper. Offered as HSTY 361 and HSTY 461.
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3.00 Credits
Gender is the term used to describe the social characteristics attributed to the different sexes by the larger contextual society. This social and cultural history seminar allows students to explore various constructions of masculine and feminine identity in America between the late 18th century and the end of the 20th century. This is a multicultural course using a mixture of historical texts, gender theory, and personal biography to explore changing notions of gender (and with it sexuality, race, and religion) over time in the United States. Offered as HSTY 363, HSTY 463 and WGST 363.
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3.00 Credits
Traces the development and influence of federal technology and science policies from colonial times to the present, with emphasis on the 20th century. Offered as HSTY 366 and POSC 365.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the social and political status of Jews under Muslim and Christian rule since the Middle Ages. Themes include interfaith relations, Islamic and Christian beliefs regarding the Jews, Muslim and Christian regulation of Jewry, and the Jewish response. Offered as HSTY 371, JDST 371 and RLGN 371.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced seminar is designed to allow students to investigate aspects of American women's history that are not deeply explored in other courses. The two central purposes of the course are to move students forward in their study of American women's history and to provide advanced study for graduate students and other students interested in women-focused topics. The topic is subject to change, but may be any of the following or something similar: women and medicine, images of women in popular culture, growing up female, women and political movements, women and war, etc. Recommended preparation: HSTY 353/453 or HSTY 354/454. Offered as HSTY 373, WGST 373, and HSTY 473.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce graduate students and upper level undergraduates to the most important debates in the field of Latin American History. It will provide an overview of the evolution of the (English language) historical literature on Latin America during the past three decades. It will also help students with a field in Latin American history prepare for their comprehensive examinations. The course readings have been chosen thematically and chronologically. Student will critically engage a group of monographs that stand out for their historiographical and methodological value and that will help illuminate the discussions and approaches that guide research in this field. Offered as HSTY 375 and HSTY 475.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces major questions and approaches in the study of environmental history. Taking North American as our subject, we explore how humans have shaped the environment of the continent and how human history has, in turn been shaped by the natural world form antiquity to the present. Major topics include Pleistocene extinctions, the Columbian exchange, the market revolution in agriculture, American epidemics, industrialization, the origins of conservation, the environmental movement, and the globalization of America's environmental footprint. Offered as: HSTY 378 and HSTY 468.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines social, cultural, and political changes in the United States during the 1960s. We begin by examining the economic prosperity and "fragile" political consensus of the post-WWII period, as well as the undercurrent of poverty, dissent, and Cold War fears. We then cover the civil rights movement, student activism, the women's movement, the growth of Liberal America and the welfare state, the Vietnam War, the counterculture and conservative youth movements, the growth of a national consumer-driven, mass-mediated market, and the music, art, and pop culture--as well as their growing reliance on technological intervention--during this period of creative efflorescence. We will do this through reading books, but also through "reading" contemporary evidence of life in America, including listening to music, viewing films, analyzing pictures and artifacts.
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