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4.00 Credits
Workers, Unions, Bosses, and Capitalists: History of Labor in the United States: The economic and technological transformations that carried the United States into the industrial age brought significant changes in the patterns of everyday life. This course examines the effects of such changes from the perspective of working people in the 19th and 20th century United States. Topics include the development of the market economy and industrial modes of production, class formation, working-class political organization, immigration, slavery and emancipation, the sexual division of labor, the rise of corporate capitalism, consumption and the commercialization of leisure, the welfare state, the global economy, and the nature of work in post-industrial society. Also listed as Economics 230.
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4.00 Credits
Though some attention will be given to England before 1066, the period after the Conquest will be emphasized. The course will deal chiefly with cultural, economic and social history, though special attention will be given to the development of constitutional and legal institutions. Much use will be made of primary documents. Recommended for pre-law students.
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3.00 Credits
See History 244 for a description of this course. Also listed as Communication 234 and English 234.
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4.00 Credits
Home, Sweet Home?: The History of Family and Childhood in America: This course will look at wives and husbands, fathers and mothers, and children too. Our topic will be the history of childhood and the family from the age of European colonization up to our own times. Starting with the Native American family, we will explore experiences across cultural boundaries. Were Indian gender roles different from English forms? Why have historians said that colonists thought of children as miniature adults? Turning to the Revolution, we will discuss the impact of the philosophies and events of those times. Were adolescents granted the freedom to follow their hearts in marriage? In considering the nineteenth century we will explore the impact of industrialization, slavery, and immigration on the family. How did the growth of Catholicism in America affect family life? The twentieth century presents new questions. How did families survive the Great Depression? As wives joined the workforce during World War II, did they shed their homemaker roles? Did fears of Communism during the Cold War shape family life? Did the youth protests of the 1960s create a generation gap? What direction is the family taking as we enter the 21st century? A student may not receive credit for First Year Seminar 134 and History 237.
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the history of environmental issues and environmental activism in North America. Students will consider how Native Americans interacted with the natural environment prior to the European arrival, how the Europeans who entered North America looked upon the natural environment and how their views and practices differed from those of the Native Americans, and how the European settlement in North America affected the natural environment. Students will also explore how the growth of industrial capitalism and westward expansion affected the natural environments, and how Americans view the "wilderness" and the environment in the nineteenth century. Finally,students will explore the rise of a conservation movement and social activism to protect and preserve the environment, and they will study closely the rise and growth of a modern environmental movement in the late twentieth century. (xEVST)
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4.00 Credits
Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders: The History of the Nazis and the Holocaust: The Holocaust was a human catastrophe of epic proportions, and it is also an event that is commonly misunderstood. This class will raise the central issues surrounding the tragedy such as how was such an occurrence possible? What provoked the perpetrators? What were the reactions by the victims, both Jews and non-Jews? And how did the mil lions of bystanders feel as the killing transpired around them? How does one rationalize doing nothing? The Holocaust was much more than just a battle between Nazis and Jews, although that was certainly a principal issue, but it is an event that calls into question basic questions of morality in the 20th century. We will read documents and memoirs from all three groups (victims, perpetrators and bystanders) in an attempt to understand the motivation behind the calamity. We will also see films and documentaries that display the emotions and capture the complexities of the time. We also plan on making a visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington as part of the course to show how the Holocaust is being remembered in this country. This course will undoubtedly raise more questions than it can answer, but the problems are ones that unfortunately have and will be repeated. This course is open to all classes and has no prerequisites. A revised version of this course is offered for three credit hours as History 251. A student may receive credit for only one of these courses.
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4.00 Credits
Preachers, Planters, and Prostitutes: America in the Early National Era: Democracy and Capitalism. Both perhaps made their greatest advances during the early 19th century. Rapid market expansion along canal and railway corridors accompanied the mass politics of the Age of Jackson. Did democracy and capitalism reinforce or exist in dangerous tension with one another? Surveying the early republic, we will witness the coalescence and collision of democracy and capitalism. Preachers, planters, and prostitutes are apt symbols for this age. Each embodied democratic and capitalist forces. Evangelicals scorched the countryside, competing with one another to win the hearts of everyday people. Prostitutes capitalized on a rapidly emerging urban marketplace where all wares were up for sale. Southern planters denounced the greedy capitalists of the North, but simultaneously reaped great profits on cotton grown with slave labor. These and other figures who crossed the American landscape in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil war will populate this course.
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4.00 Credits
In the United States, as in all other societies, ordinary people use the objects and symbols available to them to make sense of their lives. This course explores the ways in which different groups of Americans have produced and consumed a widely disseminated and widely shared culture since the mid- 19th century. Students will examine the theoretical debates that revolve around the concepts of popular culture, mass culture, high culture, and ideological hegemony. Using methods drawn from history and other disci plines, the course will examine different forms of popular culture including advertising, literature, sports, radio, television, comics, magazines, theater, and movies. A revised version of this course is offered for three credit hours as History 234. A student may receive credit for only one of these courses. Also listed as Communications 244 and English 244.
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4.00 Credits
After a survey of the main historical forces molding Russia, this course will concentrate on the 20th century. The efforts of the Old Order to modernize itself - in some ways heroic, but ultimately unsuccessful - will be discussed. The Russian Revolution, culminating in the victory of the Bolsheviks, will be analyzed. The course will then devote itself to a study of the domestic and foreign policies of the Soviet regime. The great achievements of the Russian nation in the realms of literature, music, art and architecture will be considered.
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3.00 Credits
Behind the Iron Curtain: The History of Eastern Europe in the 20th Century: This course will examine the different trends and important developments of the forgotten half of Europe. Most history classes neglect Eastern Europe because of its economic backwardness, and that through most of the century it has been controlled from the outside. This course will focus on the transition from the region's status as part of an empire (Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman) to that of independent states in 1919, then back to its control by the Soviet Union after 1945, and finally to its recent independence after 1989. Independence has not always brought with it the concomitant freedom that was promised, and this course will delve into the difficult ethnic and economic questions as well as how a region like this has dealt with its difficult past. We will outline the major theories of Communism, Fascism, and Democracy as Eastern Europeans have lived under all three. We will also look at the role of Eastern Europe and East Europeans in the Holocaust and study how various countries have dealt with their parts in it. In addition to the broad trends, we will also look at some of the dissident literature to catch a glimpse into what it was like to live in an unfree environment.
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