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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the origins and nature of slavery in North America and to the ideas, strategies, and struggles of antislavery activists in the 18th and 19th centuries. Students will consider how and why slavery was introduced into North America, what the slave experience was like and how it changed over time, what the connections were between slavery and race, and how slaveholders sought to justify and defend their so-called peculiar institution. Students will also explore what prompted the rise of an antislavery movement, how the abolition movement changed over time, what ideas and strategies abolitionists embraced, and what impact abolitionists had in ending slavery and pushing the nation into the Civil War. The course will include a mock trial of the abolitionist John Brown and a walking tour of John Brown sites and underground railroad stops in nearby Hudson, Ohio. There will be a small fee for this trip to pay for transportation.
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4.00 Credits
Saints, Sinners, and Slaves: The Colonization of North America: This course will survey the diverse cultures produced by the colonization of North America. While ultimately dominated by the British, French and Spanish settlers made incursions into the continent. Native Americans and Africans were central to the colonization process as well. As the Iroquois forged alliances in Canada, Africans cultivated rice in South Carolina. The British colonists had their own internal divisions. Righteous Puritans tried to erect a metaphorical "City on a Hill" in New England,while planters scrambled for profits from tobacco in the Chesapeake. Quakers tried to create a peaceful coexistence with Indians in Pennsylva nia, while the Scotch-Irish strained such harmony as they flooded into the back-county. How did such a diverse set of colonists form a single nation? Did they, in fact, form a single nation? We will follow the history of the colonies through their settlement in the seventeenth century, their growth and transformations in the eighteenth century, until their political break from Britain in war.
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3.00 Credits
Native American History from European Contact to Reservations: This course will examine the history of the indigenous peoples of North America from the arrival of European invaders until the massacre at Wounded Knee, the final major military engagement in the West that sealed Indians' internment on reservations. We will consider many facets of the Indian experience. Even before Native Americans set eyes on Europeans they had to deal with the microbes Europeans spread before them. After contact, we will consider how trade and the military conflicts reordered the cultures of Indians and Europeans alike. Indian cultures would prove remarkably resilient. Most remarkable perhaps were the various pan-Indian revitalization movements promoted by Indian prophets such as Neolin. The American Revolution would prove a decisive moment in Indian history. During the war itself, Euro-Americans scorched Indian country. In addition, the removal of Britain from American shores would unleash an inexhaustible desire for land in the trans-Appalachian West. Yet hope for amicable relations were reborn as various tribes like the Cherokee proved willing to adopt many of the trappings of American culture. Ultimately, however pressures for removal would carry the day as reservations were erected across the West.
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the experiences and culture of African Americans from the end of the Civil War to the present. Students will examine the impact of the Civil War and emancipation on African Americans, the Reconstruction period, and life in the Jim Crow South in the late nineteenth century. The course will continue with an exploration of African American struggles for equality in the early twentieth century, the Great Migration to the North, the Harlem Renaissance and African American life in the 1920s, the impact of the Great Depression on African Americans, and African Americans in World War II. The course will conclude with a focus on the Civil Rights Movement and current issues in African American life.
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4.00 Credits
This survey will focus upon the experiences and culture of African Americans and their influence on the development of American culture. The survey covers major topics in African bondage, and emancipation and larger cultural issues such as the relationship between slavery, the family, and gender and the development of unique African American institutions such as slave spirituals.
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3.00 Credits
Power, Protest, and Peace: 1960s America: From civil rights to Watergate, from Vietnam to Berkeley, the 1960s are remembered as a time of high hopes and bitter divisions, of utopian dreams and tragic fighting. This course examines the political, social, and cultural changes that took place in the turbulent decade known as the sixties. Students will examine the major political developments and social movements of the period and will attempt to understand why and how those events unfolded. Students will also consider the implications of those events for contemporary American life.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of Chinese history from pre-literary times to the present. The course will be centered around the creation of Chinese civilization, the development of the molding forces of China, the conflict between China and the West and its consequences, and 20th century revolutionary China.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the cultural, social, economic, and political activities of women in American history. Within a chronological, narrative framework, the course focuses on four themes of women's past experience in American life: the family, work, sexuality, and socio-political activism.
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4.00 Credits
Britannia is mentioned sparingly by the Roman historians, but much of our knowledge about the conquest, settlement, and governance of the province is derived from archaeology. Therefore, a study of Roman Britain comes alive when students can visit and study Romano-British sites, and museums in England and Wales. This course will trace the conquest of the island, beginning with Claudius in 43 and essentially ending in 122 under Hadrian, who set the province's northern limit with a wall. The peaceful conditions of the third and early fourth centuries brought prosperity and stability to Britain. Urbanization in the province was rapid. The native aristocracy quickly adapted the working country villas familiar throughout the Empire to a British context. Unrest throughout the western Empire gradually undermined the province's stability and eventually led to the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain in the 400s. Administration of the province, growth of industry and trade, influence of Roman religion on native cults, and aspects of daily life will be covered in the course. Students will study how the Romans transformed a native Celtic population into a distinctly Romano-British culture which integrated a Mediterranean outlook and values into its society and economy. This course is also listed as Classics 275.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
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