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3.00 Credits
The political, constitutional, economic and social history of the United States from the beginning of Washington’s first term as president to the end of Van Buren’s only term. Launching the Republic; Hamiltonian economic program; the first party system; the Revolution of 1800, the second war for independence; the second party system; westward expansion; Nullification; the Bank War; and the second Great Awakening. Merchant.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Instructor consent required. Most appropriate for students who have completed HIST 245. This seminar examines the role of military decision-making, the factors that shape it and determine its successes and failures, by focusing on four Civil War battles: Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Extensive reading and writing. Battlefield tours. Merchant.
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3.00 Credits
The sectional crisis. The election of 1860 and the secession of the southern states. Military strategy and tactics. Weapons, battles, leaders. Life of the common soldier. Diplomacy: King Cotton and King Wheat. The politics of war. The economics of growth and destruction. Emancipation. Life behind the lines. Victory and defeat. Merchant.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the transformation of American society under the impact of industrialization and urbanization. It examines how business leaders, workers, farmers, and the middle class attempted to shape the new industrial society to their own purposes. Emphasis is given to social, intellectual, and cultural experiences and to politics. Senechal.
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3.00 Credits
The major political, economic, social and intellectual changes that occurred in American life between 1890 and 1945 are examined. Michelmore.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of the gay and lesbian experience, with some focus on bisexual and transgendered persons. This course also traces social perceptions of homosexuality from the beginning of the 20th century through the cultural and religious wars of the early 21st century. DeLaney.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of women’s social, political, cultural and economic positions in America through the immediate post-Civil War. Changes in women’s education, legal status, position in the family, and participation in the work force with emphasis on the diversity of women’s experience, especially the manner in which class and race influenced women’s lives. The growth of organized women’s rights. Senechal.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of some of the major topics and themes in American women’s lives from the mid-19th century to the present, including domestic and family roles, economic contributions, reproductive experience, education, suffrage, and the emergence of the contemporary feminist movement. The influence on women’s roles, behavior, and consciousness by the social and economic changes accompanying industrialization and urbanization and by variations in women’s experience caused by differences in race, class, and region. Senechal.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of the African-American experience from the colonial period through Reconstruction. Special emphasis is given to the slave experience, free blacks, black abolitionists, development of African-American culture, Emancipation, Black Reconstruction, and racial attitudes. DeLaney.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of the African-American experience from 1877 to the present. Special emphasis is given to the development of black intellectual and cultural traditions, development of urban communities, emergence of the black middle class, black nationalism, the civil rights era, and the persistence of racism in American society. DeLaney.
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