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Uses Native American history to examine issues of narrative, authority, and perspective in historical writing, as well as to examine and historicize identity formation, rights, and United States history from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Instructor: Deutsch
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The history of women's exclusion and inclusion into armed forces in relation to popular and competing notions of citizenship, national identity, and military service in twentieth century UK, US, Russia, Germany. The female combatant as subject of public debate, private fantasy, state regulations, and military experimentation. Close examination of male and female near-trench and trench-level experiences of combat in the two World Wars. Course materials include firsthand accounts such as memoirs and autobiographical novels and sketches, political treatises, popular literary works, academic articles, excerpts from popular U.S., European, and Russian films. Instructor: Krylova
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Focus on American conflicts over the meaning of "freedom" or "liberty." Examination of changing definitions over time, and appraisal of the role that conflicts over "freedom" play in defining American identity and politics in the present. Course readings (mostly primary sources) introduce students to central disputes over meanings of "freedom" in American history, and student papers will also investigate conflicts or ideas about liberty. Instructor: Hutson
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Surveys major advocates, critics, and reformers of capitalism, from Adam Smith, Charles Dickens, and Karl Marx to contemporary champions and opponents of "free market" reform. Instructor: Huston
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Study of crucial legal and political moments in the struggle for equal civil rights of minorities, beginning with the laws of Chinese Exclusion, the struggle to define who was "White," the Asian Immigration Exclusion Acts, the relationships of Asians and African Americans and the struggle for equal schooling in the American South, the Japanese Concentration camps, the Redress and Reparations Civil Rights struggle, and the involvement of Asians Americans in the African American-led Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, including working with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and Asian Americans in the anti-sweatshop unionization movement. Instructor: Mazumdar
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Examines episodes of U.S. intervention abroad that resulted in the overthrow of democratically elected regimes. Focus on Latin America as the primary region of study, but comparative cases are also examined. Consideration of cultural, social, and economic tools of intervention as well as military and diplomatic methods. Students divide into research teams and write histories of four U.S. interventions abroad. Instructor: Olcott
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This course offers students an introduction to the history of the 19th- and 20th-century Muslim world, using the lens of the development of different forms of nationalism. We will investigate both the intellectual roots and expressions of various nationalisms, as well as the social and political factors behind popular mobilization. The class will be focused on several case studies, including Egypt, Algeria, India-Pakistan, Iran, Sudan, and Nigeria. Students work will be focused on weekly readings, and on a semester-long research project. Instructor: Hall
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Introduction to historical analysis and research in a seminar setting. Students learn how to formulate research questions, evaluate existing scholarship, interpret historical evidence, craft historical argument orally and in writing. Several sections on different topics are offered each semester
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Instructor: Staff
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Introduction to the history and culture of sixteenth and seventeenth century England; the Reformation, Colonization, and the Civil war. Changes in legal cultural ideas of identity and authority. Instructor: Staff
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