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Examines U.S. history through the lens of clothing, providing insight into style, individual identity, and cultural change. Also addresses a broad range of other issues, including property, international relations, economic change, trade, technology, and labor. Instructor: Edwards
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Explores the creation and perpetual remaking of the border between the U.S. and Mexico from the 1780s to the current day. Topics explored include nation formation, citizenship and migration, public policy, border incursions, and national identity. Students will examine works of history and autobiography as well as government hearings and other primary sources. Instructor: Deutsch
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Examines the role of such myths as "rags to riches," "beacon to the world," "the frontier" and "foreign devil" throughout history in defining the American character. Instructor consent required. Instructor: Wilson
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Focuses on political, social, business and artistic leaders in American history and problems which have called for leadership. Instructor consent required. Instructor: Wilson
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Explores shifting approaches to economic regulation in American history from the Revolution to the present, with a focus on 20th century. Examines reliance on pre-modern administrative mechanisms to shape American business environment, regulation through civil or criminal law, rise of the modern administrative state in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extension and maturation of regulatory frameworks in 1960s and 1970s, and dominant impulses of deregulation during the last three decades. Instructor: Balleisen
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The emergence, nature, and consequences of racial segregation (also known as Jim Crow) in the South and nation; how Jim Crow compares to the system of apartheid in South Africa; perspectives on black life and race relations in southern communities; and major challenges to Jim Crow by African American religious, social, and civil rights organizations and their allies. Instructor: Gavins
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Central outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement, 1968 to the present; critical reading and discussion, research and writing on racial and social equality and inequality in major areas of American life, notably electoral politics; education; religion and ethics; and public culture. Instructor: Gavins
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Examines social and cultural history of human trafficking to North America from the Seventeenth century to the present, beginning with the organization of both the servant trade from Great Britain and the slave trade from Africa in the 1600s to the creation of sex trafficking in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instructor: Peck
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Immigrants and immigration policy in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, with focus on origins of immigrant exclusion during two waves of immigration: ¿new¿ immigrants from Europe and Asia, 1880-1920, and Central American, African, and Asian migrations, post 1965. Immigrant roles in shaping policy debates, citizenship requirements, free labor, and American culture. Ethical dilemmas generated by immigration. Research paper required. Instructor: Peck
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The seminar offers an in-depth engagement with Russian modern history. Starting in the late 19th century, the seminar examines the formation of Russian Communist movement and communist regime as national and transnational phenomena of the 20th Century. A comparative perceptive allows students to analyze Russian appropriations of Marxist theory, the Russian Revolution, the making of the Stalinist state, de-Stalinization of the post-World War II period in the context of European and US labor movements and socialist experimentations, on the one hand, and anti-Communist sentiments and Cold War politics, on the other, while engaging with ethical issues raised by conflicting perspectives on the value and meaning of freedom and happiness and the means of achieving it. Instructor: Krylova
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