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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the ways historians study the past. Students will learn how historians formulate research questions, how to use historical evidence, and how to tell historical stories. Each semester, this course will examine a different historical theme or question. A description of the specific topic offered will be posted prior to the registration period. Students may take multiple versions of this course. Fall 2009
Sex and Power: Women in the Americas: This course examines how ordinary and extraordinary women in the U.S. and Latin America struggled to acquire political power and social recognition. We begin by asking how societies in the Americas defined women's roles in the nineteenth century and proceed to explore how women's movements unfolded in the twentieth century. Along the way, we will pay close attention to how race, class and ethnicity shaped how women have experienced their domestic and public lives. Throughout the course, we will think comparatively, assessing the differences and commonalities between women's experiences in Latin America and the U.S. Spring 2010
The Holocaust in History and in Memory: Course description not yet available. Fall 2010
1919 This course explores Cold War America from 1945 through 1956. A major focus of the course will be the so-called "Second Red Scare" which involved among others, Joseph McCarthy and the two most famous spy trials in American history, those of Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. In the process of exploring this topic, students will have an opportunity learn how historians work, and do a bit of detective work of their own. Spring 2011
Voyages and the Great Age of Sail: This course explores the men and women who made their living on the sea in nineteenth-century New England. We will consider whalers, ship's captains, lighthouse keepers, and the work of those in home ports. A major focus of this course will be on the family of Saco sea captain Tristam Jordan whose life at sea featured the excitement of world travel and the dangers of hurricanes, illness and tragedy. In the process of exploring this topic, students will create a museum exhibit on Captain Tristam Jordan's adventures in the great age of sail. The exhibit will be displayed at the Saco Museum and open to the public.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore historyical roots of contemporary issues such as trade rivalry, gender relations, ecological deterioration, globalization or selected cases of international conflict. Students will read a variety of sources that will help them develop the ability to raise historical questions when confronted with what appear to be unique or isolated contemporary phenomena or events.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced course for the in-depth, interdisciplinary study of a particular period, region, or theme of American culture. Topics to be determined by the teaching faculty.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the major revolutionary movements in Latin America during the twentieth century-particularly-but not exclusively-those movements that developed in Mexico (1910), Cuba (1959), Chile (1973) and Nicaragua (1979). This course asks what were the political, economic, and cultural forces at work that compelled ordinary people in these countries to rebel against their government and the status quo. We will begin by questioning the meaning, or meanings, of ¿revolution¿ in order to give us a theoretical framework for understanding our Latin American case studies. We will then proceed by discussing how each revolutionary movement unfolded, paying close attention to the causes that led people to mobilize, as well as to the declared objectives of revolutionaries and the revolutions¿ final results. We will ask who stood to benefit from revolutionary programs, and how everyday life changed for people once a push for revolutionary change took place. These questions will urge us to consider divisions within revolutionary movements, such as the differences between women and men, young and old, as well as divisions between those who formed a revolution¿s leadership and those who supported revolution through grassroots political activism. Along the way, students will be asked to think comparatively in order to assess how and why revolutionary strategies and outcomes in one country resembled or differed from those in another. Students who demonstrate responsibility, hard work, and curiosity will do fine in this course. I want you to do well, so please see me if you have any questions or concerns.
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3.00 Credits
From quasi-mythical kings to marital strife, the history of Britain between the construction of Stonehenge and the Glorious Revolution is one of excitement, warfare, intrigue, and perpetual, though often gradual, change. This course explores English history from earliest times to roughly 1688¿a period when England developed from a region of disparate tribes and divided kingdoms into a single unified and powerful state with global aspirations. The course pays particular attention to the development of parliament, the changing nature of religious faith, and the everyday lives of nobles and peasants alike.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to Irish History from the Plantation period to the so-called Celtic Tiger, touching upon a variety of major personalities and events that shaped the development of modern Ireland. In addition, the course explores the historical development of tourist Ireland, tracing the development of Irish landscape, culture, and history as presented to visitors. This course will sometimes conclude with a two-week trip to Ireland. On those occasions, registration is by permission of instructor only.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the relationship between political change and social movements in twentieth-century Latin America. Despite the diversity of cultures, economic systems and political systems, most nations in the region share certain political and social traditions. These include a sharply unequal distribution of wealth, a concentration of political power, authoritarian regimes, popular revolt, political instability, and the influence of foreign economic and political power. Special emphasis will be placed on Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the tumultuous political, social and economic history of Mexico beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth. Particular attention will be given to conflicts between indigenous people the European and creole elite, the role of European and US intervention in the evolution of modern Mexico.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2008:Women at Westbrook College: In its 175 year history, the Westbrook College Campus has educated numerous generations of young women. In this class, we will explore American women's history by studying the women who attended Westbrook College from its seminary days in the 1830s to its reinvention as a junior college in the early twentieth century. Using archival materials such as letters, diaries and scrapbooks in the College Archives and writings from the Maine Women Writers Collection, students will examine the curriculum, the social life and what career options existed -- and didn't -- for young women attending what is now UNE one hundred and more years ago.
Women in the Environment: This course is designed to take an in-depth look at the relationship between women and the environment. We will explore several themes, including how women relate to the natural world, the impact of various forces on women and the environment. Topics will be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
Throughout American history, inspired individuals have grouped together in an attempt to craft a new American society, a utopia to improve, or replace, institutions of the mainstream society of the day. Some groups- such as the Shakers-chose a celibate, communal life. Others- such as the Oneida Perfectionists- chose a lifestyle of multiple marriage partners. The Woman's Commonwealth was entirely female; the Koreshan Unity believed we inhabit the inside of a hollow sphere. By studying a variety of communal experiments from the late 18th century to present day, we'll gain insight into the social, economic, political, and other problems that challenged Americans in times both past and present and led some to attempt to create a better society.
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