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3.00 Credits
A survey of American history from the eve of the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War. Topics covered include: the Revolution and its ambiguous legacies; the rise of democracy; the starkly paradoxical "marriage" of slavery and freedom; the creation of much of the America that we know; mass political parties; sustained capitalist growth; individualistic creeds; formalized and folkloric racism; technological innovation; literary experimentation; distinctively American legal, scientific, and religious cultures; and the modern movements of labor, feminism, and African-American empowerment.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of American history from 1848-1877, focusing on the Civil War and Reconstruction. The bloody conflict and its causes and consequences are explored from multiple perspectives: those of individuals such as Lincoln, McClellan, Davis, Douglass, and Lee, who made momentous choices of the era; of groups such as the Radical Republicans and the black freed people who helped shape the actions of individuals; and of the historians, novelists, filmmakers, and social movements that have struggled to define the war's legacy for modern America.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Europe's encounter with the newly discovered lands and peoples of Africa, Asia, and America through the writings of the travelers themselves. We read stories of exploration and conquest, cultural and commercial exchanges, religious visions, and cannibal practices.
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3.00 Credits
The rise of industrial America: the social conflicts, cultural shifts, political responses, and world status occasioned by industrial development in the United States, from Reconstruction to World War I. Key concerns include labor, race, and women's suffrage; popular culture; the bohemian avant garde; consumerism; progressive reform; imperialism and the impact of World War I.
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3.00 Credits
The Civil Rights Movement stands as one of the central stories of U.S. history. For many Americans, it signals an enduring struggle to create a more perfect union. This course covers the African-American Civil Rights Movement, broadly conceived, from the 1940s through the 1960s, and well beyond. The Civil Rights Movement was the most significant American social movement of the 20th century. It was also a religious, political, patriotic, and-perhaps most profoundly-a personal movement. This course explores the many facets of the Civil Rights Movement, noting how it involved a cast of actors much broader than Martin Luther King, Jr., and a set of goals much broader than ending the Jim Crow system. We use firsthand accounts, extensive documentary film footage, and new historical findings. We also study the opponents of the Civil Rights Movement and consider civil rights struggles outside of the traditional South, including Jim Crow-era St. Louis.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an intensive survey of U.S. history since World War I, concentrating on key turns in the development of American life: social and political strains of the 1920s as part of the "new era" commenced by the Great War; responses to the Great Depression and the construction of a limited welfare state in the 1930s and 1940s; the rise of Cold War anticommunism in foreign and domestic affairs in the wake of World War II; the advent of a new period of social reform and disruptive protest in the 1950s and 1960s; the turn toward the political right since the 1970s; and the aftermath of the Cold War.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents an assessment of the Cold War from the perspective of its major participants. Topics include: the origins of the Cold War in Europe and Asia; the Korean War; the Stalin regime; McCarthyism and the Red Scare; the nuclear arms race; the conflict over Berlin; Cold War film and literature; superpower rivalry in Guatemala, Cuba, Vietnam, Africa, and the Middle East; the rise and fall of detente; the Reagan years and the impact of Gorbechev; the East European Revolutions; and the end of the Cold War.
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3.00 Credits
Same as AMCS 3711
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3.00 Credits
Same as Art-Arch 3712
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3.00 Credits
At the founding of the American republic, new conceptions of human rights clashed with new forms of property rights created by commerce and industry. How have some Americans tried to use law to achieve "equal justice under law"-or, what is not always the same thing-"liberty" to advance their goals? How have "the people" called on the law to create and maintain order in their communities and at whose expense? What has been the relationship between legal change and advancements in science, technology, and medicine? Viewing law as the contested terrain of justice, cultural construction, social necessity, and self-interest, this course pays close attention to the way Americans have used, abused, or evaded law throughout their national history.
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