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3.00 Credits
This course will weave together the history of legal and constitutional thought with the history of law’s part in social and political change and in everyday life. It will consider a wide variety of texts and events but will concentrate on: colonial antecedents; revolution and constitution making; the golden age of American law; courts and the rise of industrial capitalism; Black slavery and freedom; achievements and limits of liberal legal reform; the experience of women’s labor and civil rights movements; and legal realism and the rise of the administrative state.
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3.00 Credits
This course searches for the mind and heart of America by studying the development of American thought, mythology and attitudes from 1870 to the present. It will examine Victorianism and then its counter culture as seen in pragmatism, political liberalism and the cult of science. Twentieth century Modernism will be analyzed and presented in detail with its influence on the social, cultural, economic, political, literary and religious life of the nation. Special emphasis will be placed on examining how art and architecture reflect American thought and value. This changing American mind will also be studies through reading classic American novels.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the social, cultural, economic and political consequences of European colonization of North America from 1492 to 1763. Placed within the context of the greater Atlantic world, it will emphasize the interactions of competing European cultures with one another as well as the Native Americans and Africans. In addition to the struggles between European powers for imperial control of North America, we will explore themes and events such as the development of race-based slavery, the “Columbian exchange,”expansion, Native American resistance, ethnic diversity, the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the history of the United States from the Peace of Paris of 1763 through the election of 1800. The course will focus on such topics as the causes of the Revolution, its impact on women, blacks and Native Americans, social protest, diplomacy with Britain and France, the rise of the first party system, and early national society and culture. Readings, research and discussion.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of society and culture from the Jeffersonian era through the Mexican War. The course will examine the causes of the War of 1812, the rise of the industrial order and the cotton kingdom, slave resistance, the changing American family and the nature of Jacksonian democracy and reform. Readings, research and discussion.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the causes of the conflict and the impact of the war on civilian populations, women and African-Americans. The course will also focus on diplomacy, civil liberties, the rise of the third party system, the crucial battles and the failure of Reconstruction. Readings, research and discussion.
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3.00 Credits
Industrialization, immigration and the rise of labor. The growth of the Populist Party, social reform movements and modern American mass culture. Imperialism, Women’s Suffrage and Progressivism. Southern demagogues and African-American response. U.S. involvement in World War I and the rejection of the Versailles Treaty.
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3.00 Credits
Republican ascendancy of the 1920s, nativism and racism in the 1920s, flappers and Fundamentalists in the 1920s, causes and effects of the Great Depression, FDR and the New Deal, New Deal critics on the right and left, popular culture in the 1930s, U.S. isolationism in the 1930s, W.W. II in Europe and the Pacific, mobilization for war, status of women and minorities during W.W. II, May-August 1945.
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3.00 Credits
Genesis of the Cold War, the Red Scare at home, popular culture in the 1950s, the ’50s and civil rights, JFK and the New Frontier, 1963: Birmingham, DC, and Dallas, the 1964 election, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the counter culture and the student movement, 1968, Viet Nam and the fall of LBJ, Richard Nixon: foreign policy, revenue sharing, and Watergate, the women’s movement of the 1970s, Jimmy Carter and the national malaise, the Reagan revolution, Reaganomics, the yuppie factor, Iran Contra, George Bush and beyond.
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3.00 Credits
Will examine peaceful Latin American social change movements in historical and global context. The civil components of violent revolutions will be examined along with peaceful social movements that confronted ruthless dictatorships across Latin America, energizing democracy and expanding ethnic rights. The course will look at how these movements redefined gender roles and placed the economic and environmental concerns of the poor in the international spotlight.
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