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3.00 Credits
This course resumes the survey of US history, following forward from the Civil War-Reconstruction Era to the present. Major themes include: the dramatic rise and protracted decline of American industrial capitalism; military conflict from the Plains Indians Wars through the two World Wars, the Cold War, Vietnam, and up to Afghanistan and Iraq; the implementation of "Jim Crow" racial segregation in the South and its destruction with the Civil Rights movement; mass immigration and anti-immigrant politics; the struggle for women's equality; the rise and fall of the American labor movement; and the emergence of forms of mass culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the history of Europe from the violence and tumult of the "dual revolutions" - the French Revolution and the British Industrial Revolution - to the horror of the First World War. We will devote most of our attention to the historical experiences of people in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and we will look some at other European countries and regions, especially the Russian, Habsburg, and Ottoman Empire. Throughout the class we will examine issues that shaped European experience in the nineteenth century based on four key themes: revolution, nation- building, empire, and war. We will spend time reading about and discussing the nineteenth-century's major developments: industrialization, labor movements, ideologies such as liberalism and socialism, urbanization and technology, disease and epidemics, the emergence of mass culture and politics, and the expansion of European power across the globe.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates Europe as a series of nesting postwar orders. In the 20th century, Europeans seemed fated to living after one, or another, existential and catastrophic conflict: World War I, World War II and the Cold War. Each of these conflicts represented a series of inflection points pointing to contradictions in existing order-between labor and capital, empire and nation, state and society-as Europeans struggled to design, establish, and live in a modern good society. We will trace the development of these visions, dreams, and nightmares, and think through what it means to live after the fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of Atlantic systems and trans-Atlantic connections in the early modern and modern eras. Beginning with the exploration of the Atlantic Ocean starting in the fifteenth century, the course follows the development and impact of the various colonial systems that were established in the "New World" and discusses the legacies of the Atlantic colonial systems for both the "New World," Africa, and Europe.
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3.00 Credits
To borrow from Dostoevsky, Russia has always been beset by a series of "accursed questions" centered around its place in the world: What does it mean to be Russian? What is the good society in the Russian context? Is Russia "European" and "Western," or "Asian" and "Oriental"? To which Lenin added the question: "What is to be done?" This course is meant to introduce students to these questions-and questions of global citizenship and identity-through the lens of empire. The story of Russian development is a story of imperial conquest. This is true whether we are talking about the rise of Muscovy against the backdrop and patronage of the Golden Horde, or the development of the Soviet Union to global imperial pretentions. Russians imagined Russia in imperial contexts and have understood themselves primarily within imperial narratives. We will unpack these historical narratives as a means of investigating the interdependent nature of the global system and the consequences of this interdependence for local and global communities more broadly.
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3.00 Credits
"Never shall I forget." - Elie Wiesel, Night (1958) When Elie Wiesel wrote these words about the Holocaust in his memoir, Night, he gave testimony to the great-est episode of genocidal violence the world had yet seen so that it might never happen again. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the world community, supported by the United Nations, followed Wiesel's lead and created legal and judicial measures meant to "never again" allow such atrocities to occur. Since that time, scholars have used the term to describe a number of historical and contemporary acts of mass murder, from the conquest of the Americas by European explorers to the Cambodian killing fields. Unfortunately, the postwar period saw many more genocides than it prevented, and such atrocities have followed the world into the new millennium. This course examines the historical phenomenon of genocide over the course of the twentieth century. The course will cast a wide, global net and explore specific genocides in their political, social, and cultural contexts. The class will also look to the victims' experience, international responses to genocidal con-flict, and attempts to seek reconciliation after the fact.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of Britain's global relationships from the foundation of its empire, through the industrial age, to the crises of World War I and World War II and the rebuilding of British society thereafter. Key aspects of British history and culture will be the rise of Britain to industrial, imperial, and economic dominance in the nineteenth century; the crisis of population and power from 1900 through the 1950s due to European competition, imperial conflicts and war; and Britain's relationship with the growing European Union, the United Nations, and the United States.
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3.00 Credits
The course presents the historical development of sports and then examines how athletics and recreation have become an integral part of the contemporary human landscape. Emphasis is given to how sports is related to social, geographic, political, and economic circumstances. Topics such as the Olympics, the World Cup (soccer/football), and sports throughout the world reflect both globalization and devolution.
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3.00 Credits
The course presents an overview of the state's history; physical and cultural geography; government and political structure; and economic systems relevant to the Commonwealth's location and spatial relationships. Also, current issues and events in Pennsylvania will be examined. This course is open to all History majors and other students; it is required for a Secondary Education certifi cate in Citizenship Education.
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3.00 Credits
This class should build the basic skills and methods needed for the study of history. Topics will include library and archival research, historical writing, historiography and interpretation, use of various computer applications, and career opportunities for the history major. Students will complete a supervised research paper that will be count as the Sophomore- Junior Project. This course is normally taken in the fi rst semester of the sophomore year and is required of all History majors.
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