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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to major themes in the history of the emergence of modern American society and government. It covers 1877-1920, paying particular attention to such crucial post-Civil War developments as the modern business corporation and changing labor conditions; the transformative effects of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and internal migration; the unsettling of traditional gender and racial arrangements; the origins of modern democracy and liberalism in labor organization, Populism and Progressivism; and U.S. participation in global politics through its colonial ventures and World War I.
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This course offers a broad overview of American capitalism from colonial times up to the present. It introduces students to the economic transformation of America from a rural colonial outpost of the British Empire to the largest industrially developed economic power in the world. The course will consider the political, social, geographical, legal, moral, environmental, technological, and cultural dimensions of economic life--all together attempting to provide a total picture of the historical characteristics and dynamics of American capitalism.
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To provide a framework for interpreting the course of United States foreign relations from the 1890s to the present. The course examines not only the international context but also the domestic factors--political, economic, and social--that shaped America's role in world affairs.
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This course offers an opportunity to explore the social and cultural meanings of legal texts. The focus is on methodology: on how to locate cases, statutes, treatises, trial records, and legal lives in their historical contexts, and on the differing ways historians have used legal texts as historical artifacts. In the course of this course, students will be exposed to a number of differing and contending perspectives on American legal history. It should offer students an opportunity to think broadly about the role of law in the wider culture and to try their hand at doing legal history.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the major themes, critical questions,and pivotal moments in African American history since emancipation. It traces the social, political, cultural, intellectual, and legal contours of he black experience in the United States from Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, through the World Wars, Depression, and the Great Migrations, to the long civil rights era and the contemporary period of racial politics. Using a wide variety of texts, images, and creative works, the course situates African American history within broader national and international contexts.
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From the colonial era to the present, this course weaves together a comprehensive history of American cities and suburbs, cutting across social life, politics, economics, culture, and the built environment. Topics include urban planning and design, public and private spaces, social experience, urban investment and disinvestment, the metropolitan economy, politics and policy, arts and culture, city leadership, and the participation of ordinary people in shaping urban and suburban life.
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From "Chinese opium" to Oxycontin, and from cocaine and "crack" to BiDil, drug controversies reflect enduring debates about the role of medicine, the law, the policing of ethnic identity, and racial difference. This course explores the history of controversial substances (prescription medicines, over-the-counter products, black market substances, psychoactive drugs), and how, from cigarettes to alcohol and opium, they become vehicles for heated debates over immigration, identity, cultural and biological difference, criminal character, the line between legality and illegality, and the boundaries of the normal and the pathological.
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This course covers key concepts and developments in the history of medicine from Ancient times to the present. We will explore ideas of health and disease in Antiquity, the rise of anatomy and dissection in the Renaissance, the fight against germs in the nineteenth century, and modern practices of health, life and death. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which changing medical views and practices were sustained by contemporary experience of the body. What did it mean to fall ill and get better? How did people understand their relationship to the environment? How could one prevent sickness by living a healthy life?
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The Junior Seminar serves to introduce departmental majors to the tools, methods, and interpretations employed in historical research and writing. This course is compulsory for departmental majors and is taken in the fall of the junior year. Students may choose from a range of topics. Seminar topics will tend to be cross-national and comparative.
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The interrelationship of war and society from the 18th century to the nuclear age. Emphasis on the causes, conduct, and consequences of war. Particular attention is given to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, World War I, and World War II.
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