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3.00 Credits
F. Dudden This course examines the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1830 to 1877. It treats the causes, course, and consequences of the war, considering political, military, and social issues.
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Staff For more than two centuries, no region has loomed larger in the American imagination than the West. From the writings of Thomas Jefferson to the speeches of Ronald Reagan, from dime novels to Hollywood films, American's political and cultural landscape is littered with the iconic figures of the American West: cowboys and Indians, 49ers, and pioneers. At the same time, textbooks have often portrayed the West as a region that had little to do with the most important developments in U.S. history: urbanization and the rise of industrial capitalism, the working out of race and labor relations, and the growth of the federal government. This course challenges those views by considering the history of that part of North America that eventually became the U.S. West. Students explore both the myth of the frontier and the reality of the region from the days of conquest and colonization through the late 20th century.
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Staff This course explores the impact of the Great Depression and World War II on the United States. America's collective response to these two great crises reshaped the nation's politics and society, establishing patterns the U.S. would follow for more than four decades. In the years 1929 to 1945 can be found the roots of big government and the welfare state, the coalescence of the "New Deal" coalition, the origins of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the U.S. on the international stage. The public works projects of the New Deal produced much of the physical infrastructure of modern America, while the depression and war transformed regions like the South and West. The period also foreshadowed trends that mark our own times, including the movement of married, middle-class women into the workforce. Students read historical interpretations of the period and evaluate those interpretations using speeches, letters, articles, cartoons, photographs, films, radio programs, and other materials produced at the time, as well as oral histories
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3.00 Credits
A. Barrera The events initiated after Columbus' accidental arrival to the New World in 1492 shaped the world in which we live today. This course explores the formation of the Atlantic communities as the result of the interactions between European, African, and Native American peoples as well as the circulation of diseases, natural products, labor systems, imperial designs, economic policies, and frontier zones in the Atlantic world. Many of the consequences of this process of interaction were unintended. Students explore such topics as the configuration of European, African, and Native American societies before the contact and the configuration of new communities in the New World; the slave trade and the establishment of the plantation complex from Brazil to South Carolina; the spread of Christianity in the New World; the development of scientific practices at the service of imperial and national states; the establishment of labor systems; and the different strategies of accommodation, resistance, and rebellion of the different actors trying to find/protect their place in the Atlantic world. This course intends to provide a regional framework for the study of colonial societies in the western hemisphere as well as for the study of emerging empires and states in Europe.
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3.00 Credits
F. Dudden, J. Harsin, C. Stevens A comparative and cross-cultural approach to modern women's history, from the Enlightenment to the present. The course considers common elements of women's experience in modern history, including changes in fertility and sexuality, increasing educational attainment, transformations in economic roles, and new access to political power. Students explore the importance of women's own agency, or resistance to oppression, in bringing about and/or exploiting these changes; and they assess the diversity of women's identities as conditioned, for example, by class, race, or ethnicity. The course emphasizes the particular history of different nations or regions depending on the instructor, but it always involves students learning to work within a comparative framework
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3.00 Credits
A. Rotter U.S. foreign relations from the entry into the Great War to the present. Topics include the unquiet "normalcy" of the 1920s, origins of U.S. participation in the Second World War, the atomic bombs, the Cold War, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, arms control, the end of the Cold War, and the new world of terrorism and conflict.
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3.00 Credits
A. Rotter The origins, progress, and consequences of the U.S. war in Vietnam. The course opens with a chronological overview of the war and U.S. decision making, then examines several key interpretations of American intervention, explores special topics on the war (including antiwar protests), and concludes with a look at the legacy of the war.
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3.00 Credits
C. Banner-Haley This course surveys the presence of African Americans in the United States and their struggle for freedom under the concept of democracy. The course examines African origins, the Middle Passage, the creation of an African American culture in slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the growth of black communities in the face of hostility, the African American impact on American culture, the Civil Rights movement, and the continuing struggle by African Americans to make democracy real.
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3.00 Credits
D. Bouk This course investigates the place of the natural world in American history, drawing on episodes ranging from the Columbian encounter up to today. It engages both with the impact of Americans on their environment and with the degree to which aspects of that environment have shaped human history in turn. Throughout the course, students explore the ways in which various Americans have understood their relationship to nature over the last 500 years. They also apply the methods of environmental history to their own investigation of a particular American place.
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3.00 Credits
B.L. Moore This course surveys Caribbean history from European conquest and colonization to political independence. It introduces students to the salient features of the region's history from the initial contact between European settlers and the indigenous peoples; through the rise of plantations and African slavery, the struggles for freedom, post-slavery social and economic developments; to the rise of nationalism leading to political self-determination, and the new American imperialism. This course is crosslisted as ALST 228.
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