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  • AMST 40302: United States 1900-1945

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    The purpose of this course is to study the political, diplomatic, economic, social, and cultural development of the United States from 1900 to 1945. The principal topics to be investigated will be the Progressive Period legislation of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, the causes and effects of World War I, the cultural developments of the 1920s, the causes of the Wall Street crash and Great Depression, the New Deal legislation of President Franklin Roosevelt, the diplomacy of the interwar period, and the home front during World War II.
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  • AMST 40303: Women in the U.S. South

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course introduces students to the historical study of women in the United States south. It will cover topics such as women in slavery, the transition freedom, race relations, and social movements. Through student-centered discussions, presentations, and a variety of different writing assignments, students will analyze how race, class, and gender structured the experiences of women in southern society. At the end of the semester students will be prepared to pursue more advanced research in the field of women's history. All are welcome.
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  • AMST 40307: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender in the United States to 1890

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Sexuality, like other areas of social life, has a history. Yet historians have only written about the history of sex for the last 40 years or so. This course will both introduce students to a variety of current themes in the history of sexuality and invite them to consider how they themselves might research and write that history. The class will survey recent topics in the history of sexuality from first colonial settlement to the end of the Victorian era. Issues we may consider include different religions' attitudes toward sexuality (the Puritans were not anti-sex!), how different cultures' views of sex shaped relations between colonists and Indians, why sex was an important factor in establishing laws about slavery in Virginia, birth control and abortion practices, changing patterns of courtship, men who loved men and women who loved women, and why the average number of children in American families fell by 50 percent between 1790 and 1890.
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  • AMST 40323: American Indian History

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course examines the complicated history of American Indian relations with the British North American colonies and the United States. Beginning with a brief survey of American Indian cultures, we will focus on relations along the moving frontier between the two peoples. Topics include mutual adaptation and exchange, invasion and resistance, environment and economics, and racism and ethnic identity. Covering almost half a millennium, the course will give roughly equal time to the four centuries that followed the first serious attempt at British colonization (1585). Almost two-thirds of the course will, therefore, deal with peoples east of the Mississippi River in the years before 1838.
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  • AMST 40324: U.S. and the Vietnam War

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course examines the participation of the United States in its "longest war" -- the conflict in Vietnam. The course is taught primarily from an "American" as opposed to a "Vietnamese" perspective. Broad topics to be covered include: Vietnamese background (land, people, history, culture); American political and diplomatic decision making; 1950-1975: How the war was fought; debating the war; the war at home; the aftermath of war; and lessons of the war. This is a lecture AND a discussion course. Attendance at BOTH is required. Approximately six books will be assigned.
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  • AMST 40326: African-American Resistance

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    An exploration of a series of cases of African-American resistance throughout US history.
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  • AMST 40327: Crime, Heredity, and Insanity in American History

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    The 19th century witnessed a transformation in the understanding of the origins of criminal behavior in the United States. For many, a religious emphasis on humankind as sinful gave way to a belief in its inherent goodness. But if humans were naturally good, how could their evil actions be explained? Drawing on studies done here and abroad, American doctors, preachers, and lawyers debated whether environment, heredity, or free will determined the actions of the criminal. By the early 20th century, lawyers and doctors had largely succeeded in medicalizing criminality. Psychiatrists treated criminals as patients; judges invoked hereditary eugenics in sentencing criminals. Science, not sin, had apparently become the preferred mode of explanation for the origins of crime. But was this a better explanation than what had come before? Discussion will be the primary form of instruction.
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  • AMST 40328: The History of Sport and the Cold War

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will explore the ways that sport reflected the political, ideological, social, economic and military struggle known as the Cold War. Sport permitted opportunities to defeat hated rivals or to develop competition more peacefully. It reflected the internal politics and societies in nations, and also illuminated relations among allies. Using a variety of readings, media accounts and film clips, this course will look at a number of crucial teams, athletes and events from the Cold War, including the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, the controversial 1972 Olympic basketball final, "ping pong diplomacy," Olympic boycotts, Martina Navratilova and other Eastern European tennis stars, East German figure skater Katarina Witt, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, the ferocious Soviet-Czechoslovakian hockey rivalry following the Soviet invasion of 1968, and more.
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  • AMST 40400: Constitutional Law

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course examines the main principles of American constitutional law, the process of constitutional interpretation, and the role of the Supreme Court in the American political system. Topics covered are presidential war powers, congressional-executive relations, free speech, church-state relations, the right to life (abortion, right to die, and death penalty), race and gender discrimination, and the American federal system. A good deal of attention is given to recent personnel changes on the Supreme Court and the extent to which these changes are reflected in the court's opinions. A background in American national government is desirable.
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  • AMST 40412: Schools and Democracy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Education sits high on the public policy agenda. We are living in an era of innovations in education policy, with heated discussion surrounding issues such as vouchers, charter schools, and the No Child Left Behind Act. This course introduces students to the arguments for and against these and other educational innovations, and does so through the lens of how schools affect the civic health of the nation. Often forgotten amidst debates over school choice and standardized testing is the fact that America's schools have a civic mandate to teach young people how to be engaged citizens. Students in this course will grapple with the civic implications of America's educational landscape, and have an opportunity to propose ways to improve the civic education provided to young people.
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