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3.00 Credits
This course explores the history, politics, and culture of Irish Americans from the colonial era to the near present.
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3.00 Credits
Few periods in American history have been as controversial as the 1960s. Sometimes called the "Long Sixties," it runs conceptually from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, and was a turbulent time. Concentrating on politics and society, this course explores the major personalities and events, including Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, the New Frontier, the Great Society, the Vietnam War, the breakdown of the liberal consensus, the rebirth of the conservative movement, and national movements led by youths, women, and African Americans. Although the emphasis is on the U.S., the course also visits several major international issues. There are two goals for students: acquiring knowledge about the period, and developing analytical tools to form their own judgments about it. Toward the first goal, students will encounter a combination of readings, videos, mini-lectures, and class discussions. Toward the second, they will be exposed to four different approaches: (1) discussing primary documents and writing a paper on some of them; (2) studying three small-scale case studies; (3) examining the large-scale phenomenon of protest; and (4) reading the memoirs of a Cabinet member, hence gaining an insider's view of the life and activities in the White House.
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3.00 Credits
The "Chicano Movement" for Mexican American civil rights grew in tandem with the main contours of the civil rights culture that developed in the United States during the 1960s. As such, this course seeks to place the movement alongside other national movements for social change including the African American civil rights movement, labor movement, counter-culture, and the anti-war movement. It will also be attentive to related efforts to build bridges between Latino populations (mainly Puerto Ricans) in American cities. As it emerged in the 1960s, the Chicano Movement challenged and maintained the ideological orientation of past efforts for Mexican American inclusion as it borrowed from the rich mix of social and cultural movements that defined the 1960s and early 1970s. This course will explore movement centers in California and Texas as well as a growing body of research on the civil and labor rights efforts in the Great Lakes, Pacific Northwest, and other Mexican ancestry communities across the United States as well as connections to Mexico and Cuba. This course will detail the key events and leadership of the movement as well as the art, music, and cultural production of one of the most important American civil rights movements of the post World War II era.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the history of African Americans, beginning with an examination of their West African origins and ending with the Civil War era. We will discuss the 14th and 15th centuries, West African kingdoms and cultures, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, early slave societies in the Caribbean, slavery in colonial America, the beginnings of African-American cultures in the North and South, slave resistance and rebellions, the political economy of slavery and resulting sectional disputes, and the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
In his campaign for re-election to the presidency in 1984, Ronald Reagan released a television commercial that began with the line, "It's morning in America again." The ad suggested the many ways in which President Reagan and the Republican Party were improving the economy and bringing optimism back to America. "Under the leadership of President Reagan," the commercial concluded, "our country is prouder and stronger and better." Reagan's campaigns for the nation's highest office stressed the themes of patriotism and individual responsibility, while his presidential administrations oversaw an economic agenda that privileged corporate America and wealth production and a foreign policy that justified extreme measures by citing the dangers posed by the Soviet Union and communism. The United States in the 1980s was dominated by the presidency and personality of Ronald Reagan. His aggressive economic and foreign policies influenced the major events of the decade, while his politics helped to shape the wider culture, a period often characterized as "the me decade" (and one Madonna called "a material world" in a hit song). In this course students will explore the 1980s and assess the conventional wisdom about Reagan and the decade he dominated. Were Americans too blinded by greed to confront the nation's social problems, or was there a serious debate going on about individual conscience and social responsibility? Students will debate these and other questions as they explore several of the major themes of 1980s America: the Cold War, the Christian Right, progressivism, conservatism, popular culture, and the media. In addition to probing political speeches, congressional testimony, the Reagan diaries, pop music, and sitcoms, students will also examine some of the new books by historians, who are just now beginning to come to grips with this pivotal recent time in American history. This course is open to all students; no previous knowledge of the topic is necessary.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the social, economic, intellectual, cultural, and political history of the early to mid-nineteenth-century United States through the prism of Abraham Lincoln's biography. Topics may include trans-Appalachian migration and settlement, U.S.-Native American relations, race and slavery, gender and family, market developments and labor relations, formal and informal politics, the law, and the promise and limits of studying history through singular lives.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores settler and Native American relations from contact until the end of the American War of 1812.
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3.00 Credits
"Sun, Sex & Fun" is how the global tourism industry often packages the Caribbean to its potential travelers. In this course we will unpack such simplistic representations of the region. Students will be introduced to the diverse experiences and cultures of the peoples that made up the Caribbean from colonization in the 15th century to slave emancipation in the 19th century. The four major themes that we will examine are indigenous peoples and European encounters; the laboring lives and the cultural worlds of enslaved Afro-Caribbean peoples; resistance and rebellion; abolition and emancipation. In this course we will watch films, use pictorial sources, slave narratives and diaries to capture the commonality of the experiences of the peoples of the Spanish, French, British and Dutch Caribbean.
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider the processes that have caused aspects of society to be racialized, or labeled with racial meanings, symbolisms, and/or identities. The class will focus on, but will not be limited to, "black" racialization. We will examine how racialization has shaped the human experience in the largest ex-slaveholding nations of the Americas - the United States and Brazil. Our goal is to understand the ways in which not only people are racialized, but also communities, geographical regions, nations, cultural production (such as music), behavior, labor, and gender, to name a few. With these two nations as our case studies, the class will explore the dynamic nature of racialization, focusing on the impact that space and time has had on the way we identify and live race.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the role of the presidency in the American regime and its change over time. Particular attention will be given to expectations about presidential leadership through the course of American political history. Beginning with questions about the original design and role of the presidency, the course turns to consideration of the role of leadership styles for change and continuity in American politics. Finally, cases of presidential leadership are studied to comprehend the way leadership and political context interact.
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