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3.00 Credits
The period of European colonization of North America was one in which people of diverse origins interacted,interactions that offer complex origin stories for the United States. Students will explore issues in the interpretation of the history of the Native Americans, the African diaspora, and settler societies in the 17th and 18th centuries. Prerequisite of HIS 3 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
Students will study the narrative of the war for American political-independence and the initial formation of the United States, and examine competing interpretations of the significance of these events. Through this study, students will consider problems in the nature of revolution, of identity-formation, and of nation-making. Prerequisite of HIS 3 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
America during Andrew Jackson's presidency has often been dubbed, "The Era of the Common Man," signaling the nation's shift from a republic to a democracy. Understanding the political transformation was a market revolution that altered every aspect of life and work for antebellum Americans. This course will study the spread of industrial capitalism and the rise of wage labor, the expansion of slavery, and political crises over the relationship between liberty and economic power. The first president to come from humble beginnings, Jackson gave expression to the anxieties spawned by growing inequities in wealth. Simultaneously, he was responsible for the largest expulsion of Indians east of the Mississippi and face one the earliest constitutional crises over slavery. The course will analyze the significance evangelical revivals, reform moments, that attempted to control drinking, gambling, sexual relations and health, and the most radical of all reforms abolitionism. Prerequisite of HIS 3 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
History of the South from its early settlements of the Civil War. This course will explore evolving notions of the South as a distinct region; the agricultural nature of the southern economy; the ways slavery shaped the lives of slaves, free blacks, slaveowners, yeomen, and women from all social groups; the growth of racism; the relationship between freedom and slavery; distinctive white southern ideas about gender, honor, and leisure. Prerequisite of HIS 3 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
The history of American society during the era its most cataclysmic event - the Civil War - and its boldest experiment in social change and civic equality- Reconstruction. The course will explore the social and political changes that led to war: the expansion of slavery in the South, the spread of industrial capitalism in the North; the emergence of ideologies of reform, abolitionism, and free labor, and the defense of slavery by the southern ideologues. We will analyze the political compromises over slavery that defined the American polity since the ratification of the Constitution, the failure of those compromises, and the crisis of secession. Will cover the military, political and social character of emancipation, and the legacy of Reconstruction. Prerequisite of HIS 3 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
The emergence of modern America from the end of Reconstruction through the First World War. Covers ears known as the "Gilded Age" and the "Progressive Era," the rise of corporate structures, large-scale industry, and the growing links between financial leaders and political figures. Will analyze the consequences of rapid industrialization and urbanization, immigration, the rise of eugenics, Jim Crow legislation, Populism, the labor movement, movements for suffrage, and the reach for empire. Prerequisite of HIS 4 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the dramatic changes and frustrating continuities in an era that spans the "Roaring Twenties," the Great Depression during the 1930s, and World War II, which paved the way for the emergence of the US as the most powerful nation in the world. Topics include the urbane culture of the 1920s, rise of modern organized crime, Republican Party dominance and downfall, FDR and the New Deal, women in society and politics, racial segregation, the "Golden Age of Hollywood" as a force in American culture, the consolidation of a modern consumer society and homefront experiences of World War II. Prerequisite of HIS 4 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
American history from the end of World War II to the present. Covers rise of domestic prosperity, unprecedented international power, and socialcultural ferment. Topics include the civil rights movement, the Cold War at home and abroad, the Vietnam War, modern feminism, the sexual revolution and the gay rights movement, the shift from Democratic to Republican Party dominance in American politics, the rise of the religious right, environmentalism, large-scale immigration from the boom mentality of the 1990s to the "War on Terror." Prerequisite of HIS 4 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a narrative and thematic examination of major events and trends in international relations history from the end of the Napoleonic era through the post-Cold War period and up to the present. Although much attention will be focused on traditional great power state-tostate relations, we will also examine other dimensions of modern/contemporary international relations as well, such as culture, economics, international organizations and non-state actors, ecology, immigration, and the role of technology. Prerequisite of HIS 4 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
The history of African Americans from the origins of slavery to the present. Will explore African- American slavery, experiences of blacks during Reconstruction, and the impact of what "redemption". Topics include: Jim Crow legislation, rise of the "New Negro," lynchings, anti-lynching campaigns, the "Great Migration," the Harlem Renaissance, African-American life during the depression and World War II, the Civil Rights movement, black nationalism, Black Power, and black urban politics. Will pay special attention to the myriad ways in which diasporic Africans have shaped American society, embedded in notions of "race," and the history of racism. Prerequisite of HIS 3 or 4 or the permission of the instructor is required.
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