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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An exploration of early American society from settlement through the mid-eighteenth century. Topics include the convergence of Native American, European, and African cultures; the origins of slavery; religious diversity; and the growth and development of the colonies.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. An analysis of the political, social, and cultural movements that led to the American revolution and the formation of the Republic. Topics include crowd activity, imperial conflict, and the creation of the constitution.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Analyzes social, economic, political, and intellectual forces that transformed the United States from a fledgling preindustrial nation into a sprawling, exuberant, capitalist society. Topics include industrialism, capitalism, Christianity, democratic politics, slavery and racial structures, abolitionism, and American radicalism and nationalism.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. An investigation of slavery in the antebellum South. Topics include: the emergence of the self-conscious South, the romanticized plantation, American historians and slavery, etc.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. An analysis of the American Civil War. Topics will include: Slavery as a cause of the war, the impact of emancipation and of the war on both North and South.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Major leaders and events of post-Civil War America, with emphasis upon Reconstruction, racial and political conflict, industrial growth, and other historical developments that helped shape the modern South and the expanding nation.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An analysis of political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the United States between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of World War I.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Topics include the emergence of the United States as a global power, the second industrial revolution, the development of a consumer culture, and the creation of a regulatory state.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Topics include the Cold War, the political and cultural consequences of post-World War II affluence, the social movements of the 1960s, Vietnam, and the conservative resurgence of the 1970s and 1980s.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; online discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. The rise of contemporary liberal culture in the United States and the conservative challenge to it, from the crisis of 1893 to the 1970s, emphasizing the contributions of Herbert Croly, John Dewey, Robert Oppenheimer, and Reinhold Niebuhr.
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