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Through a study of America's wars from the 17th century to Vietnam, this course examines the role of the military in a democratic society and its effects on our nation's political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental institutions.Students analyze the changing nature of warfare through strategy and tactics, logistics, technology and weaponry and investigate geopolitics, the military-industrial complex, wars of national liberation, and counterinsurgency.Formerly HI 354.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course investigates the origins of World War II from the failures of the World War I peace settlements, the League of Nations, and collective security to the eruption of war in Europe and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.The course examines important diplomacy of the wartime alliance; the major theaters of war; the military campaigns of Europe, Russia, North Africa and the Mediterranean, Asia, and the Pacific; use of the atomic bomb; and failure to make a satisfactory peace.Formerly HI 355.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course explores the history of working people's lives and social movements in the U.S.from the pre-industrial era, through the Industrial Revolution, to today's "post-industrial" society.This is not an Industrial Relations course.We look at three broad areas of historical change: 1) work itself; 2) the making and re-making of the American working class; and 3) the definitions of social justice that working people constructed for themselves and that informed their social movements.Our goal is to understand how and why the "Labor Question" was at the heart of American reform movements in the 19th and 20th centuries.Special attention will be given to the experiences of women, African Americans, and other racial and ethnic g roups.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirem ent. (Prerequisite: HI 30).Three cred
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After a broad survey of prehistoric Indian cultures in North America as they existed before contact with Europeans, this course focuses upon European contact and its effects on Native-American culture.The course explores the Native American's role in the colonial period of eastern North American history and the ways in which Native American societies west of the Mississippi River responded to U.S.expansion in the 19th century and to that of the Spanish earlier.The evolution of federal Indian policy from the American Revolution to the late 20th century is a major topic .This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Using topical, geographic, and critical approaches, this course examines the interaction of the United States and Western Europe with the rest of the world in the 20th century, giving considerable attention to non-Western perspectives such as those of Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Arab world, Russia, and Eastern Europe.The course includes an introduction to the history of U.S.foreign relations, international organizations, social change in the developing world, and world systems theory.Three credits.
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This course examines the role that Africans played in the building of America after their forced migration to these shores.It emphasizes the rise of the plantation system, the cultural transformation of Africans into African-Americans, and the essential roles that slaves and slavery played in the emergence of the United States as an independent nation and its political and economic consolidation into a modern nation-state.Slaves and free blacks figure in this history, not just as tools and backdrop, but as social and political actors, rebels, and major builders of American civilization. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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At the intersection of race, gender, and class, African-American women often challenged the codification of blackness and femaleness as well as a limited conception of class consciousness.From the diaspora to the present, they created forms of resistance, devised survival strategies, and transmitted cultural knowledge while defying racial/gender stereotypes.The multiple roles assumed by African-American women during their struggle from slaves to citizens in the United States represent a complex study of the relational nature of difference and identity.This course focuses on African-American women as subjects and agents of pivotal importance within the family, community, and labor force. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the role people of African descent played as freed people and free people during Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the 20th century.It emphasizes the Southern origins of African America, the politics and economic activism of common people, and the recurring theme of struggle against racial injustice. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course, an intermediate (second core) history course, surveys the history of global humanitarian action in the face of famine, war, plague, n natural disaster, refugees and other crises, since the middle of the nineteenth century.We will focus on intervention by European powers, the United States, the international community, and non-governmental actors.Special focus in case studies will be on 20th century war, famine, and genocide.Each student will research a case study with a focus on potential points of life-saving intervention.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This core history course explores the extraordinary story of accommodation, resistance, and oppression in Central and Eastern European societies during the second half of the 20th century and the crucial role that cultural and intellectual forces played from the period of fascist and wartime occupation, through the communist period to the overthrow of communism and the development of new societies in the period 1985 to the present.The course interweaves film from Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and Hungary, historical texts and documents, and memoirs and writings of key dissident intellectuals, such as Vaclav Havel.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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