HIST 1015 - American History to 1865
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Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2024
Examines American history from pre-Columbian times to the Civil War, including ancient cultures, exploration, colonization, Native American responses, the rise of race slavery, the American Revolution, political developments, Anglo-American expansion, slave life and culture, the market revolution, industrialization, reform and disunion. Introduces students to history as a dynamic discipline that shapes our understanding of the past and present. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: general or U.S. history.
HIST 2476 - United States Legal History
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Spring 2022
Surveys U.S. legal history from the founding era to today. It covers legal ideas that shaped the drafting of the Constitution and examines the pressures that tested that founding document through the present. It addresses legal debates in contexts of territorial expansion, industrial development, financial crisis, shifting demographics, and both civil and world war. It considers how slavery, civil rights, race, regulation, economic expansion, privacy, and equality contributed to various understandings of citizenship.
HIST 3020 - Historical Thinking & Writing
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Fall 2020
The second cornerstone course for history majors centers on the essential skills all historians use. Students will advance their reading, sourcing, and research techniques, hone critical, analytical, and synthetic skills, navigate scholarly discourse, and practice historical writing. As this simultaneously satisfies the College's upper-division writing requirement, all sections involve substantial, regular, and varied writing assignments as well as instruction in methods and the revision process. All topical variations of this course are limited to a maximum of 18 students in order to focus on supporting students as they learn to write - and think - like an historian. Topics will vary by section. Recommended for sophomores or juniors, HIST 3020 may be taken concurrently with, but not prior to, HIST 1800. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
HIST 4215 - The Revolutionary War and the Making of the American Republic, 1775-1801
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Fall 2019
Investigates the Revolutionary War and its impact on the creation of American political institutions, as well as its cultural, social and economic effects, from the Battles of Lexington and Concord through the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. Same as HIST 5215.
HIST 4776 - History and Genealogy in American Society
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2024
Introduces students to the uses and cultural importance of family history in American society and to the techniques of doing genealogy. It examines the subject of genealogy through its relationship to nostalgia, ethnicity, regionalism, slavery, race, sexuality, immigration, and national identity between the colonial period and the present. The course also requires students to engage in primary research on their own family or a family of their choosing.
HIST 4806 - Special Topics in American History
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Spring 2020 / Fall 2022
Focuses on special topics in U.S. history to provide a novel thematic, comparative, or methodological focus that cuts across usual geographical and temporal ranges within American history. Topics vary each semester. Students will engage in focused historical learning and research that spans across geographical and temporal ranges within American history. Topics may include: the History Animals in the American West, Slavery along the Atlantic Rim, Presidential Power in the Twentieth Century, the History of American Football, Immigration and Migration in the American Past, etc...
HIST 5106 - Graduate Colloquium in United States History
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2022
Students gain an acquaintance with major works in the field and discuss current issues of interpretation and methodology. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
HIST 6950 - Master's Thesis
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Fall 2024
Registration intended for students working on a master's thesis.
