American History
American History
01:512:301 The American Revolution
- Academic Credits: 3
- Mode of Instruction: Lecture
Syllabus: pdf Fall 2022 (231 KB)
Syllabus Disclaimer: The information on this syllabus is subject to change. For up-to-date course information, please refer to the syllabus on your course site (Canvas, etc.) on the first day of class.
Course Description
The American Revolution continues to shape the way Americans think about government, rights, violence, and war, and the way the rest of the world thinks about the United States. This will become increasingly apparent as we approach the 250th anniversary of the event in 2025/2026. This course charts the creation of the American Republic from the French and Indian War to the formation of a new national government under the Constitution. We focus primarily on the Revolution itself: its causes, its larger Atlantic context, the way Patriots, the British and Hessians, Loyalists, and Native Americans fought it; and its consequences for the many peoples of America and the new United States.
01:512:302 The United States: The Young Republic (3)
- Academic Credits: 3
01:512:303 American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1880 (3)
- Academic Credits: 3
01:512:304 The Forging of Modern America, 1880-1920 (3)
- Academic Credits: 3
Political reform movements against the background of industrial development, urbanization, and immigration in the United States from 1880 to 1920.
01:512:305 U.S. History, 1914-1945
- Academic Credits: 3
- Mode of Instruction: Lecture
Syllabus: pdf Fall 2022 (190 KB) | Fall 2023
Syllabus Disclaimer: The information on this syllabus is subject to change. For up-to-date course information, please refer to the syllabus on your course site (Sakai, Canvas, etc.) on the first day of class.
Course Description
History is the understanding of the relationship of the past to the present, without which one can neither understand the present nor make any informed predictions about the future. This course will seek to encourage students, through readings, class lectures/discussions, films and video clips both to develop their analytical and critical skills and expand their knowledge of the content of U.S. history by looking at economic and social development and political and popular culture from the Progressive era to the end of World War II. You will study the two greatest wars in human history and the greatest world economic crisis in modern history as they affected the American people and the relationship of both the American people and the United States as a nation to the peoples and nations of the world.