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HIST 241 Civlizations of Asia (3)
MWF 1130-1220p Wang, Wensheng
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REQUIREMENTS: TBA
REQUIRED TEXTS: TBA
HIST 281 Introduction to American History (3)
TR 0130-0245p Kraft, James
CONTENT: This course offers a broad survey of major patterns and trends in American history from colonial times to 1865. It addresses a host of important questions about the nation’s past. It asks, for example, how slavery could have arisen in a place where people were dedicated to principles of human liberty and dignity, and how a strong national government could have emerged at a time when so many people believed in the sovereignty of individual states. The course also asks questions about the working class protests, social reform movements, the Civil War, and more.
REQUIREMENTS: Class attendance, one in-class midterm exam, one essay project, non-comprehensive final exam. Optional short paper.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Boller & Story, A More Perfect Union: Documents in U.S. History, Vol. 1, 6th ed.; Shaara, The Killer Angels; Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, Vol. 1, 6th ed.; Wilson, Forging the American Character, Vol. 1, 4th ed.
HIST 282 Introduction to American History (3)
MWF 0130-0220p Daniel, Marcus
CONTENT: This course is an introduction to the history of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the end of the war in Vietnam. In just over a hundred years, a nation consisting largely of small towns and agricultural production, where men and women aspired to a life of independent labor on the land, was transformed into the world’s greatest industrial power, sustained by a society of wage-earners. At the same time a political and social order controlled and governed almost exclusively by white men was transformed into a multi-racial democracy acknowledging in principle, if not necessarily redeeming in practice, the democratic rights of all its citizens. None of these changes were smooth or uncontested, and Americans often disagreed profoundly about the direction their country should take. Conflict was as common as consensus, and it was this social and political conflict that shaped American life. This course will trace the most significant of these conflicts, and through them explore divergent and changing visions of national identity and political citizenship. How did different social groups define what it meant to be an American? How did these definitions change over time? Above all, I hope you will get some understanding of the way ordinary Americans responded to, coped with, and helped to create their own future and our past.
REQUIREMENTS: To be announced in class.
REQUIRED TEXTS: TBA
HIST 284 History of the Hawaiian Islands (3)
MWF 0930-1020a Arista, Noelani
CONTENT: TBA
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REQUIRED TEXTS: TBA