HIST 343: History of the Mexican American
Survey from the 16th century to the present, with emphasis on social, political, and economic trends in their historical context.
Course Credits
3
United States History
HIST 335: Western America: Law and Order, 1785 – 1915
History of law and order in western North America in the context of the political, economic, environmental, social, and cultural history during the long nineteenth century, from the Land Ordinance of 1785 to the war between capital and labor.
Course Credits
3
HIST 332: Vietnam and the Cold War
Causes and effects of America's longest war in light of global U.S.-Soviet rivalry and Asian nationalism.
Course Credits
3
HIST 315: United States Military History
Survey of American wars from colonial times to the present; military institutions, doctrine, application of the principles of war, campaign strategies and tactics, technology, and leadership.
Course Credits
3
HIST 302U: Creating a Digital Past
Students will be introduced to archival materials such as vintage photographs, newspapers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, maps, plans, oral histories, government papers, minutes and publications of organizations, as well as methodological frameworks for the assessment and analysis of these materials. Students will collaborate on specific projects making use of both textual and visual source material to explore a particular question about the past. Students will create a final narrative that is digital in format, such as a website, a documentary, an app, or a podcast. At the end of the semester, students will present these stories as part of a symposium, with an audience invited from the larger community. Projects will be archived under the curatorial auspices of the Department of History.
Course Credits
3
HIST 280: Sports and Ethnic America, 1900 – Present
This course will examine how sports and leisure culture reveal popular ‘notions’ or stereotypes and cultural assumptions about race, ethnicity, class, and gender in twentieth and twenty-first century America. In addition to examining how athletic competitions served as a microcosm for social conflicts and change, we will evaluate how team spirit and individual sporting triumphs overcame or ameliorated social divisions and boundaries of exclusion. This course will pursue a thematic approach following a loose chronological order including, but not limited to: Sports and popular culture, Japanese internment and World War II, segregation and integration, Cold War nationalism and race, immigration and Americanization pressures, sexuality, homophobia and HIV/AIDS. Title IX and sexism, the commodification of children, America’s ‘melting pot’ theme and national pride, and Indian mascot controversies.
Course Credits
3
HIST 254: History of Women in the United States 1890 to Present
Survey of diverse groups of women throughout colonial America and United States and their influence upon tribes, race, empire, politics, labor, economies, and society, 1890 to the present.
Course Credits
3
HIST 253: History of Women in the United States: Colonial America to 1890
Survey of U.S. women from early Native-American/European contact through 1890. This course introduces students to a social history of diverse groups of women focusing on their legal, economic, political, sexual, and reproductive lives.
Course Credits
3
HIST 247: Nature and Technology in U.S. History
This course explores the development of technology and concepts of nature in the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present. It interprets the historical roots of the relationship between human knowledge and the environment by examining how science and technology have shaped our understanding, use, and control of nature.
Course Credits
3
HIST 246: History of American Capitalism
This course provides a long-term historical perspective on the origins and development of American capitalism, combining three interrelated thematic fields in U.S. history: economic history, business history, and labor history.
Course Credits
3