(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students
HIST 100a Fire and Ice: An Ecological Approach to World History
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A survey of world history through the past 10,000 years, with particular attention to the choices that people have made in relation to their changing environment.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Fischer
HIST 103a Roman History to 455 C.E.
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Survey of Roman history from the early republic through the decline of the empire. Covers the political history of the Roman state and the major social, economic, and religious changes of the period.
Usually offered every year.
Mr. Kapelle
HIST 110a The Civilization of the Early Middle Ages
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Survey of medieval history from the fall of Rome to the year 1000. Topics include the barbarian invasions, the Byzantine Empire, the Dark Ages, the Carolingian Empire, feudalism, manorialism, and the Vikings.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Kapelle
HIST 110b The Civilization of the High and Late Middle Ages
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Survey of European history from 1000 to 1450. Topics include the crusades, the birth of towns, the creation of kingdoms, the papacy, the peasantry, the universities, the Black Death, and the Hundred Years War.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Kapelle
HIST 112b The Crusades and the Expansion of Medieval Europe
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Survey of the relationships between Medieval Europe and neighboring cultures, beginning with the decline of Byzantium. Topics include a detailed look at the crusades, the Spanish reconquista, crusader kingdoms, economic growth, and the foundations of imperialism.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Kapelle
HIST 113a English Medieval History
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Survey of English history from the Anglo-Saxon invasions to the 15th century. Topics include the heroic age, the Viking invasions and development of the English kingdom from the Norman conquest through the Hundred Years War.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Kapelle
HIST 115a History of Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations
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This course may not be repeated for credit by students who have taken AAAS 116b in previous years
Explores and understands the origin and nature of racial and ethnic differences in the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Explores how theoreticians explain and account for differences and how race and ethnicity relate to economic class and social institutions.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Sundiata
HIST 116a History of West Africa
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Surveys the history of the ancestral land of most African-Americans from the rise of the great African empires through the period of the slave trade and colonialism. Traces the rise of African nationalism up to 1960.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Sundiata
HIST 120a Britain in the Later Middle Ages
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Exploration of the critical changes in government and society in the British Isles from the late 14th to 16th century. Topics include the Black Death, the lordship of Ireland, the Hundred Years War, the Scottish War of Independence, economic change, the Tudors, and Reformation.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Kapelle
HIST 123a The Renaissance
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Culture, society, and economy in the Italian city-state (with particular attention to Florence) from feudalism to the rise of the modern state.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Kapelle
HIST 123b Reformation Europe (1400-1600)
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Survey of Protestant and Catholic efforts to reform religion in the 15th and 16th centuries. Topics include scholastic theology, popular piety and anticlericalism, Luther's break with Rome, the rise of Calvinism, Henry VIII and the English Reformation, the Catholic resurgence, and the impact of reform efforts on the lives of common people.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Sreenivasan
HIST 126a Early Modern Europe (1500-1700)
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Survey of politics, ideas, and society in Western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The focus is on the changing relationship between the emerging modern state and its subjects. Topics include the development of ideologies of resistance and conformity, regional loyalties and the problems of empire, changing technologies of war and repression, and the social foundations of order and disorder.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Sreenivasan
HIST 127b Household and Family in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1300-1800)
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An examination of the fundamental building block of pre-modern European society. Topics include the demographic structures, economic foundations and governing ideologies that sustained the household, as well as the repercussions of failure or refusal to live according to "normal" forms.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Sreenivasan
HIST 130a The French Revolution
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The sources, content, and results of the French Revolution; its place in the broader context of the democratic revolution of the West. A study of the events and analysis of the elements involved.
Usually offered every second year.
Staff
HIST 132a European Thought and Culture: Marlowe to Mill
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Main themes and issues, modes and moods, in philosophy and the sciences, literature and the arts, from the skeptical crisis of the late 16th century to the Romantic upheaval of the early 19th.
Usually offered every year.
Mr. Binion
HIST 132b European Thought and Culture Since Darwin
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Main themes and issues, modes and moods, in philosophy and the sciences, literature and the arts, from mid-19th-century Realism to late 20th-century Unrealism.
Usually offered every year.
Mr. Binion
HIST 133b Rights & Revolutions: History of Natural Rights
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This course may not be repeated for credit by students who have taken HOID 127a in the spring of 2003
An examination of the doctrine of national rights, its significance in the contemporary world, its historical development, and its role in revolutionary politics. The English, and French Declarations of 1689, 1776, and 1789 will be compared and contrasted.
Usually offered every second or third year.
Mr. Hulliung
HIST 134a Nineteenth-Century Europe: From Revolution to National Unification (1789-1870)
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The demographic, economic, and French revolutions; Napoleonic imperium; instability and revolt in restoration Europe; romanticism; urbanization and industrialization; revolutions of 1848; national unification and ethnic politics; the "liberal era."
Usually offered every second year.
Staff
HIST 134b Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nationalism, Imperialism, Socialism (1850-1919)
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The world of nation-states; urbanization and mature industrial societies; science and culture; attacks on liberal civilization; socialism, collectivism, and imperialism; domestic tensions and world politics.
Usually offered every second year.
Staff
HIST 137a Evolution of the International System, 1815 to the Present
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The evolution of the modern international system from 1815 to the present. Focuses on the domestic bases of international strengths and changes in the balance of power from Napoleon to the end of the Cold War.
Usually offered every fourth year.
Staff
HIST 137b World War I
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Examines the opening global conflict of the 20th century. Topics include the destruction of the old European order, the origins of total war, the cultural and social crisis it provoked, and the long-term consequences for Europe and the world.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Jankowski
HIST 139b Fascism East and West
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A comparative analysis of dictatorship in Europe, Japan, and Latin America during the 20th century. Topical emphasis on the social origins, mass culture, and political organization of authoritarian regimes.
Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Kelikian
HIST 140a A History of Fashion in Europe
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Looks at costume, trade in garments, and clothing consumption in Europe from 1600 to 1950. Topics include sumptuous fashion, class and gender distinctions in wardrobe, and the rise of department stores.
Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Kelikian
HIST 141b Studies in British History: 1830 to the Present
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Topics include Victorian society and culture, Britain in the world economy, liberalism, socialism, and the rise of labor, democracy, and collectivism between the wars, labor in power, mass culture, the Thatcher Revolution.
Usually offered every second year.
Staff
HIST 142a Crime, Deviance, and Confinement in Modern Europe
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Examines the crisis of law and order in old regime states and explores the prison and asylum systems that emerged in modern Europe. Surveys psychiatry and forensic society from the Napoleonic period until World War II.
Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Kelikian
HIST 142b Europe since 1945
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Examines impact of the end of the Eurocentric world system, including the division of East from West Europe; the German question; the impact of decolonization; the involvement of the United States; the growth of the European community; and the collapse of communism.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Jankowski
HIST 145a War in European History
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Introduces students to the changing nature of war and warfare in European history since the Middle Ages. Explores the reciprocal influence of armies and societies and the ways in which wars reflect the cultures of the polities waging them.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Jankowski
HIST 145b Introduction to Modern France
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Explores French politics and society from 1789 to the present. Emphasis on the shocks from which it has had to recover, including revolutions, wars, and foreign occupation, the implantation of stable institutions, and the continuing role of intellectuals in French society.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Jankowski
HIST 146a Romantic Europe, 1789-1848
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Revolution and reaction; social ferment; religion, philosophy, and ideology; the arts and sciences; historicism and exoticism, heroism and populism, realism and reverie, vitality and languor, dreams and nightmares, in Europe's age of Romanticism. Lectures; common readings; individual research.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Binion
HIST 146b Hitler, Germany, and Europe
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Hitler's personality and politics in their German and European context, 1889-1945.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Binion
HIST 147a Imperial Russia
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Examines the processes and problems of modernization-state development, economic growth, social change, cultural achievements, and emergence of revolutionary and terrorist movements.
Usually offered every year.
Mr. Freeze
HIST 147b Twentieth-Century Russia
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Russian history from the 1905 revolution to the present day, with particular emphasis on the Revolution of 1917, Stalinism, culture, and the decline and fall of the USSR.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Freeze
HIST 148a Religion and Society in Modern Russia
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Examines the role of religion, institutional and popular, in the social, political, and cultural development of Russia from the 18th century to the present.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Freeze
HIST 148b Central Asia in Modern Times
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Surveys the modern history of Central Asia, emphasizing the 20th century and contemporary history; it gives particular attention to the processes of colonialization and modernization and their impact on the traditional social order and Islamic religious life.
Usually offered every year.
Mr. Freeze
HIST 150b Gettysburg: Its Context in the American Civil War
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Prerequisite HIST 153b is recommended. Consultation with instructor prior to registration is recommended.
The Battle of Gettysburg will be presented from the perspective of not only the military events that occurred in the summer of 1863, but also the causes and consequences of the battle. Thus, one aim is to address the drama and meaning of the larger conflict through an intense, but far-ranging, discussion of a pivotal event within it.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Hall
HIST 151b The American Revolution
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Explores the causes, character, and consequences of the American war for independence.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Fischer
HIST 152a The Literature of American History
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Readings and discussions on the classical literature of American history, the great books that have shaped our sense of the subject.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Fischer
HIST 152b Salem, 1692
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An in-depth investigation of the Salem witch trials of 1692 and their role in American culture during the last 300 years. Focusing on gender, religion, law, and psychology, the class explores primary sources as well as films, plays, and novels. Students will also conduct field research in Salem.
Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Kamensky
HIST 153a Americans at Home: Families and Domestic Environments, 1600 to the Present
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This survey of non public life in the United States explores the changing nature of families and the material environments that have shaped and reflected American domestic ideals during the last four centuries. Major topics include: gender roles and sexuality; production, reproduction, and material culture in the home; conceptions of the life course; racial, ethnic, and regional variations on the family; the evolution of "public" and "private" life; and the relationship between the family and the state.
Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Kamensky
HIST 153b Slavery and the American Civil War
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A survey of the history of slavery, the American South, the antislavery movement, the coming of the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Fischer
HIST 154b Women in American History, 1600-1865
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An introductory survey exploring the lives of women in Anglo- America from European settlement through the Civil War. Topics include: the "history of women's history"; the role of gender in Native American, African, and European cultures; women's religion, work, and sexuality; and the changing possibilities for female education and expression from the colonial period through the 19th century.
Usually offered every fourth year.
Ms. Kamensky
HIST 157a Americans at Work: American Labor History
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Throughout American history, the vast majority of adults (and many children too) have worked, although not always for pay. Beginning with the colonial period, we shall explore the idea that a job is never just a job, it is also a social signifier of great value. Topics include slavery and servitude, race and gender in the workplace, household labor and its meanings, technological innovation, working-class political movements, and the role of the state in shaping patterns of work.
Usually offered every fourth year.
Ms. Jones
HIST 158b Social History of the Confederate States of America
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An examination of the brief life of the southern Confederacy, emphasizing regional, racial, class, and gender conflicts within the would-be new nation.
Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Jones
HIST 159a Old South, New South, from Jim Crow to Katrina
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A survey of southern history from the Civil War to the present, emphasizing political and economic changes that were initiated by and shaped the lives of men and women, farners and factory workers, immigrants and native-born blacks, and whites.
Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Jones
HIST 160a American Legal History I
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Surveys American legal development from colonial settlement to the Civil War. Major issues include law as an instrument of revolution, capitalism and contract, invention of the police, family law, slavery law, and the Civil War as a constitutional crisis.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Willrich
HIST 160b American Legal History II
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Survey of American legal development from 1865 to the present. Major topics include constitutionalism and racial inequality, the legal response of industrialization, progressivism and the transformation of liberalism, the rise of the administrative state, and rights-based movements for social justice.
Usually offered every year.
Mr. Willrich
HIST 161b American Political History
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Development of American party politics, the legal system, and government. Special attention paid to the social and cultural determinants of party politics and economic and social policy making.
Usually offered every second year.
Staff
HIST 164a Recent American History since 1945
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American politics, economics, and culture underwent profound transformations in the late 20th century. Examines the period's turmoil, looking especially at origins and legacies. Readings include novels, memoirs, key political and social documents, and film and music excerpts.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Engerman
HIST 164b The American Century: The U.S. and the World, 1945 to the Present
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America's global role expanded dramatically in the aftermath of World War II. Explores key aspects of that new role, from the militarization of conflict with the Soviets to activities in the Third World.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Engerman
HIST 166b World War II
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Focuses on the American experience in World War II. From the 1920s to the early 1940s, totalitarian regimes were widely believed to be stronger than open societies. The outcome of World War II demonstrated the opposite. By combining the methods of the old military and political history with the new social, cultural, and economic history, examines history as a structured sequence of contingencies, in which people made choices and choices made a difference.
Usually offered every second.
Mr. Fischer
HIST 168b America in the Progressive Era: 1890-1920
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Surveys social and political history during the pivotal decades when America became a "modern" society and nation-state. Topics include populism, racial segregation, social science and public policy, the Roosevelt and Wilson administrations, environmental conservation, and the domestic impact of World War I.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Willrich
HIST 169a Thought and Culture in Modern America
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Developments in American philosophy, literature, art, and political theory examined in the context of socioeconomic change..
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Engerman
HIST 170a Italian Films, Italian Histories
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Explores the relationship between Italian history and Italian film from Unification to 1975. Topics include socialism, fascism, the deportation of Jews, the Resistance, the mafia, and the emergence of an American-style star fixation in the 1960s.
Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Kelikian
HIST 171b Latino/a History
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History of the different Latino groups in the United States from the 19th century when westward expansion incorporated Mexican populations through the 20th century waves of migration from Latin America. Explores the diversity of Latino experiences including identity, work, community, race, gender, and political activism.
Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Arrom
HIST 173b Latin American Women: Heroines, Icons, and History
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Graduate students who wish to take this course for credit must complete additional assignments
Explores Latin American women's history by focusing on female icons and heroines such as La Malinche, Sor Juana, Eva Peron, Carmen Miranda, and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Topics include conquest, mestizaje, religion, independence, tropical exoticism, dictatorship,a nd social movements.
Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Arrom
HIST 174a The Legacy of 1898: U.S.-Caribbean Relations since the Spanish-American War
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This seminar explores relations between the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic) and the United States during the 20th century. Topics include interventions, cultural misunderstandings, migration, transnationalism, and PUerto Rican status.
Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Arrom
HIST 176a The Emergence of Modern Japan
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A general introduction to Japan's modern transformation from a late feudal society into a powerful nation-state capable of challenging the Western powers. Particular attention is given to feudal legacies, rapid economic growth, nationalism and ultranationalism, the "Pacific War" between Japan and the United States, the meaning of defeat, issues of postwar democracy, and the workings of the postwar political economy.
Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lyman
HIST 177b Modern Germany: From Second Empire to Second Republic
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Offers a systematic examination of modern Germany from the establishment of the German Empire in 1871 to unification in 1990. Primary focus is political and social history.
Usually offered every second.
Staff
HIST 181a Seminar on Traditional Chinese Thought
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Social, historical, and political theory is one of China's greatest contributions to world civilization. Studies the most influential schools (Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, and Legalism) through the reading and discussion of original texts.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Schrecker
HIST 181b Red Flags/Black Flags: Marxism vs. Anarchism, 1845-1968
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From Marx's first major book in 1845 to the French upheavals of 1968, the history of left-wing politics and ideas. The struggles between Marxist orthodoxy and anarchist-inspired, left Marxist alternatives.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Hulliung
HIST 182a Sino-American Relations from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
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A seminar providing an historical overview of two centuries of Sino-American relations. Diplomacy and war, mutual perceptions, Americans in China, Chinese emigration and communities in the United States, and relations bewteen the United States and the People's Republic.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Schrecker
HIST 183b Community and Alienation: Social Theory from Hegel to Freud
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The rise of social theory understood as a response to the trauma of industrialization. Topics include Marx's concept of "alienation," Tonnies's distinction between "community" and "society," Durkheim's notion of "anomie," Weber's account of "disenchantment," and Nietzsche's repudiation of modernity.
Usually offered every fourth year.
Mr. Hulliung
HIST 186a Europe in World War II
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Examines the military and diplomatic, social and economic history of the war. Topics include war origins, allied diplomacy; the neutrals; war propaganda; occupation, resistance, and collaboration; the mass murder of the Jews; "peace feelers'; the war economies; scientific warfare and the development of nuclear weapons; and the origins of the Cold War.
Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Jankowski
HIST 186b War in Vietnam
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A reading and research seminar on the American involvement in Vietnam. Focuses on teaching the history of America's longest war, as well as improving the student's ability to write a research paper using source materials.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Schrecker
HIST 189a Topics in the History of Early America
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Reading and discussion seminar exploring problems in the history of British North America from the first white settlement through the mid-18th century.
Usually offered every third year.
Staff
HIST 189b Reading and Research in American History
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Advanced coordinated research from primary materials. Students will engage in a common project in American social history.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Fischer
HIST 191b Psychohistory
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The theory and practice of psychohistory from its beginnings as applied psychoanalysis through its emergence as an independent discipline to the main tendencies and controversies in the field today.
Usually offered every fourth year.
Mr. Binion
HIST 192b Romantic and Existentialist Political Thought
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Readings from Camus, Sartre, Beckett, etc. Examination and criticism of romantic and existentialist theories of politics.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Hulliung
HIST 195a American Political Thought: From the Revolution to the Civil War
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Antebellum America as seen in the writings of Paine, Jefferson, Adams, the Federalists and Antifederalists, the Federalists and Republicans, the Whigs and the Jacksonians, the advocates and opponents of slavery, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Hulliung
HIST 195b American Political Thought: From the Gilded Age through the New Deal
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Topics include the Mugwumps, Populists, Progressives, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the New Nationalism and the New Freedom, the continuities and discontinuities of the New Deal and the Progressive Era.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Hulliung
HIST 196a American Political Thought: From the 1950s to the Present
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Covers the New Left of the 1960s, its rejection of the outlook of the 1950s, the efforts of liberals to save the New Left agenda in the New Politics of the 1970s, and the reaction against the New Left in the neoconservative movement.
Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Hulliung