This course explores the history and social meaning of medicine, medical practice, health care, and disease in the United States from 1600 to the present.

This course explores the history and social meaning of medicine, medical practice, health care, and disease in the United States from 1600 to the present.

This course provides history majors with an introduction to the philosophy of history, historical methodology, and general schools of historiography. We will consider how historians inside and outside the academy pose questions, and how they find, select, evaluate, interpret, and analyze evidence in order to propose answers to those questions. Finally, we will reflect as well upon questions about the purposes and goals of both studying and writing history.

In 2020, Massachusetts will commemorate the landing of the Mayflower in 1620, framing it as an event of local, national and even global significance. The first part of the course will contextualize the events of 1620, starting with the deep history of Patuxet (the Wampanoag name for the place that became Plymouth) and Indigenous peoples in New England before contact; continuing to the European histories that launched the Mayflower and its passengers; and examining consequent events through the seventeenth century.

Explores the relationship of women to the social, cultural, economic and political developments shaping American society from 1890 to the present. Examines women's paid and unpaid labor, family life and sexuality, feminist movements and women's consciousness; emphasis on how class, race, ethnicity, and sexual choice have affected women's historical experience. Sophomore level and above. (Gen.Ed. HS, DU)

Why have poverty and inequality proven so persistent in modern Latin American history? What strategies have people proposed to deal with these problems, and with what consequences?

Why have poverty and inequality proven so persistent in modern Latin American history? What strategies have people proposed to deal with these problems, and with what consequences?

Why have poverty and inequality proven so persistent in modern Latin American history? What strategies have people proposed to deal with these problems, and with what consequences?