This course examines the assertion of US power from the conquest of the Philippines to the "global war on terror." What are the causes and consequences of America's cultural, political, military, and economic empires? Has the US been a force for democracy and freedom, as its leaders have claimed, or has it more often acted in opposition to self-determination and human rights?

This course examines the assertion of US power from the conquest of the Philippines to the "global war on terror." What are the causes and consequences of America's cultural, political, military, and economic empires? Has the US been a force for democracy and freedom, as its leaders have claimed, or has it more often acted in opposition to self-determination and human rights?

This course examines the assertion of US power from the conquest of the Philippines to the "global war on terror." What are the causes and consequences of America's cultural, political, military, and economic empires? Has the US been a force for democracy and freedom, as its leaders have claimed, or has it more often acted in opposition to self-determination and human rights?

A survey of American social, cultural, and intellectual history from 1630 to the Civil War. Subjects include Puritanism, religious revivals, republicanism, and such reform movements as anti-slavery, phrenology, and sexual hygiene. Emphasis on close reading of primary sources: sermons, poems, essays, and fiction (e.g., Uncle Tom's Cabin). HISTORY 150 or the equivalent useful. (Gen.Ed. HS)

A survey of American social, cultural, and intellectual history from 1630 to the Civil War. Subjects include Puritanism, religious revivals, republicanism, and such reform movements as anti-slavery, phrenology, and sexual hygiene. Emphasis on close reading of primary sources: sermons, poems, essays, and fiction (e.g., Uncle Tom's Cabin). HISTORY 150 or the equivalent useful. (Gen.Ed. HS)

A survey of American social, cultural, and intellectual history from 1630 to the Civil War. Subjects include Puritanism, religious revivals, republicanism, and such reform movements as anti-slavery, phrenology, and sexual hygiene. Emphasis on close reading of primary sources: sermons, poems, essays, and fiction (e.g., Uncle Tom's Cabin). HISTORY 150 or the equivalent useful. (Gen.Ed. HS)

A survey of American social, cultural, and intellectual history from 1630 to the Civil War. Subjects include Puritanism, religious revivals, republicanism, and such reform movements as anti-slavery, phrenology, and sexual hygiene. Emphasis on close reading of primary sources: sermons, poems, essays, and fiction (e.g., Uncle Tom's Cabin). HISTORY 150 or the equivalent useful. (Gen.Ed. HS)

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.

This course compares the colonial legacies of Spain, Japan, and the United States in the Philippines while examining local reception, resistance, and negotiation of colonialism. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

The development of social, political, economic, and intellectual life in the United States from Native American settlements to 1876. Topics include Puritanism, slavery and antislavery, Indian relations, religious reform as well as such events as the Revolution and Civil War. (Gen.Ed. HS)