In this course we search for the structure and enduring organization of college sports. We look for the development of college athletics that produced yesterday and today highly paid coaches, great fan enthusiasm, endless national media attention, and the opportunity for scandal and corruption. We search for the organic link that has bound intercollegiate sports to American higher education for over a century. This requires knowledge about what we were and what we have become. It is much easier to learn about what we have become than it is to learn about what we were.

This course explores how queer individuals and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities have influenced the social, cultural, economic, and political landscape in United States history.

We are now living in the throes of the "Arab Spring" and the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. This General Education IE course seeks to integrate students' contemporary understanding of these events against the backdrop of analogous moments in world history over the past three centuries. The core mission of the course is to examine why economic underdevelopment, in combination with weak or dependent state formations, often induces popular instances of rebellion and revolution in the modern era.

This workshop provides students with a foundation on emerging methods in digital and public history -- such as geo-mapping and the online exhibition of historical source materials. Class activities and assignments will include both digital components and field experiences around Amherst and the surrounding area.

This course traces the history of Mexican society, politics, and culture from the late 18th century to the present. The first half analyzes the turbulent formation of Mexico, the legacies of Spanish colonialism, peasant uprisings of the 19th century, and the origins and course of the famous Revolution of 1910.

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 graduate reading seminar explores the expansion and assertion of American imperial power from the US-Mexican War to the "global war on terror." Students will be introduced to the widest possible conception of US "foreign relations" by evaluating the cultural, economic, political, and strategic factors that shaped American policy and by analyzing the lived experience of empire building and anti-imperial resistance at home and abroad.

This class is designed to help students prepare for life after the BA by acquiring important professional skills and perspectives. The class will explore a variety of subjects, including what qualifications history majors bring to the job market, the importance of internships and networking, customizing resumes and cover letters, job and internship search strategies, and interviewing skills.

This class explores the long and contentious relationships between the United States and the Latin American nations. It focuses on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, analyzing the Spanish-American war, upheaval in Central America in the 1920s, the place of Cuba within the growing informal U.S. empire, trade relations with the South American nations, the impact of the Cold War on the hemisphere, the role of the CIA in destabilizing and overthrowing popularly elected government, and the U.S.

Americans today are experiencing the impact of climate change, as well as urban sprawl, fracking, oil spills, mountains of trash, unsafe drinking water, unhealthy air, and their favorite plants and animals? loss of habitat. How did we get into this mess? How can we get out? This course examines the history of the interaction of humans with the natural environment of North America since European settlement.