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.

Origins of modern Europe through transformations in Christianity, political thought, and culture, including origins, course, and effects of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, rise of the modern state system, beginnings of European colonialism, social and economic changes; developments in education, literature, philosophy, and the arts.

A view of American history from 1840-2010 through the eyes of our national pastime including labor battles between owners and players, famous Managers and Commissioners, legendary players and their accomplishments, struggles of minorities, women and immigrants, legislature and judicial involvement in baseball, and the Steroid era.

A view of American history from 1840-2010 through the eyes of our national pastime including labor battles between owners and players, famous Managers and Commissioners, legendary players and their accomplishments, struggles of minorities, women and immigrants, legislature and judicial involvement in baseball, and the Steroid era.

A view of American history from 1840-2010 through the eyes of our national pastime including labor battles between owners and players, famous Managers and Commissioners, legendary players and their accomplishments, struggles of minorities, women and immigrants, legislature and judicial involvement in baseball, and the Steroid era.

A view of American history from 1840-2010 through the eyes of our national pastime including labor battles between owners and players, famous Managers and Commissioners, legendary players and their accomplishments, struggles of minorities, women and immigrants, legislature and judicial involvement in baseball, and the Steroid era.

A view of American history from 1840-2010 through the eyes of our national pastime including labor battles between owners and players, famous Managers and Commissioners, legendary players and their accomplishments, struggles of minorities, women and immigrants, legislature and judicial involvement in baseball, and the Steroid era.

A view of American history from 1840-2010 through the eyes of our national pastime including labor battles between owners and players, famous Managers and Commissioners, legendary players and their accomplishments, struggles of minorities, women and immigrants, legislature and judicial involvement in baseball, and the Steroid era.

This course covers the origins of Western Civilization in the Mediterranean world and its development in Europe to the Protestant Reformation. It explores the achievements and disasters of the ancient world: democracy, republicanism, art, architecture, philosophy, literature, war, slavery, and despotism. It also explores Europe after the fall of the Roman Republic: Christianity, feudalism, plague, exploration, conquest, renaissance, and reformation. (Gen.Ed. HS)

The development of social, political, economic, and intellectual life in the United States from 1876 to the 1980s. Topics include late 19th-century industrialization, the farm crisis, urbanization; emergence as a world power; the Progressive Era; the 1920s, the Depression, World War II; domestic problems and foreign relations since 1945. Several sections, some emphasizing films. (Gen.Ed. HS)