Topics course. Despite the particular degradation, violence and despair of enslavement in the United States, African American men and women built families, traditions and a legacy of resistance. Using the WPA interviews?part of the New Deal Federal Writers Project of the 1930s?this course looks at the historical memory of former slaves by reading and listening to their own words. How did 70 through 90 year-old former slaves remember their childhoods and young adult-hoods during slavery?

Topics course.

Analysis of the historical realities, social movements, cultural expression and political debates that shaped U.S. citizenship from the Declaration of Independence to the Dred Scott decision. From the hope of liberty and equality to the exclusion of marginalized groups that made whiteness, maleness and native birth synonymous with Americanness. How African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants and women harnessed the Declaration of Independence and its ideology to define themselves as citizens of the United States also.

This course is a general, introductory survey of African history to 1800. It provides students with a framework for understanding the political, social and economic history of Africa prior to colonial rule and for appreciating the strategies African peoples employed as they made sense of, accommodated themselves to, and confronted their changing landscapes.

Women's experience and constructions of gender in the commonly recognized major events of the 20th century. Introduction to major thinkers of the period through primary sources, documents and novels, as well as to the most significant categories in the growing secondary literature in 20th-century European history of women and gender.

A survey of the ancien regime. On behalf of the central State, war-making absolutists, Enlightened philosophes, and patriotic republicans assailed privileges. The era culminated in the leveling of European societies through the French Revolution and the industrial revolution.

Frustrated by historical models focused on the modern nation-state, historians have increasingly sought to explore the complex networks of identities, loyalties, and attachments forged by diverse groups of peoples in their attempts to transcend the real and metaphoric boundaries of the territorial nation-state. This course interrogates how historians and other scholars have engaged the ?transnational? in Africa through such concepts as ?diaspora,? ?transnationalism,? and ?globalization.?

The Mediterranean world from the fall of Rome to the age of conversion. The emergence of the Islamic world, the Byzantine state and the Germanic empire. Topics include the monastic ideal, Sufism and the cult of saints; the emergence of the papacy; kinship and kingship: Charlemagne and the Carolingian renaissance, the high caliphate, and the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire; literacy and learning. The decline of public authority and the dominance of personal power in societies built on local relations.

The Mediterranean world from the fall of Rome to the age of conversion. The emergence of the Islamic world, the Byzantine state and the Germanic empire. Topics include the monastic ideal, Sufism and the cult of saints; the emergence of the papacy; kinship and kingship: Charlemagne and the Carolingian renaissance, the high caliphate, and the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire; literacy and learning. The decline of public authority and the dominance of personal power in societies built on local relations.

The Mediterranean world from the fall of Rome to the age of conversion. The emergence of the Islamic world, the Byzantine state and the Germanic empire. Topics include the monastic ideal, Sufism and the cult of saints; the emergence of the papacy; kinship and kingship: Charlemagne and the Carolingian renaissance, the high caliphate, and the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire; literacy and learning. The decline of public authority and the dominance of personal power in societies built on local relations.