This seminar examines the Western Hemisphere from the late 18th century to the present through the lenses of trade, land settlement, and state making. Students will read works on a number of Latin American countries, the United States, and Canada. All of the assigned readings are in English, but there will be readings available in French, Portuguese, and Spanish for those with proficiency in these languages.

Museums, archives, monuments and commemorative events have long contributed to a master narrative in which indigenous peoples die out, disappear, or make room for progress. This seminar will examine past and present examples, and then take a look at how indigenous communities are re-claiming public history spaces at the local, regional and international level.

This seminar is designed to introduce graduate students to the key topics, questions and debates in 19th- and 20th-century African American history. Readings and discussions will consider the ways historians have researched and written about topics such as: the trans-Atlantic slave trade, resistance movements, cultural and racial identity formations, gender and sexuality, religion, popular culture and leisure, labor and class, and nationalism and emigration. Readings will include foundational texts, recent scholarship, and primary sources.

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This course will explore the history of various efforts around the world to conserve nature and culture. Students will learn about the history of the Conservation Movement in North America, but also to think broadly about what the idea of conservation means in archeology, folklore, historic preservation, and the fine arts, especially in a time of globalization and climate change.

This graduate course will be an in-depth investigation of China?s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), in which Mao Zedong urged the people to wrest control away from the Communist Party itself and recreate Chinese culture and society based on revolutionary principles. What motivated people, and particularly youth, to participate in activities that often brought suffering to themselves and their families and destruction to China's cherished cultural sites? What were the ideals they strove to realize, and to what extent can anything they did be considered in positive light?

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Analysis and interpretation of slavery and abolition, Southern nationalism, the breakdown of national parties, causes of the war, wartime politics and the war's impact. Mr. Richards

Interpretations of major themes as developed in works of leading historians. Mr. Glassberg, Mr. McFarland, Mr. Nightingale

This course is designed to introduce graduate students to a variety of the best recent historical writing on modern Europe. The topics range from the French Revolution to recent debates over German history in relation to the Holocaust and global-history perspectives on Europe's past. Included are classic questions such as explaining the French Revolutionary Terror and the rise of the Nazis as well as new inquiries into the history of private life, gender, and collective memory.