The Thesis Writing Forum gives Honors students AND non-Honors thesis writers a chance to interact with one another, and with the professor, about the thesis writing experience.

This course will explore the history of childhood and youth from the late nineteenth century to the present. We will examine the changing experiences of childhood and youth especially in light of industrialization, the rise of consumerism, and changes in the educational system. Special consideration will be given to youth movements and the role of children and youth in the civil rights movement and other forms of political activity. Reading will be drawn from primary and secondary sources.

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This class is about 1. Ideas that have chagned the discipline of history. 2. Ideas that have changed the larger flow of history. 3. Ideas that have changed you, the student, and your relationship to history. 4. Ideas that have changed your personal history.Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Hist majors. (No credit after History 391G).

This course explores the political and cultural history of the Caribbean's tumultuous relationship with the United States. The course begins with the United States' refusal to officially recognize Haiti's independence from France in 1804 and concludes with the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, a law that propagated Washington's embargo on Cuba.

Most observers agree that 21st century American society is deeply polarized socially, culturally, and politically. This course seeks to explore how it got that way. Franklin Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and his New Deal policies both came to define liberalism and to recast conservative opposition. Nearly half a century later, Ronald Reagan tackled stagflation, but from the political right rather than the left.

This course explores the concept and practice of slavery in the Muslim World from the time of the Prophet Mohammed up to the 20th century. We will begin by examining how the Qur'an and Islamic jurisprudence altered pre-Islamic forms of slavery. The course will proceed chronologically, exploring the evolution of slavery through the early Islamic empires, the slave dynasties in Egypt and Delhi, the "gunpowder" empires of the Early Modern era, and the abolition of slavery in the 19th and 20th centuries.