2019 - 2020

0621-1971-01
  The History of the United States, 1492-1865                                                          
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Yael SternhellGilman-humanities305Mon1000-1200 Sem  2
Gilman-humanities305Mon1000-1200 Sem  2
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description

The course will offer a critical reading of American history, from the onset of the European conquest to the outbreak of the Civil War. Central topics will include the formation of the slave system, the outbreak of revolution, the framing of the Constitution, the birth of capitalism, and Western expansion. We will examine the United States not as a land of unlimited opportunity, but as a contested terrain of ethnic, political, and social struggle.

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