History

• CAS HI 537: World War II: Causes, Course, Consequences
  Begins with the origins of World War II in Asia and Europe, follows its major campaigns, and ends with its main consequences. Topics include diplomacy, grand strategy, command decisions, conditions of battle, and civilians in occupation and resistance.
• CAS HI 549: Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  Nationalism as a major force in modern history. Origins of modern nationalism in Europe, the Middle East, former Soviet republics, east and south Asia. Special attention to the varieties of diaspora, ethnic revivalism, and globalization.
• CAS HI 552: Topics in Jewish History
  Examines various aspects of Jewish culture, politics, and society. Topics vary from year to year. Topic for Fall 2009: Jewish Political Movements and Ideologies.
• CAS HI 560: The American Transcendentalists
  Led by Emerson, Thoreau, Bronson, Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and others, the Transcendentalists constituted the first “counter-cultural” movement in American history. Seminar focuses on how and why they did so within the philosophical, religious, literary, antislavery, communitarian, and ecological currents they inhabited.
• CAS HI 566: Ideas and American Foreign Policy
  Examines the intellectual foundations of U.S. foreign policy from the founding of the republic to the present. Also offered as CAS IR 522.
• CAS HI 568: The Modern Metropolis: Approaches to Urban History
  Examines the development of the modern American metropolis during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Considers transformations in commercial life, popular entertainments, and the use of public spaces as well as social encounters across lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
• CAS HI 575: The Birth of Modern America, 1896–1929
  The political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States in the formative years of the early twentieth century. Topics include Progressivism, World War I, immigration, modernism, the Scopes Trial, suffrage, the Harlem Renaissance, and the emergence of modern business practices.
• CAS HI 580: The History of Racial Thought
  Study of racial thinking and feeling in Europe and the United States since the fifteenth century. Racial thinking in the context of Western encounters with non-European people and Jews; its relation to social, economic, cultural, and political trends. Also offered as CAS AA 580.
• CAS HI 582: Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Latin America
  Examination of the origins, actions, and effects of social movements in twentieth-century Latin America, with particular attention to the relationship between the cultures of everyday life and pathways of political action and change.
• CAS HI 584: Comparative Slavery
  The institution of slavery in history with a special focus on slavery and the slave trade in Africa and the Americas in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Attention to cultural and political issues as well as economic and social aspects of slavery. Also offered as CAS AA 514.
• CAS HI 586: African Americans Abroad
  Develops awareness of the global nature of the African American experience through study of Black Americans' involvement in aspects of world development besides slavery and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Focus on Europe and the Americas; some attention to Africa and Asia. Also offered as CAS AA 586.
• CAS HI 587: U.S.-Mexican Borders
  Examines the geographic border, as well as political and cultural boundaries inside Mexico and the U.S., from 1848 to the present. Topics include the Chicano movement, maquiladora assembly plants, the Zapatista rebellion, youth gangs, free trade, and music and art.
• CAS HI 588: Women, Power, and Culture in Africa
  Understanding the role of women in African history. Topics include the Atlantic slave trade, power, religion, the economy, resistance movements, health, the state, and kinship. Emphasis on the period before independence. Also offered as CAS AA 588.
• CAS HI 589: Nature’s Past: Histories of Environment and Society
  Historians’ approaches to environmental history, including human elements of technology, demography, local knowledge, political ecology, and social organization. Geographical foci include North America, Atlantic World, Asia, and Africa.
• CAS HI 590: The World and the West
  Explores relations between the West and the Third World from 1850, focusing on national and cultural movements in the Third World, and places the African American struggle for freedom in the United States in global and comparative perspective. Also offered as CAS AA 590.
• CAS HI 591: The Making of the Modern Middle East
  Examines the modern Middle East, with its new and old states and its current contested frontiers, as a product of European rivalries in the region in war and peace, 1798-1922. Also offered as CAS IR 591.
• CAS HI 594: The Armenian Genocide
  Examines the emergence of the Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire as a national and international issue. Analysis of Armenian-Turkish relations after the Young Turk revolution in 1908. Focuses on the processes of genocide, survivor memory, and international responses.
• CAS HI 595: Morocco: History on the Cusp of Three Continents
  Explores the range and limits of social mixture– cultural, political, economic– as three civilizations met at the northwest corner of Africa and influenced one another from the eighth to the twenty-first centuries.

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