HTY 261 – New England and Eastern Canada/1815

Instructor: Professor Mark McLaughlin

Course Number: 86818

Days and Time: TTH 11-12:15

Location: WH 140

Description: This course examines the historical development of the geographical areas now referred to as New England and Eastern Canada from 1815, the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, the last major Anglo-American conflict, to the present. An emphasis will be placed on exploring New England and Eastern Canada as a transnational region in the making, where there have been more historical similarities than differences in spite of the gradual hardening of borders between countries, states, and provinces. The course will follow a rough chronology, and cover topics such as building borders, political institutions, and identities, economic pursuits like agriculture, forestry, and fishing, sporting cultures, women’s suffrage, civil rights, environmental movements, and indigenous resurgences.

General Education Requirements: Population and Environment and Social Context and Institutions

Course Typically Offered: Alternating