History Courses

Examines interactions of the many peoples who created the United States. Topics include Native Americans, the American Revolution, and Civil War, and how colonization, immigration, gender, race, politics, class, and geography shaped the nation.

A survey of main themes of U.S history from 1877 to the present. The course may include an emphasis on political, social, economic, intellectual, and technological aspects of the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, WWI, the interwar era, WWII, the Cold War, and post-Cold War era.

A crossroads of ideas and commerce, of empires, nations, and peoples, the Mediterranean has been part of key moments in world history. By focusing on this region, which includes the countries of Southern Europe and the Middle East, you will gain a perspective of the historical process in a set of societies which meet in between ¿East¿ and ¿West.¿ Within history, more studies focus on the Early Modern Era (roughly 1400-1800). We will focus our attention on the late 18th century and finish in the 1960s. Often the ¿modern¿ Mediterranean is not viewed as a cohesive region. To counter this view, we will explore how different political, social, and cultural trends circulated throughout the great ¿Middle Sea¿ from the French Revolution to Italian unification to the First World War to the Algerian War of Independence.