300
Religious revivals, reasoned discourses, and cultural change characterize America in the 18th century. These phenomena shaped colonial demand for independence. This course explores the issues, events, ideas, and people that changed Englishmen into Americans and English colonies into an independent American Republic.
Occasionally
This course traces the rise of the "American West" in American consciousness from the early 19th century until today. Understanding that American western expansion looks different for the indigenous cultures of the trans-Mississippi West, the course asks students to re-think the "myth of the West" with the reality of western development.
Every other Fall, odd years
This course will use WWI and Britain’s experience therein as its backdrop. What World War I (known as the Great War in Britain) teaches us is how dramatically the world had changed by the beginning of the twentieth century and how the arrogance of a few would require the ultimate sacrifice of the many. This course looks at the wide-spread social change that the war brought to western society.
Engl 310
Every other Spring, even years
Internship in History. Additional fees may apply.
Special Topics in History.