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Subject: History (HIST)
CRN: 30221
Lecture
St Paul: McNeely Hall 229
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Historical Studies
Other Requirements Met:
School of Ed Transfer Course
Writing to learn
Introduces students to historical reasoning. Students learn to analyze evidence from the past in context in order to explain how the past produced the ever-changing present. This course surveys the social, political, cultural, and economic history of North America in global context, from the European-American encounter through the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It examines relations among Native Americans, Africans, Europeans, and their descendants. Major themes include: empires and colonization, race and slavery, the American Revolution, nation building, territorial expansion, the origins of American capitalism and democracy, sectionalism, and the Civil War. This course fulfills the Historical Studies requirement in the core curriculum.
4 Credits