Dates: 02/03 - 05/22
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12:15 pm 1:20 pm MHC 210		12:15 pm 1:20 pm MHC 210		12:15 pm 1:20 pm MHC 210

Subject: History (HIST)

CRN: 21901

Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 210

Old Core Requirements Met:
     UG Core Historical Studies

Other Requirements Met:
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     Writing to learn

  Anne Osler

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.

4 Credits