1200 Waterway Blvd. I do not have formal office hours. Please call me or email me to make an appointment. Since the 1700s, cities and their metropolitan regions have become the primary environment in which people experience American society.
Cities are centers of commerce and culture, politics and power.
They are the destinations to which rural migrants and foreign immigrants travel. This course provides an overview of American urban history since the eighteenth century. Through reading about the broader urban experience in American history, and through first-hand observation of Indianapolis, students will gain skills that will enable them to learn about their own metropolitan environments. This course has no formal prerequisites. Nevertheless, I expect students to have a basic knowledge of American history.