Special emphasis is placed on twentieth-century Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Central America and their relations with the United States. An introduction to significant political, economic, social, cultural, and military developments in African-American history from the first landing of slaves in 1619 to the Rainbow Coalition of Jesse Jackson in the 1980s. Special emphasis is placed on the experience of slavery, the Era of Reconstruction and the New South, and on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. This course provides the student with the materials for understanding the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of the American colonial past. The emphasis is on American culture from the 1790s to the 1890s.
Culture is defined broadly as perceptions of social reality.
The focus is, therefore, on the ways in which Americans have responded to and interpreted the meaning of a variety of social, political, and economic developments. The emphasis is on American culture from the 1890s to the present. Culture is defined broadly as perceptions of social reality. The focus is, therefore, on the ways in which Americans have responded to and interpreted the meaning of a variety of social, political, and economic developments. An introductory survey of ancient to early modern history up to the Renaissance.