Making of Modern America From the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Rome from Vergil to St. Augustine Readings in Livy, Vergil's Aeneid , Marcus Aurelius, Cicero, and St. Augustine's Confessions , with attention to the transition from pagan to Christian Rome. Warfare and Society in Modern Times Changes in military conflict from the eighteenth century to the present. Interaction of warfare and social values. Federal Indian Policy Relations between Native American nations and the federal government.
Central theme is the clash of cultures in the westward movement.
Treaties, removal, land allotment, federal recognition in the twentieth century, and a review of the current scene. Offered subject to availability of faculty. American Lives American history through autobiographies, memoirs, and biographies. A study of mediaeval culture through a reading of two of its principal representatives. The primary text is Dante's Divine Comedy .