Offered alternate years. Main currents in the history of Eastern Europe from earliest times to the present. Focus on the lands of Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and the Balkan region. Ireland, the Irish people, and the Irish diaspora, from first settlement to contemporary troubles. UG 351 Colonial America 3 cr.
Emphasis changes from year to year.
Can touch upon the political economy of Puritanism, through gender and family to the preconditions for the American revolution. Offered alternate years. Democracy, nationalism and sectionalism, the War of 1812, the second party system, social order and disorder, the capitalist revolution. The Age of the Civil War 3 cr. UG 356 Industrial America 3 cr.