Topics include revivalism, antislavery, Reconstruction, Populism, and the Social Gospel. Social History 3F Emphasizes minorities, particularly African Americans, women, Catholics, Jews, and fundamentalists. Other topics include civic religion, the New Deal, and the peace movement. Topics include the Kievan period, the Appanage period, the Muscovite period, and the establishment of Imperial Russia. Latin America 3W Latin American societies since precolumbian times, emphasizing the interaction of native American, African, and European cultures and the social, economic, and political challenges of the modern period.
Emphasis is upon the impact of the West and the consequent evolution of modern East Asia.
430 Southeast Asia 3S Historical development of mainland and island Southeast Asia with particular stress upon the traditional societies of the area and the sources of its civilization. The impact of and response to the West provides a focus for the study of present-day Southeast Asia. The origin and expansion of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, colonialism and nationalism in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 445 Roots 3I Techniques of ancestor tracing, e.g., how to use public records, especially those of public libraries, court clerks, and perhaps national archives. 450 Church History 3F 450.