A comprehensive course in the African American experience which explores the various forces shaping race relations in the United States. Emphasis is placed upon the formation of political institutions and the part played by the South in Pre-Civil War events. The place of the slave and the free man is considered. Agricultural tenancy and industrial trends are given careful scrutiny. As a study of the Greater Southwest, this course surveys Spanish expansion and the Spanish-French rivalry in the lower Mississippi region and Texas.
Special emphasis is given to geographic factors and cultural developments.
An intensive study of the issues of conflict between English continental colonies and British imperial policy which led to the movement for independence. Consideration is also given to internal colonial conflicts and attempts to solve the federal problem culminating in the formation of the Constitution. An examination of the sectional conflicts of the 1850s and the Civil War. This is primarily a political, institutional and diplomatic study. A study of the settlement and development of the Trans-Mississippi West and its influence upon national and international affairs.