Class Id: 8932
Days: M
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 10:50 AM
Building: MCCOH
Room: 66
Course Id: 3979
Departments and Numbers: HIS 280
Area: HA
Title: Approaches to American History
Description: An intensive introduction for history concentrators, particularly those who plan to take their independent work seriously. Students will immerse themselves in documents of three historical events: the Little Rock school integration crisis, the making of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" in turn-of-the-century Chicago, and the Salem witchcraft trials. Interpretation of documents, the framing of historical questions, and the construction of historical explanations will be stressed. Lectures will introduce a basic vocabulary of analysis: e.g., culture, class, gender, race, society.
Prerequisites: First priority is given to Sophomores.
Professors: Daniel T. Rodgers, Margot Canaday
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