HIST 103 - American History to 1877

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD

This survey course explores various facets of the American experience from the “pre-contact” era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. It examines the continuities and transformations of dominant political, social, religious, intellectual and economic currents in early America, and analyzes contentious interpretive debates that complicate our understandings of these phenomena. Prominent topics include cross-cultural encounter, violence, slavery and the emergence of race, and social reform in antebellum America.
Enrollment Limit: 35
Instructor: J. Ragosta