2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog

HIST 304 American History I

This course examines the settlement, colonization and nation-building of the United States from roughly 1600-1865. This course focuses on the context in which European settlers and the Africans whom they enslaved built a nation, wresting North America from native tribes. We will investigate the loyalties that guided settlers' beliefs and actions; the multi-faceted conflicts that led future generations to demand liberty; and the conflicted notions of equality, democracy and justice that guided the United States in its first eight decades.

Credits

3

Offered

Fall semester

Notes

Meets the general education humanities/history requirement for international students only.