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  HISTORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
An introduction to the history and culture of the Middle East from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the present.
History of Slavery in the United States (3)
History and culture of the Indian sub-continent from antiquity to the establishment of the Mughal empire in 1526.
www.csun.edu /history/courses.html   (2744 words)

  
 Florida State University Department of History | Courses | Undergraduate Course Descriptions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The course of Balkan history emphasizing the penetration of the Hapsburg and Russian empires, the decay of the Ottomans, and the emergence of the Balkan states after the wars of liberation, with stress on the cultural peculiarities of the various ethnic groups.
History of England from the reign of James I to the death of Queen Anne in 1714.
The history of immigration to the United States.
www.fsu.edu /~history/courses/undercourses.htm   (5214 words)

  
 MIT History
Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and cultural history of the United States from 1861 to 1945.
At MIT, he teaches courses in political and legal history, cultural history, and the history of race, gender, and class.
Professor Capozzola's research interests are in the history of war and politics in everyday life.
web.mit.edu /history/www/capozzola/capozzola.html   (345 words)

  
 History Courses at Lee University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A history of the American people and their relationship to the world with a special emphasis on the United States and its development through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
A study of early church history and thought in the context of the classical culture of Rome from the late Republic until 476 A.D. Special emphasis will be given to church/state relations after the New Testament era.
A history of England from the twilight of Medievalism at the end of the fourteenth century to the overthrow of James II in 1688.
faculty.leeu.edu /~bss/history_courses.htm   (656 words)

  
 Undergraduate History Courses
A study of European politics and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries with an emphasis upon the rise of the modern state and the development of 18th-century rationalism and philosophy.
Social and Cultural History of the United States to 1865.
History of the African continent from 1800, emphasizing issues related to the European penetration and the African resistance to it, colonial rule, the rise of nationalism, liberation movements, independence and underdevelopment.
www.unt.edu /catalogs/97-98/uchistory.html   (1389 words)

  
 United States History
A survey of American history from the perspective of the environment, beginning with the biological and cultural invasion of the New World in 1492 and ending with current environmental problems and their historical roots.
Cultural and intellectual developments in the United States from colonial beginnings to the present, considering both formal and popular movements, with reference to aesthetic and literary as well as standard historical materials.
The pre-contact history of Anasazi and Athabascan peoples from anthropological and mythological perspectives; the causes and consequences of the Spanish entrada and attempts at missionization of the Indian peoples of New Mexico and the California coast; development of mestizo society; the arrival of the Anglo-Americans and the Mexican-American War.
www.coloradocollege.edu /dept/HY/Courses/UnitedStates.html   (1278 words)

  
 History of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are historic regions of the United States, meaning regions that were legal entities in the past, or which the average modern American would no longer immediately recognize as a regional description.
In 1850, the issue of slavery in the new territories was settled by the Compromise of 1850 brokered by Whig Henry Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas.
The post-war era in the United States was defined internationally by the beginning of the Cold War, in which the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to expand their influence at the expense of the other, checked by each side's massive nuclear arsenal and the doctrine of mutual assured destruction.
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This seminar examines the careers of significant figures in the history and literature of the South from the antebellum era to the present.
A seminar on the development of mass culture and popular amusements in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A seminar on the cultural history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the end of World War I, with emphasis on the problems of analyzing changes in politics, religion, labor and industrial production, retailing, amusement, and consumption.
www.sewanee.edu /amstudies/history.html   (652 words)

  
 JHU Department of History Faculty Area of Study
African history with specializations in East/Southern Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Ocean, and the history of slavery and the slave trades.
History of the 19th and 20th century United States, with an amphasis on the American South
History of the 19th and 20th century United States, with an emphasis on the American South
web.jhu.edu /history/cluster.html   (815 words)

  
 History
Basic survey of the political, economic, intellectual, social and cultural history of the United States from the colonial era to 1865.
Emphasis will be placed on the social, political, economic, cultural and religious forces within the civilizations of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, the interaction among those civilizations, and their impact on an legacy to the contemporary world.
The political, economic and cultural experiences of women of the United States from the late 19th to the 20th centuries.
www.nvc.cc.ca.us /dsps/catalog/history.html   (543 words)

  
 Emayzine 2001
American History Since the Civil War with emphasis on the political, social, and economic factors that shaped modernAmerica.
This trans-disciplinary course analyzes the profound technological, social, polical and cultural revolution the world has undergone in the period from 1970 through the early 21st century.
This history course will provide students with the tools necessary to understand thier place in the 21st century.
www.emayzine.com   (222 words)

  
 UCSB Libraries - UCSB Libraries - United States History Collection Development Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Davidson Library U.S. history collection's primary intent is to develop a research level collection that supports the undergraduate and graduate level U.S. history curriculum offerings of the UCSB History Department, and the teaching and research needs of the Americanist faculty.
The history of all regions of the United States and its territorial possessions are generally collected.
The U.S. History Journals Project ensures that major journals in the field of United States history are available to scholars and students in University of California Libraries.
www.library.ucsb.edu /services/policies/collections/ushist-cd.html   (1200 words)

  
 Tennessee Wesleyan College :: Academic Departments :: History
H 204, 205 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES I, II A broad survey of the United States from colonial times to the present, including aspects of American political, economic, social, and cultural development.
An historical analysis of European politics, culture, and society from the Renaissance to the present, as well as a study of the ways that historians have attempted to interpret the events and movements of the period.
The second half of a survey of Russian history, H 482 concerns the rise of the Imperial Russia of Peter the Great and Catherine II, Russian expansionism, political and economic reforms, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Stalinism, and the fall of Russian Communism.
www.twcnet.edu /html/academics/history/history_courses.htm   (683 words)

  
 History 3072: The United States, l914 – 1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
History 3072: The United States, l914 – 1945
All academic work must meet the standards contained in “A Culture of Honesty.” Each student is responsible to inform themselves about those standards before performing any academic work.
The course syllabus is a general plan for the course; deviations announced to the class by the instructor may be necessary.
www.arches.uga.edu /~jrmcdono/HIST3072.htm   (769 words)

  
 | Reviews / Comptes Rendus | Labour/Le Travail, 53 | The History Cooperative
Between the covers is a 301-page narrative filled with the provocative ideas, insightful and honest self-reflection, and breadth of knowledge that mark this historian's more than half-century career as a scholar and teacher of the cultural and intellectual history of the United States.
These various artists and intellectuals participated in a cultural reorientation in the 1940s when their assumptions about an isolated national culture bounded by the geographic space of the United States were shattered.
In the postwar years, 20th-century artists and intellectuals confronted the reality that the United States was and always had been an expanding capitalist country, one that contained many cultures, and one for which an exceptional and homogeneous national story could not be composed without a major dose of self-delusion.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/53/br_28.html   (1136 words)

  
 Columbia Interactive -Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945 E-Seminar 5, The ...
The early decades of the twentieth century were a time of cultural innovation and intellectual ferment, when American intellectuals applied experimentation to everything from politics to family life, became acquainted with European modernism, and founded new magazines such as The Masses and The New Republic.
But the United States' entry into the First World War revealed tensions between intellectuals devoted to experimentation, both personal and cultural, and those who supported the "progressive" goals of the war and the ordering of modern society by experts.
In this fifth seminar of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945, Casey Blake explores the prewar intellectual scene and the repercussions of the President Wilson's decision to join the conflict in Europe.
ci.columbia.edu /ci/eseminars/0745_detail.html   (637 words)

  
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HIST 4823 Social and Cultural History of the United States
HIST 4833 Social and Cultural History of the United States
HIST 4873 History of the United States, 1945 to the Present
www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/degree/museumba.html   (310 words)

  
 AP United States History
The goals of the AP United States History course is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States History.
Students will learn to analyze and interpret a variety of historical resources and develop the ability to use documentary materials, maps, pictorial, and graphic evidence of historical events.
The relationship between private and state contributions to economic growth; the development of a mixed economy
ap_history_online.tripod.com /unitedstates.htm   (248 words)

  
 American History - 1950-1959   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Education Statistics from the Statistical Abstract of the United States, years 1960 to 1995.
History of the United States Department of Education
History of Broadway Broadway 101 by Robert Rusie.
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 About USA : History of the United States >World War II
As Germany, Italy and Japan continued their aggression, the United States announced that no country involved in the conflict could look to it for aid.
The United States joined Canada in a Mutual Board of Defense, and aligned with the Latin American republics in extending collective protection to the nations in the Western Hemisphere.
On December 8, Congress declared a state of war with Japan; three days later its allies Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
www.usinfo.pl /aboutusa/history/warII.htm   (625 words)

  
 American Cultural History 1910 - 1919   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It was during this decade that the United States was first considered a world leader.
Though efforts to pass a federal law proved unsuccessful, by the middle of this decade every state had passed a minimum age law.
A commission found that up to 20% of the children living in cities were undernourished, education took second place to hunger and while children worked, only one-third enrolled in elementary school and less than 10% graduated from high school.
kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /decade10.html   (2398 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades - The 1900s (A Cultural History of the United ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades - The 1960s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades) by Gini Holland
A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades - The 1910s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades) by Michael V. Uschan
A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades - The 1950s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades) by Stuart A. Kallen
www.amazon.com /Cultural-History-United-Through-Decades/dp/1560065508   (1077 words)

  
 WWW-VL: History: United States History Index: 1900-1909 | 1900s History, T. Roosevelt (TR), McKinley, Taft, Mother ...
Agreement Between the United States and Cuba for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations; February 23, 1903
Lease to the United States by the Government of Cuba of Certain Areas of Land and Water for Naval or Coaling Stations in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda; 2 July 1903
RETURN TO WWWVL History was established as HNSource (Kansas History Gateway) on 6 March 1993.
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 American Studies @ The University of Virginia
At present, it has something to do with maps in the ordinary and normal sense of the term; the immediate goal is to build a digital American Historical Atlas.
To the extent that maps serve as guides not only to the physical terrain but also and importantly as charts of the mapmaker's mental and cultural terrain, of the memories and desires, anxieties and assumptions he projects upon any terra incognita, we have begun building an historical geography of America.
The Department of History, United States Military Academy: Historical Atlas
xroads.virginia.edu /~MAP/map_hp.html   (430 words)

  
 The State of Cultural History
Lawrence W. Levine is a cultural historian who taught for thirty two years at the University of California, Berkeley and retired in 1994 as Margaret Byrne Professor of History.
Since then Levine has been Professor of History and Cultural Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
He is currently working on a cultural history of the United States during the Great Depression.
chnm.gmu.edu /levineconference/levinecv.html   (489 words)

  
 TMW Media Group - Multi-cultural Education and Understanding Series
This exciting 3-volume set is a complete multi-cultural overview of the events, people, and cultures that make up U.S. history.
No single culture or race is given predominance.
This series is the most accurate, up-to-date overview of multi-cultural U.S. history available.
www.tmwmedia.com /918.html   (179 words)

  
 United States History--Text Version
Foreign Relations of the United States [documents covering the period 1861-1968 on microfiche; 1952-1968 also available in print volumes, call no. JX233.A3].
Historical Statistics of the United States on CD-ROM [computer file]: Colonial Times to 1970; U.S. Bureau of the Census, edited by Susan B. Carter...
Web sites also now have been categorized by chronological period and topic, though the categorizations are not absolute (i.e., think creatively--a site listed with diplomatic history may be relevant to military history; a site for the Civil War may have relevant materials for the Antebellum period).
www.bilkent.edu.tr /~history/us/ustxt.htm   (473 words)

  
 Syllabus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Through multi-media lectures, readings, group activities, and non-print media (film, posters, music), this course will survey the political, social, racial, and institutional history of the United States from colonial times to 1865.
History 17A is a survey of the political, economic, social and cultural history of the United States from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War.
Topics covered include indigenous and European influence on the development of the colonies, the causes and consequences of the War of Independence, the origin and principles of the U.S. Constitution, early industrialization, westward expansion, foreign policy, slavery and its impact on race relations, abolition and other reform movements, and the Civil War and Reconstruction years.
timmer.org /HISTORY_17A/Syllabus_Hist17A.htm   (963 words)

  
 HIST F300 29959 Mexico and the United States: A Cultural History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Second eight week course (October 25-December 11) Above section meets with Latino Studies L396 This course will explore the cultural history of the relationship between the US and Mexico.
Avoiding diplomatic history, we will read a variety of primary sources including accounts written by Americans who encountered Mexico and vice versa.
The class will pay close attention to images of Mexico and the United States in popular culture on both sides of the border, including how Mexicans see the US and vice versa.
www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blfal04/hist/hist_f300_29959.html   (165 words)

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