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 | | Special emphasis will be placed upon the assessment of critical shifts in political philosophy and governance—at the federal, state, and local levels; the changing social and economic status of American citizens—by class, gender, race, ethnicity, and geography; and the influence of material and cultural change upon these same citizens. |
 | | It focuses on such issues as the process of professionalization, the relationship of science to both the antebellum college and the modern university, the interplay between science and the state and federal governments, the role of women in American science, and the popular perception of science in America. |
 | | The course will end with an examination of the mature plantation regimes of the Southern United States, the massive migration of slaves from the upper South to the cotton-producing states of Mississippi Alabama, and Georgia, the abolitionist movement, and the role of slavery in the Civil War. |
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