All courses numbered 500 and above are graduate courses.
Undergraduates need to submit a course permit to enroll.
HIST 710 Legal Revolutions in America, 1750-1877
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
This reading course will explore the enormous changes in American life and law that sustained the political, social and religious revolutions of the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction. All kinds of hierarchies were challenged (and many of them rebuilt) in the revolutionary epoch that unraveled British control, established new governments, and eventually created a new legal culture. The shattering of that culture and its reconstruction in a more powerful national government demonstrated the vulnerability as well as the versatility of the American revolutionary settlement.
