Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
American Origins
Term
2021A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
001
Section ID
HIST108001
Course number integer
108
Registration notes
Course Online: Asynchronous Format
Registration also required for Recitation (see below)
Registration also required for Recitation (see below)
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Daniel K Richter
Description
The United States was not inevitable. With that assumption as its starting point, this course surveys North American history from about 1500 to about 1850, with the continent's many peoples and cultures in view. The unpredictable emergence of the U.S. as a nation is a focus, but always in the context of wider developments: global struggles among European empires; conflicts between indigenous peoples and settler-colonists; exploitation of enslaved African labor; evolution of distinctive colonial societies; and, finally, independence movements inspired by a transatlantic revolutionary age.
Course number only
108
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Cultural Diversity in the US
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled