• HIST 4399: Topics in European History

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course examines a subject in European history selected by the instructor. Can be repeated twice for up to six credits. Repeatable up to 6 hours.
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• HIST 4440: French Revolution

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
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• HIST 4620: Early North America to 1754

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course introduces students to the political, economic, and social processes that shaped early North America prior to the era of revolutions. Students will examine European colonizers, Native Americans, and enslaved and free people of African descent, focusing on how they interacted and influenced each other, and how geography, demography, and disease shaped their lives, creating a “new world” for all. Students in this course will consider how power was shaped by ecology, technology, gender, and race and how the struggle for power resulted in conflicts among different groups of European colonists, Native people and colonists, and between colonists and various European crowns.Throughout this course, students will read, think, and write critically about the materials presented, and engage in discussions with their peers as they develop an awareness of the wide range of experiences and the diversity of viewpoints encompassed in the term “colonial America.” Successful completion of this course will give students a deeper understanding of the unique role that the American colonial experiences has had in shaping both the United States and the modern world.
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• HIST 4630: North American Revolutions

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course introduces the political, economic, and social causes and outcomes of conflicts in North America from 1754-1815, learning what was revolutionary about the age of revolutions. Students will examine what it meant to be an American and a British subject and consider the motivations of a wide range of participants, including Native Americans, enslaved and free African Americans, and the fifth of the population who remained with Britain as Loyalists. The other great movements of the Age of Revolutions, notably the French, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions will place the American Revolution in larger context.Throughout this course, students will read relevant primary and secondary sources, think about what these sources tell us about life in the 18th and early 19th centuries, write critical evaluations of the material presented, and discuss their assumptions, conclusions, and concerns about this era of revolution and republicanism as a topic of historical inquiry. As students complete this course, they will develop an awareness of the wide range of experiences and the diversity of viewpoints represented.
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• HIST 4640: New Nations, 1815-1850

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course covers US History, 1815 through 1850, and introduces students to the political, economic, and social processes involved in state formation in North America. Students will examine the relationship between nation-states and citizenship, with an emphasis on often-competing American identities. This course will cover important historical themes that include revolutions in market, transportation, and technology; the growth of the institution of slavery; shifting political factions and popular dissent; and contests for power and resources, notably Indian Removal.Throughout this course, students will engage with relevant primary and secondary sources and think about what these sources tell us about life in the first half of 19th century, a time that was rapidly changing and conflict-ridden. In this course, students will write critical evaluations of the material presented, and discuss your assumptions, conclusions, and concerns of study as you develop an awareness of the wide range of experiences and the diversity of viewpoints represented.
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• HIST 4680: Emr Modern America 1877-1914

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
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• HIST 4685: Emergence/Modern America

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
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• HIST 4701: U S 1914 to World War II

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
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• HIST 4702: U S Since W War II

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
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• HIST 4801: Black Memphis

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course will focus on the social and cultural, political, and economic roles of African Americans in Memphis from the early nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century. The course will place Memphis in the context of state, regional and national events, and will explore issues of race, class and gender both within African American communities and between African Americans and other populations in the city. We will first explore the early migrations of African Americans into Tennessee and into Memphis/Shelby County, the lifestyles of enslaved and free African Americans in the area; the impact of Civil War emancipations and migrations on social, political, and economic life in Memphis; African American communities that developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; the impact of Progressivism on the city’s black communities; the Civil Rights and Black Freedom movements in the city, and racial dynamics in contemporary Memphis.
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