African American Women’s History: The United States at 250

AFR 240 / GSS 240 / HIST 240

What new perspectives emerge when Black women are placed at the center of U.S. history rather than at its margins? This course examines African American women’s history from slavery to the present day and considers how Black women's lives have been enduring sites of contested citizenship, labor, a…

Black Resistance from the Civil War to Civil Rights

AFR 308 / AMST 308 / HIST 301G

From antebellum slavery through twentieth-century struggles for civil rights, black Americans have resisted political violence, economic marginalization, and second-class citizenship using strategies ranging from respectability to radicalism. Engaging with both historical and modern scholarship, lit…

Rise of the American Empire

AMST 141 / HIST 141

During the nineteenth century, the United States experienced one of the most dramatic political transformations in world history, rising from an imperiled post-revolutionary state to become a global empire. This course examines the diverse experiences of those who lived through this era of dizzying …