Courses

This course traces the history of African Americans from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Emphasis is placed on the great Afro- Muslim empires, the African way of life prior to colonialism and imperialism, the Atlantic slave trade, slavery in America, and the Civil War. Fall.

A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of people of African descent in the formation and development of the United States to the Civil War/Reconstruction period. African American History I includes the study of African origins and legacy, trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the experiences of African Americans during Colonial, Revolutionary, Early National, Antebellum, and the Civil War/Reconstruction Eras.

This course is a survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of people of African descent in the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction period to the present. African American History II examines segregation, disenfranchisement, civil rights, migrations, industrialization, world wars, the Harlem Renaissance, and the conditions of African Americans in the Great Depression, Cold War, and post-Cold War eras.

This survey course examines the problems and experiences of African Americans from the period of Reconstruction in 1868 to 1877, with an emphasis on the inner dynamics of the Black community and the sociopolitical efforts of the Black community to the present. The relationship of Black people to the wider society will be studied with the internal migration of African Americans, and the political impact of cultural exhibitions.

This course traces the history of African Americans from Reconstruction to the present. The course is designed to study the history of Afro-Americans from the Reconstruction era to the present. Emphasis is placed on the contributions of blacks who wield political power, their controversies, and their progress. Spring.

A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of people of African descent in the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction period to the present. African American History II examines segregation, disenfranchisement, civil rights, migrations, industrialization, world wars, the Harlem Renaissance and the conditions of African Americans in the Great Depression, Cold War and post-Cold War eras.

An introduction to the major themes, critical questions, and pivotal moments in post-emancipation African American history. It traces the social, political, cultural, intellectual, and legal contours of the black experience in the United States from Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, through the World Wars, Depression, and the Great Migrations, to the long civil rights era and the contemporary period of racial politics.

This interactive lecture-based course offers an introduction to the major themes, critical questions, and pivotal moments in post-emancipation African American history. It traces the social, political, cultural, intellectual, and legal contours of the black experience in the United States from Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, through the World Wars, Depression, and the Great Migrations, to the long civil rights era and the contemporary period of racial politics.

Survey of late 19th century to present African American history.

A survey history of African-Americans in the United States from 1865 to the present, with emphasis on the evolution of black leadership in the twentieth century.