Courses

This course examines the making of American grand strategy and the scholarly debates surrounding the various strategic options to best advance the long-term national interest. The class examines theories of grand strategy, as well as historical and modern examples, and focuses on drawing parallels and lessons for the present and the future.

Students explore the complex nature of historical practice and the development recent historical interpretations and/or conduct research in primary sources.

Examination of major American historians; study of techniques, styles, ideas, interpretations, and critical evaluations.

The United States from colonial times to the end of the Civil War.

The United States from colonial times to the end of the Civil War.

The United States from Reconstruction to the present time.

The United States from Reconstruction to the present time.

A study of the political, economic, social and religious development of the United States from the earliest settlements to 1877.

The study of American history from pre-colonization through the Civil War.

This course surveys American history from the Colonial period, American Revolution, the New Nation, American expansion, slavery, civil War and reconstruction. The course focuses on significant landmark political events, but also on the everyday experiences and social history of the period.