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History

Spring Semester 2010

HIST 125: Social History of Popular Music in 20th-century America

This course explores the relationship between popular music and major developments in America from the late nineteenth century through the 1980s. The course's overarching focus is how popular music has simultaneously unified and divided the nation.

Required Texts

  • Starr and Waterman, American Popular Music from Minstrelsy to MP3, 2nd edition (2007)
  • Wondrich, Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924, 1st edition (2003)
  • Peterson, Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity (1999)
  • Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America (2004)

You may purchase these texts at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Montgomery Wolf, PhD
  • Department: History
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
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HIST 127: American History to 1865

This is a general survey course of American history from the earliest days of European contact to the conclusion of the Civil War. We will study and discuss the evolution of the American colonies and the subsequent nation building (and refining) that occurred throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Emphasis will be placed on the most vital political, economic, and social events of the period. This first half of America’s history might, at first glance, seem to have little significance for the everyday lives of contemporary citizens. As we progress through the course, however, it will become apparent that this period is not at all remote. With this thought in mind, you and your classmates will be encouraged to find personal connections between your own life experiences and those of the Americans living in earlier times. Many of the ties will be found in your reading, but you will also supplement these materials with information that you glean from the Internet.

Required Texts

  • Murrin et al., Liberty, Equality, and Power: A History of the American People, Volume I: To 1877, 5th edition (2008)
  • Davidson and Lytle, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, Volume I, 5th edition (2005)

You may purchase the materials at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Anne Berler, MA
  • Department: History
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View course syllabus.

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HIST 128: American History Since 1865

This course is a general survey of the nation's history from the era of Reconstruction (immediately following the Civil War) to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the significant political and economic events of the period, as well as on changes in the American social and cultural landscape. The course is structured around themes that professional historians have deemed important, but you will be encouraged (in fact required) to find personal connections between your own life experiences and those of the Americans who came before you. Many of these vital connections will be found in the course's assigned materials (especially in the original source documents), but you and your classmates will also locate materials as you explore the Internet.

Required Texts

  • Boyer et al., The Enduring Vision, Volume II, 6th edition (2008)
  • Lorence, Enduring Voices, Volume II, 4th edition (1996)
  • Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1978)
  • CD (contains a series of short lectures by scholars associated with UNC-Chapel Hill)

You may purchase the materials at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Tim Williams, MA
  • Department: History
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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HIST 130: Africa in the 20th Century: Transformations in Culture and Power

This course provides an overview of the major issues in twentieth-century African history. Topics include colonialism and neo-colonialism, social change, gender, and ethnicity.

Required Materials

Textbooks

  • Shillington, History of Africa
  • Achebe, Things Fall Apart
  • Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood
  • Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat
  • Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with our Families: Stories from Rwanda

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Films

Rent these films locally or from Web sites (such as Netflix or Blockbuster), or borrow them from the UNC Undergraduate Library.

  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Cry Freedom

If you have difficulty obtaining copies of the films, you may substitute the following designated texts:

  • Feraoun, Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War (alternative to the film The Battle of Algiers)
  • Woods, Biko (alternative to the film Cry Freedom)

Course Details

  • Instructor: Max Owre, PhD
  • Department: History
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • A sample course syllabus is not yet available.

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HIST 140: The World Since 1945

This introduction to the contemporary world examines the Cold War and its international aftermath, decolonization, national development across a variety of cases, and trends in the global economy.

Required Materials

  • Hunt, The World Transformed: 1945 to the Present (2003), ISBN 978-0312245832
  • Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (2001), ISBN 978-1583670255

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Tom Goldstein, MA
  • Department: History
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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HIST 151: History of Western Civilization to 1650

HIST 151 surveys the history of Western civilization from its earliest roots in the Ancient Near East to its “early modern” manifestations in seventeenth-century Europe.

Required Materials

  • Chambers, Hanawalt, Rabb, Woloch, Grew, and Tiersten, The Western Experience, Volume I, 9th edition (2007), ISBN 978-0073259994
  • Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (1983), ISBN 978-0674766914
  • Machiavelli, The Prince (1995) ISBN 978-0872203167
  • Bradley, Slavery and Society at Rome (1994), ISBN 978-0521378871

You must purchase the edition indicated by the ISBN. You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Natasha Naujoks, MA
  • Department: History
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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HIST 356: American Women's History, 1865 to the Present

HIST 356 focuses on the pivotal roles women have played in shaping American history from the late nineteenth century to the present day. We will learn how the experiences of American women have decisively shaped American society, culture, politics, and economics throughout the nation’s history. This course is not designed to act as a counter-narrative to “traditional” American history, but rather it seeks to place women at the center of the narrative and it offers a more complete and complicated vision of the American past. In examining the experiences of women, we will pay particular attention to the ways in which gender roles are historically constructed, especially in relationship to factors such as race, ethnicity, social class, and age. Understanding what it has meant to be a woman at different points in American history will allow us to investigate how women have worked within, and pushed against, various boundaries in order to exercise control over their lives and to gain visibility and power in American society.

Required Textbooks

  • Mari Jo Buhle, Teresa Murphy, and Jane Gerhard, Women and the Making of America, Volume 2 (2009), ISBN 978-0138126872
  • Susan Ware, Modern American Women: A Documentary History, 2nd edition (2002), ISBN 978-0072418200
  • Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
  • Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi: An Autobiography (1968)
  • Students will also be required to obtain and review a book from a list provided by the instructor.

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Robin Payne, MA
  • Department: History
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • A sample course syllabus is not yet available.

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HIST 365: The Worker and American Life

This course covers the familiar ground of a US history survey course from the perspective of workers and work. We will look at how workers have shaped American history from colonial times to the present, and how work itself has changed over that time. We will ask questions such as:

  • What was the role of workers in:
    • building the first European settlements in this country?
    • fighting the Revolutionary War?
    • starting the Civil War and ending it?
  • What happened to work itself as Americans:
    • experienced industrialization?
    • endured the Great Depression?
    • began to see themselves as part of a world power?
  • How can this history help us to understand the new global economy?

To carry out this course of inquiry, we will study several types of sources. We will examine our own experiences with work, and we will read primary documents, autobiographies, folklore, popular literature, and scholarly attempts to come to grips with these issues.

After taking this course, students should have a greater understanding of the history of work and the role of workers in American history.

Required Textbooks

  • Babson, The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-Present (1999)
  • Woloch, Muller V. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (1996)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Elizabeth Smith, MA
  • Department: History
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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