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History

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 the Higher Grounds bookstore 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: Aidan 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”).
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HIST 140: The World Since 1945

The purpose of this class is to learn about historical developments in the post-World War II era and appreciate the historical roots of these issues. The class materials are designed to help you

  1. develop understanding of the issues you confront daily
  2. improve critical thinking and ability to present and defend a position.

You will be required to use the discussion forum to raise questions and to respond to issues raised by the instructor and other class participants. Since this class is also part of the multi-cultural curriculum, you will compare your assumptions and experiences with those of other cultures.

You will be provided with a list of themes or questions for each unit, to help organize your thoughts and become a basis for starting your discussions on the discussion forum. In addition to the themes, the instructor will provide short references to demographic data, trends, individuals, or events to use as a study guide for each unit. You will use these guides to find information from the texts, coursepack, encyclopedia, or the Web. The instructor will provide guidelines and suggest important questions and terms, but you will be asked to evaluate these questions based largely upon the information you gather from multiple sources and multimedia.

Required Materials

  • Hunt, The World Transformed: 1945 to the Present (2004)
  • Raleigh, Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk About Their Lives (2006)

Optional but recommended

  • Encarta Deluxe Edition (CD-ROM)

You may purchase the textbooks at the Higher Grounds bookstore 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: Gleb Tsipursky, 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 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: 0-07-325999-3
  • Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (1983) ISBN: 0-674-76691-1
  • Machiavelli, The Prince (1995) ISBN: 0-87220-316-6
  • Bradley, Slavery and Society at Rome (1994) ISBN: 0-521-37887-7

You must purchase the edition indicated by the ISBN. You may purchase the textbooks at the Higher Grounds bookstore 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 sample course syllabus.

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HIST 157: English History Since 1688

HIST 157 is a general survey emphasizing the social, economic, political, and intellectual development of modern English society.

Required Materials

  • Graves, Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography, ISBN-13: 9780385093309
  • Dickins, Hard Times, ISBN-13: 9780451526724
  • Fielding, Joseph Andrews, ISBN-13: 9780140431148
  • Arnstein, Britain Yesterday and Today, 1830 to the Present, (2001), ISBN-13: 9780618001040
  • Willcox and Arnstein, The Age of Aristocracy 1688-1830, (2001), ISBN-13: 9780618001033

You must purchase the edition indicated by the ISBN. You may purchase the textbooks at the Higher Grounds bookstore 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: Michelle Strong, 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 course syllabus is not yet available.

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HIST 162: Russia from 1861 to the Present

This course surveys Russian political, social, economic, and cultural history from the middle of the nineteenth century until the present. Through readings and discussions, students examine the ways in which selected themes and issues have shaped Russia's past and are informing its present. Primary documents, secondary sources, memoirs, literature, and Internet resources help students study the following topics:

  • the reforms of the 1860s-1870s, 1950s-1960s, and 1980s
  • the revolutionary movement
  • the 1905 and 1917 Revolutions
  • the Civil War
  • the origins and dynamics of Stalinism
  • the impact and legacy of World War II and the Cold War
  • the power of Russian literature
  • the experience of Russian women
  • the fall of Communism
  • the economic and social challenges facing the New Russia.

Required Textbook

  • Evtuhov and Stites, A History of Russia: People, Legends, Events, Forces Since 1800 (2004)
  • Engel and Posodskaya-Vanderbeck, eds., A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History (1998)
  • Raleigh, Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk About Their Lives (2006)

You may purchase the textbook at the Higher Grounds bookstore 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: Marko Dumančić, 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”).
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HIST 262: History of the Holocaust

This course examines the origins and implementation of the Nazi genocide during World War II, as well as reactions of and realities for European Jews. We will explore the actions and motivations of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in various European countries. The course also relates these onslaughts to the Nazis’ genocide of other ethnic and social groups as well as acts of genocide outside of Europe, locating them in twentieth-century world history.

Required Textbooks

  • Bergen, War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (2003)
  • Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998)
  • Glowinski, The Black Seasons (2005)
  • Niewyk, The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, 3rd edition (2002)

You may purchase the textbooks at the Higher Grounds bookstore 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
  • 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 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. Rowman and Littlefield, 1999)
  • Woloch, Muller V. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford Books (1996)

You may purchase the textbooks at the Higher Grounds bookstore 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: David Anderson, 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 374: The American West, 1800 to the Present

While this course defines the American West in geographic terms—lands between the Mississippi River and Pacific Ocean—the historical meaning of the region transcends simple geography. The history of the West has long been tied to the very identity of US society and culture. The Trans-Mississippi West did evolve in explosive and surprising ways that heavily impacted the course of our national history. However, public understanding of the West has been shaped not only by scholarship but also by influences like myth, media, and simple wishful thinking.

In this course, we will examine the American West through both academic and popular lenses, focusing on themes as wide-ranging as Federal Indian and environmental policies to the emergence of Hollywood and the evolution of Mormonism. We will see that, if nothing else, the Trans-Mississippi West inspired dreamers of all sorts. Some of them succeeded while others were left with little more than their struggles, but all of them helped shape both a region and nation.

Required Textbooks

  • Billington and Ridge, Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier, 6th edition (2001)
  • Hine and Faragher, The American West: A New Interpretative History (2000)
  • Milner, Butler, and Lewis, eds., Major Problems in the History of the American West, 2nd edition (1997)
  • Welch, Fools Crow, reprint edition (1987)
  • Reisner, Cadillac Desert, reprint edition (1993)

You may purchase the textbooks at the Higher Grounds bookstore 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: David R. Long, 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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