2021-2022 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 11, 2024  
2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 506 - Revolution and American Identity


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

This course is an introduction to the major writings and interpretations of the era of the Revolution from the early eighteenth century to the ratification of the Constitution in 1787. The emphasis will be on eighteenth-century American Society and culture, the connections between England and the evolution of American protest and political thought that shaped American ideological concepts that were the basis of the independence movement and the effects of the revolution on class status, slavery and race, as well as the attempts to create new forms of government in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War.