HIST 112 Survey of U.S. History Since 1877
This course surveys American history since Reconstruction, exploring transformations in American politics, society, and culture. Though it is wide-ranging, it has as a unifying theme the question of how and why people have defined the American nation in different ways, and how those ideas have related to race and gender. Topics covered include the end of the westward expansion after the Civil War and Indian resistance, industrialization, immigration, World War I, African American migration and cultural innovation, the cultural turmoil of the 1920s, the Depression and New Deal, the Second World War at home and abroad, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, feminism, other social movements, the Vietnam war and the anti-war movement, cultural politics in the 1970s, the new conservatism and 1980s culture wars, the 1990s, 9/11, the Gulf War, and the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

HIST 135 African-American History
This course is a survey of African-American history from the fifteenth century to the present. Eras and topics include the trans-Atlantic slave trade, slavery in the Americas, the Civil War and Emancipation, segregation, the Great Migration, the Great Depression and World War II, the modern black freedom struggle, and the post-civil rights era. The class emphasizes how African Americans constructed individual and collective selves, created livelihoods, formed families, communities, and institutions, fashioned cultures, defined citizenship, and consistently defied notions of a monolithic "black community." Centering African Americans' words, actions, and artistic creations and the ways they interacted with other cultures and peoples within the Americas and abroad, this course investigates how African Americans shaped and were shaped by the many worlds they traversed.

HIST 185 "Free at Last" Glb anti-ap Mv
How should oppressed peoples fight against the powers that oppress them? How should different ethnic, national, and racial groups interact with each other and with their government? How should the government treat these different groups? How can violent conflict be resolved and both sides learn to live with each other? How should we remember and document these conflicts and resolutions? These are pressing questions we face today in many areas around the globe. We can study the beginnings of answers by investigating a recent global movement--the world-wide anti-apartheid struggle. Students will become investigators through this course by examining several different multi-media sources, including a seven-part documentary about the anti-apartheid movement entitled "Have You Heard from Johannesburg,"? online interviews and podcasts with participants, oral histories, autobiographies, and newspaper sources. We will travel the globe as we meet activists from many different nations engaged in the anti-apartheid struggle and ask what made their activism more or less effective. The course will cultivate critical thinking skills, ask philosophical questions, and examine historical sources.

Paideia 111/112 Paideia I/II
A two-semester common course for all first-year students that addresses questions central to the human condition. It develops students' ability to read, write, analyze, discuss, and research by engaging with works from across the disciplines, drawn from different time periods and parts of the globe. As a signature course and a foundation for liberal learning, "Enduring Questions" is taught by faculty from all divisions of the college. Students must successfully complete the course to graduate and are not allowed to withdraw from Paideia 111 and 112