HIST 314 Making America: Colonization, Revolution and the U.S. Constitution
This course surveys the origins of American social and civic life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing primarily on British and French North America, topics include: the lives of native peoples, transatlantic migrations from Europe and Africa, regional variations across the Atlantic seaboard, origins of the crisis with Britain, the legacy of the American Revolution, the formation of the U. S. Constitution, and the presidential election of 1800.
Offered
Fall, Even Years