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Teaching American History Grant Program

Graduate Courses Descriptions:

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Graduate Courses Description
 for the
 Teaching of American History Grant Program

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offered by
 University of Illinois at Chicago

 

HIST 551 – Colloquium on American History: Problems and Cases in American History (to 1877)

Spring, 2006                   Instructor: Dr. Robert Johnston                 (4 credit hours)

This course provides teachers with exposure to some of the most important scholarship in American history pre-1877.  Readings in the course include: Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs; Alan Taylor, The American Colonies; Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution; and Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy.

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HIST 592 – Colloquium on Approaches to History: American Indian History as United States History

      Summer, 2006                 Instructor: Dr. Brian Hosmer                   (4 credit hours)

This class begins with the proposition that American Indian history is United States history and that studying American Indian experiences sheds important light on the fundamental documents, principles, and eras that shaped the nation’s shared past.

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HIST 551 – Colloquium on American History: Problems and Cases in American History (from 1877)

Fall, 2006                      Instructor: Dr. Robert Johnston                 (4 credit hours)

The period of American history after 1877 contains much that is momentous, including the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth century, periodic waves of reform, two world wars and a Cold War, the rise of new social movements such as feminism, and the rise of mass conservatism.  This graduate survey course will introduce teachers to the most important scholarship on the post-1877 period.

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HIST 551 – U.S. History from 1970 to the Present

Spring, 2007               Instructor: Dr. Robert Johnston                 (4 credit hours)

This course will explore the most recent history of the United States. The basic premise of the course is that history _is_ possible for this period, with even the most recent past open to careful and creative scholarly assessments.  Subjects will range from the New York City blackout to the rise of the religious right, from the dramatic economic transformations of the last three decades to September 11th

 

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HIST 592 – Colloquium on Approaches to History: American Labor and Immigration History

Summer, 2007                  Instructor: Dr. Leon Fink                        (4 credit hours)

This colloquium will range widely in chronology, geography, and topical area in order to stimulate a more synthetic approach to the questions of movement, dislocation, and diaspora in working-class social history.  Prominent sub-themes include a comparison of the “classic era” of U.S. immigration history (1840-1920) with that of the more recent “era of globalization.”

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HIST 592 – Colloquium on Approaches to History: The U.S. in the 1960’s

Fall, 2007                      Instructor: Dr. John D’Emilio                  (4 credit hours)

This course focuses on a watershed decade in American History.  Studying the 1960’s shows democracy at work, from the shifts in the leadership and power of political parties, to the ability of Americans to make their voices hear through peaceful citizen protest, to the importance of a free press in stimulating debate about controversial issues.

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HIST 592 – Colloquium on Approaches to History: The Progressive Era

Spring, 2008                 Instructor: Dr. Robert Johnston                 (4 credit hours)

The Progressive Era witnessed an efflorescence of political democratization, labor activism, feminist politics, and moral fervor; yet the early twentieth century also saw highly undemocratic developments, such as the  rigidification of Jim Crowe, the rise of scientific racism, and a largely successful eugenic movement targeting the “unfit.”  This course allows teachers to come to grips with one of the most important, complex, and ambiguous periods in American history.

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HIST 592 – Colloquium on Approaches to History: Race and Politics in the United States Since Emancipation

Summer, 2008                 Instructor: Dr. Eric Amesen                  (4 credit hours)

This course explores the key historical developments and themes in the political history of African-Americans, on the one hand, and introduces participants more briefly to the central debates over race, immigration, ethnicity, and identity in the U.S. since 1865.

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All activities of the HFAHC are 100% funded by a $967,900, three year Teaching American History grant from the US Department of Education – grant program period (10/05 – 9/08).

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Last Modified: 12/5/2006