Tag: Law History & Society (LHS)
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This introductory-level course explores over 500 years of Latin American history from the rise and fall of the Aztec and Incan empires to modern challenges…
This course explores 10 of the greatest moments of sociopolitical movement and institutional change in American History. The Civil War, twentieth-century labor movements, women’s suffrage, anti-globalization, gay rights, …
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 – 1:50 pm Dr. McLeod (AFST) This course is Cross-Listed with JUDC 1027. Beginning on the African continent, this course follows African captives across the…
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 pm – 1:50 pmDr. Nicholas McLeod This course is cross-listed with AFST 2014. This course surveys major themes in African American History from the…
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30 am – 10:50 am Dr. Christopher Phillips This course takes an in-depth look at the national events and controversies that led to the American…
Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is the second of a two-semester sequence on the Civil War era. This course introduces students to the events and interpretations of the…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00-12:20 pm Dr. Margo Lambert This class provides students an opportunity to study the history of Native Americans, the interactions between indigenous peoples, and their…
This lecture and discussion course examines some of the most unspeakable crimes and greatest tragedies of late modernity. It focuses primarily on the emergence and varieties of mass…
Dr. Tracy Teslow This mixed lecture and discussion course will examine the construction and consequences of race and ethnicity in American history. Through an exploration of controversies, debates, and critical…
This course will introduce students to the history of the American South from its colonial beginnings to the conclusion of the American Civil War. The region’s history was…
This class will examine the South and its people, black and white, as well as its institutions, political ideology, and ultimately, its meaning in the early American continuum from the end of…
Dr. Christopher Phillips This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses about “Colonial America” have traditionally followed…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm Dr. Isaac Campos This course will explore the history of intoxicants in the Americas from a comparative global perspective. Primarily…
This class is cross-listed with WGS 2077 & URBN 2077. This course will introduce students to the rich and varied history of LGBTQ people and movements in American…
Dr. Jason Krupar Historically Irregular Warfare has also been referred to as Revolutionary War, Unconventional War, Asymmetric Warfare, Insurgency, or Terrorism depending on the goals of the groups involved…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr Pirates, robbers, and tyrants: the common enemies of all mankind. Murder, treachery, deception, fraud, abduction, ambush, and seizure—that is how their actions are commonly…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores the origins, sources, and nature of the so-called modern ‘western legal tradition’ from the fall of Rome to the formation of…
Dr. Christopher Phillips This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses in “Colonial America” have traditionally followed the beginnings…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This course focuses on the central role played by women, sex, gender, and race in the conquest and colonization of Latin America from the time of the Aztec…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 – 1:50 pm Dr. Wayne Durrill This course will examine the origins and development of race-based chattel slavery in British North America and the…
Dr. Stephen Porter This course investigates the major ideologies, movements, and laws from the 17th through 19th centuries that gave shape to the “Atlantic World “, helped to define…
Dr. Stephen Porter This course explores the intersections between international human rights and U.S. foreign relations, broadly construed, focusing primarily on developments since World War I, to create…
Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is an introduction to the life of Abraham Lincoln in the era of the Civil War. The purpose of this course is to…
This course will examine the struggle of African-Americans to achieve equality and civil rights from the beginning of the “Jim Crow” era through to the present with emphasis…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:15 am – 12:10 pm Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores a turbulent and transformative period in English and British history from about…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores the history of Renaissance Europe through the lens of Power, Politics, and Persuasion. Throughout the course, we will focus on cultural,…
This course explores the rise of protest movements that emerged from the 1960s through the early 2000s that self-consciously embraced an international framework, often operating on a transnational scale.
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This class examines the institution, meaning, and historical significance of the development of the rule of law and due process by critically examining some…
Dr. Katherine Sorrels This course investigates the rise of the Nazi Party, the National Socialist seizure of power, and the policies of the Nazi state before and during…
Dr. Stephen Porter Explores the historical roots of contemporary international refugee crises global migration, and the role played by American people, institutions, politics, and culture in these affairs….
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara People in the U.S. often think of African slavery as a North American story. But the vast majority of enslaved Africans went to Latin America, ten…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt- Alcantara We tend to imagine the Mexica (“Aztec”), Inkan, and Mayan empires as timeless ancient dynasties reigning for centuries over large areas of Latin America…
Dr. Holly McGee It is impossible to understand the true history of this nation, or place into proper context the current racial crisis in society, without a basic…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr Although Human Rights issues continue to be debated and contested, the longer history and intellectual tradition of Human Rights is often unexamined and even…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm Dr. Wayne Durrill This course fulfills the History Major Capstone Requirement. This class will examine the South and its people, …
Dr. Isaac Campos This course explores the history of the Cold War in Latin America, with particular emphasis on the way the Cold War altered relations between the United…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This course examines the development of the Spanish Inquisition from its medieval roots to its early nineteenth-century demise. The focus of the course is both…
This course is co-taught by Dr. Susan Longfield Karr & Dr. Stephen Porter Human rights are everywhere. We see them as affirming the core values of human life,…
Dr. Isaac Campos This course examines the business, culture, policy, legal, and public health implications of drugs and the broader category of addiction since 1980. Over the course of the semester, we…
Thursdays, 2:30 pm – 5:20 pm Dr. Christopher Phillips This is an undergraduate readings-based seminar on the Civil War era that pairs with the graduate-level seminar HIST 6121. …
This course analyses the development of American cities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. With a mix of environmental and urban history techniques, the class addresses both…
