Graduate Programs

HIST 505 4A / POLSC 505 4A: The Progressive Era The transition to an industrial economy posed many problems for the United States. This course examines those problems and the […]

HIST 501 4A / POLSC 501 4A: The American Revolution This course focuses on three topics: political developments in North America and the British empire and the arguments for and against independence, culminating in the Declaration of Independence; the Revolutionary War as a military, social and cultural event in the development of the American nation […]

HIST 502 O6B / POLSC 502 O6B: The American Founding This course is an intensive study of the constitutional convention, the struggle over ratification of the Constitution, and the creation […]

HIST 510 O6B / POLSC 510 O6B: Great American Texts – The Federalist The Federalist is a complex political work comprised of arguments about war, economics, national unity, and liberty […]

HIST 633 O7B / POLSC 633 O7B: The American Presidency II, Andrew Johnson to the Present (2) This course is an examination of the political and constitutional development of the office of president from Reconstruction to the present. It focuses on how changing conceptions of the presidency have shaped American political life in the 19th […]