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This seminar will focus on America's westward expansion and its "Manifest Destiny" to expand from sea to shining sea. We will consider the purposes for westward expansion, Jackson's Indian Removal […]

Women’s political, social, and economic status has undergone several transformations in American history. This seminar will explore readings and documents in those stages: Women of Reform and Revolution, Women in […]

Women’s political, social, and economic status has undergone several transformations in American history. This seminar will explore readings and documents in those stages: Women of Reform and Revolution, Women in […]

This seminar offers an overview of the principles of the American Founding and the documents that embody them, especially the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. These principles will be […]

Learn about the evolution of Congress in this documents-based Seminar. The documents will explore the major issues and concerns over congressional representation at the Constitutional Convention, the powers of Congress, […]

This seminar examines how the political and institutional order forged by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal shaped American governance across the twentieth century. FDR’s expansion of federal power, the rise […]

Although the farm sector had struggled in the 1920s, the United States had enjoyed eight years of unprecedented prosperity under as the 1928 presidential race drew to a close. Seven […]