Seminars & Courses

History 125 Topics in American History

This course emphasizes the study of primary sources to understand broad themes and topics of significance in American history. United States history is considered within comparative and western hemispheric contexts. Topics change each semester and will parallel the lectures and workshops of the Hart Institute.

History 125 will examine major works of nonfiction, fiction and film that addressed major issues in American society and helped define these issues for the American public. Themes include race, reconstruction, and segregation; changes in industry, class structure, wealth, and consumption; and labor, migration, and ethnicity in the Southwest. Works by W.E. B. Du Bois, Thorstein Veblen, and Carey McWilliams included.