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May 15, 2024
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HIST 5008 - Early US Republic
Examines the earliest decades of the new United States, including how diverse peoples in different regions, ethnic groups, and classes struggled to coexist and define what it meant to live under the republican form of government created in 1776 and consolidated in 1787. Will include topics such as institution building, westward expansion and its effects on Native and African-Americans, the nation’s place on the world stage, the War of 1812, the emergence of partisanship and party systems, competing understandings of political economy, political culture, and life in the early Republic.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
- Enhance critical reading, writing, thinking, and verbal skills.
- Understand historical actors, their ideas and their beliefs within the context of place and time.
- Understand historiographic approaches to aspects of the early U.S. Republic.
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