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Course Info for HIST - 201 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 3270 Title: Early America Department: History
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 15 Current enrollment: 15 Available seats: 0
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM, LIB - 181 Instructor(s): Wickman, Thomas
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities & Identity Power Equity Req
Note: 5 seats reserved for HIST majors, 8 seats for first-year students, 2 seats for second-year students.
Course Description:
This course introduces students to major developments in the political, economic, social, and environmental history of North America from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. We will study Indigenous sovereignty, European colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, the American Revolution, industrialization, abolitionism, U.S. wars with Native nations, and the U.S. Civil War. Students will be challenged to imagine American history within Atlantic and global contexts, to comprehend the expansiveness of hundreds of Native American homelands, and to center struggles for Black freedom, Indigenous sovereignty, and gender equality.