HIS 273 Race and Empire in the American Experiment
Two powerful and influential strands have dominated American history from pre-colonial times to the present: Race and Empire. This course uses these themes as lenses through which to view key aspects of U.S. history; the settlement and conquest of America, enslavement, the sectional crisis and the Civil War, the establishment of an overseas empire, efforts to build a multi-racial democracy, and the rapid growth of American power and its rise to global hegemon from the twentieth century up to the present day.