Listed in: History, as HIST-144
Formerly listed as: HIST-09
Edward D. Melillo (Section 01)
[US] A survey of American history from the early national period to the turn of the century, with an emphasis on social history. The course will trace the growth of slavery, the dispossession of Native Americans, Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of postwar large-scale industry, and big cities. Topics will include changing ethnic, racial, gender, and class relations, the struggles between labor and capital, and the emergence of middle-class culture. The format will include lectures and weekly discussions; readings will be drawn from both original and secondary sources. Two class meetings per week.
Spring semester. Professor Melillo.
Section 01
Tu 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM BEBU 107
Th 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM BEBU 107
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | New York: Dover Publications, 2001 | Jacobs, Harriet | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South | Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2015 | Krauthamer, Barbara | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 | New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2016 | Madley, Benjamin | New! | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era | Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003 | McPherson, James M. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection | New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2015 | Melillo, Edward D. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America | New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011 | White, Richard | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.