Modern History of the Americas

Department - LART
Offered - Fall, Spring, Summer
Course number - LHIS-214

This survey course in the comparative history of modern North and South America focuses on constitutional and cultural nationalisms in a hemisphere of increasing immigration and diversity. Topics include revolutionary movements in the Americas from Mexican independence and the American Civil War to 20th-century Latin American political organizations and utopian separatist movements in Canada and the United States. The course examines the comparative histories of frontiers, both natural and cultural, in North and South America, and the emergence of the United States as the dominant economic and political power in the hemisphere.

Credits: 3
Course Chair: Darla Hanley
Prerequisites: LENG-111
Required of: This class is one of several that will satisfy part of the Liberal Arts requirement in history for degree students
Electable by: All