104 / SO C I A L SC I EN C E 207, 208 . ENGLISH HISTORY. (3, 3)
A survey of English history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present. The first semester deals with the formation of British society to 1688. The second semester concentrates on Britain in the modern world. Special emphasis given to political, social, and cultural institutions and their influence upon the United States. The ancient empires of the E ast and the Greek Peninsula to the defeat of the Greeks by the Romans. Special attention given to art, literature, and political institutions and their subsequent influence upon Western civilization. Roman history from its beginning to the fall of the Empire. Emphasis upon Rome's part in the preparation of the Medi terranean world for the spread of Christianity, and Rome's contributions to Western civilization. The settlement of North America and the growth of Anglo American civilization to 1763, stressing the development of political, economic, and religious institutions, and the de velopment of a distinctive American culture. The American Revolution, the establishment of a democratic government, and the growth of the national culture from 1763 to 1828. 303. THE DISRUPTION OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. (3) Slavery, sectionalism, the realignment of political parties, their impact upon American national life, and the disruption of American democracy from 1828 to 1860. 209. ANCIENT HISTORY. (3) 210. ROMAN HISTORY. (3) 301. AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY. (3) 302. THE UNITED STATES FROM COLONY TO NATION. (3)
304. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION. (3)
The background, causes, war-time conditions both civil and military in the North and South. Problems of reconstruction.
305. THE GROWTH OF MODERN AMERICA. (3)
Post-Civil War growth and development of the national economy and culture, political reform movements, and the rise to a position of world power to 1900.
306. THE UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. (3)
The political, economic, intellectual, and cultural aspects of American democracy in the twentieth century. Emphasis on the impact of two world wars upon the American way of life.
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