Ramachandran
» America in Depression and War
Lecture. The Great Depression and World War II permanently changed American politics and society. Topics include: the Great Crash, the New Deal, Roosevelt, the home front, the Normandy Invasion, and the atomic bomb. Explores those events through film, nove...
» America in the Nuclear Age
Lecture. This course?examines the?American experience at home and abroad from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Cold War. Topics include: America\'s role as global superpower, foreign and domestic anticommunism, social movements of left and right, suburbaniza...
» American Classics
Lecture. “What then is the American, this new man?†asked J. Hector St-John de Crèvecoeur in his Letters from an American Farmer in 1782. This subject takes Crèvecoeur’s question as the starting point for an examination of the changing meanings of ...
» American Classics
Lecture. This subject is devoted to reading and discussing basic American historical texts that are often cited but often remain unread, understanding their meaning, and assessing their continuing significance in American culture. Since it is a \'Communica...
» American Consumer Culture
Lecture. This course examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the \'good life\' through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. Explores how such things as department stores, advertising, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transfo...
» American History to 1865
Lecture. This course focuses on a basic history of American social, economic, and political development from the colonial period through the Civil War. The colonial heritages of Spanish and British America; the American Revolution and its impact; the estab...
» Downtown
Lecture. This seminar focuses on downtowns in U.S. cities from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Emphasis will be placed on downtown as an idea, place, and cluster of interests; on the changing character of downtown; and on recent ...
» East Asia in the World
Lecture. This subject examines the interactions of East Asia with the rest of the world and the relationships of each of the East Asian countries with each other, from ca. 1500 to 2000 A.D. Primary focus on China and Japan, with some reference to Korea, Vi...
» European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Lecture. From pineapples grown in Hawaii to English-speaking call centers outsourced to India, the legacy of the \'Age of Imperialism\' appears everywhere in our modern world. This class explores the history of European imperialism in its political, econom...
» France 1660-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Napoleon
Lecture. A century and a half ago, Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the Revolution of 1789 in France constituted the culmination of long-term administrative and social changes, rather than a rupture with the past. In this class, we will consider that Tocq...