HIST 715 - Readings Seminars in Early American History to 1815

Fall and Spring (3,3) Staff.

Readings seminars explore, primarily through secondary literature, specific areas or aspects of history. (Open only to candidates for advanced degrees.) Topics frequently offered include:

Scourge: the North American Plantation, Economy and Geography. Nelson
France and the Atlantic World. Rushforth
Native American History to 1763. Rushforth
Nature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. Brown
America’s Long Eighteenth Century: The Making of the Modern? Wulf
Gender, Family, and Politics in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Wulf
Comparative Atlantic Revolutions. Mapp, Early American Republic. Grasso
Puritans and Puritanism. Brown, Religion and American History to 1865. Grasso
U.S. History, 18th-century Intellectual/Cultural. Grasso
Readings in the American Revolution Era. Mapp
Readings in Early American History. Whittenburg, Mapp, Grasso, Rushforth
African-American History to 1865. Ely
Southern Society to 1861. Ely

This course may be repeated for credit when topic differs.