THE HISTORY WARS: ARGUING OVER AMERICA'S ORIGINS

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

This class will have a lecture/discussion format. We will examine recent high-profile public struggles over the places of race and slavery in the American past. We will contextualize the 1619 Project and the 1836 Project by looking at earlier fights over history curricula and by discussing debates in other countries over controversial aspects of their pasts. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 214 if student has credit for HIST 314 .