American Resistance: The Struggle for Justice

4.0 credits

This course introduces students to history through social resistance movements and struggles against inequality. It highlights the “unremembered heroes,” enslaved people, workers, activists, & ordinary citizens who fought for liberty and justice. Students will examine America’s founding contradictions & trace how generations resisted oppression to expand democracy. Themes include enslavement and abolition, labor & class conflict, racial justice and civil rights, gender and sexual liberation, state violence and policing, Indigenous resistance, and cultural resistance. From the American Revolution to Black Lives Matter, students will see how grassroots struggles transformed American history.