MILITARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing. Not open to students with credit for HISTORY 427 or 428 . Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe the diverse military traditions that collided in colonial North America and how they evolved in response to each other and technological developments. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain how the United States has attempted to use military power to advance its interests and ideals around the world and to what effect. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Explain how and why American military policies, establishments, and practices evolved over time. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain how concepts of identity (to include race, ethnicity, kinship, gender, and religion) influence the character of war and how war has, in turn, influenced identity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Analyze warfare as a human experience endured on the battlefield, at sea, in the sky, on the home front, at desolate outposts, and in councils of government. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Analyze the significance and persistence of expansion - physical, commercial, and ideological - to American (military) history. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Assess significant work in the historiography of American military history. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe the diverse military traditions that collided in colonial North America and how they evolved in response to each other and technological developments. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain how the United States has attempted to use military power to advance its interests and ideals around the world and to what effect. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Explain how and why American military policies, establishments, and practices evolved over time. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain how concepts of identity (to include race, ethnicity, kinship, gender, and religion) influence the character of war and how war has, in turn, influenced identity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Analyze warfare as a human experience endured on the battlefield, at sea, in the sky, on the home front, at desolate outposts, and in councils of government. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Analyze the significance and persistence of expansion - physical, commercial, and ideological - to American (military) history. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Assess significant work in the historiography of American military history. Audience: Graduate