History, American

Department of History
Conklin Hall, Room 323
Phone:  973/353-5410
Fax:      973/353-1193
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~history

SEE ALSO: HISTORY

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES I (3 cr.)
21:512:201:B1:91194
DAY: 5/26-7/2
MTWTh 8:15-10:00
FRIEDMAN           CONKLIN 424

Political, economic, and social phases of American history that have influenced or determined the development of the U.S. from 1607 to 1865.

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES II (3 cr.)
21:512:202:B1:91884
DAY: 5/26-7/2
MTWTh 10:15-12:00
ROTUNDA          CONKLIN 352

62:512:202:B6:94259
EVE: 5/26-7/2
TTh 6:00-9:30
WARNER         HILL 106

Political, economic, and social phases of American history that have influenced or determined the development of the U.S. from 1865 to present.

21:512:202:H1:94340
DAY: 7/6-8/12
MTWTh 1:00-2:45
OJSERKIS          HILL 115

Political, economic, and social phases of American history that have influenced or determined the development of the U.S. from 1865 to present.

CONTEMPORARY AMERICA (3 cr.)
62:512:371:H6:94258
EVE: 7/6-8/12
MW 6:00-9:30
FRIEDMAN           CONKLIN 342

Survey of the history of the United States from 1945 to the present, with emphasis on corporate liberalism, McCarthyism, the rise of suburbia, the Vietnam War, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the "Reagan Revolution."

HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES, 1877-PRESENT (3 cr.)
62:512:374:B6:92921
EVE: 5/26-7/2
MW 6:00-9:45
WARNER            CONKLIN 342

The role of women in American life; the nature of men and women and their relations; women's roles in social change; the organizational mechanisms by which their influence has been exerted.

1920's & THE GREAT DEPRESSION (3 cr.)
21:512:384:B1:94260
DAY: 5/26-7/2
MTWTh 1:00-2:45
ROTUNDA              CONKLIN 446

The history of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Topics explored include immigration, the sexual revolution, consumerism, popular culture, the labor movement, big business and big government, "rugged individualism," religious fundamentalism, changing reactions to gay male culture, women's experiences of the Great Depression, and debates about racial identity and American identity.

TOPICS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORY: GAY & LESBIAN HISTORY (3 cr.)
21:512:408:H1:94477
DAY: 7/6-8/12
MTWTh 10:15-12:00
MITCHELL        CONKLIN 424

While this discussion-oriented course will focus primarily on America, the readings will also examine the changing perceptions of homosexuality over time, as well as the creation of queer identities and social movements more broadly construed. We will explore the meanings of same-sex love prior to the existence of the terminology with which we describe it today, and how, when, and why such language developed. We will then examine the cultural context in which homosexual came to represent a person, rather than a behavior in the nineteenth century, the concurrent medicalization of homosexuality, and how gay and lesbian people constructed their own identities in ways that both subscribed to and challenged popular perceptions. Other issues this course will explore include:

•  The naturalness of categories and identities

•  The relationship between sexual orientation or gender identity

•  Homosexuality and the law

•  The ways in which the conceptions of homosexuality and heterosexuality are intertwined
   and defined against one another, that the existence of that constructed as deviant,
   defines the parameters of what is normal

•  The roles of race and class in the construction of gay stereotypes, identities, and    subcultures

TOPICS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORY: HISTORY OF AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC (3 cr.)
21:512:408:H2:94823
DAY: 7/6-8/12
MTWTh 1:00-2:45
FRIEDMAN    CONKLIN 424

This course will focus on the role of popular music in American history and its relevance to American society and culture from the late -19 to late -20th century. Students will critically discuss genres like the blues, jazz, country, musical theatre, rock and hip hop as historical text and marks of cultural and political identity. Major themes will include popular music as a mode of dissent, the influence of mass media and technology and the emergence of the music industry, as well as race, class and gender.

INTERNSHIP ADMINISTRATION OF HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS (3 cr.)
21:512:438:H1:95025
7/6-8/12
MEETING TIME BY ARRANGEMENT
STAFF

By permission only.

Basic principles and techniques of modern archives administration with emphasis on accession, appraisal, arrangement, description, and conservation. The practicum for this course may entail the full processing of a historical manuscript collection.

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN AMERICAN HISTORY (BA cr.)
21:512:499:T1:91342
5/26-8/12
MEETING TIME BY ARRANGEMENT
STAFF

By permission only.

Designed for the history major who desires to undertake extensive reading in a particular historical area, selected in consultation with a member of the department.