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21H.001 How to Stage a Revolution ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this subject. Lecture: MW3 ( 3-270 ) Recitation: R12 ( 2-131 ) or R3 ( 2-131 ) or F12 ( 2-139 ) or F3 ( 2-139 ) +final Explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions by looking at how people overthrow their rulers and establish new governments. Considers a set of major political transformations throughout the world and across centuries to understand the meaning of revolution and evaluate its impact. Examines how revolutionaries have attempted to establish their ideals and realize their goals. Asks whether radical upheavals require bloodshed, violence, or even terror. Goal is to explain why some revolutions succeed and others fail. Materials include the writings of revolutionaries, declarations and constitutions, music, films, art, novels, memoirs, and newspapers. more information ... J. Ravel, C. Wilder, E. Wood
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21H.007J Empire: Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Studies (New) ( ) (Same subject as 21L.014J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: MW2.30-4 ( 4-370 ) Interdisciplinary investigation of three of the best-documented pre-modern empires: the Roman empire of Augustus, the Frankish empire of Charlemagne, and the English empire in the age of the Hundred Years? War. Focuses on how large, multi-ethnic empires were created, sustained, legitimated, and contested through conquest, government, literature, art, architecture, thought, social relationships, economic organization, and technology. Students examine several different types of evidence, read across a variety of disciplines, and develop skills to identify continuities and changes in ancient and medieval societies. A. Bahr, W. Broadhead, E. Goldberg
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21H.101 American History to 1865 ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: TR11-12.30 ( 4-253 ) +final A basic history of American social, economic, and political development from the colonial period through the Civil War. Examines the colonial heritages of Spanish and British America; the American Revolution and its impact; the establishment and growth of the new nation; and the Civil War, its background, character, and impact. Readings include writings of the period by Winthrop, Paine, Jefferson, Madison, W. H. Garrison, G. Fitzhugh, H. B. Stowe, and Lincoln. P. Maier
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21H.102 American History since 1865 ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Examines the history of American politics, economics, and society from the Civil War to the present. Use of secondary accounts and primary documents such as court cases, letters and diaries, photographs, and films to examine some of the key issues in the development of modern America: industrialization and urbanization, US emergence as a global power, growth of consumer culture, and the development of the civil rights movement. more information ... C. Capozzola
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21H.104J Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History ( ) (Same subject as 11.015J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this subject. Lecture: TR2-3.30 ( 4-253 ) Readings and discussions focusing on a series of short-term events that shed light on American politics, culture, and social organization. Events studied include the Boston Tea Party of 1773; the crisis at Boston over the case of Anthony Burns, an escaped slave, in 1854; the Homestead strike of 1892; and the student uprisings at Columbia University in 1968. Emphasis on finding ways to make sense of these complicated, highly traumatic events, and on using them to understand larger processes of change in American history. more information ... P. Maier, R. M. Fogelson
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21H.105 American Classics ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Students read, discuss, and write about critical works in American history from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Includes writings by early Puritan writers, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, and Madison; Lewis and Clark; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; the Lincoln-Douglas debates; U. S. Grant, W. E. B. Dubois, Andrew Carnegie, Horatio Alger, F. D. Roosevelt, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr. May also include music, recorded speeches, television programs, visual images, or films. more information ... P. Maier
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21H.106J Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies ( ) (Same subject as 24.912J , SP.417J , 21A.114J , 21L.008J , 21M.630J , 21W.741J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this subject. Lecture: W1-2.30 ( 4-145 ) Recitation: M1-2.30 ( 4-145 ) or M EVE (7-8.30 PM) ( 4-145 ) Interdisciplinary survey of people of African descent that draws on the overlapping approaches of history, literature, anthropology, legal studies, media studies, performance, linguistics, and creative writing. Connects the experiences of African-Americans and of other American minorities, focusing on social, political, and cultural histories, and on linguistic patterns. Includes lectures, discussions, workshops, and required field trips that involve minimal cost to students. more information ... T. DeFrantz, S. Alexandre, C. Capozzola
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21H.112 The American Revolution ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 English and American backgrounds of the Revolution; issues and arguments in the Anglo-American conflict; colonial resistance and the beginnings of republicanism; the Revolutionary War; constitution writing for the states and nation; and effects of the American Revolution. Concerned primarily with the revolutionary origins of American government and laws. Readings emphasize documents from the period--pamphlets, correspondence, the minutes or resolutions of resistance organizations, constitutional documents and debates. P. Maier
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21H.115 Christianity in America ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Examines Christian encounters with Judaism, Islam, and the indigenous religions of Africa and America. Explores the intellectual and social consequences of Christian imperialism and the transformations of Christianity during its American encounters. C. Wilder
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21H.116J The Civil War and Reconstruction ( ) (Same subject as STS.029J ) (Subject meets with STS.423 ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Anti-slavery and the intensification of sectionalism in the 1850s; the secession crisis; political and military developments in the Civil War years; why the North won; and the political, economic, and social legacies of the conflict. M. R. Smith
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21H.117 The Black Radical Tradition in America (New) ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Focuses on American history from the African-American perspective. Includes alternative visions of the nation's future, and definitions of its progress, that have called for a fundamental restructuring of political, economic and social relations. Introduces events, figures and institutions that have shaped African-American history, from the struggles to dominate the African coast and the emergence of a modern slave trade, through the fall of the Western slave societies. Also examines the experiences of Africans in other parts of North America, as well as South America and the Caribbean. C. Wilder
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21H.126 America in Depression and War ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 URL: http://web.mit.edu/21h.126/www/ The Great Depression and World War II permanently changed American politics and society. Topics include: the Great Crash, the New Deal, Roosevelt, the home front, the Normandy Invasion, and the atomic bomb. Explores those events through film, posters, newspapers, and other historical documents. M. Jacobs
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21H.131 The United States in the Nuclear Age: Politics, Culture, and Society Since 1941 ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 American experience at home and abroad from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Cold War. Topics include: America's role as global superpower, foreign and domestic anticommunism, social movements of left and right, suburbanization, and popular culture. M. Jacobs
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21H.150J Introduction to Asian American Studies: Literature, Culture, and Historical Experience ( ) (Same subject as 21F.043J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: TR1-2.30 ( 14N-225 ) An interdisciplinary subject that draws on literature, history, anthropology, film, and cultural studies to examine the experiences of Asian Americans in US society. Covers the first wave of Asian immigration in the 19th century, the rise of anti-Asian movements, the experiences of Asian Americans during WWII, the emergence of the Asian American movement in the 1960s, and the new wave of "post-1965" Asian immigration. Examines the role these historical experiences played in the formation of Asian American ethnicity, and explores how these experiences informed Asian American literature and culture. Addresses key societal issues such as racial stereotyping, media racism, affirmative action issues, the glass ceiling, the "model minority" syndrome, and anti-Asian harassment or violence. Taught in English. E. Teng
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21H.153J Race and Gender in Asian America ( ) (Same subject as SP.603J , 21F.069J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 An interdisciplinary examination of the intersection of race and gender in Asian American texts (literary, historical, cinematic) from the mid-19th century to the present. Topics include media images of Asian American men and women, feminism and gender roles, and interracial romance. Writers include Maxine Hong Kingston, David Henry Hwang, Chang-rae Lee, Jessica Hagedorn, and Shirley Lim. Filmmakers include Mira Nair, Ang Lee, Wayne Wang, and Gurinder Chadha. Taught in English. E. Teng
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21H.206 American Consumer Culture ( ) Prereq: None Units: 2-0-10 Lecture: M3-5 ( 4-231 ) Examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. Explores how such things as department stores, advertising, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the American economy, society, and politics. M. Jacobs
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21H.221J Migration and Immigration in US History ( ) (Same subject as 11.019J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Examines the history of the United States as a "nation of immigrants" within a broader global context. Considers migration from the mid-19th century to the present through case studies of such places as New York's Lower East Side, South Texas, Florida, and San Francisco's Chinatown. Examines the role of memory, media, and popular culture in shaping ideas about migration. Includes optional field trip to New York City. C. Capozzola
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21H.223 War and American Society ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: T EVE (7-10 PM) ( 1-135 ) Throughout American history, the experience of war has shaped the ways that Americans think about themselves, their fellow citizens, and the meanings of American citizenship. Examines how Americans have told the stories of modern war in multiple forms such as history, literature, film, and popular culture from the First World War to the war in Iraq, and interprets media representations in terms of changing ideas about American identity. C. Capozzola
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21H.224 Constitutional Law in US History ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Introduces major themes and patterns of change in American constitutional law since 1787, including federal-state relations, racial and gender equality, economic regulation, and civil liberties. Readings consist of original court cases, especially from the US Supreme Court, including cases of the current term. Emphasis on the historical development of constitutional law and on the relationship between the Supreme Court and broader social, political, and cultural trends. C. Capozzola
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21H.225J Gender and the Law in US History ( ) (Same subject as SP.607J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Explores the legal history of the US as a gendered system. Examines how women have shaped the meanings of American citizenship through pursuit of political rights such as suffrage, jury duty, and military service, as well as how the legal system has shaped gender relations for both women and men through regulation of such issues as marriage, divorce, work, reproduction, and the family. Readings draw from primary and secondary materials, focusing on the broad historical relationship between law and society. No legal knowledge is required or assumed. C. Capozzola
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21H.231J American Urban History I ( ) (Same subject as 11.013J ) Prereq: None Units: 2-0-7 Seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly 1850 to the present. Among the institutions to be looked at are political machines, police departments, courts, schools, prisons, public autorities, and universities. Focuses on readings and discussions. R. M. Fogelson
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21H.232J American Urban History II ( ) (Same subject as 11.014J ) Prereq: None Units: 2-0-7 Lecture: W3-5 ( 10-401 ) Seminar on the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban America. Among the features considered are parks, cemeteries, tenements, suburbs, zoos, skyscrapers, department stores, supermarkets, and amusement parks. Focuses on readings and discussions. R. M. Fogelson
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21H.234J Downtown ( ) (Same subject as 11.026J ) (Subject meets with 11.339 ) Prereq: None Units: 2-0-7 Seminar on downtown in US cities from the late 19th century to the late 20th. Emphasis on downtown as an idea, place, and cluster of interests, on the changing character of downtown, and on recent efforts to rebuild it. Considers subways, skyscrapers, highways, urban renewal, and retail centers. Focus on readings, discussions, and individual research projects. Meets with graduate subject 11.339, but assignments differ. R. M. Fogelson
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21H.235 Metropolis: A Comparative History of New York City (New) ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: W EVE (7-10 PM) ( 2-135 ) Examines the evolution of New York City from 1607 to the present. Readings focus on the city's social and physical histories. Discussions compare New York's development to patterns in other cities. C. Wilder
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21H.301 The Ancient World: Greece ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 URL: http://web.mit.edu/21h.301/www You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this subject. Lecture: TR12 ( 32-155 ) Recitation: F12 ( 56-167 ) or F2 ( 56-180 ) or F4 ( 56-162 ) +final History of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. Major social, economic, political, and religious trends. Homer, heroism, and the Greek identity; the hoplite revolution and the rise of the city-state; Herodotus, Persia, and the (re)birth of history; Empire, Thucydidean rationalism, and the Peloponnesian War; Aristotle, Macedonia, and Hellenism. Emphasis on use of primary sources in translation. more information ... S. Ostrow
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