GOVT 6121 - [American Political Development]

(crosslisted) AMST 6121, HIST 6121

Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

M. Sanders.

This course will survey the literature on American political development from the Founding to the late twentieth century. The format each week will include a critical reading of one of the major works from a different historical period and, in connection with that reading, brief proposals by the students in which they suggest alternative ways of investigating the same question. The readings will include a wide sampling of works from intellectual, legal, economic, political, institutional, cultural, and social history.