Courses

Surveys

  • United States History: From Contact to the Present
  • Modern America: United States History Since 1865
  • The United States Since 1893
  • The United States Since 1929
  • Postwar America: United States History Since 1945
  • Recent American History: The United States, 1970-Now
  • African American History: An Introduction

Methods Courses

  • Public History
  • Oral History
  • Digital History
  • Digital Humanities
  • Digital Scholarly Editing
  • Situation Critical: Writing Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age
  • Reading and Writing Across Forms
  • United States Cultural History
  • United States Intellectual History
  • Approaches to American Studies
  • Introduction to Cultural Analysis
  • Hearing the Past: Approaches to Sound History
  • Feeling the Past: Approaches to Sensory History
  • The History of History: Methodologies of Historical Inquiry

Topics Courses

  • The Computerized Society: History of the Computer in the USA
  • Digitizing Folk Music History
  • The Fannie Barrier Williams Project: Studying the Life, Times, and Legacies of Brockport’s Antiracist and Feminist Activist
  • Popular Culture and American History: From Barnum to Beyoncé
  • US Popular Music History
  • The Sixties in the US and the World
  • The Vietnam War
  • American Culture in Global Circulation, 1776-2001
  • Modern Transatlantic History
  • Getting and Spending: A History of Consumerism in America
  • Citizenship in Historical Perspective
  • Angelheaded Hipsters: Bohemianism in America
  • Community in the United States: History of a Concept and Practice
  • The 1619 Project Project
  • Eleven Strikes: United States Labor History

Internship/Experiential Learning Courses

  • Public History Internship Practicum
  • The Challenge of the Citizen-Scholar: Scholarly Civic Engagement Practicum
  • The American Mind—What Were They Thinking?: US Intellectual History Seminar and Digital Scholarly Editing Practicum

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