Historic drawing of the Boston Tea Party. (Image courtesy of the Freedom Trail Foundation.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Pauline Maier
Prof. Robert Fogelson
MIT Course Number
21H.104J / 11.015J
As Taught In
Fall 2010
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Description
This course uses readings and discussions to focus on a series of short-term events that shed light on American politics, culture, and social organization. It emphasizes finding ways to make sense of these complicated, highly traumatic events, and on using them to understand larger processes of change in American history. The class also gives students experience with primary documentation research through a term paper assignment.
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