HIST 1513 Topics

Native Americas

Pre-Human Americas

First Americans

Native American Diversity

European Invasion of the Americas

God, Glory and Gold

Seafaring Technology

Germs and Guns

Reformation

Catholic Penance and Pilgrimages

Martin Luther

Jean Calvin

Spanish Empire

Mercantilism

African-American Slavery

Missions

Development of Constitutionalism in England

Tudor Compromises

Stuart Civil War

Glorious Revolution

Whose is Charge? The Rise of Individual Liberty

Scientific Revolution

Deism

Evangelicalism

European North America

Jamestown

Plymouth

New France

British America in the Eighteenth Century

Colonial Military

Colonial Economy

Colonial Government

The American Experiment

Articles of Confederation, 1781

US Constitution, 1789

Bill of Rights, 1791

Early American Foreign Policy

Peace with Britain

French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars

War of 1812

Interpreting the Constitution : Idealism vs. Realism

Frontier Security

Nullification

Expansion of Slavery

Restoring the Faith: American Varieties of Christianity

“Christians”

Apocalyptic Christianity

Mormons

Manifest Destiny

Indian Removal

Texas Independence

Mexican American War

Industrial Revolution

Steam Engine

Textiles

Bulk Transportation

“freedom is not possible without slavery”

American Slavery

Nullification & Compromise

Irreconcilable Differences

The American Civil War and Reconstruction

Confederate States of America

Civil War

Reconstruction