HIST 330 African American History

This course examines the experiences of African Americans in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Topics to be covered include the Trans-Atlantic slave trade; the development of slavery; slave culture; black abolition and northern black life: the Civil War and the black war effort; emancipation and the freedmen’s community; Reconstruction; disfranchisement and segregation; Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois; black institution building; the Second World War and the black war effort; black protest movements and the civil rights era; and an assessment of the current state of blacks in American life.