Counterintelligence: An American Social History (HIST 2453)

History · Boston College

Fulfills US History requirement for History Majors. Counterintelligence is the detecting and apprehension of spies, depriving foreign governments of information, and frustrating hostile foreign intelligence services from collecting information. The course will study the most impactful U.S. counterintelligence operations from the American Revolution to the present. However, this course aims to move beyond the strict political history to engage issues of psychology, gender, ethnicity, ideology, religion, and nationalism. George Washingtons use of female spies during the American Revolution, Afri

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