History · Boston College
Fulfills the US History requirement for Majors.Followed in spring semester by HIST2402.This course is an introduction to United States History from the pre-Columbian Era to the end of the Civil War. The principal text will be the first volume of the textbook edition of Jill Lepore'sWe Hold These Truths. After considering the Indigenous settlement of North America, we will proceed through the era of European encounter with and settlement of the continent. Particular attention will be paid to the rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the emergence of American slaveholding, settler treatment of
