HI 340

Conflict was rampant in the first three centuries of U.S. history. Controversy after controversy arose, tempers flared, and people passionately debated social roles, power, crime, the law, and morality. Americans from activists to reactionaries roiled their society, and this course focuses on key case studies of their tumultuous times. Focal studies may include colonial power struggles over heresy, witchcraft, race, and enslavement; midwives and doctors battling to control abortion and childbirth; debating rights in the American Revolution; immigration, class conflict and sexuality; class, sex work, and labour activism; clashes over abolitionism; northern and southern dissent against the Civil War; and race, sex, and the vote during Reconstruction. <br>