HIST 6630 - New Nation/1783-1815 **

Credit Hours: (3)

Description This course introduces the political, economic, and social causes and outcomes of conflicts in North America from 1754-1815, learning what was revolutionary about the age of revolutions. Students will examine what it meant to be an American and a British subject and consider the motivations of a wide range of participants, including Native Americans, enslaved and free African Americans, and the fifth of the population who remained with Britain as Loyalists. The other great movements of the Age of Revolutions, notably the French, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions will place the American Revolution in larger context.