FSEM 187   Age of the American Revolution

Faculty Profile for Professor Hodges

Covers the age of the American Revolution, beginning with the Stamp Act Riots in 1765 and ending with the onset of the American Civil War in 1860. Topics include the pre-Revolutionary debates and turmoil, the war itself, popular post-war government, and the construction of the Constitution. From there, students survey the first presidential elections, the building of a federal government, and the expansion of the United States to the Mississippi River. Includes ample discussion of slavery and freedom, Forced Native American exile, violence in American society and the Women’s Movement. Students who successfully complete this seminar receive credit for HIST 203 and satisfy the social relations, institutions, and agents areas of inquiry requirement.

Graham Russell Gao Hodges is professor of history and Africana and Latin American studies. He is the author of ten books and editor of ten more. One of the books for the course is his biography of David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Hodges has directed eight summer National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes and Seminars on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad.