Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2023

HIST 103   American History to 1877 (US)
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2025 2024 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
Pre-Requisites
Co-Requisites
Core Area
Area of InquirySocial Relations,Inst.& Agents
Liberal Arts PracticesConfront Collective Challenges

A broad survey of key patterns, events, and the history of peoples in America from ca. 1500 to 1877. Covers the breadth of Native American life and the effects of European settlement, the colonial and constitutional periods through the age of reform, the crisis of union, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Prepares students for upper-level courses in early American history. (US)