HIST 4320 - America at War 1620-1898

The course will open with a discussion of European-Indigenous warfare in the seventeenth century and then shift to the European driven conflicts in the eighteenth century. The second half of the course will cover the Revolutionary War, the periodic wars with Indigenous peoples, the Civil War and the Spanish-American wars. As important, the course will also deal with the institutional dimension of the military from administration to military academies.