OSHER 324 - Out of Many: A People's History of America to 1783

Who made America? This course examines how three peoples-Europeans, Natives, and Africans-encountered each other in North America. The course begins with first contact and then moves through the colonial period, culminating in the American Revolution. Lessons tackle topics including witch-hunting, the origins of slavery, the great awakening, Native America, slave revolts, immigration, inequality, sex and marriage, imperial conflicts, and the war for independence. Together, these lessons provide a great introduction to the latest scholarship on almost every aspect of early American history prior to the end of the American Revolution in 1783. Most importantly, the course places front and center the ordinary people whose lives and struggles made America.