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This course will explore the rise and fall of slavery in what became the United States from its colonial origins in 1619 through the end of Reconstruction in 1877, with an eye toward placing American slavery in a broader Atlantic context. We will examine the economic, racial, religious, cultural, legal, and political underpinnings of the institution, and evaluate the profound ways it shaped - and continues to shape - American society. We will analyze how American slavery was understood and experienced and consider how the stories we tell ourselves about American slaves and slavery have evolved over time. This course will conclude with a look at the impact of emancipation on Black life in America and slavery's enduring legacy.

The past and future of Stanford University examined through the development of five critical "worlds," including the Western region of the United States, the US nation-state, the global academy, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the complex phenomena summarized by the name Silicon Valley. Students are asked to consider and theorize these worlds, their interrelationships, and the responsibilities they entail for all of us who live and work at Stanford in the present.

Work together with a team of University Archivists, student archive assistants, and classmates on a public exhibition about a rotating theme. Learn what to search for in an archive, how to employ methods from history and sociology to understand and synthesize the sources, and strategies for designs and delivery. Play an active role in the ongoing writing and rewriting of Stanford University's history, and, in turn, its present. Must be taken concurrently or following enrollment in "Stanford and Its Worlds" or with permission of the instructor.

This course explores the ways that individuals and movements for social and economic equality have redefined and contested gender and sexuality in the modern United States. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, we will explore the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality in the politics of woman suffrage, racial justice, reproductive rights, and gay and trans rights, as well as conservative and right-wing responses. Majors and non-majors alike are welcome.

Thomas Jefferson assumed many roles during his life-- Founding Father, revolutionary, and author of the Declaration of Independence; natural scientist, inventor, and political theorist; slaveholder, founder of a major political party, and President of the United States. This introductory seminar explores these many worlds of Jefferson, both to understand the multifaceted character of the man and the broader historical contexts that he inhabited and did so much to shape.

The gendered ideas and practices of our world are products of their historical circumstances. This course will examine primary sources - including memoirs, travelogues, literature and art - to ask how gender connected to the emergence and development of global capitalism and imperialism. Why did Chinese women bind their feet while Mongolian women rode horses, and why was foot binding most prominent among the wealthy? What informed ideas of manhood, and how did they change in colonial contexts? Throughout the course, we will aim to think about gender historically. This means we must recognize that the categories we use to think about gender today - such as "heterosexuality," "homosexuality," or "lesbian" - do not neatly map onto the worlds of historical actors. It is a methodological error to simply import such identities into our analyses of the past. We will therefore collectively discuss how to make sense of gendered practices that seem familiar to us at first glance without imposing our categories on the lives of historical actors.

(62E is 3 units; 262E is 5 units.)This course is a historical analysis of extremism in the United States from Reconstruction through the present day, looking at such figures and movements and the KKK, the First Red Scare, Father Coughlin and the Christian Front, McCarthyism, the John Birch Society, the Aryan Nations, and the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers of the present. Students will explore the following questions: what do we mean by extremism? What are the material, cultural, political, and intellectual conditions that lay the groundwork for extremism? What is the relationship between political and religious extremism? Is there a connecting thread spanning extremist movements across the nation's history--a paranoid style or authoritarian personality, perhaps? With these guiding questions, students will be introduced to primary sources along with scholarly literature--classic texts and new, groundbreaking research--to equip them with a foundational knowledge of the long history of extremism in the United States.

This course explores the long history of ideas about gender and equality. Each week we read, dissect, compare, and critique a set of primary historical documents (political and literary) from around the world, moving from the 15th century to the present. We tease out changing arguments about education, the body, sexuality, violence, labor, politics, and the very meaning of gender, and we place feminist critics within national and global political contexts.

In 2016, Donald Trump won 81% of white evangelical voters. Evangelical and conservative Catholic voters, members of the so-called Religious Right, have formed an essential pillar of the Republican Party for the entire lifetime of most Stanford undergraduates. But this was not always the case. In this course, we will discover leaders who shaped the Religious Right through coalition building, ideological line-drawing, and sermonizing as well as those who offered political alternatives of the Irreligious Right and ever-elusive Religious Left.