HIST 496A Senior Thesis: Topics in US History
The culminating requirement for every student seeking a B.A. degree in history is an undergraduate thesis, based on primary research in original sources. For concentrators in history, this thesis requirement substitutes for the comprehensive examination required for most other undergraduate subjects. Each fall semester, the several sections of
HIST 496 are offered in different areas of history; groups of students work on their individual projects but present each stage of their research to their fellow students in the tutorial group. In this section, we focus on the history of the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students in this section may research any topic and period during that span: from the early republic to the Civil War and Reconstruction, from the Progressive Era to the Cold War and beyond. Projects in all fields of history are welcome: politics, diplomacy, and war; immigration, ethnicity, and race; and cultural, religious, and intellectual life.
Prerequisite
Open to History majors and minors only