Syllabi
Syllabi from scholars on a variety of courses that address topics that pertain to Governing America in a Global Era are found below. Dave Robertson has produced a particularly impressive bibliography on American Political development which can be found here.
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Last updated 3/11/08
American Political Development
American Constitutional Development
Graduate; 2008
Ken Kersch
Boston College
American Constitutional Development
Undergraduate; 2004
Ken Kersch
Princeton University
American Government: A Historical Introduction
Undergraduate; 2006
Andrew J. Polsky
Hunter College, City University of New York
American Government from an Historical Perspective
Undergraduate; 2008
Ann Cohen
Hunter College, City University of New York
American Political Development
Graduate; 2003
Sidney Milkis
University of Virginia
American Political Development
Undergraduate; 2006
Andrew J. Polsky
Hunter College, City University of New York
American Political Development
Graduate; 2005
Andrew J. Polsky
Hunter College, City University of New York
American Political Development
Graduate; 2006
Beth Rosenson
University of Florida
American Political Development in the Twentieth Century
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
Elizabeth Sanders
Cornell University
American Political Development
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2006
Eric Schickler
University of California, Berkeley
American Political Development
Undergraduate; 2003
Randall Strahan
Emory University
American Political Development
Graduate; 2003
Steven Teles
Brandeis University
American Political Development
Graduate; 2007
Vesla Weaver
University of Virginia
California and the West in National Politics
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2004
Margaret O’Mara
Stanford University
Civil Liberties
Graduate; 2005
Ken Kersch
Princeton University
Civil Liberties
Undergraduate; 2005
Ken Kersch
Princeton University
Congress, President, and the Court in American Politics
Undergraduate; 2007
Daniel Wirls
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Constitution in American Political Development
Undergraduate; 2003
Dave Robertson
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Democracy in America
Undergraduate; 2007
Charles Kromkowski
University of Virginia
Political Economy of American Development, 1860-1900
Graduate; 2005
Richard Bensel
Cornell University
Seminar in American Political Development
Undergraduate; 2003
Andrew D. Grossman
Albion College
Seminar in American Political Development
Graduate; 2007
Dave Robertson
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Themes in American Political Development
Graduate; 2006 - 2007
Ira Katznelson
Columbia University
Tutorial in American Political Development
Undergraduate; 2005
Nicole Mellow
Williams College
Twentieth-Century American Political Development Colloquium
Graduate; 2007
Brian Balogh
University of Virginia
War, Trade, and American Political Development
Undergraduate; 2007
Shelley Hurt
Vassar College
American Politics
American Politics
Undergraduate; 2008
Shelley Hurt
Vassar College
American Politics Field Seminar
Graduate; 2007
Elizabeth Sanders
Cornell University
Cultural Issues and Cultural Conflict in American Politics
Graduate; 2006
Byron E. Shafer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Democracy and the Military: Problems in U.S. Civil Military Relations
Undergraduate; 2007
Elizabeth Kier
University of Washington, Seattle
Engines of Change in American Politics
Graduate; 2005
Byron E. Shafer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Honors Media and Politics
Undergraduate; 2007
Beth Rosenson
University of Florida
Interpretations of American Politics
Undergraduate; 2005
Nicole Mellow
Williams College
Introduction to American Politics
Undergraduate; 2003
Leo Lovelace
Chapman University
Introduction to American Politics
Graduate; 2007
David R. Mayhew
Yale University
Introduction to American Politics
Undergraduate; 2007
Dave Robertson
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Introduction to Labor Studies
Undergraduate; 2005
Dave Robertson
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Introduction to Politics
Undergraduate; 2007
Will Morrisey
Hillsdale College
Local Government Law
Graduate; 2005
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
The Politics of Business Regulation
Undergraduate; 2003
Dave Robertson
University of Missouri-St. Louis
The Politics of Place – Red and Blue America
Undergraduate; 2006
Nicole Mellow
Williams College
Proseminar in American Politics
Graduate; 2005
Howard Reiter
University of Connecticut
Religion and Politics in America
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
Doug Rossinow
Metropolitan State University
Religion and Public Leadership in Contemporary America
Undergraduate; 2007
R. Drew Smith
Morehouse College
Freshman Writing Seminar: Southern Politics
Undergraduate; 2007
Elizabeth Sanders
Cornell University
Seminar in Political Economy
Graduate; 2008
Dave Robertson
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Twentieth Century American Politics
Undergraduate; 2006
Ira Katznelson
Columbia University
Business and Economic History
American Business History
Undergraduate; 2006
Jonathan Bean
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
The Global Economy – A History
Undergraduate; 2005
Louis Galambos
The Johns Hopkins University
Senior Seminar: The Business of Vice in U.S. History
Undergraduate; 2008
Jonathan Bean
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Topics in U.S. Economic History: Business and Labor History
Undergraduate; 2004
Patrick Reagan
Tennessee Tech University
Cities and Suburbanism
Building Silicon Valley: An Urban and Political History
Undergraduate; 2003
Margaret O’Mara
Stanford University
Cities in the North American West, 1840-1940
Undergraduate; 2003
Margaret O’Mara
Stanford University
Modern American Cities
Graduate; 2005
Michael Katz
University of Pennsylvania
The Suburban West
Undergraduate; 2003
Margaret O’Mara
Stanford University
Suburbanism in International Perspective
Undergraduate; 2007
Christopher Sellers
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Urban Law and Policy
Graduate; 2007
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
Congress
American Congress
Undergraduate; 2007
Charles Kromkowski
University of Virginia
The American Congress
Graduate; 2004
Eric Patashnik
University of Virginia
Institutions
Graduate; 2007
Richard Bensel
Cornell University
Conservatism
American Conservatism
Undergraduate; 2004
Joseph Crespino
Emory University
The Conservative View in U.S. History
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
Jonathan Bean
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Conservatism in the United States
Graduate; 2003
Michael Kazin
Georgetown University
Cultural and Intellectual History
Recent American History: Politics and Popular Culture in Twentieth Century America
Graduate; 2007
Bruce Schulman
Boston University
Topics in American Studies: American Cultural Criticism
Undergraduate; 2007
Casey Blake
Columbia University
U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History
Graduate; 2007
Casey Blake
Columbia University
U.S. Intellectual History since 1865
Undergraduate; 2006
Casey Blake
Columbia University
Education
Closing the Achievement Gap
Undergraduate; 2007
Chris Howard
College of William and Mary
Educational Research in the United States: Problems and Possibilities
Graduate; 2007
Richard Arum and Jonathan Zimmerman
New York University
History of American Education
Graduate; 2007
Jonathan Zimmerman
New York University
History of American Education and Society: Education and the Culture Wars
Graduate; 2007
Jonathan Zimmerman
New York University
Schooling in Diverse Societies
Undergraduate; 2008
Jonathan Zimmerman
New York University
Environmental Policy and History
American Environmental Policy
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
Richard Andrews
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Environment and Work in the Global Economy
Undergraduate; 2007
Richard Andrews
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Environmental Decision-Making
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2008
Richard Andrews
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Environmental History of North America
Undergraduate; 2007
Christopher Sellers
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Environmental Policy Instruments
Graduate; 2007
Richard Andrews and Dale Whittington
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Environmental Politics
Undergraduate; 2007
Dave Robertson
University of Missouri-St. Louis
International Perspectives on the History of Work and Environment
Graduate; 2007
Christopher Sellers
State University of New York, Stony Brook
International Relations
Advanced IR Theory
Graduate; 2007
Elizabeth Kier
University of Washington, Seattle
American Foreign Policy
Undergraduate; 2007
Will Morrisey
Hillsdale College
American Grand Strategy
Undergraduate; 2005
Jeffrey Legro
University of Virginia
Causes and Consequences of US Foreign Policy
Undergraduate; 2005
Elizabeth Sanders
Cornell University
Crisis Decision Making in U.S. Foreign Policy
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2003
Amy Zegart
University of California, Los Angeles
Foreign Policy of the United States
Graduate; 2005
Jeffrey Legro
University of Virginia
Great Powers, Grand Strategies, and International Order
Jeffrey Legro
Undergraduate; 2007
University of Virginia
International Conflict
Undergraduate; 2007
Elizabeth Kier
University of Washington, Seattle
International Politics: The Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century
Undergraduate; 2005
Will Morrisey
Hillsdale College
International Security
Graduate; 2007
Elizabeth Kier
University of Washington, Seattle
Islamism and American Foreign Policy
Undergraduate; 2003
Will Morrisey
Hillsdale College
The Policies and Politics of American Defense
Undergraduate; 2007
Daniel Wirls
University of California, Santa Cruz
Seminar: American Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After: Presidents Understanding Conflict
Undergraduate; 2008
Kenneth Thompson
University of Virginia
Methods
Historical Research and Writing: U.S. History
Undergraduate; 2007
Jonathan Bean
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Introduction to Historical Method
Undergraduate; 2008
Patrick Reagan
Tennessee Tech University
Political Analysis
Graduate; 2007
John Gerring
Boston University
Political Analysis: A Primer
Undergraduate; 2007
John Gerring
Boston University
Qualitative Research
Graduate; 2007
Elizabeth Kier
University of Washington, Seattle
Research Methods
Undergraduate; 2007
Chris Howard
College of William and Mary
Turning Points in US History: Micro-Analytic Methods
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
Philip Zelikow
University of Virginia
Undergraduate Research Seminar
Undergraduate; 2004
Edward D. Berkowitz
The George Washington University
Military History and Wartime
American Military History
Undergraduate; 2008
Patrick Reagan
Tennessee Tech University
Senior Seminar: Going to War in American History
Undergraduate; 2006
Patrick Reagan
Tennessee Tech University
The United States at War, 1861-1945
Undergraduate; 2006
Carl Bon Tempo
University of Waterloo
Miscellaneous
American History, 1607-1877
Undergraduate; 2008
Patrick Reagan
Tennessee Tech University
Cinema and Society in Europe Since 1945
Undergraduate; 2008
Tony Judt
New York University
Democratic Governance
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
John Gerring
Boston University
Global Justice
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
John Gerring
Boston University
Global Public Health Since World War II
Undergraduate; 2007
Louis Galambos
The Johns Hopkins University
Moral and Ethical Issues in Sport
Graduate; 2006
Richard Lapchick
University of Central Florida
Political Culture
Graduate; 2007
Richard Bensel
Cornell University
Political Economy of Advanced Societies
Undergraduate; 2007
Cathie Jo Martin
Boston University
Modernity
The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2006
Bruce Schulman
Boston University
Core in American History, Part IV
Graduate; 2005
Margaret O’Mara
Stanford University
Modernity and Modernization in International History
Graduate; 2007
Nick Cullather
Indiana University, Bloomington
Shaping the Modern World, 1893-1943
Undergraduate; 2007
Philip Zelikow
University of Virginia
The Transformation of Modern America, 1912-1945
Undergraduate; 2007
Patrick Reagan
Tennessee Tech University
United States History, 1890-1945
Undergraduate; 2007
Edward D. Berkowitz
The George Washington University
New Deal – Present
America in the 1970s
Undergraduate; 2006
Carl Bon Tempo
University of Waterloo
America in Depression and War
Undergraduate; 2003
Meg Jacobs
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
American Political History: Politics, Culture, and the Making of the Modern American State
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2003
Michael Fein
Brandeis University
The Cold War
Undergraduate; 2007
David Coleman and Marc Selverstone
University of Virginia
Cold War America
Undergraduate; 2005
Carl Bon Tempo
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
The Cold War in World History
Undergraduate; 2003
Philip Zelikow
University of Virginia
The Great Depression in the United States, 1929-1942
Undergraduate; 2007
Jonathan Bean
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Postwar America, 1945-Present
Undergraduate; 2006
Patrick Reagan
Tennessee Tech University
The Sixties Experience
Undergraduate; 2006
Doug Rossinow
Metropolitan State University
The United States after World War II
Undergraduate; 2007
Lizabeth Cohen
Harvard University
The United States Since 1945
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2003
Matthew Lassiter
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
The United States Since 1968
Undergraduate; 2008
Bruce Schulman
Boston University
The Vietnam War
Undergraduate; 2007
Doug Rossinow
Metropolitan State University
Viewing America: The United States from 1945 to the Present
Undergraduate; 2008
Brian Balogh
University of Virginia
Policy History and Policy Making
American Political Institutions and Processes
Undergraduate; 2007
Eric Patashnik
University of Virginia
American Public Policy
Graduate; 2006
Eric Patashnik
University of Virginia
Colloquium in U.S. Policy History
Graduate; 2005
Jonathan Bean
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Gender, Sexuality, and Public Policy in the 20th Century U.S.
Undergraduate; 2003
Jane De Hart
University of California, Santa Barbara
History and Public Policy
Graduate; 2007
Edward D. Berkowitz
The George Washington University
Policy Conflict in American Politics
Graduate; 2006
Byron E. Shafer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Science, Technology, Power and Politics
Undergraduate; 2008
Shelley Hurt
Vassar College
U.S. National Policymaking
Undergraduate; 2006
David R. Mayhew
Yale University
Political Activism
African-American Churches and Social Activism
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2004
R. Drew Smith
Morehouse College
Social Movements in American Politics
Undergraduate; 2005
Elizabeth Sanders
Cornell University
Political Parties
American Political Parties
Graduate; 2007
Sarah Binder
The George Washington University
Left, Right, and Center: Party Politics in Modern America
Undergraduate; 2008
Margaret O’Mara
University of Washington, Seattle
Parties and Ideologies
Undergraduate; 2006
David R. Mayhew
Yale University
Political Parties in America
Undergraduate; 2006
Nicole Mellow
Williams College
Political Thought
American Political Thought
Undergraduate; 2006
Ken Kersch
Princeton University
Comparative Politics: Twentieth-Century Founders
Undergraduate; 2005
Will Morrisey
Hillsdale College
Foundations of American Political Thought
Undergraduate; 2004
Rogan Kersh
Syracuse University
German Political Philosophy
Undergraduate; 2004
Will Morrisey
Hillsdale College
Modern American Political Thought
Undergraduate; 2005
Rogan Kersh
Syracuse University
Tutorial on Hegel’s “The Philosophy of Right”
Undergraduate; 2003
Will Morrisey
Hillsdale College
World Politics
Undergraduate; 2007
Will Morrisey
Hillsdale College
Presidency
The American Presidency
Undergraduate; 2005
Nicole Mellow
Williams College
The American Presidency
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
Richard Pious
Columbia University
The American Presidency
Undergraduate; 2007
Russell Riley
University of Virginia
The American Presidency
Undergraduate; 2008
Dave Robertson
University of Missouri-St. Louis
The American Presidency
Undergraduate; 2007
Elizabeth Sanders
Cornell University
The American Presidency at War
Undergraduate; 2008
Andrew Polsky
Hunter College, City University of New York
The Constitutional Law of Presidential-Congressional Relations
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2008
Richard Pious
Columbia University
The History of the Modern American Presidency
Undergraduate; 2007
Edward D. Berkowitz
The George Washington University
The Politics of Presidential Selection
Graduate; 2004
Byron E. Shafer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Race and Politics
History of the Civil Rights Movement
Undergraduate; 2007
Julian Bond
University of Virginia
Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States
Undergraduate; 2007
Vesla Weaver
University of Virginia
Race and Ethnicity
Graduate; 2004
Paul Frymer
Princeton University
Social Policy and Inequality
American Politics and Social Welfare Policy
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
Robert Lieberman
Columbia University
The American Welfare State
Undergraduate; 2007
Chris Howard
College of William and Mary
The American Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
Undergraduate; 2003
Jacob S. Hacker
Yale University
Historical-Social Policy Research
Graduate; 2007
W. A. Achenbaum
University of Houston
Philosophy of Science for Social Work Practice
Graduate; 2007
W. A. Achenbaum
University of Houston
Social Security Reform
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2004
Eric Patashnik
University of Virginia
The State and Social Policy
Graduate; 2008
Margaret O’Mara
University of Washington, Seattle
Wealth and Inequality in the Modern Corporate Age
Undergraduate; 2006
Christopher Sellers
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Wealth, Want & Power
Undergraduate; 2007
Michael Fein
Babson College
The Twentieth Century
American History, 1877-Present
Undergraduate; 2006
Edward D. Berkowitz
The George Washington University
American History, 1877-Present
Undergraduate; 2007
Patrick Reagan
Tennessee Tech University
American History Since 1877
Undergraduate; 2007
Carl Bon Tempo
University of Waterloo
Colloquium in American History, 1877-Present
Graduate; 2006
Brian Balogh and Mel Leffler
University of Virginia
Public Power, Private Lives: Writing Twentieth-Century U.S. History as Biography
Undergraduate; 2006
Lizabeth Cohen
Harvard University
Readings in the United States in the 20th Century: Proseminar
Graduate; 2004
Lizabeth Cohen
Harvard University
Twentieth-Century America
Undergraduate; 2008
Jonathan Bean
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
United States History: The Twentieth Century
Undergraduate; 2004
Michael Bernstein
University of California, San Diego
Who Is an American? National Identity in the 20th Century United States
Undergraduate; 2007
Carl Bon Tempo
University of Waterloo
U.S. Constitution and the Judiciary
American Constitutional Law
Undergraduate; 2007
Ken Kersch
Boston College
American Legal History: Law and the State in Twentieth-Century America
Graduate; 2005
Daniel R. Ernst
Georgetown University Law Center
Constitutional Democracy in America
Undergraduate; 2008
Ken Kersch and Harvey Mansfield
Harvard University
Constitutional History: From the Articles of Confederation to the Civil War
Graduate; 2007
Michael Klarman
University of Virginia School of Law
Constitutional Interpretation: Separation of Powers and Federalism
Undergraduate; 2007
David M. O’Brien
University of Virginia
Constitutional Law
Graduate; 2007
Michael Klarman
University of Virginia School of Law
Constitutional Rights
Undergraduate; 2003
Leo Lovelace
Chapman University
Constitutional Theory
Graduate; 2007
Michael Klarman and Michael Seidman
University of Virginia School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
Law and Society
Undergraduate; 2007
Ken Kersch
Princeton University
Lawyers and the State in Modern America Seminar
Graduate; 2004
Daniel R. Ernst
Georgetown University Law Center
Seminar on Civil Rights and Liberties
Graduate; 2006
David M. O’Brien
University of Virginia
Seminar on Constitutional Law and Theory
Undergraduate/Graduate; 2007
David M. O’Brien
University of Virginia
The United States Constitution
Undergraduate; 2005
Will Morrisey
Hillsdale College
U.S. History: America and the World
Americans Abroad
Undergraduate; 2008
Jonathan Zimmerman
New York University
America’s Image in the World
Undergraduate; 2008
Nick Cullather
Indiana University, Bloomington
Global America: Class, Race, and Empire Since 1890
Undergraduate; 2007
Alan Dawley
The College of New Jersey
United States Diplomatic History Since 1914
Undergraduate; 2006
Marc Selverstone
University of Virginia
The United States in World History
Undergraduate; 2005
Alan Dawley
The College of New Jersey |
