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Mar 14, 2025
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HIST 5106 - History of American Conservatism
Introduces students to the intellectual, political, and cultural history of conservatism in the United States, with a major focus on the twentieth century. Identifies and examines the theorists, journalists, economists, politicians, literary figures, and activists who built a coherent body of conservative ideas and a political movement to challenge the prevailing liberal orthodoxy of the post-New Deal era. Highlights the major philosophical themes and practical aims that animated this diverse set of historical actors and often set them at odds with one another: preserving the values, traditions, and institutions that sustained local communities and the nation’s constitutional order; maximizing individual liberty in an economic and social context; opposing various forms of collectivism and the encroachment of state power; fighting communism at home and abroad.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Graduates will master the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use in their work.
- Students will become critical readers of both primary and secondary sources, and will use and properly cite both types of evidence in their written work.
- Students will have a general familiarity with the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States.
- Students will understand historiography.
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