History and Government Summer Classes Available Our Summer 2022 MAHG classes are rapidly filling up! For anyone still looking for professional development opportunities this summer, we still have a few spots open in the following courses:
HIST 680/POLSC 680: Law and Literature A study of the connection between American literature and law through both fiction and non-fiction, including The Crucible, Billy Budd, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. These primary texts will be supplemented with primary historical documents, including, for example, sermons from Puritan New England alongside a study of McCarthyism for the Crucible, and documents related to Civil Rights for To Kill a Mockingbird.
HIST 503/POLSC 503: Sectionalism and Civil War A study of the sectional conflict beginning with the nullification crisis. The course will not only examine the political, social and economic developments in the period leading to the civil war, but will emphasize the political thought of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, and John C. Calhoun.
HIST 605/POLSC 605: The Age of Enterprise In the last decades of the 19th century, the United States took decisive steps away from its rural, agrarian past toward its industrial future, assuming its place among world powers. This course examines that movement, covering such topics as business-labor relations, political corruption, immigration, imperialism, the New South, and segregation and racism.
HIST 505/POLSC 505: The Progressive Era The transition to an industrial economy posed many problems for the United States. This course examines those problems and the responses to them that came to be known as progressivism. The course includes the study of World War I as a manifestation of progressive principles. The course emphasizes the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and their political expression of progressive principles.
About MAHG Ashland University’s Master of Arts program in American History and Government (MAHG) was designed to address the need of social studies teachers for rigorous graduate-level study in the content of history and government. Offered on a unique schedule of weeklong summer seminars in a traditional classroom setting and live, interactive web-based videoconference courses, each course in the program focuses on the study and interpretation of the materials from which we build our understanding of the past: original historical documents.
MAHG Summer 2022 Registration Links * To request more information, please email us at https://apply.ashland.edu/register/MAHG_Inquiry. * Our registration form can be found at https://teachingamericanhistory.org/programs/master-of-arts/schedule/summer-2022-ac/registration. * We offer summer scholarships for teachers. The application can be found at https://teachingamericanhistory.org/programs/master-of-arts/mahg-fellowship-application/.
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