Summer 2017

HIST 16; X-LIST: AAAS 12

Race and Slavery in US History

HIST 66; Xlist AAAS 15

History of Africa since 1800

  • Instructor: Sackeyfio-Lenoch
  • Time: 10A
  • Major Dist: US & CAN
  • College Dist:
  • Course description
HIST 96.23

West Africa and the Cold War

  • Instructor: Sackeyfio-Lenoch
  • Time: 10A
  • Major Dist: AALAC
  • College Description:
  • This course deals with West Africa and its relationships with global powers in the decades following WWII.  The post-war era in this region of Africa witnessed dramatic transformations as was the case elsewhere in the colonial and larger world.  Africans grappled with new opportunities to assert their steadfast will to be free from the grips of Western European colonial powers. At the same time that decolonization was underway, new superpowers emerged to dominate global politics.  Cold War politics played important and often destructive roles in shaping local and regional events in Africa as decolonization and independence became a reality. Africans negotiated the ideological conflicts that pitted the United States, the Soviet Union and other global powers against one another in a variety of ways. Decolonization, non-alignment and pan-Africanism were some of the avenues that African states embraces as the events of this era unfolded. Yet what followed these movements were periods of economic and political decline during the 1960s-1980s, and then new models of African revival and challenges in the 1990s and beyond.  This course will explore these shifting dynamics by tracing the socio-political and economic struggles, aspirations and livelihoods of West African nations, their leaders and citizens, as they negotiated global Cold War dynamics.  We will explore Cold War legacies in West Africa and consider linkages with the contemporary War on Terror.
HIST 94.09

History and Culture of the Jews: The Modern Period

  • Instructor:  Heschel & Yuval
  • Time: 10 & 11
  • Major Dist: INTER
  • College Dist: SOC CI
  • Course Description