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Click on the name of an online history graduate course to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the category by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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1862: Year of Transition (CW523) |
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American Public University |
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This course will examine the year 1862 in an attempt to show how the dimension of the conflict was established in both Union and Confederacy during these turbulent days. From the Monitor-Merrimack duel and Grant's River War to Fredericksburg and Stones River, every attempt will be made to show the changing nature of the war and the corresponding effects on the leadership of both sides. |
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1863: Year of Decision (CW514) |
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American Public University |
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A study of the pivotal year of the Civil War. In particular, the campaigns and significance of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga will be examined in detail. |
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1864: War of Attrition (CW526) |
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American Public University |
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This course focuses on U. S. Grant's rise to prominence, his strategy for the year's campaigns, and the battles that bled the Confederacy dry. We will look at all theaters of the Civil War, including the West and the Trans-Mississippi, including the ill-fated Red River Campaign. We will demonstrate that the outcome of the war became inevitable through the success of Grant's grand strategy of bringing relentless pressure on a Confederacy that did not have the resources to meet all of the threats posed. |
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African-American History (OC551) |
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American Public University |
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This course is an introduction to the history of black Americans in the United States, with emphasis on the social forces underlying transitions from West Africa to the New World, from slavery to freedom, and from rural to urban life. Topics to be covered include the Atlantic slave trade, American slave societies, maroon communities, free blacks in the antebellum United States, Reconstruction and free labor, colonization, emigration, and urban migrations. |
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Air War in Europe in World War II (AW502) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the history of the air war in Europe from 1939 to 1945. It includes extended coverage of the World War II debate over aerial bombardment and the development of strategic bombing. Other course topics include the role of close air support in the war and the role of reconnaissance in missions in the Europeon theater. |
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Amphibious Assaults in World War II (LW580) |
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American Public University |
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This Course is an analysis of WWII amphibious operations and anti-landing defenses comparing and contrasting Guadalcanal and North Africa and follows ups such as Salerno and Tarawa, with the blitzkriegs onto Normandy, the Northern Marianas and Iwo Jima, finally on to Okinawa. |
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Antebellum America: Prelude to Civil War (CW510) |
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American Public University |
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This course is an analysis of the conditions existing in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. The course focuses on the political, cultural/social, economic, security, leadership, and other issues that played roles in starting and shaping the Civil War. Students will analyze the issues in the context of war and peace to determine whether or not such conflicts as civil wars can be avoided prior to their inception. |
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Assassination: History, Theory, and Practice (IN585) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the historical, theoretical, political, moral, legal, and other dynamics and implications associated with political and other forms of assassination. Through study of cases, public law, and historical example, students will explore the reasons behind, objectives sought, and implications of assassination from national and geopolitical perspectives. Students will also study the employment of assassination in practice, from nation-states, organized groups, and individual actors. |
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Causes of the Holocaust (PS570) |
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American Public University |
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This course will analyze the long-term causes of the Holocaust and compare and contrast various forms of anti-Semitism over two millennia. Students will determine the various cause-effect relationships between the history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as well as draw conclusions concerning the implications of the anti-Semitism and the Holocaust for our understanding of human nature. In addition, they will identify the long-term and short-term political, social, cultural, and military causes of the Holocaust; formulate arguments regarding the role of Hitler and the Nazi Party in the planning and implementation of the Holocaust; and determine the role of ?ordinary Germans? in the planning and implementation of the Holocaust. |
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Civil War Cavalry: Theory, Practice and Operations (CW524) |
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American Public University |
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This is a four part course covering the theory, practice and operations of Civil War Cavalry. The first part will cover the development of the mounted arm and address its traditional role as the eyes and ears of the Army. The theory of cavalry tactics taught by West Point to the cadets prior to the civil war will be covered to provide a knowledge base from which they generated ideas and developed tactics as Civil War officers. The second part will address the personalities involved, to include Nathan Bedford Forrest, Jeb Stuart, Wade Hampton, John Buford, George Custer, and others. The third part will address John Singleton Mosby and his use of guerrilla warfare. Finally, the fourth part will address some of the cavalry combat. The course may include an optional field trip to some of the cavalry battlefields for interested students. |
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Civil War Command and Leadership (CW502) |
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American Public University |
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A study of national, theater, and operational command structures of the Union and Confederacy, with an examination of the leadership styles of key military leaders on both sides, and the evolution of command and control in the war. |
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Civil War Logistics (CW512) |
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American Public University |
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Students will approach the Civil War from a new perspective--study of the industrial and transportation infrastructures supporting both sides. Covers the national level mobilization of each side's capacity to wage war and follows the supplies forward to the theater, army and field level. |
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Civil War Medicine (CW520) |
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American Public University |
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This course has been designed to examine the full range of medical treatment received by the Civil War soldier. Topics discussed include: disease, battle wounds, surgery, anesthesia, hospitals, Ambulance Corps, nurses and the Sanitary Commission. Every attempt will be made to show that casualty and recovery rates had a profound effect on the military prosecution of the war. |
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Civil War Naval History (CW511) |
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American Public University |
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CW511 is a survey of American naval history during the Civil War era. In this course you will study the development and use of American naval power in the mid-nineteenth century, and will place Civil War naval operations in their broader political and social context. Readings will focus on strategy, littoral and blue water operations, joint operations, underwater warfare, diplomacy, war production, personnel issues, and the technological development of warships during this period. There are requirements for three book reports, a term paper, and a final exam. |
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Civil War Political Stewardship: Lincoln and Davis (CW515) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the two individuals chosen to lead their respective constituents through a critical period of American history. Abraham Lincoln sought the job of President of the United States while Jefferson Davis was chosen as the President of the Confederate States of America. The course will address both men in terms of their trials, triumphs, and tragedies with an eye towards explaining the existing spirit among Americans at this turning point of our nation. This course has been designed to help the student learn more about these two men and the events over which they presided. As a result of completing this course, the student should share a greater appreciation for the character, decision making abilities, and leadership qualities of these two extraordinary individuals in American history. |
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Civil War Strategy and Tactics (CW501) |
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American Public University |
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A detailed examination of the American Civil War with emphasis on the operational contributions of Union and Confederate military leadership. Detailed analyses of selected land battles of the war as examples of the strategies and tactics involved. |
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Civil War: A Soldier's View (CW513) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the Civil War from the perspective of the common soldiers of both sides. It details their lives from elistment and/or conscription, through training, campaigning, and camp life. Students in this course will study through extensive use of contemporary letters, diaries, and other primary sources. |
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Gettysburg (CW525) |
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American Public University |
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Using Edwin B. Coddington's magnificent campaign study, this course will cover the Civil War's most critical campaign in detail. It will begin with the decision to invade the North, will include the Battles of Brandy Station and Second Winchester, and will address the Confederate invasion in great detail. The majority of the course will focus on the three pivotal days at Gettysburg, and will also address the retreat, a seldom-considered aspect of the campaign. A staff ride of the battlefield might be an option, given adequate interest. |
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Graduate Seminar in U.S. History (OC531) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a graduate seminar in topics of U.S. history that is designed to provide a foundation in U.S. historical theory, trends, and concepts for the further study of specialized and topical history at the graduate level. Students should be expected to read and write intensely on both broadly and narrowly addressed topics of history. This course is not designed as a refresher of undergraduate history survey courses; rather, it is a concentrated study of U.S. history for serious history students and professionals. Students will be expected to produce near-publication quality research paper and essay work. |
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Graduate Seminar in World History (OC530) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a graduate seminar in topics of world history that is designed to provide a foundation in world historical theory, trends, and concepts for the further study of specialized and topical history at the graduate level. Students should be expected to read and write intensely on both broadly and narrowly addressed topics of history. This course is not designed as a refresher of undergraduate history survey courses; rather, it is a concentrated study of world history for serious history students and professionals. Students will be expected to produce near-publication quality research paper and essay work. |
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