Concentration Track 5. African and African American History

The African and African American track explores the history of people of African descent in Africa, the United States and the greater Americas.  Students examine American and world history from the social, cultural, political, and intellectural perspective of the African American.

HST 261 African History to 1800

HST 262 Modern African History Since 1800

HST 263 Race and Politics in South Africa

HST 271 African American History, 1619-1860

HST 272 African American History Since 1860

HST 319 History of Black Music in America

HST 324 African History: Selected Topics

HST 325 Exploration, Colonization and Imperialism

HST 330 The History of Senegal

HST 393 America: The Old and New South

HST 394 Slavery

HST 395 Race and Ethnicity in American History

HST 396 The African Diaspora 

HST 469 Research Seminar: African American Life in Slavery and Freedom - Reconstruction and the Freedman’s Bureau Papers