History

• GE 141: History of World Civilization, 1500 to the Present
• HIST 127: American History to 1865
• HIST 128: American History Since 1865
• HIST 140: The World Since 1945
• HIST 151: History of Western Civilization to 1650
• HIST 157: English History Since 1688
• HIST 158: Early Modern European History, 1450-1815
• HIST 364: History of American Business
• HIST 367: North Carolina History Since 1865

GE 141: History of World Civilization, 1500 to the Present

Self-paced Online

This course covers world civilization from 1500 to the present, surveying the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of European, American, African, and Asian societies. Particular attention will be devoted to the growth of nationalism, the age of revolution, achievements in science and art, the effects of European colonialism on the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and the causes and results of the First World War, Second World War, the Cold War, and post-Cold War.

• Instructor: Charles Reed, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: Elizabeth City State University
• Credit Hours: 3
• Assignments: 12
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Spodek, The World’s History: Combined Volume, 4th edition (2010), ISBN 978-0205708390
• Bowman, The Razor’s Edge: Sharp Thinking in World History, 2nd edition (2007), ISBN 978-0757543623

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices.

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HIST 127: American History to 1865

Self-paced Online or Correspondence

This is a general survey course of American history from the earliest days of European contact to the conclusion of the Civil War. We will study and discuss the evolution of the American colonies and the subsequent nation building (and refining) that occurred throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Emphasis will be on the most vital political, economic, and social events of the period..

• Instructor: David Long, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Assignments: 14
• View a sample course syllabus for the correspondence course.
• View a sample course syllabus for the online course.

Required Texts

• Divine, America, Past and Present, Vol. I, 7th edition (2005)
• Davidson and Lytle, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, Vol. I, 5th edition (2005)
• Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996)
• Paludan, Victims: A True Story of the Civil War (1981)
• Berlin and Favreau, editors, Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation (1998)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices.

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HIST 128: American History Since 1865

Self-paced Online or Correspondence

This course is a general survey of the history of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present, with particular emphasis on the politics, economics, and significant legislation of the period. Primary or “original” source documents comprise roughly half of the course materials, so students will be able to form their own judgments about many historical issues and think about important historical events from the point of view of the people who experienced them. Students are encouraged to make connections between the history they read and their own lives.

• Instructor: David R. Long, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Assignments: 16
• View a sample course syllabus for the correspondence course.
• View a sample course syllabus for the online course.

Required Materials

• Boyer et al., The Enduring Vision, Vol. II, 6th edition, ISBN 978-0618801626. This text is not available at Friday Center Books & Gifts. Students can purchase it online or at local booksellers. Search on the ISBN to obtain the right edition.
• Lorence, Enduring Voices, Vol. II, 4th edition (2000)
• Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1978)
• Set of recorded lectures on CD

You may purchase all textbooks except Boyer, The Enduring Vision, at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices.

Other Requirements

• Students are required have access to a CD player for listening to the recorded lectures.
• This course is not available through the Outreach to Inmates program.

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HIST 140: The World Since 1945

Self-paced Correspondence

This course provides an introduction to the social, economic, and political history of the world since 1945. The course focuses on international problems and on case studies of individual countries.

• Instructor: Russ Van Wyk, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Assignments: 18
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Drakulic, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (1993)
• Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (1990)
• Heng and Shapiro, Son of the Revolution (1983)
• Thiong'o, Matigari (1998)
• Menchu and Burgos-Debray, I, Rigoberta Menchu (1999)
• Greider, One World, Ready or Not (1999)
• HIST 140 Coursepack

Optional text:

• Vadney, The World Since 1945 (1999)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices.

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HIST 151: History of Western Civilization to 1650

Self-paced Correspondence

This course is temporarily closed to enrollment.

The emergence of Western civilization from antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century.

• Instructor: Michele Strong, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Assignments: 12
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Chambers, The Western Experience Vol. 1: To the Eighteenth Century, 10th edition (2010), ISBN 978-0077291174
• HIST 151 Coursepack

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices.

HIST 157: English History Since 1688

Self-paced Correspondence

This course deals with the Hanoverians, the American Revolution, the Napoleonic era, the Industrial Revolution, and the great social and economic changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as England changed from a laissez-faire economy to a welfare state.

• Instructor: Chad Ludington, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Assignments: 15
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Arnstein, The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in British History, Vol II, Since 1688 (1993)
• Arnstein, Britain Yesterday and Today, 1830 to the Present, 8th edition (2001)
• Wilcox and Arnstein, The Age of Aristocracy, 1688-1830, 8th edition (2001)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices.

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HIST 158: Early Modern European History, 1450-1815

Self-paced Correspondence

HIST 158 provides a comprehensive introduction to the social, economic, political, intellectual, and diplomatic history of Europe between 1450 and 1815.

• Instructor: Wendy Perry, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Assignments: 17
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, A History of the Modern World, Vol. 1, 10th edition (2006)
• Machiavelli, The Prince (2003)
• Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witches and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992)
• Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1999)
• De Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1983)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices.

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HIST 364: History of American Business

Self-paced Correspondence

This course is an introduction to the economic and business history of the United States, from the time of colonization to the present. The course has a broad focus, dealing mainly with general economic, political, and social changes, but also covering key individuals and institutional developments. Although it is designed as an advanced course for students of both history and business, it is suitable for any student with a basic grasp of the broader contours of American history.

• Instructor: Dwana Waugh, MA
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Assignments: 15
• View a sample course syllabus for the correspondence course.

Required Texts

• Blackford and Kerr, Business Enterprise in American History, 3rd edition (1994)
• Carlton and Coclanis, Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression (1996)
• Coclanis, Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (1989)
• Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)
• Greene, Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1988)
• HIST 364 Coursepack

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices.

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HIST 367: North Carolina History Since 1865

Self-paced Online or Correspondence

Through a variety of books and essays, this course examines the social, economic, and political forces that shaped North Carolina from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Subjects covered include the shift from an agriculture economy to manufacturing, followed by service and high tech; the rise of racial segregation and disfranchisement at the turn of the twentieth century, and its dismantling in the 1960s by the Civil Rights movement; the effects of the Great Depression and the New Deal; the changing role of women; and the development of public education.

• Instructor: Kenneth Zogry, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Assignments: 15
• View a sample course syllabus for the correspondence course.
• View a sample course syllabus for the online course.

Required Texts

• Link, North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State (2009), ISBN 978-0882952673
• Leloudis, Schooling the New South (1996), ISBN 978-0807822654
• Hanchett, Sorting Out the New South City (1998), ISBN 978-0807823767
• Covington and Ellis, eds., The North Carolina Century (2002), ISBN 978-0807827574
• Hall, Leloudis, Korstad, Murphy, Jones, and Daly, Like a Family (2000), ISBN 978-0807848791
• HIST 367 Coursepack

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices.

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