Description
This course will provide students with an introduction to history, philosophy, and aftermath of the ideas and actions behind the American Revolution and the creation of the United States Constitution. It will include as a central component a re-enactment/reimagining of the American Constitutional Convention, where students will stage in-character discussions and debates and write their own Constitution. The course will consider the long-term ramifications and alterations of the ideas and documents brought to the fore in the revolutionary period, and help students understand early United States history in a global perspective—in part by learning about other early revolutionary representative governments in North America, like the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Haitian Republic. Crosslisted as: Pols 370. Offered: Fall, odd years.