This degree programme allows you to focus your studies on the history of the United States and its people, its emergence as a world superpower and its influence on global culture. It tracks the American story from the Revolution through the years of slavery and Civil War, the settlement of the West, and the development of modern society. You will have the opportunity to find out everything from Native American history to the world of enslaved communities in the Old South, the struggles of black Civil Rights activists to the crucial decisions of the Presidents – who, by the atomic age of the Cold War, held the fate of humanity in their hands. By the end of your degree, you will know the American story in depth – but you will also have a keen understanding of how much of the modern world in which we live today has been shaped by this young nation, and how the history of the United States has been intimately connected with that of the rest of the globe.

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