The Transformation of Early New England: Witches, Whalers and Warfare

CAS HI 506

  • Historical Consciousness
  • Social Inquiry I

Explores how religious schisms and revival, warfare with native Americans, political revolution, and commercial development transformed New England from a Puritanical agricultural society into an urbanized, industrial society by the outbreak of the American Civil War. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I.

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