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Women in American Society from the Civil War to First World War
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3680
Module code: HS3680 This module starts with the examination of women's contribution to the civil war effort on both sides, and women's place in the economy, education and social reform.
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Slavery in the Americas
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3661
Module code: HS3661 This module examines the history of slavery in two very different American contexts – Virginia and Jamaica – from the 17th century to the abolition of slavery in the 19th century.
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Becoming the Historical Researcher
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2500
Module code: HS2500 (double module) This module will help you to consider simple questions about historical research like, what is it for? What role does historical research play in the world? It will get you to think about how to approach your future research with an open...
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Urban Topography: Image and Reality, 1540-1840
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs7202
Module code: HS7202 This course spans a period of three hundred years, but the primary emphasis is on the 'long eighteenth-century' – a period during which there was unprecedented urban growth and a vigorous outpouring of literary, artistic and cartographic...
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Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2311
Module code:HS2311 What do the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 tell us about Puritan attitudes to young and old women? What impact did slavery have on the black family? When did the ‘American teenager’ first make his/her appearance? What does Teddy Roosevelt's image...
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Blood, Position and Power: The Nobility of Later Medieval England, 1066-1485
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2302
Module code: HS2302 Simon de Montfort, Piers Gaveston, Thomas of Lancaster, The Black Prince, John of Gaunt and Warwick the Kingmaker: six individuals who are always ‘name-checked’ whenever surveys of later medieval England are written.
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After The Holocaust
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs7037
Module code: HS7037 After the fall of the Nazi regime in 1945, Germany was in complete disarray. It was an international pariah due to the discovery of the horrors of the concentration camps and the Holocaust. Vast numbers of its men were prisoners of war overseas or dead.
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The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3777
Module code: HS3777 The Franklin Roosevelt era included arguably the most significant years of twentieth century US history, both domestically and internationally.
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The History of Alcohol in North America, 1650-1950
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2359
Module code: HS2359 This module surveys the social and cultural history of drinking in modern American society, and considers how the historical and cross-cultural study of drinking can add to contemporary debates surrounding alcohol consumption.
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Imperialism and Decolonisation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2314
Module code: HS2314 At the beginning of the 20th century the British Empire covered a fifth of the world’s land surface and contained almost a quarter of the world’s population. Less than sixty years later it was rapidly disintegrating.