General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | History of the USA |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | dr Tomasz Skirecki |
| Lecturer's email | tomski@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | assistant professor |
| Faculty | Faculty of English |
| Semester | 2025/2026 (summer) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 3 |
| USOS code | 15-HUSA-AMU-PIE-11 |
Timetable
1.5 h lecture a week
detailed timetable TBA
Module aim (aims)
- provide students with an insight into the most important events, processes and figures in US history
- develop students' ability to associate and understand the links between events and processes in history.
- develop students' ability to recognize historical references in contemporary American culture
- provide students with historical nomenclature and terminology in English
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
none
Syllabus
Pre-Columbian cultures in North America.
English colonies in North America.
The causes and course of the American War of Independence.
The US Constitution and the new state
The territorial development of the United States in history.
The causes and course of the Civil War.
Industrialisation, immigration and the American West.
The Age of Progress.
The interwar period.
WWII from the perspective of the United States.
The history of the USA from 1945 to the late 1960s
USA from the late 1960s to the present
Reading list
Gilbert, Martin. 2006. The Routledge Atlas of American History. Fifth Edition. London: Routledge.
Jenkins, Philip. 2007. History of the United States. London: Macmillan.
O'Callaghan, B. 2001. An Illustrated History of the USA. Longman.
Remini, Robert V. 2008. A Short History of the United States. HarperCollins