Spring 2027

The United States West Since 1850

Introduction to histories of the American West since 1850, focusing on analyzing primary sources, evaluating competing narratives, and formulating arguments about the past.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.61 GPA, 81.5% A/AB (n=92 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.70 GPA, 88.7% A/AB (n=62 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.87 GPA, 97.1% A/AB (n=69 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Challenge common myths that distort our understanding of the modern U.S. West

  • Understand how historians make history and why our understandings of the past change over time

  • Use primary sources to ask and answer questions about the modern North American West

  • Evaluate arguments about history and weigh in on existing historical debates

  • Identify how the past has affected present day circumstances regarding race and racial inequalities in the U.S.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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CHICLA/HISTORY 152

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.61 GPA, 81.5% A/AB (n=92 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.70 GPA, 88.7% A/AB (n=62 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.87 GPA, 97.1% A/AB (n=69 letter grades).

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Topics

  • U.S. efforts to establish power over western regions from the mid-nineteenth century onward.
  • How people, ideas, and infrastructures transformed the region and its ongoing legacies.
  • The impact of the past on present-day race and racial inequalities in the U.S.

Skills

  • Analyze primary sources, evaluate competing narratives, and formulate historical arguments.
  • Understand historiography and how historical understandings change over time.
  • Identify how the past affects present-day race and racial inequalities in the U.S.

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Sources & history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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