Fall 2011 Courses  Wells           8101            Intro to US 
               R       7:30-9:50                  Main An
introduction to current scholarship in U.S. history up to and
including the Civil War.  Watt            8107            US
Religious History          5:00-7:20                  Main This
course explores the history of religion in the United States
between 1877 and the present. In the past decade a cadre of
creative scholars have focused their attention on American
religious history. They've transformed the field: it's far more
capacious, lively, and sophisticated than it was ten years ago.
This course provides students with an introduction to the
field.  It also offers them a chance to focus their attention on
a set of questions related to historians' determination to "take
religion seriously."  What does it mean to do take religion
seriously?  What is the opposite of taking religion seriously
supposed to be?  In what ways, if any, has the determination to
"take religion seriously" hamper