http://ocw.nd.edu The history department is a community of teachers/scholars united by a common commitment to enhance knowledge of, and understanding of, the human past, to communicate that knowledge to students and to equip those students with both an appreciation for, and facility for a critical appraisal of lives, institutions, and events past and present. daily 1 2008-01-25T05:25:48Z http://ocw.nd.edu/history/crime-heredity-and-insanity-in-the-us This course will give students an opportunity to learn more about the ways in which Americans have thought about crime and insanity and how their ideas have changed over time. The 19th century witnessed a transformation in the understanding of the origins of criminal behavior in the United States. For many, a religious emphasis on humankind as sinful gave way to a belief in its inherent goodness. But if humans were naturally good, how could their evil actions be explained? Drawing on studies done here and abroad, American doctors, preachers, and lawyers debated whether environment, heredity, or free will determined the actions of the criminal. By the early 20th century, lawyers and doctors had largely succeeded in medicalizing criminality. Psychiatrists treated criminals as patients; judges invoked hereditary eugenics in sentencing criminals. Science, not sin, had apparently become the preferred mode of explanation for the origins of crime. But was this a better explanation than what had come before? Linda Przybyszewski Linda Przybyszewski 2009-05-28T13:58:34Z Course text/html http://ocw.nd.edu/history/Vera%20totius%20expeditionis%20nautice.gif administrator History Hondius, Jodocus Robert H. Power 2008-01-26T22:28:39Z Image image/gif http://ocw.nd.edu/history/medicine-and-public-health-in-american-history Medicine and Public Health in American History offers an introduction to differing conceptions of disease, health, and healing throughout American history, the changing role and image of medicine and medical professionals in American life, and the changing social and cultural meanings and entanglements of medical science and practice throughout American history. Professor Chris Hamlin, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame administrator 2007 Chris Hamlin 2009-04-14T20:02:33Z Course text/html http://ocw.nd.edu/history/faith-and-the-african-american-experience HIST 30649 is a cross-listed course. For complete course materials, please see AFAM 33302 administrator Faith African-American Christianity Religion Faith and the African American Experience Theology History Hugh Page David George 2009-10-14T20:49:08Z Course text/html http://ocw.nd.edu/history/african-american-history-ii African American History II is a course that examines the broad range of experiences of African Americans from the close of the American Civil War to the 1980s. We will explore both the relationship of blacks to the larger society and the inner dynamic of the black community. We will devote particular attention to Reconstruction, the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, and the political machinations of the African American community. Richard Pierce Great Migration African American History Africana Studies African-American Civil Rights Movement Reconstruction Political American American Studies Historical African Diaspora America American History History Richard Pierce Stephanie Carter Patrick Mason 2009-10-05T18:32:42Z Course text/html