History of the American Presidency ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

This course is part of the Civil War Residency. This study will examine the development of the American Presidency from its creation until the present. Topics covered will include: the ideological and experiential roots of the Presidency; the creation of the Presidency; Federalist, Jeffersonian, and Jacksonian conceptions of the Presidency; the President at war; the President in the industrial age; Watergate as a Constitutional crisis; the role of the executive bureaucracy; and the President and Foreign Policy.