HIS 223 The English Civil War
This class will explore one of the most important conflicts in European history, the English Civil War. We will examine the political, religious, social, and economic problems the English faced in the middle of the seventeenth century and discover how they managed to stumble into modernity by creating the notions of the separation of church and state, legal protections of citizens from their government, limited government, a free press, and something we like to call democracy.