HIST 496G Politics and Culture in the U.S., 1880-2000
Our seminar will study the political and cultural history of the United States from the late-nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Among the topics that we will explore are the civil rights, environmental, and women' rights movements; military history, from the Spanish-American war to the war in Iraq; the lives and careers of notable Americans; and American culture, including literature, film, music, and sports. Recent theses have studied World War II and the wars in Vietnam and Iraq; the life and work of Lady Bird Johnson and Ruth Bader Ginsburg; the films and theme parks of the Walt Disney Company; the sanctuary movement and migration to the U.S. from Mexico and Central America; Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972; and the history of baseball.