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May 01, 2024
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Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] See drop-down menu above to access other catalogs.
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HIST 447 - History of the American South(3 credits
Prerequisite: HIST 221 or HIST 222 or consent of instructor
This course covers the history of this distinct region of the United States from the colonial period through the present. Topics to be given careful consideration include slavery and segregation, Southern class and gender relations, the causes of Southern secession and Confederate failure, Reconstruction, sharecropping and the post-Reconstruction southern economy, the Civil Rights Revolution, the rise of the “Sunbelt,” and the role of memory in preserving Southern distinctiveness. Offered alternate years. May be taken for graduate-level credit.
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