HST-228 United States Social and Intellectual History

Prerequisite: one history course numbered between 100 and 166
Social reform movements and related ideologies from the American Revolutionary era to the late twentieth century. The evolving role of women and minorities in American society and their changing relationship to power is examined through a focus on gender, race, class, region, and ethnicity in the American Revolution, the antebellum reform era, WWII, the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s and the Cold War. 4 credits.