HIST 357A US South Since The Civil War
This course will survey the history of the American South from the end of the Civil War through the current day. Its purposes are two-fold: to provide students an understanding of the South and of Southerners, and to explore what the experience of the South can teach us about America as a nation. Through primary and secondary readings, lectures, and class discussions we will examine such topics as: the political and economic reconstruction of the South after the Civil War; the Populist revolt; the politics of race in the era of Jim Crow and disfranchisement; the rise of the "Sunbelt" South; the Civil Rights movement; and the question of persisting regional distinctiveness.