History of the New South (formerly HIST 361)

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3 Lecture Hour(s) 0 Lab Hour(s) This course offers a chronological exploration of the history of the South from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the development of the concept of “The New South” to the politics and culture of the “Sunbelt South” of today. Major topics will include the political, economic and social conditions after Reconstruction; the myths and realities of the “New South”; Populism and Fusion politics; segregation and disfranchisement in the “New South”; the South in the Progressive Era and World War I; race, religion, gender, class and culture; the Depression and the new Deal; the South after World War II; urbanization and industrialization; and the Civil Rights movement. North Carolina will be used frequently as a case in point.