U.S. Southern History

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This course presents students with a variety of historiographical scholarship and contemporary debates in the field of United States southern history from the colonial period to the present, with greater emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course format includes lectures, readings, discussions, and videos, and will require multiple writing assignments. We examine political, economic, social, and cultural factors in the creation and persistence of a southern regional identity, while paying particular attention to the variety within the (broadly defined) South.