HIST 4324 History of the New South since 1877
This course investigates the competing and contradictory meanings of the New South, a concept coined by southern boosters in the 1800s to describe efforts to develop an industrial economy, and one subsequently applied to successive periods of southern history. Students will grapple with the major ideas, leaders, events, and social movements which shaped this period. Specifically, they will familiarize themselves with such issues as sharecropping industrialization, class conflict, racial violence, political movements, Jim Crow, reform, urbanization, and rural-urban conflict.
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As scheduled