Know your history- now at a new time

Join AMS core faculty member and historian Jacob Dorman on this trip through over 100 years of American culture. Don't know much about history? Maybe what you need is this:

An examination of the major historical shifts, trends, and conflicts that have shaped the polycultural nature of life in the United States from 1877 to the present. In addition to tracing developments in literature, architecture, drama, music, and the visual arts, this course will investigate patterns and changes in the popular, domestic, and material culture of everyday life in America. Topics covered will include: African American cultures; circuses and world’s fairs; minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, and rock-and-roll music; the Holiness, Pentecostal, and evangelical movements; the rise of film, radio, and television; the growth of consumerism, suburbia, and urban ghettos; the advent of Cold War anticommunists and Beat Generation rebels; changing perceptions of gender, race, religion, and sexuality; the long 1960s; the civil rights, women’s liberation, and neoconservative movements; as well as war’s impact on American culture.

This course was recently rescheduled, so check the latest time.