Nov 23, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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HIST 148 - The United States: 1945 to the Present

Semester Hours: 3
Once a year

This class will examine the changing character of American society and politics, along with the evolving role of the U.S as a world power. We will look in-depth at some controversial topics: the origins and character of the Cold War, McCarthyism, growth of the suburbs, racial discrimination North and South, the rise of the civil rights movement, liberal reform under Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, rebellions of the Sixties, roots of contemporary feminism, and the rise of the political Right.





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