21H.104J / 11.015J Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History, Fall 2004

This course uses readings and discussions to focus on a series of short-term events that shed light on American politics, culture, and social organization. It emphasizes finding ways to make sense of these complicated, highly traumatic events, and on using them to understand larger processes of chan...

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Main Authors: Maier, Pauline, Fogelson, Robert
Language:en-US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66924
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Summary:This course uses readings and discussions to focus on a series of short-term events that shed light on American politics, culture, and social organization. It emphasizes finding ways to make sense of these complicated, highly traumatic events, and on using them to understand larger processes of change in American history. The class also gives students experience with primary documentation research through a term paper assignment.