History of the American South

Prerequisite: Any two of the following courses: HIST 111, HIST 112, HIST 131, HIST 132, HIST 221, HIST 222; or consent of instructor This course covers the history of this distinct region of the United States from the colonial period through the present. Topics to be given careful consideration include slavery and segregation, Southern class and gender relations, the causes of Southern secession and Confederate failure, Reconstruction, sharecropping and the post-Reconstruction southern economy, the Civil Rights Revolution, the rise of the "Sunbelt," and the role of memory in preserving Southern distinctiveness. Offered alternate years. May be taken for graduate-level credit.