Analyzes high politics, grassroots movements, and cultural change in the years of unprecedented economic prosperity and rapid change after WWII. Explores the foreign and domestic politics of the Cold War; labor unionism; the Vietnam War; the Civil Rights, antiwar, and women's rights movements; and technocultural changes like the rise of television and the growing dominance of the automobile. Recommended prerequisite: HIST 1025.
instructor(s)
Hulden, Vilja
Primary Instructor
- Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2024
