HIST 6391 - Reconstruction and the New South

(crosslisted)
(also ASRC 6391)

Fall. 4 credits.

Co-meets with AMST 4039/HIST 4390/ASRC 4390.

M. Washington.

This course focuses on the American South in the nineteenth century as it made the transition from Reconstruction to new forms of social organization and patterns of race relations. Reconstruction will be considered from a sociopolitical perspective, concentrating on the experiences of the freed people. The New South emphasis will include topics on labor relations, economic and political changes, new cultural alliances, the rise of agrarianism, and legalization of Jim Crow.