HIST 4390 - Reconstruction and the New South

(crosslisted) AMST 4039, ASRC 4390
(HB) (HA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with ASRC 6391/HIST 6391.

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.

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