HIST 6109 - The Practice and Theory of Public History: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in US History

(crosslisted) AMST 6109, ASRC 6109

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with AMST 4109/ASRC 4109/HIST 4109/SHUM 4109.

E. Baptist.

This course will offer students the opportunity to both study and shape the ways in which US public culture attempts to remember and forget some of the most contentious aspects of American history: racialized slavery, Black resistance to it, and the legacy of both.