2012-2013 Academic Catalog

Dec 07, 2025

2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 222 - History of the American South

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion

Explores the history of the South from the colonial period to the present, focusing on how the South developed as a distinctive region of the United States. Examines development of slavery; impact of slavery on the economy, politics and culture of the South; race, class and gender in the Old and New South; myth and reality of the New South; the South in the 20th century.