An examination of selected themes in US cultural history. Topics for discussion include mass consumer society, the postwar rise of the "affluent society," anti-communism, sexuality and gender, the television age, popular music, suburbanization, social upheaval in the 'long sixties' and the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s. (May be offered jointly with HIST-400.) EXCLUSION: HIST-400.
An examination of selected themes in US cultural history. Topics for discussion include mass consumer society, the postwar rise of the "affluent society," anti-communism, sexuality and gender, the television age, popular music, suburbanization, social upheaval in the 'long sixties' and the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s. (May be offered jointly with HIST-400.) EXCLUSION: HIST-400.
