History 6110 - St.Louis:Metropolitan and Regional History

Institution:

University of Missouri-St Louis

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Description:

Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. Directed readings and writing. Principal areas of study will include the St. Louis region before European settlement; St. Louis as an 'urban frontier'; the impact of steam powered transportation; the crisis of slavery and the Civil War; St. Louis in the Gilded Age; the 1904 World's Fair and the origins of urban planning; the impact of the automobile; the St. Louis region in the Great Depression and W.W. II; suburbanization, urban renewal and desegregation; from the Schoemehl years to St. Louis 2004

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umsl.edu/

Phone Number:

(314) 516-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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