HSS 2400 - Making of Modern America

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Babson College

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3.00 credits HSS2400 MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA(HIS) The Making of Modern America: The 1920s (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The decade of the 1920s witnessed the birth of much of that we consider "modern" in the United States. Students in this course will examine this decade closely, focusing on several key moments and developments: anti-immigrant hysteria and the Braintree, Massachusetts trial of Sacco and Vanzetti; the Navy investigations of Newport, Rhode Island and the rise of queer communities; competing visions of Black Liberation and the art of the Harlem Renaissance; the rise of big business, the decline of small town America, and the mass appeal of the Ku Klux Klan; women and men and their roles in the new economies of sex and work. We will use historical sources, among them film and fiction, to explore the currents of the twenties and draw connections to the social and political debates of the contemporary U.S. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

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3.00

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www.babson.edu

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(781) 235-1200

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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