AM 102:  Introduction to American Culture: Post-Civil War

An examination of American life and culture from the Civil War to the present.  Topics include social movements, westward expansion, immigration, urbanization, the Horatio Alger myth, the rise of labor, economic growth and class differences, the role of the federal government, racial and ethnic conflict, gender roles, war and peace, and criticism of American culture.  Various resources, such as popular culture, music, film, sermons, diaries, trial transcripts, literature, historical studies, art and architecture, and various primary documents are used.  (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)