Expl/The Roaring '20s
Term: Spring 2022 - Full Term (01/25/2022 - 05/09/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
CRN: 54335
Times & Locations
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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1/25/2022 | 5/9/2022 | TR | 9:40am - 11:00am | HORT 201 |
THE ROARING '20s: BECOMING MODERN IN THE US
HIST 498 sec. 08
Professor Lucy Salyer
Tu/Th 9:40-11 Horton 201
“The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts.” So said the novelist Willa Cather, capturing the view of many Americans that the 1920s ushered in a distinctly modern age. Everything seemed new and exciting: automobiles, radios, ‘moving pictures’, Harlem jazz clubs, flappers, speakeasies, skyscrapers. But not all Americans embraced modernity. The resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, racial violence, the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, the Red Scare, massive immigration restrictions, a widening generation gap, debates over the “new woman” – all revealed deep cultural divides in what some have called an “age of anxiety. In this course, we will explore the tensions and contradictions of the 1920s as Americans struggled over what “becoming modern” meant for their personal lives, and for the nation as a whole.