HIST-216 History of the American Left, from the Puritans to the Present

The course will examine the role of individuals, organizations, and movements in America who dissented from and sought to overturn class, racial, and gender inequality, from the 17th century down to the present day, with special emphasis on both the successes and failures of anti-slavery abolitionism, women’s suffrage, labor organizing, pacifism, Communism, Democratic Socialism, the Religious Left, the “long civil rights movement,” the New Left of the 1960s, and the new social movements of the past half century.

Maximum Enrollment

Standard Course (40)

Credits

1