HIST 215 Flappers, Fundamentalists, and FDR: The US Experience 1919-1945 (US)
Between the end of the First World War in 1919 and the Second World War in 1945, the United States became a modern nation. Signs of this “modernism” were everywhere: in the rise of cities and urban cultures; in the mass media and its obsession with celebrity; in new norms about consumption and pleasure; in the politics of government activism and the welfare state; in new ideas about gender roles and sexual freedoms; and in new conceptions of ethnic & racial pluralism. In this course, we will examine the tensions, fears, and dreams surrounding the American transition to modernism in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
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