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Main Currents in American Culture Since 1865

Fall, 2010 Dr. Mark Smith
TTh 2-3:30 Burdine 428
Burdine 134 Tues 10-11, Th 12:30-2 and by appt. 232-2150/471-7277/e-mail: mcsmith@mail.utexas.edu
Teaching Assistant: Jeanette Vaught
Office: Burdine 408 Hours: TTh 3:30-5 and by appt. At the end of the Civil War, American society became flooded with new technologies, ethnic groups, ideas, and customs. A society, which had bewildered earlier American visitors with its diversity and complexity, accelerated its already frantic pace. This course identifies and describes some of the “booming, buzzing confusion” of American culture from the Civil War through about 1990 and relates their
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12 The Growth of a City Culture Kasson Amusing the Million, 3-36 17 Architecture and a New America finish Kasson 19 City Architecture—Louis Sullivan and the Early Frank Lloyd Wright von Drehle Triangle, prologue-chapter 4 24 Pragmatism—Ideas Make a Difference Philosophically von Drehle,chapter 5-7

26 Pragmatism—Ideas Make a Difference Socially von Drehle, chapters 8-epilogue Oct 1 FIRST EXAM Ragged Dick, Amusing the Millions, and Triangle

3 “Gender Is Destiny?” The Battle of the Sexes

8 Women and Equality: The Battle Within 10 Painting and the Attack Upon Genteel America

15 Modernism—Seeing the World in New Ways Nancy McLean, Mask of Chivalry, Part 1

17 Social Behavior and the End of Innocence Mask, Part 2

22 Prohibition and 20s America Mask, Part 3 24 The Impact of the Great Depression “The Plough That Broke the Plains” 29 The New Deal and Social Acrtivism “The Dust Bowl” parts one and two out of five

31 Ecological Disasters during the 1930s “The Dust Bowl” parts three, four, and five out of

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