HIST 339 New Deal America, 1929-2000

Prerequisites: HIST 218 or permission of instructor. This course traces the rise and fall of the New Deal order. The first part of the course will discuss the legacies of the New Deal and WWII. The second part focuses on the turbulent 1960s. The final part examines the economic crisis of the 1970s and America’s "conservative turn" in the 1980s.