Modern America (HTA 353)

Term: 2023-2024 Academic Year Fall

Faculty

Carl David DaltonShow MyInfo popup for Carl David Dalton

 

Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at College of the Ozarks; author of "God and Our Rights!:  The Southern Protestant Clergy and the Coming of the Civil War." 

Fall 2025 Office Hours are by appointment only.

 

 

Schedule

Mon-Wed-Fri, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM (8/21/2023 - 12/15/2023) Location: MAIN JONES 308

Description

This class is an exploration of American history from the 1940s to the present, emphasizing the political, economic and cultural aspects of the period. The course will cover topics such as the Cold War, Elvis Presley and 1950s counterculture, the radicalism of the 1960s, the 1970s as the age of cynicism, the emergent conservatism of the 1980s, and how a culture war developed in the early 2000s. Fall-Odd