2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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HS 324 Troubled Giant: America from the Cold War to Covid-19
(4 Credits)
The history of the United States since World War Two presents us with a striking paradox: while becoming ever more prosperous at home and powerful abroad, it has also become ever more unequal and divided, beset by a relentless succession of social problems, foreign policy disasters, and angry political polarization.
In this course, an advanced level undergraduate course also open to graduate students, we examine the story of America, the ‘troubled giant’, from the communism-obsessed era of the Cold War, through the 9/11 attacks, globalization, and the advent of the internet, into the current ferment over change, diversity and the very foundations of liberal democracy itself.
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