Social Movements in U.S. Politics

3 Credits.

This seminar explores social movements across American history, placing them in the broad context of American political development. Cases include abolition, temperance, women’s suffrage, the Second Ku Klux Klan, labor, civil rights, feminism, gun rights, Black Lives Matter, and MAGA. As we situate these movements, we seek to explore similarities and dissimilarities in their strategies and impacts. Requirements include a term paper.