Scandalous Histories

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Focuses on scandals (moral, political and financial transgressions), using them to understand what issues mattered in the past and how the people of the past responded. Topics include issues as the Wylde scandal in South Africa, the Dreyfus Affair in France, the Black Sox scandal and Watergate in the US, and the Profumo Affair in Britain, with a focus on events in liberal democracies in the 19th and 20th centuries.