Description: THE AMERICAN SOUTH
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DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 2
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Survey of the history of the American South from the development of Native American cultures to the present. Includes social, cultural, and intellectual history, with emphasis on slavery and the plantation economy, the rise of southern distinctiveness, the Civil War and Reconstruction, sharecropping, political reform, the civil rights movement, the rise of the Sunbelt, southern religion, music, and literature, and the future of southern regionalism. Offered with additional work as Hist 395.