HIST 570 - History and Memory in the American South

History and Memory in the American South explores public memory and regional identities. This class will analyze the ways in which southern communities have recalled and commemorated their pasts, paying particular attention to preservation sites, tourist destinations, and public monuments. It will examine what communities in the South have chosen to remember and to forget, and ask how and why those decisions have been made.

Prerequisites Acceptance into the History MA program or acceptance into the ABM concentration in Public History.

Credits 3