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2024-2025 Westminster College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Westminster College Catalog

HIS 225 - American History 1945-1974

Semester Hours: 4

This course will focus on the politics and culture of America from the end of 1945 to the resignation of Richard M. Nixon. Through lectures, reading, discussion, research, and presentations, students will explore this fascinating period. Special topics will include the Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, campus unrest, the various liberation movements, and the many other significant transformations of the period. Meets Humanity and Culture Intellectual Perspective requirement (HC).

Intellectual Perspective: HC