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HSB 225 - John Brown’s Body: Political Violence in American History


3 credit(s)
The role of political violence in shaping American society, culture, and politics is explored. Topics may include the Whiskey Rebellion, Nat Turner, violence by and against abolitionists, draft resistance, lynching, the Ku Klux Klan, the Los Angeles riots, Timothy McVeigh, and 9/11, with discussion of the causes, justification, and costs of political violence as well as the responses to it.
Prerequisite(s): Any HSB 100-level course.


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