America Between the Wars

American history from 1917 to 1945, it examines the Prohibition, organized crime, the Ku Klux Klan, the "monkey trial" over the teaching of evolution, the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, the Great Depression, the New Deal and the isolationist foreign policy of the 1920s and 1930s. This course integrates history and literature through the writings of Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Zora Neale Hurston.