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Prof. Meg Jacobs
21H.131
Fall 2000
Undergraduate
This course features archived syllabi from various semesters.
This course examines the American experience at home and abroad from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Cold War. Topics include: America's role as global superpower, foreign and domestic anticommunism, social movements of left and right, suburbanization, and popular culture.
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