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This seminar aims to develop a teaching knowledge of the field through extensive reading and discussion of major works. The reading covers a broad range of topics - political, economic, social, and cultural - and represents a variety of historical methods.
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![Woman painting American insignia on airplane wings, 1942.](/courses/21h-952j-readings-in-american-history-since-1877-fall-2003/f394f3fa94cb0f5be7236e1f8b7ffe93_21h-952jf03.jpg)
Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number LC-USW361-387 DLC].)