Q1 Many historians believe that the United States truly became a modern nation in the 1920s. During this decade, Americans shifted to urban enviroments, women gained the right to vote, a consumer culture developed, new technologies brought greater freedom and convenience, and new music flourished. After reading your text and viewing the materials provided, consider […]

Final Historicism Project | CSFRST 2374 |   Purpose: 1) To demonstrate student knowledge of the influence of historic costume on contemporary fashion design.   2) To demonstrate student ability to use primary sources to determine which period of historic costume influenced a particular style of contemporary dress during the twentieth century. You may want to review […]

Purpose Students will demonstrate the ability to: • Analyze historical facts and interpretations • Analyze and compare political, geographic, economic, social, cultural, religious, and intellectual institutions, structures, and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures • Recognize and articulate the diversity of human experience across a range of historical periods and the complexities […]

The rapid growth of the American economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was matched by an equally rapid degradation of the nation’s environment. Beginning in the 1970s, Congress enacted a series of laws to protect the environment. Business leaders protested these laws, arguing government regulation retarded economic growth. In this article from 1993, Paul […]

Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly Introduction: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536) was a Christian scholar and philosopher. Many scholars distinguish Erasmus’s humanist writings as part of the “Northern Renaissance” or Christian Humanism movement to distinguish his works from the likes of Machiavelli in Italy. As with all humanists however, he wrote in a classical ancient Latin style, […]