05:00 PM to 08:00 PM W
Off-Campus Location OCL
Section Information for Fall 2014
This course will examine the rise and fall of the Gilded Age, a period defined by its glitz, glamour, and tremendous social and cultural upheaval. We will search for its origins in the mid nineteenth century and trace its fall in the early twentieth century. We will focus much of our attention on the material reality of life in nineteenth-century Washington. Using the city itself as a starting point we will travel from the sumptuous dinners served to diplomats in elegant townhouses, to the city’s freedman’s villages and its many bawdy houses to consider the intersecting material lives of elite politicians, white women of all social levels, and enslaved and free African Americans. We will take advantage of the opportunity to visit local sites but will also place Washington into a broader context of the Gilded Age in other locations. Museum visits, short writing assignments, and a final paper will be required.
ARTH 699 002 meets at the Smithsonian Ripley Center, room 3031.
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Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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