History 290F - Hist/American GridironFootball
Spring
2021
01
4.00
Joel Wolfe
M W 12:20PM 1:10PM
UMass Amherst
85009
Fully Remote Class
jwolfe@history.umass.edu
This class examines the history of American Gridiron Football from its earliest days as a game played primarily at elite colleges through its development into the most popular spectator sport in the United States. It examines the complex and contentious history of race and ethnicity in football, and its place in American politics from Theodore Roosevelt?s intervention to keep the sport legal to present-day controversies over everything from race and sexuality to patriotism.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.