History 283 - Hist/American GridironFootball
Fall
2025
01AA
F 9:05AM 9:55AM
UMass Amherst
63544
Bartlett Hall room 61
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. The class 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.