HIS 244 - The Birth of Baseball: How One Game Became America’s Pastime

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Overview of the history of baseball as it grew from informal games to a national pastime. Students use the lens of baseball to explore topics in American history including race, gender, class, immigration, capitalism and identity, with a focus on how the game both reflected and influenced American society from the Civil War to World War I. Graded ABCDE