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This history specialization explores America's national pasttime and its connections to money, globalization, race, gender, and culture. Examine baseball’s connections to money and globalization, two of the most powerful forces in the modern era. The lenses of race, gender, and culture will guide your learning of baseball’s virtues, flaws, and deep roots in Americanism. Finally, delve into the more recent history of the sport.

Topics include the Reserve Clause, world tours, collective bargaining, expansion, desegregation, women's rights, shutdowns, patriotism, nationalism, and much more.

In this specialization, you will:

• Gain a broad sense of historical change, politics, economy, society and culture, and persistent and recurring challenges
• Discover some examples of how those changes played out in American history — the people and places involved and their impact
• Develop your ability to think historically — examine the past on its own terms, consider context and change, and analyze historical arguments
• Apply historical skills to the contemporary world, grapple with questions that matter to you, and learn about baseball

Courses

• Moneyball and Globalization
• Race, Gender, and Culture
• Baseball and Americanism
• Baseball into the Millennium