Restriction: Permission of instructor (dpriest@umd.edu)

This course will cover reporters' mindset, methods and coverage during the most violent episodes in 20th and 21st century US history, beginningin the era of Jim Crow and lynching, through violent labor strikes, the Civil Rights, Black Power and anti-war movements, the government's explosive responses to Ruby Ridge and WACO, through the neo-Nazi protests in Charlottesville and elsewhere, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and ending with the strive across the country (and whatever else happens over the next six months!) during the federal government's militarized siege of citiesin towns to conduct immigration raids.