US Culture & Society since 1945

This is the HIS 337 class website for the student final projects using Xanthan framework. Everything you see here is a placeholder — the title above, the essay topics, the images.

This opening section will introduce your topic and lay out your argument about why your topic is significant for understanding U.S. society between 1945-2000s. Remember that all of your webpage content will need to support and develop this argument in some way. Because a webpage communicates information in sections or more digestible portions, you will want to consider how each section or portion below develops a particular point of your argument. ¹

To get a sense of what a finished project can look like, this template includes three sample essays with image and tabs for topics in the Social and Cultural History of the US, but with content on Southwest food history generated with AI as stand-ins for real student work. Because a webpage communicates information in sections or more digestible portions, you will want to consider how each section or portion contributes to your overall argument.

To access these essays, scroll to the top of this page. At the top, right of center, you will see a series of tabs. Click on the Essays tab. This will take to you the page that will hold all the student webpages. Browse them to see how essays can use images, pull quotes, and scroll-driven backgrounds. Then start replacing them with your own material. Note that images, pull quotes, and videos are all ways to break up the sections for reader engagement.