American Sport History explores the importance of sport in the unfolding history of this nation from the colonial period to the present. It will examine the development of athletic activities and analyze the relationship between sports and social institutions, political and economic structures, geography, and goup and individual behavior. This is a fairly new area of historical interest. Historians are now studying the history of sport in America and its interaction within the braoder society as related to a number of areas of importance, such as class, ethnicity, race and gender issues, in order to understand more fully and completely America and the American mind.
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