A History of Sports & Youth Cu

HIST-386E-1

Binghamton University

  • Semester
    Winter 26/27
  • Instructor
  • Start Date
    12-17-2026
  • Total Credits
    4
  • Call to Register
    607-777-6088

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How did gymnastics, scouting, basketball, and football become global phenomena? Why did state officials, foreign educators, and young people from London to New York, or from Berlin to Istanbul suddenly develop a shared obsession with athletic discipline at the turn of the twentieth century? This course explores the intersection of sports, leisure, and youth culture from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Using a comparative and cross-cultural framework, students will analyze how physical culture reshaped politics, gender roles, and daily life across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. Beyond organized athletics, we examine how movie screenings, billiards halls, YMCA/YWCA organizations, and private clubs became dynamic sites of social debate and resistance. Through primary sources, including early sports journals, archival pictures, memoirs, and Olympic records, students will investigate how youth cultures around the world adapted, contested, and reinterpreted the models of sport to construct their own identities.
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences
Course Area: History
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 12-17-2026 - 01-15-2027
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