2024-2025 Catalog

HST-182 American Life Since the Civil War Era

Surveys American history from the 1870s to the present. Topics include the new industrial order; farmer and worker protests; progressivism; Americas emergence as a world power; the two World Wars; the Great Depression; the New Deal; the Cold War; post-World War II American society; the Civil rights movement; Vietnam; dissent and counterculture in the 1960s; the womens movement; economic, social, and political changes in the late-twentieth century; Americas relationship to a globalized world.

Credits

4

Offered

Spring