2021-2022 Catalog

HST-333 Age of Reform, Depression, & World Wars, America: 1898-1945

Addresses social, intellectual, and cultural developments as well as politics and economics; foreign relations (and their connection to the domestic scene) are also discussed. Topics include: the labor movement, civil rights, woman suffrage, progressivism, the rise of the U.S. as a world power, the First World War, the cultural and social crosscurrents of the nineteen-twenties, Fordism, new developments in advertising and industrial engineering, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II.

Credits

4

Core Curriculum

  • Social and Intellectual History

Offered

Ocasionally