HIST021 - US HISTORY 1865-PRESENT

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
HIST021 - US HISTORY 1865-PRESENT
Term
2011C
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
601
Section ID
HIST021601
Meeting times
M 0630PM-0930PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 244
Instructors
LANCTOT, NEIL J.
Description
This course covers the social, political, and economic history of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. Topics to be discussed include Reconstruction, politics in the Gilded Age, late nineteenth-century urbanization and immigration, Populism, Progressivism, the rise of the United States to world power, the culture and politics of the twenties, the New Deal, the Cold War, post-World War II America, the turbulence of the sixties, the conservative resurgence, and the move toward a more pluralistic society.
Course number only
021
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false