Class Id: 8967
Days: TTh
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 02:20 PM
Building: GREEN
Room: 0S6
Course Id: 3990
Departments and Numbers: HIS 377
Area: HA
Title: Gilded Age and Progressive-Era United States, 1877-1920
Description: This course introduces students to major themes in the history of the emergence of modern American society and government. It covers 1877-1920, paying particular attention to such crucial post-Civil War developments as the modern business corporation and changing labor conditions; the transformative effects of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and internal migration; the unsettling of traditional gender and racial arrangements; the origins of modern democracy and liberalism in labor organization, Populism and Progressivism; and U.S. participation in global politics through its colonial ventures and World War I.
Prerequisites:
Professors: Rebecca A. Rix
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