HST 358 THE U.S., 1877-1940: THE CONSEQUENCES OF MODERNIZATION

Focusing on the transformation to industrial capitalism, this course explores the major developments in American history from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of World War II. Students examine the Gilded Age, progressivism, World War I, prosperity and nativism in the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, and the coming of war in Europe and Asia.

Credits

4 sh