HIST 1111 — American History II
This course is a survey of the history of the United States from 1877 to the present day. The course will introduce students to the major political, social, eco- nomic, religious, cultural, intellectual, and technologi- cal developments in American history from the end of reconstruction to the post-modern era. Topics will include, but are not limited to: Gilded Age politics, late 19th and 20th century industrialization, economic changes, immigration, Progressivism, American Impe- rialism, World War one, cultural changes in the 1920’s, and The Great Depression. The latter portion of the semester will focus on the events leading to World War II, the military history of the war, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, social change in the 1950’s and 1960’s, the Vietnam War, and the post–Cold War era up to the presidential election of 2008.