HIS 104 - History of the United States II

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
The study of American political, social and intellectual development from 1865 to the present. Students will explore the roles of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and religion in shaping U.S. History and the experiences of Americans since 1865. Topics covered include Reconstruction; the industrial and transportation revolutions; the crisis in agriculture; the labor and Populist movements; the segregated South; immigration; American expansionism and its effects on indigenous peoples; the Progressive Movement; the Twenties; the Great War; the Twenties; the Great Depression and New Deal; the Second World War; the Cold War; Post-war affluence and its racial and gender disparities; the Civil Rights Movement and other social movements of the 1960s and 1970s; the Vietnam War; the Conservative Resurgence of the 1970s and 1980s; Globalization and the Information Revolution; and the early 21st Century. HIS 103 and 104 may be taken separately.