2017 - 2018 Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2017 - 2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIST 251 - United States History Since 1865

3 Credit (3 lecture, 0 lab) 3 Contact Hours [Reading Level 3 ]
This course is a continuation of HIST 250  with a similar emphasis on social history and the conflicts between individualism and collectivism, social classes and ethnic groups as well as new conflicts between liberals and conservatives, isolationists and imperialists and centralists and localists that remain today. The course focuses on racism, reconstruction and Jim Crow; involvement; social, political and economic reform in the Progressive period; the World Wars; the Depression and the reform of capitalism; the Cold War and the age of affluence; the turbulent sixties; the self-indulgent seventies and the age of scarcity in an effort to understand the factors that influence America’s present behavior.
OFFERED: spring semesters



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