STSC 361 American Politics and Society, 1865-1930
Cross-listed as HIST 361
Offered:Previous Semesters
Greene TTh 12-1:30
American society as we know it today emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This course examines the profound transformations that occurred between the Civil War and the Great Depression as America became “modern” with the appearance of new political, economic, social, and cultural institutions. We will examine the social changes such as urbanization, institutional development, and consumer culture, the evolution of race ideology, the expansion of national power, changes in technology, science and the environment, the rise of industrial capitalism, political developments including Populism and Progressivism, and the growing importance of foreign policy. This will be a combination lecture and discussion class.
