HIST 410 - The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1918

2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
In this course, students will explore the major issues, transformations, contests, and conflicts of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Rather than privileging one set of historical actors over others, we will do our best to try to understand how a number of women and men, from businessmen and presidents to immigrant workers and African Americans, affected historical change during their lives. In this course, then, we will not develop one grand narrative to explain U.S. history from 1877 to 1918. Rather, we will explore a number of competing narratives that will allow us to deal with the complexity of this period in American history and the people who made it. Specific topics to be covered include: industrialization and class conflicts; Jim Crow; Populism; urbanization; imperialism; gender debates; immigration; and World War I.

Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Program Attribute: HAMR