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Feb 05, 2025
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HIUS 453 - America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Semester Hours: Three
A lecture and discussion course surveying American history from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 into the era of the First World War. Topics include: the politics of sectional reconciliation after Reconstruction; the U.S. Supreme Court and the development of the “Jim Crow” regime of racial segregation; surging capitalism and its critics; organized labor, new technologies of communication and transportation; urbanization; the advent of mass consumption; the rise and fall of farming in the Great Plains states; Populism; Progressivism; professionalization; immigration; nativism; the closing of the American frontier; social Darwinism; America’s involvement in the West’s “scramble” for empire in the late nineteenth century; the Spanish American War; and the United States’ entry into World War One.
Term Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Prerequisite: HIUS 223 or consent of instructor.
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