HIS 102: History of Modern America

This course surveys and examines selected problems and opportunities facing the United States in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Tracing the development and growth of political, economic, social and cultural institutions, special emphasis is on the significance and relevance of industrial growth, the Gilded Age, the Populist Revolt, the Progressive Reform movement, America as a World Power, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the New Deal, World War II, The Fifties, The Dissenting Sixties, and the trials and tribulations of the Seventies and the Eighties.