HIS 257 - Redefining the United States at Home and Abroad (1877-1939)

1 semester, 3 credits-

Examines how Americans grappled with the emergence of the United States as an industrial and world power, including continued racial tensions and opposition to new immigrant groups, Native Americans, and African Americans; imperial expansion into the Caribbean and Pacific; the politics of the Gilded Age; Progressive Era reform movements; the First World War; and the Great Depression and New Deal. Same as AMS 257. Satisfies post-1877 American history requirement for major/minor.

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HIS 257 - Redefining the United States at Home and Abroad (1877-1939)