Development of the American nation from 1865 to the present.
Athena Title
American History Since 1865
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in HIST 2112E, HIST 2112H
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to arrive at conclusions and think historically about vital issues in the United States after the Civil War, from the era of Reconstruction to the present day. Historical thinking will be developed by gathering and weighing evidence, logical argument, and listening to counter argument as students consider how history has shaped the social, cultural, and political structures of the contemporary U.S.
By the end of this course, students will be able to write stylistically appropriate papers and essays about post-Civil War U.S. history. Students will be able to analyze ideas and evidence, organize their thoughts, and revise and edit finished essays based on both primary source and secondary source analysis.
By the end of this course, students will be able to identify how modern U.S. history has shaped diverse social and cultural identities towards race, ethnicity, and "multicultural" American identity, encouraging them to understand diverse worldviews and experiences of different groups of people in the modern U.S.
Topical Outline
Part I: Creating an Industrial Society
Reconstructing the Nation
The "New South"
American Wests
Workers in an Industrial World
Urbanization and Immigration
The Age of Reform—Agrarian Protest
The Age of Reform—Progressive Politics
The Imperial Republic
Part II: Prosperity, Depression, and War
World War I and American Citizenship
All that Jazz
Modernism and Anti-Modernism
The Great Depression
The New Deal
World War II—Abroad
World War II—At Home
Creating the Postwar Order
Part III: Liberalism and Its Discontents
The Coils of Cold War
The Culture of Containment
Kitchen Politics
Civil Rights I
Civil Rights II
Liberalism in the 1960s
Vietnam
Second-Wave Feminism
Rights Revolutions
Nov. 30 Discussion Section
Rambo (I), Rocky (IV), and Reagan
What Have We Learned? (Review Session)
General Education Core
CORE V: Social Sciences
Institutional Competencies
Communication
The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, or visual form.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
Social Awareness & Responsibility
The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.
