Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: I. Course ObjectivesThis course is designed to provide a broad survey of American history since 1865.In particular we will focus on four major issues, the development of corporate capitalism and various conflicts surrounding it, the rise of big government and the fate of democracy in "the age of reform" (i.e.progressivism and the New Deal), the question of race in American society and the foreign and domestic conflicts in the post World War II era of Pax Americana.This course is also designed to promote habits of critical thinking, reading, speaking, and writing.The method for promoting these habits is the reading of historical documents and historical arguments, followed by thinking, speaking, and writing about the issues they raise.Since the assigned texts are central to the course it is particularly important that students keep up with the reading.It will be difficult to do well in this course without careful and timely reading.
Author: Timothy Wurst
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3184076867