HISTORY 357
Making Modern America 1877-1924
Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for HISTORY 357.
Description
A survey of the United States from the end of Reconstruction through the 1920s that evaluates the role of ordinary people as well as influential figures. Themes include industrialisation; labour conflict and organisation; segregation; reform; literary and intellectual movements; popular culture; imperialism; politics and the state.
Availability 2016
Not offered in 2016; planned for 2017
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Paul Taillon
Reading/Texts
Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919, New York, 2008
Points
HISTORY 357: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage II in History, or 15 points at Stage II in History and ARTHIST 225
Restrictions
HISTORY 257