2022-2023 Hill Book (Class of 2026) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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HIS 309 - The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era 1865-1929Three Credits
Fall Semester
This course will immerse students in two of the most colorful, tumultuous, and important epochs in U. S. History: the Gilded Age (1865-1900) and the Progressive Era (1900-1920), transformative periods, when banks and corporations wielded enormous power, the income gap between the 1% and the other 99% grew significantly larger, and new technologies dramatically changed American lives, a time when heated debates about U.S. military interventionism, the environment, and immigration dominate the news headlines.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Digital Humanities
Note: Considered a United States History
Thematic Approaches: Culture, Class, Society; Crisis and Conflict
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