HIST 324/A (Fall 2025): US 1877-1924
The period from 1877 to 1924 witnessed the transformation of the United States from a rural debtor nation into an urban, industrial, financial, and military power. Accompanying this transformation was an unprecedented gap between the wealthy and the poor and increases in global migration and mobility. This course asks how people from all walks of life experienced, interpreted, and sought to control these changes. How did industrialization and migration reshape gendered and racialized identities? How did workers, the middle class, and the wealthy define the relationship between individual liberty and the social good? How did their political actions and social movements change the meaning of democracy, the role of government, and boundaries of citizenship in the US and abroad?
- Teacher: THERESA VENTURA