2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 231 - Origins of Modern America, 1877-1914 (formerly America in the Gilded Age)

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion
Focuses on a especially volatile era, encompassing Gilded Age excess and Progressive Era reforms, that gave birth to modern America. Among the many topics explored are the nation’s emergence as a world power, the rise of industrial capitalism, immigration, urbanization, Populism, popular culture, and trans-Atlantic reform movements.

Cross Listed: HIST 331 

Instructor: Ms. Greenwood

When Offered: Offered periodically

Faculty: Janette T. Greenwood, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of History