This course covers the broad scope of United States History from approximately 1865 to the present. Emphasis will be on the integration of economic, political and cultural trends, events, ideas and people. Specific topics of inquiry and discussion will include:

• the Reconstruction Era
• Industrialization
• the Progressive Era
• the evolution of African-American Civil Rights
• Imperialism
• World War I
• the Roaring '20s
• the Great Depression & New Deal
• World War II
• "pax Americana"
• the growth of American feminism
• the Vietnam Era
• Watergate
• the Reagan-Bush years
• the 1990's