HIS 1200

About this course

This class introduces students to fundamental challenges the U.S. faced after the Civil War, such as integrating four million formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction; deciding which groups should be allowed in as immigrants; relating as a more powerful nation to the rest of the world; responding to economic crises like the Great Depression; adapting to urbanization and suburbanization; addressing political polarization; and responding to demands for greater rights from workers, people of color, women, and other disenfranchised groups.