HIST 111 American History since 1877

This course is a continuation of HIST 110 and provides a broad overview of U.S. history from the end of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War through the present. Major themes examined are industrialization; urbanization; protest and reform movements; emergence of the U.S. as a world power; the Great Depression; World War II; the Cold War; the turbulent 1960s; and domestic and foreign problems of the 1970s and 1980s.