HIST 522 - Gilded Age and Progressive Era

3 Credit(s)

This course examines the United States from the end of Reconstruction through World War I. The Gilded Age covers the period of intense economic expansion after the Civil War, and examines the expansion of big business, the growth of the labor movement, and the crisis of the 1890’s. The second half of the course studies the period of intense reform known as the Progressive Era, and concludes with U.S. participation in the First World War. Topics will include American overseas expansion, immigration, the suffrage movement, and the rise of governmental economic regulation.