HIS 316 - America Comes of Age: 1877-1920

HIS 220, HIS 221; or consent of instructor. (3)

Social, cultural, economic and political developments during the era of America’s maturation. Opens with the formal end of Reconstruction and a national railroad strike and closes with America launched as a power in the world, just as that world plunges into the Great War. Graded ABCDE. [“”]