History · Boston College
Fulfills the US History requirement for MajorsThis course will examine developments in the United States to the end of reconstruction in 1877. The principle text will be volume two of the textbook edition of Jill LeporesThese Truths, along with several supplemental readings. Topics to be considered include the Gilded Age, populism, progressivism, civil rights movements, the U.S. role in world affairs, the struggle between economic development and relief for the poor and the environment, and social and cultural change and backlash.
