HIST 247 - America in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2014 and alternate years

A survey of the transformation of American society under the impact of industrialization and urbanization. It examines how business leaders, workers, farmers, and the middle class attempted to shape the new industrial society to their own purposes. Emphasis is given to social, intellectual, and cultural experiences and to politics. Senechal.