The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Course Directory·SNHU HIS603 has 2 direct prerequisites.

Graduate · 3 credits

This course examines the period between Reconstruction and the first World War, paying particular attention to the emergence of industrial capitalism, the rise of the modern American city, the shifting nature of rural life in America and the rise of Populism, immigration, racial tensions, Progressivism, the conquest of the West, and the rise of the United States as a global power militarily, economically, and politically.