Welcome to United States History

This class will survey the United States from the post Civil War Era to the modern days of the 2000's. We will focus on such themes as the emergence and development of America- Economically, politically, at peace and at war, through prosperity and depression, during the struggles for civil rights and into its future.
 
We will focus as much on the past of common people-- men, women and children- as on that of great leaders, as much on the forces of social change as political change, as much on continuity as on change itself. The purpose of this course is to develop a coherent vision of the course of the social, political and economic history of the United States and to strengthen our awareness of ourselves as historical beings.