HIST 1302
4 credits/Spring 2005
M/W 11:15AM-12:05PM
Willey hall 175

Professor Barbara Welke
752 Social Sciences Tower
Office Hours:
W 1:30-2:30 p.m., Th 9:00-10:00 a.m.
tel: (612) 624-7017
welke004@tc.umn.edu

History 1302: United States History

1865 to the Present

Lecture Links

W. 1/19 Introduction to History 1302

Part I:

The Incorporation of America, 1865-1929

Defining the Borders of Citizenship and Nation

M. 1/24 Reconstruction and the Meaning of Freedom

W. 1/26 Native Americans, Western Expansion, and the Industrialized Corporate Frontier

M. 1/31 The Disorderly Triumph of Industrial Capitalism: Corporate Consolidation, Labor Strife, and the Populist Challenge

W. 2/2 Defining the Borders of Citizenship and Nation: Jim Crow, Black Disfranchisement, and Lynching

M. 2/7 United States Nationalism from 1880-1905

W. 2/9 Urban Life & the Birth of Mass Culture

M. 2/14 Progressive Reform

W. 2/16 World War I

M. 2/21 The 1920s

W. 2/23 Midterm Exam

Part II

Building the Liberal State, 1929-1968

M. 2/28 The Great Depression

W. 3/2 The New Deal

M. 3/7 World War II

W. 3/9 World War II: The Home Front

Spring Break: March 14-18

M. 3/21 From World War to Cold War: Foreign Policy

W. 3/23 From World War to Cold War: The Home Front

M. 3/28 Living the American Dream: Postwar Affluence

W. 3/30 The Civil Rights Era I: A Time for Justice

M. 4/4 The Civil Rights Era II: From Beloved Community to Black Power

W. 4/6 LBJ's Great Society

M. 4/11 The War in Southeast Asia

W. 4/13 The Rights Revolution

Part III

What's Right?: Conservative Resurgence

M. 4/18 1968 and "the Silent Majority"

W. 4/20 The Age of Limits: De-Industrialization, the Energy Crisis, and the Iran-Hostage Crisis

M. 4/25 The Reagan Years: Consolidation of the New Right and the "End" of the Cold War

W. 4/27 The "Consumers Republic"

M. 5/2 Globalization and the New Economy

W. 5/4 September 11th in History

Final Exam: Saturday (ugh!) May 14, 1:30-3:30 p.m. 175 Willey Hall