HIST 1002H: United States History since 1865 - Honors

• Common Course Numbering universal language:\\nDemonstrate the ability to interpret primary and secondary sources and to compose an argument which uses supportive evidence\\n
• Common Course Numbering Language: \\nDemonstrate an understanding of U.S. History through analytical categories such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity.\\n
• Common Course Language:\\nAnalyze economic, political, and cultural developments as well as social movements and assess their historical significance
• Common Course Language:\\nAnalyze the relevance of Modern American History to the present day.
• reason, analyze, compare, and contrast different time periods within modern American history
• compare and contrast the experiences and contributions of major ethnic and social groups in modern American history
• describe the influences of political, economic, technological, cultural, and social factors to interpret events in modern American history
• demonstrate a familiarity with historiographical analysis
• evaluate and assess trends, cycles, and other events which seem to repeat themselves and demonstrate and understanding of their reasons and effects
• compare and contrast historiographical period and writers
• research and assess primary and secondary documentation

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Themes may include but are not limited to class, race, gender, and ethnicity; immigration; systems of labor; intellectual, technological, environmental, social, and cultural history; and foreign relations.

1. Introduction to basic methods of historical research and analysis.
2. Reconstruction and the New South.
3. Immigration, industrialization, and urbanization in the Gilded Age.
4. Closing of the frontier and Resistance of Indigenous Peoples.
5. Progressive Era Reform Movements.
6. Imperialist expansion and emergence of the United States as a world power.
7. World War I.
8. Post-War America and the 1920s.
9. The Great Depression and the New Deal.
10. World War II and Its Aftermath.
11. Cold War Era.
12. Civil Rights Movements.
13. Vietnam, the Great Society, and the Transformation of America.
14. From Nixon to Reagan.
15. Entering the New Millennium.
16. Twenty-first century and the recent past.