129 History of US After the Civil War

Instructor: David Farber

Day & Time:
Lecture:
Online | 1st Half


Fulfills:
Category I
KU Core Goal 3(H)
KU Core 34 AH
a collage depicting various scenes from social rights movements, soldiers pointing their guns at people holding "I am a man signs", the smoky rubble of 9/11 with an american flag, and three people showing the cover a newspaper that depicts coverage of Vietnam pretests.

History of the United States After the Civil War 

 

 

 

In this overview of recent U.S. history we will ponder four broad questions: what has equality meant in the United States; how has democracy worked; how has the American economy developed; and what role has the United States played in the world?

We all meet Monday and Wednesday for fifty minutes in the lecture hall. All students also attend a discussion section that meets once a week for fifty minutes.

We will read and discuss primary source texts, such as William Jennings Bryan’s populist manifesto (1896), as well as works of history, such as Crack: Rock Cocaine and Street Capitalism.

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