HIS 1220 - American History since 1865

3(3 + 0)

Prerequisite: Minimum performance standard scores on reading and writing preassessment tests

This course covers the immediate background to present-day America, beginning with the Civil War and culminating with the early 1990s. Such topics as industrialism, emergence of the U.S. as a world power, Progressivism, the First World War, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and U.S. social and political history in the second half of the 20th century will be treated.(General Studies—Level II, Historical)(GT–HI1)