Mar 28, 2024  
2019-2020 Winona Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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H114 U.S. History since 1865

3 credit(s)
This course offers an overview of the history of the United States between the end of the Civil War and the present day.  It emphasizes broad developments that transformed American life:  the transformation of a rural-agrarian into an urban-industrial society; the shift from “isolationism” to internationalism; the rise of liberalism, the growth of the federal government, and the development of the military-industrial complex; the rise of a conservative movement and the subsequent polarization of American politics and life, especially as seen in the Cultural Wars; and the ubiquitous role technology played in these developments.  In addition, the course looks at these transformations through the lenses of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and class, in order to investigate how these broad developments affected people in an increasingly diverse nation.



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