H336 American Business History3 credit(s)
“The business of America is business,” President Calvin Coolidge famously said during the Roaring Twenties. This course covers the history of American business enterprise from the colonial period to the present day, with an emphasis on the understanding of the waxing and waning of America’s business acumen and success as part of the nation’s culture and character. It focuses specifically on the development of Wall Street as a central economic and cultural force in the United States, the rise of big business during the Gilded Age, the role of small business in American economic life, and the relationship between labor and management. The course also introduces students to the historiography of American business history.
This course serves as an upper-division elective in the geographical area of “The Atlantic World” for the History major and the History - Social Studies track, and can also serve as an additional upper-division elective in both majors. The course also serves as an elective in selected Business majors. H336 also fulfills the history requirement in the Integratus general education program and specifically serves the Creativity & Inquiry minor.
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