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HIST 1302 Course Guide

Pop Culture

Textbook

Vocabulary

Reconstruction - Gilded Age

  • Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865-1877
  • Standardizing the Nation: Innovations in technology, Business, and Culture, 1877-1890
  • Challenges to Government and Corporate Power, 1877-1890


 

Turn of the Century - World War I

  • Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War: The 1890s
  • Vision of the Modern Nation: The Progressive Era, 1900-1912
  • War and Revolution, 1912-1920

Roaring 20s - World War II

  • All that Jazz: The 1920s
  • Hardship and Hope: The Great Depression of the 1930s
  • Global Conflict: World War II, 1937-1945


 

Cold War - Vietnam

  • Cold War and Hot War, 1945-1953
  • Domestic Dreams and Atomic Nightmares, 1953-1963
  • The Nation Divides: The Vietnam War and Social Conflict, 1964-1971

1970s - Present

  • Reconsidering National Priorities, 1972-1979
  • The Cold War Returns -- and Ends, 1979-1991
  • Post-Cold War America, 1991 - 2000
  • A Global Nation in the New Millennium