HIST 879 Seminar: War and Society: America, 1880-1945
Explores the relationship between American industrial, commercial, diplomatic, naval, and military developments during a sixty-year period prior to World War II. Treats such issues as the rise of the United States to the status of a world power by the end of the Spanish-American war and its subsequent involvement in issues which led to World Wars I and II. American society and its approach to the problems of world leadership gradually were transformed by a series of events during periods of peace and war.