HIST 870 Seminar: Modern American History
Offers students an opportunity to research a variety of topics pertaining to politics, culture, and society in the twentieth-century United States. Possible research subjects include the changing nature of liberalism, radicalism, and conservatism; the rise and fall of the labor movement; the emergence of a strong national state; the character of American nationalism and patriotism; the social experience of class, ethnicity, race, and gender.