HIST 280 The United States in the Nineteenth Century
This course surveys the history of the United States during the "long" nineteenth century (c. 1790 to 1920). Topics include: territorial expansion and economic development, antebellum politics and reform movements; slavery and the politics of sectionalism; the Civil War and Reconstruction; the making of an urban and industrial society; labor and agrarian protest; social, political and economic reform in Progressive America.