Syllabus
Introduction. The New South and the Last West
Assignments
Lecture: Industrial Supremacy
Lecture: The Age of the City
Lecture: From Stalemate to Crisis
Articles discussions, Topic: The settlement of the West, racial issues in the South
Mid-term examination
Articles discussions, Topic: Industry
Articles discussions, Topic: Immigrants in the cities
Articles discussions, Topic: Agrarian problems
Articles discussions, Topic: Corruption in the Politics
Articles discussions, Topic: Art in the late 19th Century
Final Examination
Annotation
The course looks at the social, political, economic and cultural aspects of the period 1877-1893 and examines the impact of the rapid industrialization on the U.S. Society