Period 6: 1865-1898
Text reading: Chapters 17-21
Reconstruction; U.S. Imperialism; industrialization; urbanization; women’s movement; working class culture and leisure
Period 7: 1890-1945
Text reading: Chapters 21-27
Progressive reform; radicalism; World War I and Russian revolution; first red scare; first great migration of African-Americans; race riots; culture wars of the 1920s; Hoover and F.D.R. in the capitalist crisis; New Deal; World War II
Period 8: 1945-1980
Text reading: Chapters 28-31
Atomic age and the Cold War; suburban development and the affluent society; the other America; Vietnam; social movements of the 1960s; Great Society programs; economic and political decline in the 1970s; and the rise of conservatism
Text reading: Chapters 17-21
Reconstruction; U.S. Imperialism; industrialization; urbanization; women’s movement; working class culture and leisure
Period 7: 1890-1945
Text reading: Chapters 21-27
Progressive reform; radicalism; World War I and Russian revolution; first red scare; first great migration of African-Americans; race riots; culture wars of the 1920s; Hoover and F.D.R. in the capitalist crisis; New Deal; World War II
Period 8: 1945-1980
Text reading: Chapters 28-31
Atomic age and the Cold War; suburban development and the affluent society; the other America; Vietnam; social movements of the 1960s; Great Society programs; economic and political decline in the 1970s; and the rise of conservatism