HIS 127 Reconstructing American Democracy
This course chronicles the major transformations to American society and politics from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the conservative revolution of the 1980s. Students will explore how the aftermath of the Civil War brought the promise of a broader conception of what it meant to be an American and how this conception was contested over the century that followed. Students will track how conceptions of the role of government, of where American’s lived and worked, of who belonged in the country changed over time as a part of the contested process that began with Reconstruction.