Jul 01, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

HIST 3100 - Emergence of the Modern United States: Progressive Era and Roaring Twenties


Emphasis on political and cultural history. Major topics include “crisis” of the 1890s; early 20th-century progressivism as an intellectual movement and its manifestations in state and local politics and legal traditions; presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson; impact of World War I; origins of mass society in the 1920s, including cultural tensions, political and intellectual history.

Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will become critical readers of both primary and secondary sources, and will use and properly cite both types of evidence. in their written work.
  • Students will have a general familiarity with the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States.
  • Students will master the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use in their work.


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