HIS 142 - United States Since 1877

Credit Hours: 3

Introduces cultural ideals and forces that have helped shape modern America, such as industrialization, progressivism, the battle between science and religion, the two world wars, the Great Depression, the New Deal and Great Society, the spirits unleashed in the 1960s, and the culture wars of the 1990s. A multidisciplinary framework is used, as well as efforts to develop Christian insights so that students will be better able to make sense out of modern life.