HIST 1032 - U.S. History since 1865

Credits: 4
Hours/Week: Lecture 4 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course surveys U.S. history from 1865 to the present.  Recurring themes include citizenship, immigration, capitalism, technology, imperialism, liberation and rights, reform, and systemic inequalities. The course will also introduce the limitations of historical sources, how knowledge about the past is produced, and the relevance of history to contemporary issues and questions.
MnTC Goals
Goal 5 Goal 7B

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

1. Reconstruction and the Rise of Racial Segregation
2. Continental and Overseas Empire
3. Industrialization and the Technological Revolution
4. Labor, Capital, and Reform at the Turn of the Century
5. Immigration and Urbanization
6. World War I and its Aftermath
7. The 1920s, the Great Depression
8. World War II
9. The Cold War: Science, Culture, and Politics
10. Foreign Interventions since 1945
11. Civil Rights and Liberation Movements
12. The Long Sixties
13. The Conservative Backlash
14. Race, Gender, and the Culture Wars
15. The Neoliberal Turn
16. The Recent Past

1. interpret U.S. history since 1865 by making connections between events, movements, and ideas in the past. 
2. use historical thinking to make connections between the history of the United States and the present.
3. assess the relevance and limitations of primary and secondary sources.
4. formulate a historical argument.
5. analyze the challenges and contributions of communities experiencing intersecting systems of oppression. 
6. historicize structural racism in the United States.

05. 02. Examine social institutions and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures.

05. 03. Use and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
07B.01. Understand historical and contemporary systemic structures of racism that sustain social, political, economic, and/or environmental inequities, particularly for Black, Indigenous lands and people, and other communities of color.

07B.02. Describe individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations among racial groups in the United States and how inequality is maintained by redefining race and other social identities and structures.

07B.03. Examine significant challenges of and contributions by people in the United States who have experienced racism and other forms of oppression such as sexism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, transphobia, antisemitism, and Islamophobia.

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