This is a survey course of US History from 1877 to the present. This course is concerned not just with names and dates, but rather the historical processes that made the US the way it is. The course will focus on the political history, but more importantly the struggles between labor and capital, women and minorities versus the dominant patriarchal state, and the status of the working poor and the way in which they either made, influenced, or were exploited by the American system.
