2025 Spring HISTORY 280D 001 SEM 001

Spring 2025

HISTORY 280D 001 - SEM 001

Advanced Studies: Sources/General Literature of the Several Fields: United States

From the Gilded Age to the New Gilded Age

Mark Brilliant

Jan 21, 2025 - May 09, 2025
Tu
09:00 am - 10:59 am
Class #:33721
Units:4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through History

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 1
Enrolled: 11
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 12
Waitlist Max: 5
No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials, and 9 hours of outside work hours.

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Course Catalog Description

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Class Description

This graduate historiography seminar will examine cutting edge historical scholarship on United States political economy from the late 19th century Gilded Age to late 20th century (and beyond) New Gilded Age. How have historians interpreted this period of American history and/or the key periods within it—from late 19th and early 20th century progressivism to mid-20th century New Dealism to late 20th century and early 21st century neoliberalism—and how have those interpretations changed over time? We will pay particular—albeit not exclusive—heed to the waning (“great compression”) and waxing (“great divergence”) of income stratification, different historical explanations that have been advanced to account for it, as well as how it has intersected with contemporaneous struggles over other axes of social stratification such as race and gender.

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Textbooks & Materials

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