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
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
For precise schedule of offerings see department catalog during pre-enrollment week each semester.
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.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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Associated Sections
None