Section Wednesday, 7-10pm in Stroud 410
Full
Syllabus Reading Assignments Paper Instructions
Professor: Stephen Ortiz
Email: sortiz@po-box.esu.edu
Webpage: http://www.esu.edu/~sortiz
Office Hours: 409J Stroud Hall. 422-3262.
Mon/Wed 10am-12pm; Tuesday 4:30-5:30pm and by appointment.
Course Description:
This course is a graduate seminar where we will explore the
transformations in American life during the Progressive Era (1890 to 1920).
Topics covered in this course include the impact of industrialization on the
United States; the related processes of immigration and urbanization; local,
state, and national Progressive reform movements; the United States’ rise as a
world power, the rise of the modern bureaucratic state; and how questions of
race, class, gender, and ethnicity shaped American culture and politics. By
focusing on these transformations of the Progressive Era, this course explores
the origins of the modern