Led by Prof. Michael Kazin (Georgetown University)
Course Number: AMHI 652
Semesters: Fall 2025, Summer 2021, Fall 2019
Image: A photograph of women on the picket line during the Ladies’ Tailors Strike, New York City, February 1910, by Bain News Service (Library of Congress)
This course is about the history of the United States during a period of great social change and conflict. Over these four decades, the US became a predominantly urban and industrial nation, a nation of immigrants and wage-earners, an imperial nation, and a nation where progressive reform was the order of the day—though its definition and aims were furiously contested. We will seek to understand how and why these tumultuous changes occurred—and who gained and who lost in the process.
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Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University
Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author, most recently, of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party. His other books include War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918; American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation; A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan; America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, with Maurice Isserman; and Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. He is also a coeditor of Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal. Kazin is the editor-in-chief of the two-volume Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History and emeritus co-editor of Dissent magazine. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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