This History U course explores key moments and people in the history of the United States from the end of World War I to the present.
Course Instructor: Professor Margaret O’Mara, University of Washington
Eligibility: High school students
Image Source: Gerritt A. Beneker, "Work As You Would Fight," 1918 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC09521.02)
History U
Free for high school students
This History U course explores key moments and people in the history of the United States from the end of World War I to the present. How has the past century of American history shaped the political and economic landscape of the early twenty-first century? What are the historical roots of contemporary political and social movements, business practices, and global flows of people, capital, and ideas? How can we use our historical knowledge to understand and address present-day challenges? The course is organized both chronologically and thematically, performing a deep, evidence-based study of particular events and people in recent US history. The broader topics featured in this course include
The views expressed in this course are those of Dr. Margaret O’Mara.
Alysha Butler explains what you will learn in this course.
Margaret O’Mara, Professor of History, University of Washington
Margaret O’Mara, a professor of history at the University of Washington, is a scholar of the modern United States with a specific focus on the intersection between the development of modern technology and politics. She has published two critically acclaimed monographs that examine the development of the modern technology industry through a historical lens: Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (2005) and The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (2019). O’Mara also specializes in the history of the American presidency and in 2015 published Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century.
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