CP & LEP Course Description
United States History is a survey of historical data, themes, concepts, personalities, and interpretations necessary to a basic understanding of our nation’s past from the Progressive Era (1890s) to contemporary times. While the course does provide a short review of our nation’s beginnings and its development in the nineteenth century, this course is essentially a study of twentieth-century America. Students acquire, explore, and question central ideas and interpretations in American history and develop more effective writing and thinking skills. Major historical periods and topics include:
- The Progressive Era
- World War I
- The Jazz Age
- The Great Depression
- World War II
- The Cold War
- Hemispheric Relationships in the Postwar Era
- Civil Rights Movement
- Postwar American Society
- The United States in Recent Times
This course fulfills the district and state U.S. History requirement, and the U.S. History requirement for the universities.