United States history from 1877 to the present. Topics include Gilded Age America; late 19th-century imperialism and the Spanish-American War; early 20th-century Progressivism;the impact of Theodore Roosevelt on 20th- and 21st-century conceptions of politics and the presidency; World War I; the 1920s; the New Deal and Great Depression; World War II; the post-WWII era (1945-60); the civil rights movement of the late twentieth century; the growing disaffection with the liberal state and society in the 1960s and 1970s; the economic and technological changes since 1980; the Cold War and its end; and US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Prerequisites: None