A survey of United States history from 1866 to the present within the global context, this course emphasizes the factors influencing the emergence of the U.S. as an industrialized power, as well as the historical development of problems that confront Georgia, the U.S. and the global society today. Major topics include the historical process; the South during Reconstruction and after; the West and the closing of the frontier; the industrialization of America; urbanization, populism and progressivism; the Great Depression and the New Deal; wars and the move toward world-power status; the Cold War era; changes in the nation’s social fabric; the nationalization of American government and society; and the development of the global society.