HIS 017B - History of the United States

    Recent Professors
    Hai Nguyen, RaeAnn Ramsey
    Recent Semesters
    Summer 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025, Summer 2025
    Class Size
    45 students
    Difficulty
    5.1Moderateout of 10
    Credits
    3
    Summer 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · Cal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 4F · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area D6 · CSU American Institutions Area US1
    Description
    This course is a survey of the political, economic, social and cultural history of the United States from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include industrialization and urbanization, the rise of big business, completion of westward expansion, Native American cultures, the Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920s and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights and other social, ethnic, and gender movements of the post-World War II era, and post-Cold War American domestic and foreign policy. (History 017A is not a Prerequisite: to History 017B.)
    Usually Held
    Mon Wed 10:55am–12:20pm, Tue Thu 12:40pm–2:05pm, Mon Wed 12:40pm–2:05pm