Course Home Pages
- HIS 121 US History I
- HIS 121 US History I Honors
- HIS 122 US History II
- HIS 122 US History II Honors
- HIS 281 History of VA I
- HIS 282 History of VA II
- HIS 262 US History in Film
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U.S. History II - Course Description
This course will survey American history from 1865 to the present and will explore post-Civil War Americans’ efforts to fulfill revolutionary commitments to the ideals of democracy aand opportunity. Reformers - from Reconstruction, the Populist and Progressive movements, the New Deal, and the continuing struggle for civil rights - will be a focus. Do our history’s leaders deserve their heroic or villainous images? Do the struggles of immigrants, workers, Native Americans, minorities, and women suggest Americans have compromised their ideals, or does Abraham Lincoln’s vision of America as the world’s "last best hope" remain realistic?
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Civil War in Four Minutes
Pamela Corcoran Reed, © March 2008, Contact preed@nvcc.edu