Roaring 20s thru the New Deal

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This course examines American history from the start of the New Era decade and the budding of modern America in 1920, to the collapse of American economy and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, and the political and social reaction to this catastrophe with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s reform-minded New Deal. Lectures will cover broad topics such as politics, economics, diplomacy, war, culture, and society.