Modern American Political Thought. ((3 Credits))

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Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law program. Surveys the major figures and ideas in the development of American political thought. Begins with the ideas that divided the Union during the Civil War, studies the political thought of the Gilded Age, continues through the Progressive Era and the New Deal, examines the influential political ideas of the postwar period, and finishes up at the present-day. Focuses on the ideas of major political actors and thinkers: both the historical context in which they wrote and the texts that they produced.