This course is a survey of primary individuals, events, and themes of American history from the end of the Civil War up to the present era. Political, social, economic, religious, and military topics will be covered in eras such as the following: Reconstruction, Gilded Age and industrialism, Wilsonian Progressivism, World War I, Great Depression, World War II, Cold War, Vietnam, Civil Rights movement, American cultural diversity, and global terrorism. Not open to students with credit in HST-212.