Broad course outline (see below for details)

Week 1. Introduction
Week 2. American Economic Growth: Agriculture, Resources, and Railroads
Week 3: Race in the South – Slavery, Reconstruction, and the Great Migration
Week 4: Presentation of Research Proposals
Week 5: The Age of Mass Migration
Week 6: Education, Family, Children, and Gender
Week 7: Innovation and Organization – The Second Industrial Revolution
Week 8: Culture in US Economic History
Week 9: Cities and Segregation
Week 10: The World Wars and the Interwar Period
Week 11: World War II and Beyond
Week 12: Final Research Presentations