Welcome to HST 203, United States History Since 1876. This course provides an in-depth
look at United States history from the end of Reconstruction through the Reagan Revolution.
The class is team taught by Mark Kornbluh and Melanie Shell-Weiss, and is divided into
the units you see in the graphic above. Click any one of them to find the
detailed information about the assigned readings, interpretations, documents, and due dates
occuring within each unit. The unit which is highlighted in red is the unit on which the class is
currrently working. Extra copies of the syllabus and a technical "help sheet" are also available
within the site.

HST 203 will spend considerable time examining the emergence of an affluent industrial and later
post-industrial society. We will closely examine who is included and who is left out of society's
progress, and how daily life has changed since 1876.

This course incorporates a substantial internet component which includes this website and the
online discussion list. The HST 203 discussion list is a forum for class members to discuss their
ideas about and reactions to the course materials. Information about how to subscribe to and
use the discussion list, along with the HST 203 logs can be accessed from this website. The
HST 203 logs will allow class participants to look back over past conversations on the
discussion list, and will enable them to cite such discussions, when appropriate, in their written
work. The discussion list will also be used to distribute additional course material.

NOTE: Your final examination questions are now up on the website.

For comments or questions, please contact Professor Mark Kornbluh,
mark@mail.matrix.msu.edu or Melanie Shell-Weiss, melanie@mail.matrix.msu.edu

Teaching Assistants:

Geoffrey Pippenger
e-mail: pippeng1@msu.edu

Piril Hatice Atabay
e-mail: atabaypi@msu.edu

created: February 10, 2000
last updated: January 8, 2001

Copyright 2001, Mark Kornbluh