This course explores how, from 1840-1940, struggles among North Americans over questions of land, race, gender, labor, and idealogy shaped the rise of modern capitalism and democracy in the United States. Topics include: Indian wars and western expansion, slavery and the Civil War, white supremacy and patriarchy, immigration and industrialization, the Progressive Movement, World War I, civil rights and the Ku Klux Klan; the Great Depression; and the New Deal. [SS] Prof. Zallen.