This course covers the history of the United States since 1865. We will explore the consolidation of the U.S. Nation state during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras; the expansion of settler-colonialism and the birth of a global American Empire; industrial capitalism; Progressive-Era social reform and the dawn of Jim Crow America; and the reconfiguration of American politics between 1865 and 1930. In the second half of this course, we will turn our attention to the Great Depression and New Deal; World War II; the Cold War and McCarthyism; American Prosperity, Civil Rights, and the Great Society; the birth of a counterculture and the radical 1960s; and the Conservative Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. This course emphasizes the experiences of Americans traditionally relegated to the margins of American history, including Native Americans, people of African descent, women, immigrants, laborers, and radical reformers, but we will also pay attention to leading political figures such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson as well as the broader structural forces and historical events that affected nearly everyone in the United States. We will end this course with the elections of Barack Obama (2008) and the first election of Donald Trump (2016).