Description: This course explores the evolution of United States history from its pre-Columbian Native American origins through the Reconstruction Era (1877). Using the analytical lenses of race, class, gender and ethnicity, this course examines the political, economic, social, religious, environmental, and cultural forces that shaped, and continue to shape, the nation and the lives of its diverse inhabitants. Topics include indigenous societies and cultures, European conquest and colonization, slavery, abolition, the women's movement, westward expansion, immigration, the American Revolution, the Constitution and the formation of the U.S. government, social and political reform movements and the Civil War and Reconstruction. (AA: Area E1 or E5b, CSU: Area C2 or D+US-1, UC: Area 3B or 4+US-1) (C-ID HIST 130)