Program Content
The program offers time to:
- Explore the impact of economics on various periods and issues in U.S. history.
- Analyze how market forces, demographics, and government have shaped modern America.
- Discuss course materials not found in current classroom texts.
- Consider methods of introducing economic principles in the classroom.
- Engage in Q & A with distinguished university faculty specialists in economic history.
Program Topics
Topics include:
- The Market for Moving People to America
- Economics of Slavery
- Big Business and Regulation
- The Constitution
- Wars and the Economy
- The Rise of Big Government
- Women and Work
- Labor Land Contracts
- Immigrants and the American Work Force
- Banking and Bank Regulation
- History of Protectionism
- Causes of the Great Depression
- The New Deal
- The Use and Abuse of Natural Resources in Historical Perspective