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Home > Free Summer Institutes > The Age of Enterprise (Summer 2008)

The Age of Enterprise
Sunday, July 6, 2008 to Friday, July 11, 2008
Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio

Applications were due by March 1, 2008.

In the last decades of the 19th Century, the United States took decisive steps away from its rural, agrarian past toward its industrial future, assuming its place among world powers. This course examines that movement, covering such topics as business-labor relations, political corruption, immigration, imperialism, the New South, and segregation and racism.

Instructors: David T. Beito is Associate Professor of History at University of Alabama. He is the author of Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression and From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967. Jonathan Bean is Professor of History at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961 and Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration.


 

         
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