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3. Primary Source Reading: Black Codes
4. Primary Source Reading: Souls of Black Folk
5. Primary Source Reading: Atlanta Compromise Speech
6. Video: Reconstruction and 1876
7. The Collapse of Reconstruction
8. Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
9. Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
10. Restoring the Union
11. Introduction
12. The Meaning of Black Freedom
13. Senator Thaddeus Stevens addresses 39th Congress
14. Testimony of Elias Hill Recounting a Nighttime Visit from the Ku Klux Klan
15. Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, "The Atlanta Exposition Address,
16. Chapter III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
17. From Invention to Industrial Growth
18. Primary Source Reading: The Gospel of Wealth
19. Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
20. Video: The Industrial Economy
21. Inventors of the Age
22. Introduction
23. A New American Consumer Culture
24. Testimony of Thomas O'Donell, Fall River Mule-Spinner
25. What Does the Working Man Want?
26. The Principles of Scientific Management
27. Introduction
28. Urbanization and Its Challenges
29. The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
30. Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
31. Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
32. Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
33. Primary Source Reading: How the Other Half Lives
34. Assignment: How the Other Half Lives
35. Introduction
36. Political Corruption in Postbellum America
37. The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
38. Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
39. Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
40. Video: Gilded Age Politics
41. Video: Women's Suffrage
42. New Voices for Women and African Americans
43. Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
44. Video: The Progressive Era
45. The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
46. Introduction to the Progressive Movement
47. Video: Progressive Presidents
48. Progressivism in the White House
49. Primary Source Reading: The Jungle
50. The Shame of the Cities
51. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
52. The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women
53. Video: American Imperialism
54. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
55. Primary Source Reading: White Man's Burden
56. Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
57. The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
58. Introduction
59. Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
60. Economic Imperialism in East Asia
61. THE STRENUOUS LIFE
62. To the Philippine People
63. Transcript of Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
64. Introduction
65. American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
66. The United States Prepares for War
67. A New Home Front
68. From War to Peace
69. Video: America in World War I
70. Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
71. Transcript of Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany, 1917
72. Supreme Power is in the People
73. Transcript of President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
74. Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
75. A New Generation
76. Transformation and Backlash
77. Video: The Roaring 20s
78. Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
79. Introduction
80. Introduction
81. The Stock Market Crash of 1929
82. President Hoover’s Response
83. The Depths of the Great Depression
84. Video: The Great Depression
85. Radio Address on Lincoln's Birthday, February 12, 1931
86. Video: The New Deal
87. The Second New Deal
88. The First New Deal
89. The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
90. Introduction
91. Message to Congress on Unemployment Relief, March 21, 1933
92. Videos: World War II
93. The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
94. Victory in the European Theater
95. The Home Front
96. Primary Source Reading: Nazi Party Platform
97. The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
98. Introduction
99. Message to Congress by President Roosevelt, December 8, 1941
100. Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union, January 6, 1941
101. Rosie the Riveter
102. Popular Culture and Mass Media
103. The American Dream
104. Video: The Cold War in Asia
105. Video: The Cold War
106. The Cold War
107. The Challenges of Peacetime
108. Introduction
109. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946. Eastern Europe, Soviet Union
110. Truman Doctrine
111. Findings and Declaration of Policy (The Marshall Plan)
112. National Security Council-68
113. Letter to Harry Truman, February 28, 1946
114. Peace Without Conquest, April 7, 1945
115. Proposed Course of Action re: Vietnam, 24 March 1965
116. Video: Civil Rights and the 1950s
117. The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
118. Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483
119. Introduction
120. The Kennedy Promise
121. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
122. The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
123. Challenging the Status Quo
124. Primary Source Reading: The Black Panther Party Platform
125. Introduction
126. Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
127. Video: The 1960s in America
128. Video: Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
129. Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
130. Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
131. Coming Apart, Coming Together
132. Video: The Rise of Conservatism
133. Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
134. Primary Source Reading: Ronald Reagan "A Time for Choosing"
135. The War on Terror
136. Video: The Reagan Revolution
137. The Reagan Revolution
138. Political and Cultural Fusions
139. Video: George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
140. A New World Order
141. Bill Clinton and the New Economy
142. Video: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
143. Introduction
144. The Domestic Mission
145. Video: Terrorism, War, and Bush
146. New Century, Old Disputes
147. Video: Obamanation: Crash Course US History #47
148. Hope and Change
149. Introduction
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