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1. Overview of Instructor Resources
2. How to Read the Textbook
3. Introduction - The Reconstruction Era
4. Restoring the Union
5. Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
6. Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
7. The Collapse of Reconstruction
8. Video: Reconstruction and 1876
9. Primary Source Images: Reconstruction
10. Primary Source: Charlotte Forten Teaches Freed Children in South Carolina (1864)
11. Primary Source: Jourdon Anderson Writes his Former Master (1865)
12. Primary Source: Mississippi Black Code (1865)
13. Primary Source: General Reynolds Describes Lawlessness in Texas (1868)
14. Primary Source: Frederick Douglass on Remembering the Civil War (1877)
15. Primary Source: Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895)
16. Primary Source: Souls of Black Folk (1903)
17. Introduction
18. The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
19. The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
20. The Westward Spirit
21. Video: Westward Expansion
22. Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
23. Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
24. Primary Source Images: Conquering the West
25. Primary Source: Chief Joseph on Indian Affairs (1877, 1879)
26. Primary Source: Chester A. Arthur on American Indian Policy (1881)
27. Primary Source: William T. Hornady on the Extermination of the American Bison (1889)
28. Primary Source: Frederick Jackson Turner, “Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893)
29. Introduction
30. Inventors of the Age
31. From Invention to Industrial Growth
32. Video: The Industrial Economy
33. Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
34. A New American Consumer Culture
35. Primary Source Images: Capital and Labor
36. Primary Source: Henry George, Progress and Poverty, Selections (1879)
37. Primary Source: Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (June 1889)
38. Introduction
39. Urbanization and Its Challenges
40. The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
41. Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
42. Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
43. Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
44. Primary Source Images: Life in Industrial America
45. Primary Source: Andrew Carnegie on “The Triumph of America” (1885)
46. Primary Source: Henry Grady on the New South (1886)
47. Primary Source: The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
48. Primary Source: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America” (1900)
49. Primary Source: Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
50. Primary Source: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper” (1913)
51. Primary Source: Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)
52. Introduction
53. Political Corruption in Postbellum America
54. The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
55. Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
56. Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
57. Video: Gilded Age Politics
58. Primary Source: William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca.1880s)
59. Primary Source: Grover Cleveland’s Veto of the Texas Seed Bill (February 16, 1887)
60. Primary Source: The “Omaha Platform” of the People’s Party (1892)
61. Introduction to the Progressive Movement
62. The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
63. Video: The Progressive Era
64. Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
65. New Voices for Women and African Americans
66. Video: Women's Suffrage
67. Progressivism in the White House
68. Video: Progressive Presidents
69. Primary Source Images: The Progressive Era
70. Primary Source: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress (1895, 1903)
71. Primary Source: Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” (1892)
72. Primary Source: Eugene Debs, “How I Became a Socialist” (April, 1902)
73. Primary Source: The Jungle (1906)
74. Primary Source: Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)
75. Primary Source: Woodrow Wilson on the New Freedom (1912)
76. Primary Source: Alice Stone Blackwell, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage (1917)
77. Introduction
78. Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
79. The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
80. Economic Imperialism in East Asia
81. Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
82. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
83. Video: American Imperialism
84. Primary Source Images: American Empire
85. Primary Source: William McKinley on American Expansionism (1903)
86. Primary Source: Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899)
87. Primary Source: White Man's Burden (1899)
88. Primary Source: James D. Phelan, “Why the Chinese Should Be Excluded” (1901)
89. Primary Source: William James on “The Philippine Question” (1903)
90. Primary Source: Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5)
91. Introduction
92. American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
93. The United States Prepares for War
94. A New Home Front
95. From War to Peace
96. Video: America in World War I
97. Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
98. Primary Source Images: World War I and Its Aftermath
99. Primary Source: Woodrow Wilson Requests War (April 2, 1917)
100. Primary Source: Alan Seeger on World War I (1914; 1916)
101. Primary Source: The Sedition Act of 1918 (1918)
102. Primary Source: Emma Goldman on Patriotism (July 9, 1917)
103. Primary Source: W.E.B DuBois, “Returning Soldiers” (May, 1919)
104. Introduction
105. Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
106. Transformation and Backlash
107. A New Generation
108. Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
109. Video: The Roaring 20s
110. Primary Source Images: The New Era
111. Primary Source: Hobson Argues for Prohibition (1914)
112. Primary Source: A Glimpse Behind the Mask of Prohibition (1915)
113. Primary Source: Warren G. Harding and the “Return to Normalcy” (1920)
114. Primary Source: Crystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin” (1920)
115. Primary Source: Marcus Garvey, Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1921)
116. Primary Source: Hiram Evans on the “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism” (1926)
117. Primary Source: Herbert Hoover, “Principles and Ideals of the United States Government” (1928)
118. Introduction
119. The Stock Market Crash of 1929
120. President Hoover’s Response
121. The Depths of the Great Depression
122. Video: The Great Depression
123. Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
124. Primary Source Media: The Great Depression
125. Primary Source: Greater Security for the Average Man (1934)
126. Primary Source: Huey P. Long, “Every Man a King” and “Share our Wealth” (1934)
127. Primary Source: Lester Hunter, “I’d Rather Not Be on Relief” (1938)
128. Introduction
129. The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
130. The First New Deal
131. The Second New Deal
132. Video: The New Deal
133. Primary Source: Herbert Hoover on the New Deal (1932)
134. Primary Source: Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937)
135. Primary Source: Franklin Roosevelt’s Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936)
136. Primary Source: Herbert Hoover on Liberty (1936)
137. Introduction
138. The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
139. Assignment: Why Nazis?
140. The Home Front
141. Victory in the European Theater
142. The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
143. Videos: World War II
144. Primary Source Images: World War II
145. Primary Source: Nazi Party Platform (1920)
146. Primary Source: Charles A. Lindbergh, “America First” (1941)
147. Primary Source: The Atlantic Charter (1941)
148. Primary Source: FDR, Executive Order No. 9066 (1942)
149. Primary Source Videos: Propaganda Cartoons
150. Primary Source: Harry Truman Announcing the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
151. Primary Source: Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945)
152. Introduction
153. The Challenges of Peacetime
154. The Cold War
155. Video: The Cold War
156. Video: The Cold War in Asia
157. The American Dream
158. Popular Culture and Mass Media
159. The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
160. Video: Civil Rights and the 1950s
161. Primary Source Media: The Cold War
162. Primary Source: The Truman Doctrine (1947)
163. Primary Source: NSC-68 (1950)
164. Primary Source: Joseph McCarthy on Communism (1950)
165. Primary Source Media: The Affluent Society
166. Primary Source: Woody Guthrie, “This Land” (1940-1945)
167. Primary Source: Migrant Farmers and Immigrant Labor (1952)
168. Primary Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Atoms for Peace” (1953)
169. Primary Source: Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
170. Primary Source: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
171. Primary Source: Richard Nixon on the American Standard of Living (1959)
172. Introduction
173. The Kennedy Promise
174. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
175. The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
176. Challenging the Status Quo
177. Primary Source Images: The 1960s
178. Primary Source: John F. Kennedy on the Separation of Church and State (1960)
179. Primary Source: Eisenhower's Farewell (1961)
180. Primary Source: Barry Goldwater, Republican Nomination Acceptance Speech (1964)
181. Primary Source: Lyndon Johnson on Voting Rights and the American Promise (1965)
182. Primary Source: Lyndon Johnson, Howard University Commencement Address (1965)
183. Primary Source: National Organization for Women, “Statement of Purpose” (1966)
184. Primary Source: The Black Panther Party Platform (1966)
185. Primary Source: George M. Garcia, Vietnam Veteran, Oral Interview (1969/2012)
186. Introduction
187. Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
188. Video: The 1960s in America
189. Coming Apart, Coming Together
190. Video: The Rise of Conservatism
191. Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
192. Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
193. Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
194. Video: Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
195. Primary Source Images: The Unraveling
196. Primary Source: Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968)
197. Primary Source: Statement by John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971)
198. Primary Source: Nixon Announcement of China Visit (1971)
199. Primary Source: Barbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address (1976)
200. Primary Source: Jimmy Carter, “Crisis of Confidence” (1979)
201. Introduction
202. The Reagan Revolution
203. Video: The Reagan Revolution
204. Political and Cultural Fusions
205. Video: George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
206. A New World Order
207. Bill Clinton and the New Economy
208. Video: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
209. Primary Source Media: The Triumph of the Right
210. Primary Source: Ronald Reagan "A Time for Choosing" (1964)
211. Primary Source: First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan (1981)
212. Primary Source: Jerry Falwell on the “Homosexual Revolution” (1981)
213. Primary Source: Statements of AIDS Patients (1983)
214. Primary Source: Statements from The Parents Music Resource Center (1985)
215. Primary Source: Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992)
216. Introduction
217. The War on Terror
218. The Domestic Mission
219. Video: Terrorism, War, and Bush
220. New Century, Old Disputes
221. Hope and Change
222. Video: Obamanation: Crash Course US History #47
223. Primary Source Images: The Recent Past
224. Primary Source: Bill Clinton on Free Trade and Financial Deregulation (1993-2000)
225. Primary Source: The 9/11 Commission Report, “Reflecting On A Generational Challenge” (2004)
226. Primary Source: George W. Bush on the Post-9/11 World (2002)
227. Primary Source: Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
228. Primary Source: Barack Obama, Howard University Commencement Address (2016)
229. The Declaration of Independence
230. The Constitution of the United States
231. Presidents of the United States of America
232. U.S. Political Map
233. U.S. Topographical Map
234. United States Population Chart
235. Further Reading
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