Photographs
Illustrations and Artwork
Video (click on image to view)
Audio (click on image to listen)
Oral History
(click on image to listen)
Written (public)
Written (private)
Secondary Sources
Quantitative or Statistical (charts and graphs)
Maps
Part I: America in the
Late 19th Century
Week 1-2: (August 24, 29, and 31)
COURSE INTRO; A New Birth (and death) of Freedom: From Reconstruction to Jim Crow
Gilded Age: Industrialization/Labor Movement
Manifest Destiny: Transformation of the West
Huddled Masses: Immigration/Urbanization
Part II: America in the First Half of the 20th Century
Muckrakers and Trustbusters: Progressive Era
White Man's Burden: Imperialism/World War I
Birth of the Modern: The 1920s
Worst Hard Time: Great Depression/New Deal
Good Fight: World War II (Class on October 31, Halloween, will by Online--Zoom link to come)
Part III: America Since World War II
Week 11: (October 31 and November 2)
Iron Curtain and Red Scare: Cold War
Baby Boom: Conformism to Counterculture
Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (Class on Wednesday, November 23, Thanksgiving Eve, will be Online--Zoom link to come)
(No Class November 23, Thanksgiving)
The Times They Are a Changin': Social and Political Movements
Week 15: (November 30 and December 5)
Morning in America: Malaise and the Rise of Conservatism
Last Day of Class (December 7)
Review of Class and Update to 2023