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PART I: America in the

Late 19th Century

 

Course Orientation

 

Weeks 1-2:A New Birth (and death) of Freedom: From Reconstruction to Jim Crow

 

Week 3: 

Gilded Age: Industrialization/Labor Movement

 

Week 4: 

Manifest Destiny: Transformation of the West

 

Week 5:

Huddled Masses: Immigration/Urbanization

 

PART II: America in the

First Half of the 20th Century

 

Week 6:

Muckrakers and Trustbusters: Progressive Era

 

Week 7:

White Man's Burden: Imperialism/World War I

 

Week 8: 

Birth of the Modern: The 1920s

 

Week 9: 

Worst Hard Time: Great Depression/New Deal

 

Week 10:  

Good Fight: World War II 

 

PART III: America Since

World War II

 

Week 11: 

Iron Curtain and Red Scare: Cold War

 

Week 12: 

Baby Boom: Conformism to Counterculture

 

Week 13: 

Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights and Black Power Movements 

 

Week 14:

The Times They Are a Changin':

Social and Political Movements

 

Week 15:

Morning in America: Malaise and the Rise of Conservatism