History
1302: United States History
1865 to
the Present
Lecture
Links
W. 1/19 Introduction
to History 1302
Part I:
The Incorporation of America, 1865-1929
Defining the Borders of Citizenship and Nation
M. 1/24 Reconstruction and the Meaning of Freedom
W. 1/26 Native Americans, Western Expansion, and the Industrialized Corporate Frontier
M. 1/31 The Disorderly Triumph of Industrial Capitalism: Corporate Consolidation, Labor Strife, and the Populist Challenge
W. 2/2 Defining the Borders of Citizenship and Nation: Jim Crow, Black Disfranchisement, and Lynching
M. 2/7 United States Nationalism from 1880-1905
W. 2/9 Urban Life & the Birth of Mass Culture
M. 2/14 Progressive Reform
W. 2/16 World War I
M. 2/21 The 1920s
W. 2/23 Midterm Exam
Part II
Building the Liberal State, 1929-1968
M. 2/28 The Great Depression
W. 3/2 The New Deal
M. 3/7 World War II
W. 3/9 World War II: The Home Front
Spring Break: March 14-18
M. 3/21 From World War to Cold War: Foreign Policy
W. 3/23 From World War to Cold War: The Home Front
M. 3/28 Living the American Dream: Postwar Affluence
W. 3/30 The Civil Rights Era I: A Time for Justice
M. 4/4 The Civil Rights Era II: From Beloved Community to Black Power
W. 4/6 LBJ's Great Society
M. 4/11 The War in Southeast Asia
W. 4/13 The Rights Revolution
Part III
What's Right?: Conservative Resurgence
M. 4/18 1968 and "the Silent Majority"
W. 4/20 The Age of Limits: De-Industrialization, the Energy Crisis, and the Iran-Hostage Crisis
M. 4/25 The Reagan Years: Consolidation of the New Right and the "End" of the Cold War
W. 4/27 The "Consumers Republic"
M. 5/2 Globalization and the New Economy
W. 5/4 September 11th in History
Final Exam: Saturday (ugh!) May 14, 1:30-3:30 p.m. 175 Willey Hall
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