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Introduction | Presentation of course outline | ![]() |
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Introduction | Organizing the course | ![]() |
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Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress | The first modern European contact with indigenous Americans | ![]() |
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Drawing the Color Line | Using law to teach Americans racism | ![]() |
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Persons of Mean and Vile Condition | The lead up to the American Revolution | ![]() |
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As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs | The expansion West | ![]() |
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We Take Nothing By Conquest, Thank God | The Mexican American War | ![]() |
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Slavery without Submission, Emancipation without Freedom | US Slavery | ![]() |
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The Other Civil War | The US Civil War | ![]() |
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Robber Barons and Rebels | The Gilded Age | ![]() |
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The Socialist Challenge | The Rise of the Labour Movement | ![]() |
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War is the Health of the State | The First World War | ![]() |
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Self-Help in Hard Times | The Great Depression | ![]() |
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A People’s War | The Second World War | ![]() |
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Or Does it Explode | The Cold War | ![]() |
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The Impossible Victory: Vietnam | The Vietnam War | ![]() |
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Surprises | The New Left Social Movements | ![]() |
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The Seventies: Under Control? | The Conservative Reaction | ![]() |
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Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus | The End of the Cold War | ![]() |
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The Unreported Resistance | The PostCold War Situation | ![]() |
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The Clinton Presidency | The Rise of the Clintons | ![]() |
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Afterword | GWBush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump | ![]() |