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Early America
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Jamestown:
Against All Odds |
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Last of the Mohicans |
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| American
Revolutionary Era |
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Diversity
in Colonial America |
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Road to Revolution |
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The Hornet's Nest |
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American Crisis |
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American
Constitution: Ghosts of 1787 |
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PBS' American
Experience: Alexander Hamilton |
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PBS' Liberty: Reluctant Revolutionaries |
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| Jacksonian
America |
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Andrew Jackson |
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PBS' American
Experience: We Shall Remain (After the Mayflower, part 1 of 5) |
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PBS' American
Experience: We Shall Remain (Tecumseh's Vision, part 2 of 5) |
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PBS' American
Experience: We Shall Remain (Trail of Tears, part 3 of 5) |
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PBS' American
Experience: We Shall Remain (Geronimo, part 4 of 5) |
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| Civil War +
Reconstruction |
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Antebellum Slavery PowerPoint |
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Thaddeus Stevens on Freedmen |
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Alexander Stephens on Reconstruction |
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| Gilded Age |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
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Without Sanctuary
(view all images and captions) |
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"Cross
of Gold" |
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Looking Back |
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Wealth |
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Josiah Strong on Immigration |
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Race Traits and Tendencies
(Chapter 7 only: pp. 310-329) |
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The
Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892 |
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| Progressive Era
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"New Nationalism" |
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W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Talented Tenth" |
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Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Cotton Exposition" |
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Term List for
Progressive Presidents documentary |
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| World War I |
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World War I and its Aftermath |
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Influenza |
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In Love and War |
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Shell Shock |
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"Fourteen Points" |
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Wilson
and the League of Nations |
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Lodge and the League of Naitons |
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"The Working Party" |
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| Inter-War Period |
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Jesus, CEO |
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Ken Burns's Huey Long |
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From the Great War to the Great Depression |
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Boom to
Bust (1920-1929) from The American Century |
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Terms List for Boom to Bust |
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PBS' American
Experience: The Crash of 1929 |
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The Great Depression |
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The Great Shake Up |
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Heaven's Fall |
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Dust Bowl |
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“Racist Ideology and Black Abnormality in The Birth of a Nation”
(Must log in to JSTOR via Sturgis Library) |
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“Women of
the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s” |
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"Letter from Herbert Hoover to Franklin Roosevelt" |
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New Deal "Fireside Chat" |
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Social Security
Act (1935) |
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"Share the Wealth Program" (Only read: February 5, 1934) |
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| World War II |
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Kristallnacht |
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Ken Burns's The War
(episode 1) |
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Franklin Roosevelt's "Pearl Harbor Speech" |
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The World
at War - "On our Way" |
| World
War II |
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"Atlantic Charter" |
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"Executive Order 9066" |
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Tuskegee Airmen |
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"The Scientific Tragedy of the Atomic Bomb" |
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| Cold War Era |
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Korean War
Stories |
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"Frozen Chosin" from Oliver North's War Stories |
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ABCs The
Century - "Happy Daze" |
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"The Long
Telegram" |
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Charles Vursell’s “Speech on the Marshall Plan” |
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“Observations on Massive Retaliation” |
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MacArthur Defends His Actions in Korea |
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FBI
Files: Medgar Evers (Only read: pp. 29-60) |
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Joseph McCarthy on "Communist Threat" |
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Joseph McCarthy Responds to Edward R. Murrow from Good Night and
Good Luck |
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Army-McCarthy Hearings |
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Alger Hiss Trial |
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Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Revolution |
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Billy Graham |
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Dr. Stangelove |
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"Checkers Speech" |
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| Civil Rights
and the Sixties |
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MLK on Time Capsule (1957) |
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Eyes on
the Prize (episode 1) |
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Death of Emmett Till |
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Martin Luther King - A
Historical Perspective |
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Eyes on the Prize - Rosa Parks |
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Malcolm X:
Interview with City Desk |
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PBS' American
Experience: The Kennedys |
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Final scene of
Spike Lee's Malcolm X |
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Brown v Board of Education |
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"The Southern
Manifesto" |
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"I've Been to the Mountaintop" |
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"Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom" |
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Greensboro Sit-In (Read newspaper articles dated February 2 - February
10) |
| "Sharon
Statement" |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Interview on The Open Mind (about the New Negro of the 1950s) |
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"Port Huron Statement" (Only read: introduction |
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New
Frontier |
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"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" |
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CIAs Internal Probe of the "Bay of Pigs" Affair (Click on appropriate
link) |
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"Record of Meeting During the Cuban Missile Crisis" |
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Lyndon Johnson's Draft of "Plan of Action for South Vietnam" |
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"Great Society Speech" |
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Bill Moyers' The
Journal: LBJs Road to War (on PBS) |
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"The Best Man" |
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FBI Files: Weather Underground Organization (Read: part I, pages 36-49) |
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Zapruder Film |
| Earl
Lewis, "Race" |
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PBS' Vietnam (episode "Tet:
1968) |
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| The Seventies and
Beyond |
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United States v. Nixon |
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"Silent Majority Speech" |
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PBS' American
Experience: Roberto Clemente |
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"Evil Empire Speech" |
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Reaganomics |
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"The Iran-Contra Scandal: A Postmortem" (Read only: "The Scourge of
Covert Operations" |
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| Presidential
Biographies |
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Life and
Times of Dwight Eisenhower |
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PBS' American
Experience: Jimmy Carter |
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PBS' American Experience:
Richard Nixon |
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PBS' American
Experience: Franklin Roosevelt |
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John F.
Kennedy: In His Own Words |
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Richard
Nixon: In His Own Words |
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| Famous Speeches |
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George Washington: 1st Inaugural Address |
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Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address |
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Andrew Jackson: 1st Inaugural Address |
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Abraham Lincoln: 1st Inaugural Address |
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Abraham Lincoln: 2nd
Inaugural Address |
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Abraham Lincoln:
Gettysburg Address |
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Franklin Roosevelt: 1st Inaugural Address |
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Lyndon
Baines Johnson Inaugural Address |
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John F. Kennedy:
Inaugural Speech |
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Ronald Reagan: 1st
Inaugural Speech |
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Barack Obama:
Inaugural Speech |
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| Miscellaneous
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The Origins of Species |