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Monday, January 3, 2011

Class Syllabus

 
A Patriot’s History of the United States
 Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen

January     5
Chapter 10      
 IDEALS AND REALIITES OF RECONSTRUCTION: Lincoln assassinated, Johnson, Radical Republicans, KKK, Grant, 14th and 15th Amendments, Credit Mobilier Scandal, Panic of 1873, For  Post-War Questions, Freedmen, Grant and “The Era Of Good  Stealings”, Hayes.
                 6
1865-1876



January   12            
Chapter 11
 LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORIES: Oregon Trail, Pioneers, Gold Rush, Homestead Act, Prairie Population and National  Radicalism, Introduction of labor unions.
               13               
1861-1890



January   19             
Chapter 12
  SINEWS OF DEMOCRACY: Life after Reconstruction  Hayes, prosperity and Social “Reform”, Titans of Industry, Greed and Jealousy, Foundations of Progressivism, Cleveland, Harrison.
               20              
1876-1896     



January   26             
Chapter 13        
“BUILDING BEST, BUILDING GREATLY” - McKinley, Tensions With Cuba, T. Roosevelt, Black and White in Progressive America
               27                        
1896-1912



February   2
Chapter 14
WAR, WILSON AND INTERNATIONALISM: Wilson, Federal Reserve Act, Income tax, WWI, Versailles Treaty, Social justice, South of the Border, Flexing Democracy’s Muscles, Selective Service Act, Churchill, Rise of USSR, Social Reform, Eugenics, Suffrage.
                 3
1912-1920



February  9             
Chapter 15
 THE ROARING TWENTIES AND THE GREAT CRASH: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Germany’s Weimar Republic, An Economic  and Cultural Goliath, Great Bull Market, Crash and Depression.
              10
1920-1932



February 16
Chapter 16
ENLARGING THE PUBLIC SECTOR: FDR, New Deal and its unintended results, social change and the Great Depression, SEC established, Minimum Wage, WPA, Social Security, American Cinema, Hitler and German expansion.
               17             
1932-1940



February 23
Chapter 17
DEMOCRACY’S FINEST HOUR: WWII begins, German occupation in Europe, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Allies’ fight back, Democracy’s Industrial Tsunami German surrender, The Holocaust and American Jews.
               24           
1941-1945                



March       2
Chapter 18
AMERICA’S “HAPPY DAYS”: An Atomic world, Truman, The Iron Curtain and the Cold War, Communists in the White House, NATO, Eisenhower, Korean War ends,
Castro captures Cuba, Sputnik, The Invisible Man.
                 3           
1946-1959



March       9
Chapter 19
THE AGE OF UPHEAVAL: JFK, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK assassinated, LBJ,  Great Society, Civil Rights Act, NASA, Tax cuts and growth, Trickle Down Economics, Origins of Vietnam Quagmire, The Crime of the Century; Race, Rights, and The War on Poverty, MLK, Origins of Welfare Dependency, Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll; Protests, Mobs and Media, Keynesian Economics, Nixon and Watergate.
              10           
1960-1974



March    16
Chapter 20
RETREAT AND RESURRECTION: Ford, Middle East instability and economic Crisis, OPEC raises oil prices, Honey, I Shrank the Economy!, Sex, the church and
 Collapse of Marriage, Carter, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak market first personal computers, Regan And Supply-side Economics.
              17
1974-1988                



March    23
Chapter 21
THE MORAL CROSSROADS: George H.W. Bush, “Read My Lips”, Communism Collapses in Europe, Operation “Desert Storm”, Saddam Hussein, Clinton, “I Didn’t Inhale”, The Contract with America, Riding Regan’s Coattails, The Roaring 90’s.
              24
1989-2000



March    30
Chapter 22
AMERICA , WORLD LEADER: Election of George Bush, Al Gore’s case goes to the Supreme Court, Clintonism collapses, Grand Corruption and Petty Larceny, 9/11, War on Terror, Bush’s “Big Government”, the “Axis of Evil”, Election of 2004, Abu Ghraib and Gitmo
              31    
2000+


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