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+