American History Since 1865

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	DUE DATES
Unit 1 – A New Birth of Freedom? Legacies of the Civil War And Reconstruction
1	Introductions
2	Reconstruction, Race, and Reunion
3	Analyzing Primary Sources: Reconstruction
4	Screening: Independent Lens: Birth of a Movement - The Battle Against American’s First Blockbuster. Directed by Bestor Cram and Susan Gray. Color, 60 mins. 2017.
Unit 2 – Incorporating America in the Gilded Age
5	Conflict and Conquest in The Frontier West	Essay #1 due
6	Capital, Labor, and the Standardization of Work
7	Turning Points: 1893 and 1894
Unit 3 – The Search for Order at Home and Abroad
8	Becoming a World Power
9	Progressive Reform
10	Culture and Conflict in the 1920s
Unit 4 – The Global Crises of the 1930s and 1940s
11	The Great Depression and the New Deal
12	The Second World War
13	The United States and the Creation of Three Worlds	Essay #2 due
Unit 5 – The Cold War And The Color Line
14	Cold War Culture and the Quest for Security
15	Space, Place, and Race in Postwar America
16	The Long Civil Rights Movement
17	The International Black Freedom Struggle	Essay #2 revision due
Unit 6 – Revolutions at Home and Abroad
18	Vietnam and the New Left
19	Power, Protest, and the Politics of Identity
20	Visit to MIT Archives and Special Collections	Final paper proposal due
Unit 7 – A Nation Divided
21	The Silent Majority and the Crises of the 1970s
22	Research Paper Workshop
23	Conservatives in Power and the Long Life of “Law and Order”
24	The Rediscovery of the Market and the Rise of a Digital Age
Unit 8 – Toward a History of the Present
25	Growing Up in the Twenty-First Century
26	Closing Thoughts	Final paper due