American History 102: 1865-Present
Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History
William P. Tishler, Producer
 

Hitchhiker's Guide to American History

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Lectures 01-05   ||   Lectures 06-10   ||   Lectures 11-15
Lectures 16-20   ||   Lectures 21-25   ||   Lectures 26-30

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Lecture 26
 Civil Rights in an Uncivil Society
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College Martin Luther King, Jr.
College Voices of the Civil Rights Era
College WW II and Executive Order 8802
High School The Jackie Robinson Society
College "The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax," by George Wallace (July 4, 1964)
College  African-American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Movement
College Asa Philip Randolph Biography
College The Freedom Rides


Lecture 27
 The Almost Great Society: The 1960s
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College "The Unfinished War [on poverty]," by Nicholas Lemann
College LBJ in the Oval Office
College Stokely Carmichael Speaks on Freedom and White America
College Cuban Missile Crisis: Note from Khrushchev to John F. Kennedy


Lecture 28
 The Asian Connection: The Road to Vietnam
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College "Port Huron Statement" of the Students for a Democratic Society (1969)
College The Sixties Project--Resources on the '60s and Vietnam
College "Liberal Goals and Foreign Policy Mistakes," a conversation with Robert McNamara
College "A Vietnamese Response to McNamara: War Was Lost in Washington, Not Saigon," by Lam Quang Thi
College "Refugees from Laos: Historical Background and Causes," by Gary Yia Lee
College Vietnam - A Country Study
College "Vietnam Memories," photos by Neal Ulevich


Lecture 29
 The Twilight of Liberalism: The Nixon Years
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College The Richard Nixon Audio Archive
High School The Rise and Fall of an American Populist: George Wallace
College "Kicking Tricky Dicky Around One Last Time," by Tim Patterson


Lecture 30
 America Sinking through a Watergate
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College  The Pentagon Papers
College Watergate
College Nixon's Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1973


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