Hitchhiker's Guide to American History: Lectures 6 to 10

Lecture 06	*The Social Philosophy of American Businessmen*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		College	"Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism," by James Gleick
		College	"Wealth," by Andrew Carnegie
		College	Horatio Alger, Jr. Resources
		College	William Graham Sumner-- Social Darwinism and laissez-faire capitalism
		College	"The Death of Darwinism," by George Sim Johnston
		College	"Evolution and Philosophy: Does Evolution Make Might Right?" by John Wilkins

Lecture 07	*Labor and the Workers' Search for Power*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		College	A Short History of American Labor
		College	The Illinois Labor History Society
		College	Samuel Gompers
		High School	Carol Simpson Productions Labor Cartoons
		High School	Wisconsin Labor History Online
		College	The Dramas of Haymarket
		College	The Triangle Factory Fire

Lecture 08	*Foreign Immigrants in Industrial America*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		College	"The Restriction of Immigration," by Francis Walker
		College	Lower East Side Tenement Museum
		College	"Should the Chinese Be Excluded?" by Robert Ingersoll (1898)
		College	U.S. Immigration Policy
		College	Eugenics and Immigration Policies in a Changing America

Lecture 09	*The Great Migration: Blacks in White America*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		High School	A Great Day in Harlem: A Look at the "Jazz Age"
		College	Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
		College	"The Return of Determinism?: The Pseudoscience of the Bell Curve," by Rajiv Rawat
		College	"Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" by W.E.B. Dubois
		College	UP FROM SLAVERY, Booker T. Washington
		College	The W. E. B. DuBois Virtual University
		High School	Booker T. Washington

Lecture 10	*How Ya' Gonna' Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?: The Rise of Populism*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		College	The "Cross of Gold Speech" by William Jennings Bryan
		Grad	"Recent Literature on American Populism: A Bibliographical Essay," by Rebecca Edwards
		High School	Biography of William Jennings Bryan
		High School	The Grange: A Historical Summary
		High School	Farm Aid
		High School	Cyrus Hall Mccormick, inventor of the mechanical reaper
		College	A Transition Between Populism and Progressivism!