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 1, 2
  "Amendments--13th,14th,15th; "Forfeited Rights" theory; "Grandfather Clause"-1898; "Jim Crow" laws; Radicals; The "Lost Cause"; "The New South"--Henry Grady
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College Opposing Views on Reconstruction
College The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
College Report of the Joint Comittee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866
College The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
College A Hard Shove for a "Nation On the Brink": The Impact of Dred Scott
College "Reconstruction," by Frederick Douglass
College Ingersoll's Nomination Of Blaine
College Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
College The Slagg Family of Wisconsin During the Civil War
College President Andrew Johnson: The Fates and Follies of Reconstruction
College "Rural Blues: Structure and Development in the Post-Civil War South," by Ethan Crosby
College "Overcoming the 'Sour Grapes' Version of Southern History," by John P. George
High School Plessy v. Ferguson: "Separate but Equal"


Lecture 3
  ""Battle" of Wounded Knee-1890; Dawes Severalty Act-1887; Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; "Great American Desert" / "The Garden"
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High School The Autobiography of Geronimo
College Indigenous People's Literature
College "The Problem of the West," by Frederick Jackson Turner
High School The West (with Ken Burns)
College Black [African-American] Cowboys
High School Western and Cowboy Poetry


Lectures 4,5,6
  ""Bloody Shirt"; Credit Mobilier; Laissez Faire; Mugwumps; "Robber Barons"; Social Darwinism; The Trust -- Standard Oil-1879
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College The Homestead Act
College The Mark Twain
College "Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses: Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics," by Dan Backer
College The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
College The Gilded Page
College Gotham Comes of Age
High School U.S. House Ethics Manual
College Ulysses S. Grant Home Page
High School The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
College Cornelius Vanderbilt
High School The Breakers Mansion
College Lubricating the Nation During the Gilded Age
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


Lectures 7,8
  "American Federation of Labor; Francis A. Walker; Immigration Restriction League; Knights of Labor; The Anglo-Saxon Myth; The Dillingham Commission
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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
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 9
  "Booker T. Washington; Great Migration; Marcus Garvey; NAACP; "New Negro"; W. E. B. DuBois
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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


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