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 16
 The Politics of Frustration: The 1920s
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College Tennessee vs. John Scopes: "The Monkey Trial"
College The H.L. Mencken Page
College "The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921," Clayton D. Laurie
College "Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s," by Kathleen M. Blee
College "What Is Fundamentalism?" from FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE WORD OF GOD, by J. I. Packer
College "Why I Am an Agnostic," by Clarence Darrow
College Summary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
College The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' - July 10, 1925 - July 25, 1925


Lecture 17
 The Politics of Prohibition: The 1920s
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College Temperance and Prohibition
College The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918
College Cocktail - Speakeasy
High School Al Capone


Lecture 18
 Crashing Hopes: The Great Depression
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College Charlie Chaplin
High School  Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association
College "The Main Causes of the Great Depression," by Paul Alexander Gusmorino
College Voices from the Thirties: Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project
College Taylorism: F. W. Taylor & Scientific Management


Lecture 19
 Liberalism at High Noon: The New Deal
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College FDR's Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary
High School  New Deal Network
College Address of the President Delivered by Radio from the White House, April 28, 1935
High School Studs Terkel - Recordings from Hard Times


Lecture 20
 "Dr. New Deal" Becomes "Dr. Win-the-War"
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College Back by Popular Demand--Huey Long
College "New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy," by Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard
College Neutrality Act of 1937
College Father Charles E. Coughlin, The Radio Priest
College "The Case of the Scottsboro Boys," by Robin D. G. Kelley


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