Hitchhiker's Guide to American History: Lectures 1 to 5

Lecture 01	*Reconstructing the Nation*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		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	Opposing Views on Reconstruction
		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

Lecture 02	*The "New South"*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		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 03	*Which "Old West" and Whose?*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		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

Lecture 04	*The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		College	Mark Twain
		College	The Homestead Act
		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
		High School	U.S. House Ethics Manual
		College	Gotham Comes of Age
		College	Ulysses S. Grant Home Page

Lecture 05	*Businessmen and "That Creature" the Corporation*
Content	Presentation	Audience	Link	Info
		High School	The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
		College	Cornelius Vanderbilt
		High School	The Breakers Mansion
		College	Lubricating the Nation in the Gilded Age