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 10,11
  "Muckraking; National Municipal League; Omaha Platform-1892; Social Gospel; Social Settlements; The "Agrarian Myth"; The Grange
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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!
College Working conditions at the Westinghouse Works
College HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES, by Jacob Riis
High School  Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
College Theodore Roosevelt
High School  Theodore Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Years
High School Biography of Lewis Hine
College Eugenics Watch
College Washington Gladden, "Applied Christianity"


Lectures 12,13
  "Alfred Thayer Mahan; Insular Cases; "Manifest Destiny"; "The March of the Flag"-1898
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College Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
College Mark Twain on War and Imperialism
College "Imperialism Is Easy," by John Dewey
High School America at the Turn of the Century: A Look at the Historical Context
High School A Splendid Little War
College  The World of 1898: The Spanish American War
College "'The White Man's Burden' and Its Critics," by Jim Zwick
College THE OCTOPUS, by Frank Norris
College The Versailles Treaty, June 28, 1919, and Related Sources
College "Occupied Territories," by John Brigham
College Theodore Roosevelt
High School About Theodore Roosevelt


Lecture 14
  "Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Radical feminists; Seneca Falls; Social feminists; "True Womanhood"
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College "The Women of Antebellum Richmond: Domestic Values and Public Ambitions," by Elizabeth Woolley
High School "Not For Ourselves Alone": The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
College "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Site (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
College "Declaration of Sentiments," Seneca Falls Convention, 1848, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
High School Women's History
College Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
High School Biographies of Historical Women


Lectures 15,16,17
  "Associationalism; Eugene V. Debs; Five Dollar Day; Red Scares; Sacco and Vanzetti; Scopes Trial; Sedition Act-1918
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Grad "Conspicuous Consumption," from THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS, by Thorstein Veblen
High School  The Jazz Age Page
College A Comparative Chronology of Money, 1920-1938
High School The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
College  Excerpts from The Man Nobody Knows
High School The Life of Henry Ford
High School Surfing the Aether - Broadcasting in the 1920s
High School Yesterday USA: Vintage Radio Broadcasts (RealAudio)
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" by Clayton D. Laurie
College "What Is Fundamentalism?" from FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE WORD OF GOD, by J. I. Packer
College "Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s," by Kathleen M. Blee
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
College Temperance and Prohibition
College The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918
College Cocktail - Speakeasy
High School Al Capone


Lectures 18,19,20
  "Installment buying; Keynesian Economics; National Recovery Administration; Social Security Act-1935; Wagner (NLRA) Act-1935; Works Progress Administration
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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
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
College Back by Popular Demand--Huey Long
College "New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy," by Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard
College The 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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