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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  "A. Philip Randolph; GI Bill; Internment; Manhattan Project; Marshall Plan; Military-industrial complex; Reconversion; United Nations; War Production Board; Yalta Conference
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College "Women at War: Redstone's WWII Female 'Production Soldiers'," by Dr. Kaylene Hughes
High School Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from WWII
College Fighters on the Farm Front: Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service, 1943-1947
College War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
High School Pictures of WWII
College World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art


Lecture 22
  "Fair Deal; Taft-Hartley Act; Truman Doctrine
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High School Harry Truman: Domestic Policy
College Truman's Acceptance Speech, 1948 Democratic Nat'l Convention
High School Encyclopedia Americana: Dixiecrats
College Truman's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1949
High School Chronology: Harry S. Truman's Life and Presidency


Lectures 23,24,25
  "Alger Hiss; Army hearings of 1954; Cold War; HUAC; Joseph McCarthy; Kruschev; NSC-68
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
High School "A BILL to provide means to eliminate the Communist nuisance," by Arthur Garfield Hays
College Cold War Policies, 1945-1991
College Senator Joseph McCarthy -- A Multimedia Celebration
College The Truman Doctrine (1947)
College "The Hollywood Blacklist," by Dan Georgakas
College The Berlin Airlift
College Cold War Hot Links
College Interview with George Kennan, David Gergen (April 18, 1996)
College Jack Kerouac
High School "The Twilight Zone," from the Sci-Fi Channel
High School Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Elvis Presley
College Eisenhower's Farewell Address
High School NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions
College Selected Speeches of John F. Kennedy
Grad "Presidential Goals and Policies for the Economy," by David Andrew Kendrick


Lecture 26
  "Black Panthers; Civil Rights Act-1964; Freedom Rides; Montgomery Bus Boycott; Peace Corps; SNCC; Stokely Carmichael; Students for a Democratic Society; Thurgood Marshall; Voting Rights Act-1965
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College Voices of the Civil Rights Era
College WW II and Executive Order 8802
College Martin Luther King, Jr.
High School The Jackie Robinson Society
College "The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax," by George Wallace (July 4, 1964)
College  African-American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Movement
College Asa Philip Randolph Biography
College The Freedom Rides


Lecture 27
  "Economic Opportunity Act-1964; Election of 1968; Great Society; War on Poverty
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College "The Unfinished War [on poverty]," by Nicholas Lemann
College LBJ in the Oval Office
College Stokely Carmichael Speaks on Freedom and White America
College Cuban Missile Crisis: Note from Khrushchev to John F. Kennedy


Lectures 28,29,30
  "Bay of Pigs; Brinksmanship; Dien Bien Phu; Domino Theory; Gulf of Tonkin incident
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College The Sixties Project--Resources on the '60s and Vietnam
College "Port Huron Statement" of the Students for a Democratic Society (1969)
College "Liberal Goals and Foreign Policy Mistakes," a conversation with Robert McNamara
College "A Vietnamese Response to McNamara: War Was Lost in Washington, Not Saigon," by Lam Quang Thi
College "Refugees from Laos: Historical Background and Causes," by Gary Yia Lee
College Vietnam - A Country Study
College "Vietnam Memories," photos by Neal Ulevich
College The Richard Nixon Audio Archive
High School The Rise and Fall of an American Populist: George Wallace
College "Kicking Tricky Dicky Around One Last Time," by Tim Patterson
College  The Pentagon Papers
College Watergate
College Nixon's Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1973


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