American History 102: 1865-Present
Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History
William P. Tishler, Producer
 

Hitchhiker's Guide to American History

Sites Sorted by Subject

African Americans and Civil Rights   ||   Cultural and Intellectual Achievements   ||   Economics and Consumers   ||   Immigration and Urbanization   ||   Labor and the American Worker   ||   Politics and Presidents   ||   Regional Differences   ||   Religion and Morality   ||   Technology, Transportation, and Communications   ||   War and Society   ||   Women and Feminism

Subject 2
 Cultural and Intellectual Achievements
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College "Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses: Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics," by Dan Backer
College "The Problem of the West," by Frederick Jackson Turner
College Charlie Chaplin
College Mark Twain
College "The White Man's Burden' and Its Critics," by Jim Zwick
College The H.L. Mencken Page
College "Wealth," by Andrew Carnegie
College "New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy," by Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard
College Horatio Alger, Jr. Resources
College William Graham Sumner-- Social Darwinism and laissez-faire capitalism
College THE OCTOPUS, by Frank Norris
College  Excerpts from The Man Nobody Knows
High School  The Jazz Age Page
College Jack Kerouac
College "Rural Blues: Structure and Development in the Post-Civil War South," by Ethan Crosby
College The Gilded Page
College "The Death of Darwinism," by George Sim Johnston
High School "The Twilight Zone," from the Sci-Fi Channel
High School Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Elvis Presley
College "Evolution and Philosophy: Does Evolution Make Might Right?" by John Wilkins
High School Western and Cowboy Poetery


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