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 3
 Economics and Consumers
Content Presentation Audience      Link Info
College "The Unfinished War [on poverty]," by Nicholas Lemann
High School The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
College "Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism," by James Gleick
College Voices from the Thirties: Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project
College "The Main Causes of the Great Depression," by Paul Alexander Gusmorino
High School  New Deal Network
Grad "Conspicuous Consumption," from THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS, by Thorstein Veblen
College A Comparative Chronology of Money, 1920-1938
High School Surfing the Aether - Broadcasting in the 1920s
College Cornelius Vanderbilt
High School The Breakers Mansion
College Lubricating the Nation During the Gilded Age
Grad "Presidential Goals and Policies for the Economy," by David Andrew Kendrick
High School Studs Terkel - Recordings from Hard Times
High School The Life of Henry Ford
College Gotham Comes of Age
High School Cyrus Hall Mccormick, inventor of the mechanical reaper


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