Preliminary Schedule of Lectures

Lectures	Textbook
Introduction and Overview
The Rise of Big Business	Prerequisites for Industrialization \| Steel \| Electricity \| Communications \| Transcontinental Railroad Standard Oil Company \| Role of Government \| First Steps toward Controlling Big Business
The Wild \| Wild West	Indian Wars \| The Dawes Act \| Cowboys and Ranching \| Farming \| Mining \| Lumber Industry
The Gilded Age	Rise of the City \| Machine Politics \| Social Darwinism \| Immigration \| Reform Darwinism \| Gospel of Wealth \| Political Corruption
The Populist Revolt	Organizing Unions \| American Federation of Labor \| Strikes by Unions \| Farmer Unrest \| the Granger Movement \| The Populist Party (1892) \| Free Silver \| Populism in 1896 \| the Rise and Fall of Populism
Imperialism	Foreign Policy Background \| Motives for Expansion \| Anti-Imperialism \| Spanish American War \| US in China \| US in Latin America \| Panama Canal \| Dollar Diplomacy \| Woodrow Wilson
The Progressives	Background (Agrarian Unrest 1860-1900) \| The Progressive Movement \| The Progressive Agenda \| Early Reformers \| Political Reform \| Business Reform \| Teddy Roosevelt \| The Square Deal \| Taft \| Election of 1912 \| Wilson \| Progressive Accomplishments
World War I	Overview \| Causes \| Early War \| US Neutrality \| US Enters War \| Mobilization \| Versailles
The 1920's	Disillusionment \| Demobilization \| Red Scare \| Nativism \| Marcus Garvey \| 20's Culture 1 \| Republican Ascendancy \| Prohibition \| Coolidge \| Sacco-Vanzetti \| Scopes Trial \| \| Revolution in Manners and Morals \| Flappers \| 20's Culture 2 \| Hoover \| Failure of Prohibition
Crash \| Depression and The New Deal	Causes of the Great Depression \| The Stock Market Crash \| Hoover's Response \| Rugged Individualism \| The Smoot-Hawley Tariff \| The RFC \| Bonus March \| Overview of the New Deal \| The First New Deal \| The Second New Deal \| Wagner Act \| Social Security \| Impact of the New Deal
World War II	Washington Naval Conference \| Dawes Plan \| Kellogg-Briand Pact \| Rise of Fascism \| Rise of Hitler \| Japan in Asia \| Mao and Chang Kai Shek \| Prelude to War \| WWII Begins \| Battle of Britain \| Pre-War US Foreign Policy \| Isolationism in the US \| Pearl Harbor \| The US goes to War \| Mobilization \| US War Policy \| The Military Front \| War in Europe \| War in Asia \| WWII Analysis \| Results of War
Truman and the Cold War	Truman \| Demobilization \| Post-War Problems \| Taft-Hartley \| Civil Rights \| The Fair Deal \| US Post-War Foreign Policy: The Four Freedoms \| Yalta \| United Nations \| US/Soviet Relations \| Origins of Containment \| The Truman Doctrine \| The Marshall Plan \| 1st Berlin Crisis \| NATO \| The Iron Curtain \| The Cold War in Asia \| The Korean War \| Cold War in the Middle East \| The 2nd Red Scare \| McCarthyism \| Cold War Overview \| Truman's Legacy
The 1950's: The Affluent Society	Eisenhower \| Beyond Containment \| Detente \| The U-2 Incident \| Massive Retaliation \| The Korean War \| Domino Theory \| The Missile Gap \| The Suez Canal Crisis \| The Eisenhower Doctrine
JFK \| LBJ and Civil Rights	The Election of 1960 \| "Camelot" \| The New Frontier \| Domestic Policy Successes \| The Cuban Missile Crisis \| The Assassination \| LBJ's Great Society \| The War on Poverty \| Pre-Civil War Reconstruction \| Radical Reconstruction \| Timeline \| Black Civil Rights 1896-1954 \| Marcus Garvey \| Minorities in the New Deal \| Blacks in WW II \| Truman and Civil Rights \| Civil Rights Movement 1952-1960 \| Brown vs. Board of Education \| Montgomery Bus Boycott \| Rosa Parks \| Martin Luther King \| Early Tries at School Integration \| Voting Rights Act (1957) \| Summary: Civil Rights Gains to 1960 \| Civil Rights under JFK \| Medgar Evers \| 1963 March on Washington \| Civil Rights under LBJ \| Freedom Summer--1964 \| Civil Rights Act of 1964 \| Malcolm X \| The War on Poverty \| The Selma Campaign (1965) \| Nixon's Southern Strategy \|
Vietnam	French Rule--1880s-1954 \| Ho Chi Minh \| Dien Bien Phu \| Domino Theory \| Beginnings of US Involvement \| Strategic Hamlet Program \| Early Opposition in the US \| Assassination of Diem \| LBJ Takes the Reins \| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution \| Escalation \| Escalation Continues \| Rising Protests at Home \| Tet Offensive \| My Lai Massacre \| Election of 1968 \| Nixon and Vietnam \| Vietnamization \| The Nixon Doctrine \| The Invasion of Cambodia \| War Protests/Kent State \| The Pentagon Papers \| North Vietnamese Invasion of South \| Paris Peace Agreements \| War Powers Resolution \| Summary/Consequences of Viet Nam \|
The Nixon Presidency	Nixon Domestic Policy \| Economy Late 60s \| Stagflation \| Nixon Economic Plan \| EPA \| Crime, Law and Order \| Silent Majority \| American Indian Movement \| The Counterculture \| Wounded Knee \| Nixon Foreign Policy \| Kissinger \| China and Nixon Detente \| OPEC Oil Embargo \| Salvador Allende \| Angola \| Watergate \| The Burglary \| The Cover-up \| Investigation and Exposure \| Resignation of Nixon \| Results of Watergate \|
The Tumultuous 70's	Gerald Ford \| Nixon Pardon-9/74 \| Stagflation \| Foreign Policy \| The Women's Movement \| Roe vs. Wade \| Jimmy Carter \| Carter's Presidential Style \| The Economy under Carter \| The Energy Crisis--Carter \| Energy Crisis of 1979 \| The Environment \| Carter Foreign Policy \| Human Rights \| Camp David Accords \| Iran \|
The Reagan Revolution	1980 Election \| Reagan's Presidential Style \| The New Right \| Supply-side Economics \| Gramm-Rudman Act--1985 \| Results of Reaganomics \| The Reagan Revolution--The New Federalism \| Energy Policy \| Environmental Policy \| Civil Rights and the Courts under Reagan \| Women's Issues \| Foreign Policy \| The Iran-Contra Affair \| US-Soviet Relations \| Star Wars (SDI) \| Middle East under Reagan \| The Bush Presidency

Lectures	Textbook
Introduction and Overview
The Rise of Big Business	Prerequisites for Industrialization \| Steel \| Electricity \| Communications \| Transcontinental Railroad Standard Oil Company \| Role of Government \| First Steps toward Controlling Big Business
The Wild \| Wild West	Indian Wars \| The Dawes Act \| Cowboys and Ranching \| Farming \| Mining \| Lumber Industry
The Gilded Age	Rise of the City \| Machine Politics \| Social Darwinism \| Immigration \| Reform Darwinism \| Gospel of Wealth \| Political Corruption
The Populist Revolt	Organizing Unions \| American Federation of Labor \| Strikes by Unions \| Farmer Unrest \| the Granger Movement \| The Populist Party (1892) \| Free Silver \| Populism in 1896 \| the Rise and Fall of Populism
Imperialism	Foreign Policy Background \| Motives for Expansion \| Anti-Imperialism \| Spanish American War \| US in China \| US in Latin America \| Panama Canal \| Dollar Diplomacy \| Woodrow Wilson
The Progressives	Background (Agrarian Unrest 1860-1900) \| The Progressive Movement \| The Progressive Agenda \| Early Reformers \| Political Reform \| Business Reform \| Teddy Roosevelt \| The Square Deal \| Taft \| Election of 1912 \| Wilson \| Progressive Accomplishments
World War I	Overview \| Causes \| Early War \| US Neutrality \| US Enters War \| Mobilization \| Versailles
The 1920's	Disillusionment \| Demobilization \| Red Scare \| Nativism \| Marcus Garvey \| 20's Culture 1 \| Republican Ascendancy \| Prohibition \| Coolidge \| Sacco-Vanzetti \| Scopes Trial \| \| Revolution in Manners and Morals \| Flappers \| 20's Culture 2 \| Hoover \| Failure of Prohibition
Crash \| Depression and The New Deal	Causes of the Great Depression \| The Stock Market Crash \| Hoover's Response \| Rugged Individualism \| The Smoot-Hawley Tariff \| The RFC \| Bonus March \| Overview of the New Deal \| The First New Deal \| The Second New Deal \| Wagner Act \| Social Security \| Impact of the New Deal
World War II	Washington Naval Conference \| Dawes Plan \| Kellogg-Briand Pact \| Rise of Fascism \| Rise of Hitler \| Japan in Asia \| Mao and Chang Kai Shek \| Prelude to War \| WWII Begins \| Battle of Britain \| Pre-War US Foreign Policy \| Isolationism in the US \| Pearl Harbor \| The US goes to War \| Mobilization \| US War Policy \| The Military Front \| War in Europe \| War in Asia \| WWII Analysis \| Results of War
Truman and the Cold War	Truman \| Demobilization \| Post-War Problems \| Taft-Hartley \| Civil Rights \| The Fair Deal \| US Post-War Foreign Policy: The Four Freedoms \| Yalta \| United Nations \| US/Soviet Relations \| Origins of Containment \| The Truman Doctrine \| The Marshall Plan \| 1st Berlin Crisis \| NATO \| The Iron Curtain \| The Cold War in Asia \| The Korean War \| Cold War in the Middle East \| The 2nd Red Scare \| McCarthyism \| Cold War Overview \| Truman's Legacy
The 1950's: The Affluent Society	Eisenhower \| Beyond Containment \| Detente \| The U-2 Incident \| Massive Retaliation \| The Korean War \| Domino Theory \| The Missile Gap \| The Suez Canal Crisis \| The Eisenhower Doctrine
JFK \| LBJ and Civil Rights	The Election of 1960 \| "Camelot" \| The New Frontier \| Domestic Policy Successes \| The Cuban Missile Crisis \| The Assassination \| LBJ's Great Society \| The War on Poverty \| Pre-Civil War Reconstruction \| Radical Reconstruction \| Timeline \| Black Civil Rights 1896-1954 \| Marcus Garvey \| Minorities in the New Deal \| Blacks in WW II \| Truman and Civil Rights \| Civil Rights Movement 1952-1960 \| Brown vs. Board of Education \| Montgomery Bus Boycott \| Rosa Parks \| Martin Luther King \| Early Tries at School Integration \| Voting Rights Act (1957) \| Summary: Civil Rights Gains to 1960 \| Civil Rights under JFK \| Medgar Evers \| 1963 March on Washington \| Civil Rights under LBJ \| Freedom Summer--1964 \| Civil Rights Act of 1964 \| Malcolm X \| The War on Poverty \| The Selma Campaign (1965) \| Nixon's Southern Strategy \|
Vietnam	French Rule--1880s-1954 \| Ho Chi Minh \| Dien Bien Phu \| Domino Theory \| Beginnings of US Involvement \| Strategic Hamlet Program \| Early Opposition in the US \| Assassination of Diem \| LBJ Takes the Reins \| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution \| Escalation \| Escalation Continues \| Rising Protests at Home \| Tet Offensive \| My Lai Massacre \| Election of 1968 \| Nixon and Vietnam \| Vietnamization \| The Nixon Doctrine \| The Invasion of Cambodia \| War Protests/Kent State \| The Pentagon Papers \| North Vietnamese Invasion of South \| Paris Peace Agreements \| War Powers Resolution \| Summary/Consequences of Viet Nam \|
The Nixon Presidency	Nixon Domestic Policy \| Economy Late 60s \| Stagflation \| Nixon Economic Plan \| EPA \| Crime, Law and Order \| Silent Majority \| American Indian Movement \| The Counterculture \| Wounded Knee \| Nixon Foreign Policy \| Kissinger \| China and Nixon Detente \| OPEC Oil Embargo \| Salvador Allende \| Angola \| Watergate \| The Burglary \| The Cover-up \| Investigation and Exposure \| Resignation of Nixon \| Results of Watergate \|
The Tumultuous 70's	Gerald Ford \| Nixon Pardon-9/74 \| Stagflation \| Foreign Policy \| The Women's Movement \| Roe vs. Wade \| Jimmy Carter \| Carter's Presidential Style \| The Economy under Carter \| The Energy Crisis--Carter \| Energy Crisis of 1979 \| The Environment \| Carter Foreign Policy \| Human Rights \| Camp David Accords \| Iran \|
The Reagan Revolution	1980 Election \| Reagan's Presidential Style \| The New Right \| Supply-side Economics \| Gramm-Rudman Act--1985 \| Results of Reaganomics \| The Reagan Revolution--The New Federalism \| Energy Policy \| Environmental Policy \| Civil Rights and the Courts under Reagan \| Women's Issues \| Foreign Policy \| The Iran-Contra Affair \| US-Soviet Relations \| Star Wars (SDI) \| Middle East under Reagan \| The Bush Presidency