| LEC # | TOPICS | DUE DATES |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 – A New Birth of Freedom? Legacies of the Civil War And Reconstruction | ||
| 1 | Introductions | |
| 2 | Reconstruction, Race, and Reunion | |
| 3 | Analyzing Primary Sources: Reconstruction | |
| 4 | Screening: Independent Lens: Birth of a Movement - The Battle Against American's First Blockbuster. Directed by Bestor Cram and Susan Gray. Color, 60 mins. 2017. | |
| Unit 2 – Incorporating America in the Gilded Age | ||
| 5 | Conflict and Conquest in The Frontier West | Essay #1 due |
| 6 | Capital, Labor, and the Standardization of Work | |
| 7 | Turning Points: 1893 and 1894 | |
| Unit 3 – The Search for Order at Home and Abroad | ||
| 8 | Becoming a World Power | |
| 9 | Progressive Reform | |
| 10 | Culture and Conflict in the 1920s | |
| Unit 4 – The Global Crises of the 1930s and 1940s | ||
| 11 | The Great Depression and the New Deal | |
| 12 | The Second World War | |
| 13 | The United States and the Creation of Three Worlds | Essay #2 due |
| Unit 5 – The Cold War And The Color Line | ||
| 14 | Cold War Culture and the Quest for Security | |
| 15 | Space, Place, and Race in Postwar America | |
| 16 | The Long Civil Rights Movement | |
| 17 | The International Black Freedom Struggle | Essay #2 revision due |
| Unit 6 – Revolutions at Home and Abroad | ||
| 18 | Vietnam and the New Left | |
| 19 | Power, Protest, and the Politics of Identity | |
| 20 | Visit to MIT Archives and Special Collections | Final paper proposal due |
| Unit 7 – A Nation Divided | ||
| 21 | The Silent Majority and the Crises of the 1970s | |
| 22 | Research Paper Workshop | |
| 23 | Conservatives in Power and the Long Life of “Law and Order” | |
| 24 | The Rediscovery of the Market and the Rise of a Digital Age | |
| Unit 8 – Toward a History of the Present | ||
| 25 | Growing Up in the Twenty-First Century | |
| 26 | Closing Thoughts | Final paper due |