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Unit
1: American Society,
Culture, and History |
| Aug. 26 |
Intro:
What is American Studies? |
| Aug. 28 |
High
School History and America's Past |
| Aug. 30 |
Who
Discovered America? |
| Sept. 2 |
No
Class--Labor Day Holiday |
| Sept. 4 |
Settling
Indian America |
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Unit
2: Reconstructing the Nation after the Civil War |
| Sept. 6 |
Slavery
and Freedom in America |
| Sept. 9 |
Reconstruction:
Success or Failure? |
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Unit
3: Making the West Anglo-American |
| Sept. 11 |
Indians
and the Struggle for the West |
| Sept. 13 |
Did
the West Change Women's Roles? |
| Sept. 16 |
Immigration
and Western Development |
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Unit
4: The Rise of Modern, Industrial America |
| Sept. 18 |
The
Rise of Big Business |
| Sept. 20 |
Immigration
and American Culture
and Society |
| Sept. 23 |
The
Populist Movement |
| Sept. 25 |
Jim
Crow and the Rise of Segregation |
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Unit
5: Reforming Industrial America |
| Sept. 27 |
Suffrage
and the Birth of Women's Rights |
| Sept. 30 |
Women's
Rights and the Modern Woman |
| Oct. 2 |
Graft
and Corruption in Urban Politics |
| Oct. 4 |
Progressivism
and the Struggle for Reform |
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Unit
6: American Imperialism and WWI |
| Oct. 7 |
Should
America become an Empire? |
| Oct. 9 |
WWI
and America's Mission |
| Oct. 11 |
No Classes, Fall Break |
| Oct. 14 |
Prohibition
and the War on Drugs |
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Unit
7: The New Deal and WWII |
| Oct. 16 |
Did
the New Deal End the Depression? |
| Oct. 18 |
WWII
and America as Global Superpower |
| Oct. 21 |
The
American Decision to Drop the Bomb |
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Unit
8: Pax Americana and
the Origins of the Cold War |
| Oct. 23 |
Is
the Soviet Union a Threat to
Global Peace? |
| Oct. 25 |
The
Truman Doctrine and NSC 68 |
| Oct. 28 |
The
United States Prepares for Nuclear War |
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Unit
9: McCarthyism and Cold War Culture |
| Oct. 30 |
Anti-Communism
and the rise of McCarthyism |
| Nov. 1 |
The
Cold War and American Women |
| Nov.
4 |
The
Rise of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Nov. 6 |
Constructing
the Cold War Liberal Consensus |
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Unit
10: America in the 1960s : Reform, Rebellion, & Reaction |
| Nov. 8 |
President
Johnson and the Great Society |
| Nov. 11 |
King
and the Struggle for Black Civil Rights |
| Nov. 13 |
The
Women's Movement for Equal Rights |
| Nov. 15 |
The
Student Movement in the 1960s |
| Nov. 18 |
The
Civil Rights Movement and the
rise of Black Power |
| Nov. 20 |
America's
War in Vietnam: 1954-1973 |
| Nov. 22 |
Watergate
and Nixon's Grab for Power |
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Unit
11: The Vietnam War,the
Imperial Presidency, and the
Watergate Scandal |
| Nov. 25 |
The
1970s and America's Crisis of Confidence |
| Nov. 27 |
No Class--Travel
Day--Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Nov. 29 |
No Class--Thanksgiving
Holiday |
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Unit
12: America and the End
of the Cold War |
| Dec. 2 |
Reagan,
Nuclear War, and the
Evil Empire |
| Dec. 4 |
The
End of the Cold War and the
Iran-Contra Scandal |
| Dec. 6 |
Reaganomics
and the Decline
of the American Dream |
| Dec. 9 |
Women's
Rights and the Backlash
against Women |
| Dec.
11 |
The
Political Legacy of Watergate in the 1990s and the Clinton-Lewinski
scandal |
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Take-Home
Final Exam Period |
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| Extra material |
America
and the New World Order on
the eve of the 21st Century |
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The Impact
of the Cold War
on the United States |
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Iran-Contral
scandal |
