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Lecture Series/Audio

Dr. Ralph Young’s – Post Bellum America

 

Historical Perspective – positives/negatives

1:32

Gilded Age overview

2:00

Reconstruction Presidents, Klan

2:05

Reconstruction Amendments

4:16

Election – Tilden/Hayes

3:34

Former slaves in politics/Poll Tax/Literacy Tests

5:23

Question – Hayes’s religious attitudes; political environment

1:00

Garfield takes office; American voting habits

4:48

Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland

2:10

Jim Crow Laws, Plessy vs. Ferguson(1896)-Separate but Equal

3:27

Overview of African American status around 1900

2:02

Booker T. Washington & WEB DuBois – overview, discussion on differing views on overcoming inequalities

11:25

Overview - American Indians After Civil War/Buffalo

5:46

Custer, Confederacy of Tribes, Custer’s Last Stand

3:20

Chief Joseph/Nez Perce

5:37

Discussion – Indian relocation, frontier policy

9:47

Ghost Dance–Indian Lore plus Christianity/Wounded Knee

9:18

Dr. Young – Chinese Immigrants

4:42

Industrial Growth post-Civil War

2:10

Top

Telephone

1:37

Inventions and Daily Life

3:10

Brooklyn “Dodgers”

0:50

Entrepreneurs & Monopolies

3:50

Abuses by Business

2:40

Social Darwinism

2:58

Applications of Social Darwinism

4:27

Discussion of Social Darwinism

11:48

Progressives & Women

12:19

Progressives & Social Gospel

4:22

Muckrakers

2:08

Closing of Frontier

5:33

Concerns of 1890’s

5:48

McKinley’s Legacy

2:09

USS Maine

2:21

Rough Riders

2:46

Results of War

2:24

Anti-Imperialism

4:21

 

 Top

Dr. Kevin Brady

 

Intro

7:04

How did Jewish Immigrants become prosperous?

3:51

Exile mindset

2:27

Urban skills, trade

2:17

Italian immigrants in contrast to Jews

1:09

Cash-based Market Economy, Factories

4:39

Eastern European Jews in US; competing immigrant groups; acceptance by established Jewish groups in US (German); Yiddish; Ed. programs for assimilation

8:47

Jews in Harlem, 2nd-stage settlements, Americanization

2:52

Catholics- Irish & Italian assimilation/Americanization

3:32

Immigrants enter US economy, education

11:09

Jews as “middlemen”

4:00

Conclusion-How/Why Jews rose to prominence Other contemporary immigrant success stories

5:46

Dr. Brigitte Koenig Top
   

Intro & teacher resources

5:07

Progressive vs. Progressivism

1:35

Time parameters of Progressive Era

1:03

Overview of Progressive Era: Contradictions, the “Triad” of Immigration, Urbanization, Industrialization, Plessey v. Ferguson

6:16

Changes resulting from “Triad” contribute to popularity of socialism & Eugene Debs; other political parties forced to respond

7:10

Progressivism & Progressives - overview

3:33

Political Aspects of Progressivism – T. Roosevelt

5:10

Progressivism  & the environment – preservationists vs. conservationists

3:39

Follow-up questions: Trust Busting – was is personal?; Regulation of Food Industry; Why didn’t Roosevelt get nomination in 1912?

3:41

Follow-up questions: Hepburn Act-consolidation in face of Trust Busting; Were Socialists Progressives or progressive?; Irony of TR becoming President in 1901

9:41

Election of 1912 – Progressive Party, “New Nationalism”, political cartoons;  T. Roosevelt vs. Taft vs. Debs vs. Wilson

6:40

Wilson’s administration – Creation of Fed. Reserve (banking), 17th Amendment (direct election of senators); Clayton Anti-Trust Act & Federal Trade Commission

3:05

Social reforms of Progressive Movement: Muckrakers/The Jungle; court decisions-workplace rules & gender issues; expansion of Fed. Government

9:05

Closing – redefining relationship of State and economy; Was WW I a manifestation of Progressivism abroad?

1:49

 

 

The 1920’s – Dr. Brigitte Koenig

Top

Intro – Historiography, Roaring and Repressive dichotomy

1:30

Periodization –dates, associations

4:09

Presidents & politics

1:58

Changes for women - flappers

6:40

Questions/discussion – influence of media on “image” for women

5:31

“New Negro”, Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Garvey, KKK

6:29

The __“blank”__Question, Immigration

3:27

Scopes Trial/Evolution

8:00

Charles Lindberg

1:19

Prosperity, Marketing, Credit/Margin, hollow growth—stock market crash

7:01

Conclusion/Summary; questions

4:13

New US weapons of WWI

2:56

WWI takes longer than expected; Churchill; new world political structure

1:34

 

 

 

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Teaching American History Grant
US Department of Education
Revised 01/18/2008
Michael Vinella, PhD: Grant Project Director
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