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The American Yawp
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Topics 1 & 2 - Worlds Collide: From “First Discovery” to Colonization
Profit & Providence - Colonial Foundations
Bartolome de las Casas - The Devestation of Hispaniola
WHP-The Americas, 1200-1450
John Winthrop, “City Upon a Hill”
THE FOUNDING OF NEW SOCIETIES.pdf
Topic 3 - Don't Tread on Me: The American Revolution
Common Sense and Independence
Declaration of Independence - The Moment of Decision (Debate prep).pdf
1776.pdf
Topic 4 - A Nation Founded on Compromise
ATA - Articles of Confederation.pdf
The Great Debate - The Road to the Constitution
ATA Anti-Federalist vs Federalist Perspectives.pdf
Topic 5 - America’s Manifest Destiny
Jefferson’s Empire of Liberty — The Corps of Discovery
Rebels and Reformers - Resistance to Slavery in the Antebellum Period
Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears.pdf
Topic 6 - The American Cataclysm: Civil War
Civil War Textbook Study Guide.docx (Microsoft Word Version)
Civil War Textbook Study Guide.pdf (PDF Version)
Topic 7 - From Reconstruction to Progressive Reforms
The Promised Land - Reconstruction
DKM — What Happened at Custer’s Last Stand?
Red Cloud & Joseph on Indian Rights and Surrender.pdf
DKM — Who Were the Robber Barons?
Labor-Unions-and-Working-Conditions-Reading.pdf
Responses to Industrialization
How Gilded Age Corruption Led to the Progressive Movement
Topic 8 - America in the Great War
Mary Borden - The Forbidden Zone
W.E.B. DuBois - Returning Soldiers
Lutiant Van Wert - The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Topic 9 - From Boom to Bust: The 1920s and Great Depression
Ellen Welles Page, “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents”
Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1921)
Hiram Evans on the “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism” (1926)
Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925)
Topic 10 - The Nightmare: World War II
July 1945, the Moment of Decision
Stimson - The Atomic Bomb and Surrender of Japan
A-Bomb as a "Hot" Historical Issue
Revisionist Historical Arguments
Topic 11 - The Battle for Civilization: The Cold War & Modern America
Howard Zinn - Cold War & Civil Rights
DKM - The Torch is Passed (60s & 70s)
Vietnam Conflict