History 242 American History since 1865

Lab Assignments

Class Text

Norton, et. al., A People and A Nation (5th Edition)

Wheeler & Becker, Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence (4th Edition)

Houghton Mifflin's @History

Other Texts

  • America: A Narrative History On The World Wide Web
  • American History from the Colonial Period to WWI

    General Reference

  • American Memory Project
  • List of History Resources

    Local History

  • HistoryLink

    Historical Documents

  • The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
  • The Articles of Confederation
  • Constitution of the United States
  • Presidential Addresses

    Civil War and Reconstruction

  • Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) (US National History Standards)
  • The Valley of the Shadow Project (University of Virginia)
  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL UNITED STATES (1870-1900) (US National History Standards)

    The Southern Rebellion

  • Era 5 CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (1850-1877) (National History Standards)
  • An Irish Immigrant's View of the Compromise of 1850
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Virtual Antebellum Richmond(College of William and Mary)
  • Selected Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress)
  • The United States Civil War Center (LSU)
  • Civil War Page (Dakota State University)
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Yahoo Civil War Page
  • Civil War Women Primary Sources on the Internet (Duke)

    Reconstruction

  • Africans in America (PBS)
  • Studying Slavery (Philadelphia News)
  • Freedmen and Southern Society Project
  • LC Mss. African-American History and Culture
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Douglass Archives of American Public Address
  • African-American Pamphlets 1818-1907
  • Archives of African-American Music
  • African-American Mosaic (LC)
  • Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color

    The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • Harper's Weekly Accounts
  • Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase
  • A Modern View: Johnson & Clinton

    Gilded Age and Progressive Era

  • Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources (Tennessee Technological U)
  • Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Ohio State U)
  • THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICA (1890-1930) (US National History Standards)
  • America in the Progressive Era (Bannister, Swarthmore)
  • Gilded Age Homepage
  • The United States in the Progressive Era
  • Victorian Women Writers Project
  • GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK Online
  • Votes for Women (Huntington Museum)
  • Biographies of Muckrakers
  • PROGRESSIVISM: BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • A Critical Analysis of Prostitution in Early Twentieth Century Chicago
  • Touring Turn-of-the-Century America (LC)
  • California as I Saw It (LC)
  • The American 1890's (Bowling Green State U)
  • The Era of William McKinley (Ohio State U)
  • The Guilded Age in Detroit

    Presidents

    Inaugural Address of President Rutherford B. Hayes (1877)

    Inaugural Address of President James Garfield (1881)

    First Inaugural Address of President Grover Cleveland (1885)

    Inaugural Address of President Benjamin Harrison (1889)

    Second Inaugural Address of President Grover Cleveland (1893)

    First Inaugural Address of President William McKinley (1897)

    Second Inaugural Address of President William McKinley (1901)

    Inaugural Address of President Theodore Roosevelt (1905)

    Inaugural Address of President William H. Taft (1909)

    First Inaugural Address of President Woodrow Wilson (1913)

    Industrial America

  • A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers (Illinois Labor History Society)
  • Labor Management Conflict in the US (Ohio State U)
  • The Origins of Labor and Farmer Protest,1865-1900 (Texas Tech U)
  • Corporate Capitalism
  • Year 501: The Conquest Continues by Noam Chomsky

    Andrew Carnagie

  • The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie(PBS)
  • The Biltmore

    Jacob Riis

  • How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis (Hypertext by David Phillips)
  • The Jews of New York by Jacob Riis
  • On the Lower East Side

    Jane Addams and Hull House

  • 1889 Jane Addams - Hull House
  • A View of Jane Addams's Hull House as a Feminist Initiative
  • The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
  • Notes on Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements

    Haymarket

  • 1886 The Haymarket Riot
  • The Haymarket Martyrs

    Homestead

  • Homestead Strike
  • The Homestead Strike and Lockout of 1892
  • Henry Clay Frick

    Upton Sinclair

  • Upton Sinclair Bio (Social Security History Page)
  • Upton Sinclair Exhibits(Museum of the City of San Francisco)
  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  • The Jungle text files (Project Gutenberg)
  • Upton Sinclair Photos
  • Forerunners of the Revolution
  • Muckrakers
  • Upton Sinclair & the Intercollegiate Socialist Society

    Frank Baum and the Wizard of Oz

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • Five Twists (Commentary on Baum)
  • "The Rise and Fall of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a "Parable on Populism" by David B. Parker (From the Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians, vol. 15 (1994):49-63.

    Imperialism

  • Albert J. Beveridge,"The March of the Flag"
  • Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935(Jim Zwick, ed.)

    William Jennings Bryan

  • A Righteous Cause (the life of William Jennings Bryan)
  • Imperialism by William Jennings Bryan
  • The Cross of Gold by William Jennings Bryan
  • William Jennings Bryan (photos)

    World War I

  • The World War I Document Archive
  • Trenches on the Web
  • Mississippi State U History Archives
  • GCSE Study Guide for First World War
  • Isaac Rosenberg's "Break of the Day in the Trenches"
  • Treaty of Versailles (maps & images)

    Soviet Union

  • Soviet Archives Exhibit

    Warren Harding

    Calvin Coolidge

    Herbert Hoover

    The Great Depression and World War II

  • The Great Depression and World War II (US National History Standards)

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Inaugural Speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (March 4th, 1933)

    Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937

    The Depression

  • Every Picture Tells A Story: Documentary Photography and the Great Depression (History Matters)
  • American Prohibition
  • WPA Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940
  • A New Deal for the Arts(NARA)
  • Images of the Depression (Corbis)

    Huey Long

  • THE KINGFISHERY (links)
  • Huey Long(Social Security Administration)
  • Every Man A King
  • Review of Ken Burns' Huey Long

    World War II

    What appeasement sounded like. Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler Winston Churchill's Battle of Britain speech FDR Requests War on Japan, December 8, 1941

  • World War II documents
  • December 8, 1941 - The Fall of Singapore
  • Japanese War Crimes
  • THE HOLOCAUST: AN HISTORICAL SUMMARY
  • A Brief Introduction to the Holocaust
  • Responses to the Holocaust
  • World War II, the Traditional Family,and Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • World War II Archive
  • D-Day and World War II Sites
  • Images of World War II (Corbis)

    Totalitarianism & World War II

  • World War II Resources on the Internet
  • Yahoo Index: World War II
  • World War II documents
  • World War II, the Traditional Family,and Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • World War II Archive
  • D-Day and World War II Sites
  • Weimar Republic Page

    Nazis

  • Frontline: Nazi Gold (PBS)
  • German Propaganda Archive (Calvin College)
  • Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Will (1934)
  • Berlin Olympics 1936
  • Hitler Speech (Hanover)
  • Wannsee Protocol (Cybrary of the Holocaust)
  • Wannsee Protocol (Hanover)

    Holocaust

  • NewsHour Online: Interview with Prof. Daniel Goldhagen
  • FILM: Memory of the Camps
  • THE HOLOCAUST: AN HISTORICAL SUMMARY
  • Responses to the Holocaust
  • L'Chaim: A Holocaust Web Project
  • The Holocaust(U Mass Dartmouth)
  • Literature of the Holocaust (English 293) (University of Pennsylvania)
  • An Underground Factory in the Czech Republic
  • Holocaust documents
  • A Brief Introduction to the Holocaust

    War in Asia

  • December 8, 1941 - The Fall of Singapore
  • Japanese War Crimes

    War Crimes

  • Nuremberg Trials (Yale)
  • Nuremberg Trials (Court TV)

    The Cold War

    Documents
  • Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain Speech" (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Stalin's Response to Churchill (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Truman Doctrine (Modern Sourcebook)
  • NATO Treaty (Yale)
  • CNN Cold War
  • Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) (US National History Standards)
  • Cold War Policies 1945-1991 (University of San Diego History Department)
  • Cold War Hot Links (St. Martin's College)
  • Cold War International History Project
  • Cold War Policies 1945-1991 (University of San Diego)
  • "CONFLICT SEEMS VAGUELY UN-AMERICAN": TEACHING THE CONFLICTS AND THE LEGACY OF COLD WAR by Alan Filreis
  • The Diefenbunker - Canada's Cold War Museum
  • Berlin Airlift Veterans Association
  • USAFE Berlin Airlift Site

    Nuclear Arms Race

  • The Atomic Archive
  • Seattle Times Trinity Web
  • The Mushroom Cloud Depository (University of New Hampshire)

    Harry S. Truman

  • Inaugural Address

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • First Inaugural Address
  • Second Inaugural Address

    Red Scare

  • Truman Loyalty Oath 1947
  • "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges"RAYMOND B. ALLEN (President of the University of Washington, Seattle, 1949

    McCarthyism

  • SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY: A MULTIMEDIA CELEBRATION (Webcorp - Real Audio)
  • INTERPRETING McCARTHYISM: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY (Ellen Schrecker)
  • Blacklisted (Radio Drama)
  • "Exhuming McCarthy" by Joshua Micah Marshall (The American Prospect no. 43, March - April 1999)

    The Civil Rights Movement

  • National Civil Rights Museum
  • Voices of the Civil Rights Era(Webcorp -Sound files)
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • United States Code Civil Rights

    The Sixties

  • The Sixties Project
  • The Sixties
  • Michael Harrington
  • Port Huron Statement
  • SDS
  • May 4 Home Page

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  • Inaugural Address
  • JFK Resources Online
  • The Cuban Missle Crisis
  • Khrushchev to John F. Kennedy

    Lyndon Baines Johnson

  • Inaugural Address
  • LBJ Library
  • LBJ Home Page Johnson's Vietnam Anguish

    Warren Commission Phone Conversations

  • The Daisy Ad

    Recent Events

  • CONTEMPORARY UNITED STATES (1968 TO THE PRESENT) (US National History Standards)

    Richard Nixon

  • Nixon's First Inaugural Address
  • Nixon's Second Inaugural Address
  • Nixon Resigns (National Archives)
  • Nixon Resigns
  • Nixon Presidential Project
  • Richard Nixon Audio Archive
  • Nixon's Funeral
  • Nixon Stamp
  • Watergate
  • Nixon: The Movie

    Gerald Ford

  • Gerald R. Ford Library

    Jimmy Carter

  • Inaugural Address
  • The Jimmy Carter Library

    Ronald Wilson Reagan

  • First Inaugural Address
  • Second Inaugural Address
  • Ronald Reagan Library

    George Herbert Walker Bush

  • Inaugural Address
  • George Bush Presidential Library

    William Jefferson Clinton

  • First Inaugural Address
  • Second Inaugural Address
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