History, American: Resources

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Resources List
American History Overview
Talk 1: Pre-Columbian America
Talk 2: Exploration and Settlements
Talk 3: Settlements to Societies
Talk 4: British America (1700-1753)
Talk 5: Unity to Revolution
Talk 6: Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
Talk 7: Creating the United States (1783-1792)
Talk 8: The Early Republic
Talk 9: Jeffersonian America
Talk 10: The War of 1812
Talk 11: Era of Good Feelings 1816-1824
Talk 12: Jacksonian Democracy 1824-1840
Talk 13: New Spain, Mexico and the Texas Republic (1818-1836)
Talk 14: Continental Superpower (1840-1850)
Talk 15: California and the Gold Rush (1790-1850)
Talk 16: The Competition of Destinies (1850-1854)
Talk 17: The Path to Civil War (1854-1861)
Talk 18: Civil War (1861-1865)
Talk 19: Reconstruction & the New South (1865-1900)
Talk 20: Conquest of the West (1865-1890)
Talk 21: The growth of the North and triumph of capital (1865-1894)
Talk 22: A world power emerges (1890-1904)
Talk 23: US and 20th Century (1898-1900)
Talk 24: The Progressive Era (1900-1916)
Talk 25: USA and World War One (1914-1920)
Talk 26: The return to normalcy (1918-1920)
Talk 27: The Roaring Twenties (1921-1929)
Talk 28: Crash, Depression and New Deal (1929-1941)
Talk 29: Foreign Policy: Isolationism Interrupted (1921-1941)
Talk 30: "Isolationism interrupted" (1939-1941) and Pearl Harbour
Talk 31: European War 1941-1945
Talk 32: The Pacific War 1941-1945
Talk 33: The post war world 1945-48
Talk 34: The age of Consensus 1948-1960 Truman to Eisenhower
Talk 35: The Cold War 1948-1960
Talk 36: "Camelot"...1960-1963...The Kennedy years
Talk 37: "Great Society" (1963-1968) the Johnson years
Talk 38: Vietnam and the Cold War (1961-1974)
Talk 39 US culture and society: the 1960's
As a summer bonus, a selection of videos of over 30 Flower Power Era songs
Talk 40: Return of the Republicans (1968-1976)
Talk 41: US and the World 1968-1976
Talk 42: The Humility Experiment 1976-1980
Talk 43: US culture and society 1970s
Talk 44: The Reagan Revolution 1980-1988
Talk 45: Reagan and the World 1981-1988
Talk 46: Master of the World 1988-1992
Talk 47: USA Culture & Society 1980-1992
Talk 48: The Clinton Presidency 1992-1998
Talk 49: Pax Americana 1993-2001
Talk 50: The Celebrity Decade: US society and culture during the 1990's
Talk 51: The year the world changed 2000-2001
 
 

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