Course Schedule


Weeks One -Three: Module One: Transition

Focus:
Introduction to the course
America in the 20th century What is History?
Reconstruction: More than a social revolution
Social Darwinism and the American Businessman
The Gilded Age The Impact of Industrialism

Reading: http://journeytohistory.com/History1B/readingarch.html (Required)

Web Sites:
The Civil War and Reconstruction
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/ (Critique)

Ulysses S. Grant
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/ (Critique)

The Gilded Age
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html (Critique)

Andrew Carnegie
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/ (Reference)

The Telephone
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/ (Reference)

Coney Island
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/ (Reference)

Annie Oakley
http://journeytohistory.com/History1B/LectureArchives.htm (Reference)

Timeline
http://journeytohistory.com/History1B/timeline.htm (Reference)

Lecture Text:
What is History
The Method of History
The Gilded Age: The Period of Transition (1865-1900)

http://journeytohistory.com/History1B/LectureArchives.htm (Required)