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Unit
Outline Index
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Unit
1
Frontier
and Factory
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Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee: Ethnic Cleansing at the Carlisle
School
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Corporate
Capitalism and the Triumph of Technology
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Robber Barons or Captains of Industry: Corporate Capitalism in The
Gilded Age
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Unit
2
A
Changing America
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From Gibson Girls to Shopaholics: New Middle Class women in Turn
of the Century America
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Living for the City: The Challenge of Urban America |
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Unit
3
Toward
a New Society: The Progressive Era
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National Politics in the Gilded Age
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Bully Pulpit, Teddy Roosevelt redefines the Presidency
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From Populists to Progressives |
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Unit
4
The
Great War
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Roosevelt's Big Stick and Corporate America's Big Dollar - The
United States and Imperialism
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The War to End all Wars? : Making the World Safe for Democracy
then refusing to make the world Safe for Democracy
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Imperialism
and the "splendid little war"
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Clear and Present Danger: Intolerance on the Home Front |
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Unit
5
Boom
to Bust in the Jazz Age
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The Twenties: Roaring or Boring?
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Going Around and Coming Around - The Mirror of the 1920s: The
1990s
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Birth of a Consumer Culture : from "Innies" to "outies" |
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Unit 6
Depression
and New Deal
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How did it happen and can it happen again?
> The social impact of the Great Depression
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The New Deal and the Birth of Big Government |
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Unit 7
World
War II
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From Infamy to Inferno: The World at War
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Death, the Destroyer of Worlds - The Decision to Drop the Bomb |
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Unit 8
American
at Midcentury: The Cold War
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The World's Policeman: The Truman Doctrine
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Twentieth Century Witch Hunt: McCarthyism
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Holiday Inn, McDonalds, Levittown: The Starbucksification of
America |
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Unit 9
The
Flowering of the American Century
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The Civil Rights Movement from King to X: Eyes on the same
Prize?
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Invasion of Centaurs:
The Age of Aquarius from Berkley to Woodstock and Altamont
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Vietnam
War: An Irresistible
Force and an Immoveable Object |
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Unit 10
Toward
the Right and Toward the Future
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American Malaise: The Energy Crisis
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From
Hostages to TOWs to Contras: Carter, Reagan and the Iranians
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The Me Generation - That 70s America |
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