Week 1: Contact and Conquest
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Sept
26 |
Introduction |
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Sept
28 |
'The
Foreigners made it otherwise': First contact, conquest and catastrophe
(Pollard) |
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Sept
29 |
The
Lure of Gold - Slaves and crops in the Colonial South (Pollard) |
Week 2: Colonisation
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Oct.
2 |
The
Lure of God - The Colonial North from the Pilgrims to Pennsylvania
(Pollard) |
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Oct.
3 |
The
Great Awakening and the American Enlightenment (Kidd) |
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Oct.
5 & 6 |
Introductory
Seminar |
Week 3: Birth of the United
States
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Oct.
9 |
The
American Revolution (Kidd) |
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Oct.
10 |
The
Constitution and the New National Government (Kidd) |
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Oct.
12&13 |
Seminar
1: Revolution and Constitution |
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Week 4: The New Republic
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Oct
16 |
First
and Second Party Systems (Kidd) |
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Oct
17 |
Indians
and the West in the New Republic (Maddra) |
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Oct
19 |
No
Way Out? - Slavery and the Southern Mind (Pollard) |
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Week 5: A Nation Divided
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Oct
23 |
The
Antebellum North (Maddra) |
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Oct
24 |
Origins
of the American Civil War (Kidd) |
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Oct
26 |
The
Civil War (Maddra) |
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Oct
27 |
Essay
Submission Date 1 - (Essays to be handed in to Mrs. Peden, Modern
History Office, by 4pm) |
Week 6: A Nation Reborn?
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Oct
30 |
Reconstruction
and the New South (Maddra) |
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Oct
31 |
The
West and the End of the Frontier (Maddra) |
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Nov.
2 & 3 |
Seminar
2: Slavery and Civil War |
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Week 7: Jazz Age America
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Nov.
6 |
A
Transformed World, an Incapacitated Politics: America in the
Gilded Age (Pollard) |
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Nov.
7 |
"Chicago
will be ours": Populists, Progressives and the promise
of a better world (Pollard) |
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Nov.
9 |
"...the
greatest, gaudiest spree in history...": Jazz Age America
(Pollard) |
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Nov.
10 |
Essay
Submission Date 2 - (Essays to be handed in to Mrs. Peden, Modern
History Office, by 4pm) |
Week 8: Boom, Bust and War
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Nov
13 |
The
Great Depression and New Deal (Maddra) |
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Nov
14 |
American
Society and Culture During World War II (Maddra) |
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Nov
16 & 17 |
Seminar
3: America in the 1930s and 1940s |
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Week 9: America as a World
Power
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Nov
20 |
America
and the Outside World, 1898-1919 (Ball) |
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Nov
21 |
America
and the Outside World, 1919-1947 (Ball) |
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Nov
23 & 24 |
Seminar
4: America as a World Power |
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Week 10: Struggles for Equality
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Nov
27 |
The
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (Maddra) |
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Nov
28 |
From
Martin to Malcolm: civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s
(Maddra) |
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Nov
30 |
America’s
Vietnam War (Maddra) |
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Dec
1 |
Essay
Submission Date 3 - (Essays to be handed in to Mrs. Peden, Modern
History Office, by 4pm) |
Week 11: The Imperial Presidency
in Crisis
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Dec
4 |
Kennedy
and Nixon (Kidd) |
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Dec
5 |
Watergate
(Kidd) |
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Dec
7 & 8 |
Seminar
5: The 1960s |
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Week 12: America Today
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Dec
11 |
The
Part of the President will be played by an actor: Reagan and
the Revitalised American Myth (Pollard) |
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Dec
12 |
'You're
either with us or against us': War, Scandal and the Poisoned
Politics of the 1990s (Pollard) |
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Revision and Examination Period
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Jan.8
- 19 |
Revision
and Examination |
