History 261 Lecture Outlines
Week
1 (Jan. 3): American Creed
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2A (Jan. 8): History and the Culture Wars
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2B (Jan. 10): Meaning of the Civil War
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3A (Jan. 15): Reconstruction Era
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3B (Jan. 17): New South/Jim Crow Nation
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4B (Jan. 24): Politics of Protest
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5A (Jan. 29): Conquest of the West
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5B (Jan. 31): Borderlands/Settlements
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6A (Feb. 5): Manifest Destiny
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6B (Feb. 7): "Burden of Empire"
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7A (Feb. 12): Age of Reform
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7B (Feb. 14): America and the Great War
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8A (Feb. 19): Rise of Mass Culture
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8B (Feb. 21): Modernism/Reaction
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10A (March 11): World War II
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11A (March 18): The "American Way"
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11B (March 20): Suburban Nation
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12A (March 25): Civil Rights Movement
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12B (March 27): Crisis of Liberalism
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13A (April 1): Vietnam War
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13B (April 3): Conservative Turn
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14A (April 8): Reagan Era