Table of Contents

1. A New History for a New Century

2. Historical Thinking & Course Approach

3. History in the News

4. Past Meets Present

5. Myth Versus Reality

6. Hidden History

7. Hollywood’s History

8. History Through…Fashion

9. History Through…Customs

10. History Through…Language

1. Introduction: The World in 1492

2. The World in 1492

3. How the World Came to be Divided

4. Native America Prior to 1492

5. Three Worlds Collide

6. Why Did It Take So Long to Cross the Atlantic?

7. Understanding the Legacies of Christopher Columbus

8. The Columbian Food Exchange

9. The Columbian Exchange: Disease & the Environment

10. Three Forms of European Expansion

11. The Meaning of America

1. Introduction: The Colonial Era

2. New World Colonization

3. Contrasting Forms of English Colonization

4. The New England Puritans

5. History Through…Gravestones

6. Witchcraft in New England

7. New England in Comparative Perspective

8. The Middle Colonies

9. Diversity in Colonial America

10. Forging a Distinct American Identity

1. Introduction: The American Revolution

2. The Causes of the Revolution

3. The Road to Revolution

4. The Revolution Begins

5. Depicting the Past

6. Declaring Independence

7. The Revolutionary War: The British Strategy

8. How Were the Colonies Able to Win Their Independence?

9. How Revolutionary Was the Revolution?

10. America’s Symbols & Icons

1. Introduction: The U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights

2. The Critical Period

3. Designing New Systems of Government

4. Constitutional Convention

5. Drafting the Constitution

6. The Constitution & Slavery

7. Ratifying the Constitution

8. Amending the Constitution

9. History Through…

10. Constitutional Quiz Bowl

1. The First New Nation

2. The Formative Decade

3. Challenges Facing the Nation

4. Years of Crisis

5. The Election of 1796

6. The Jeffersonian Era

7. The War of 1812

8. The Era of Good Feelings

9. The Growth of Political Factionalism and Sectionalism

10. Creating a National Music

1. Introduction: The Jacksonian Era

2. Popular Attacks on Privilege

3. Emergence of a New Party System

4. The Presidency of John Quincy Adams

5. The Presidency of Andrew Jackson

6. Indian Removal

7. Nullification

8. The Celebrated Bank War

9. Political Battles of the Jacksonian Era

10. The Whigs

1. Introduction: Slavery

2. Historical Perspective

3. The Middle Passage

4. Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

5. Slavery in Colonial America

6. Evolution of Slavery

7. Slave Family Life and Cultural Resistance

8. The Economics of Slavery

9. Slave Sales

10. Aftermath of Slavery

1. Introduction: Social & Economic Change in Pre-Civil War American Culture

2. Technological Innovation

3. The Industrial Revolution

4. Political & Cultural Transformations

5. The Introduction of the Factory System

6. Immigration Begins

7. Growth of Cities

8. The Birth of American Popular Culture

9. The Politics of Fashion

10. Placing U.S. History in Global Perspective

1. Introduction

2. Roots of the Reform Impulse

3. Moral Reform

4. History of Manners

5. Social Reform

6. Radical Reform

7. Divisions within the Anti-Slavery Movement

8. Abolition Movement

9. The Birth of the Women’s Rights Movement

10. Utopian Communities

1. Introduction: Westward Expansion

2. Westward Expansion & the American Character and Self-Image

3. Opening the West

4. Manifest Destiny

5. The Texas Revolution

6. The Alamo

7. The U.S.-Canadian Border

8. The Mexican War

9. Peace

10. The Gold Rush

1. Introduction: The Sectional Crisis

2. American Fears of Conspiracy and the Road to the Civil War

3. The Pre-Civil War South

4. What Defines the South?

5. Slavery in a Capitalist World

6. The Breakdown of the Party System

7. The Revival of the Slavery Issue

8. The Gathering Storm

9. The Election of 1860

10. South Carolina Defends its Decision to Secede from the Union

1. Introduction: The Civil War

2. What Would You Do? Abraham Lincoln

3. War Begins

4. Why the Civil War Was So Lethal

5. Civil War Strategies

6. A War within A War

7. Towards Gettysburg

8. The Home Front

9. The 1864 Presidential Election

10. Civil War in Popular Culture