1. "The Golden Age: The Industrial Revolution and the Consumer."
I. How to Make An Industrial
Revolution
A. Capitalist
Ideology
B. Natural
Resources
C. Technology
D. Labor
Supply
E. Government
II. How To Get Big
A. Capital
and How to get it
B. Biggness
is Better!
III. Everybody Wins!
A. Carnegie
and "King Steel"
B. Iron
Hourse and Circus Elephants
IV. "Everybody Loses?"
or "At What Price, Progress?"
2. "The Gilded Age: The Industrial Revolution and the Worker."
I. Horatio Alger and the
American Myth
A. Rags
to Riches?
B. Land
of Opportunity?
II. The Price of Progress
A. Taylorism
B. Urbanization
C. Cheap
Labor Cheapens Life
III. Labor Responds
A. Resistance
B. Organization
IV. Capital and Governments
Respond
A. 3
Strikes for Labor
V. But What Can Be Done?
3. "The Gilded Age: The Industrial Revolution and the Farmer."
I. A Corny Kansas Debate
A. Who's
to Blame?
II. Railroaded Off the
Farm--Overproduction leads to Dependency
A. Technology
B. Commercial
Farms
C. Tariffs
and Taxes
D. "The
Money Power"
E. "Hicks
and Hayseeds"
III."Raise Less Corn and
More Hell!"
A. Home,
Home on the Grange
B. The
Alliances
C. The
Populists
IV. So... What Happened?
4. "The Wizard of Oz and William Jennings Bryan."
I. 1893-1897--Crisis and
Collapse
A. The
Problem of Money
B. The
Problem of Drought
C. Depression
and the Problem of Government
II. Election of 1896
A. "No
Cross of Gold"
B. The
Front Porch Campaign
C. The
Klondike means Gold for ALL!
III. "I don't think we're
in Kansas anymore!"
IV. There's No Place Like
Home
5. "Progressive Era~Progressive Origins?"
I. Progressivism, 1890s-1920s
A. What,
who, where, and why?
B. What
it did and what it didn't
II. Beating the Boss (So
that's what all the kids are calling it these days.)
III. Four Discoveries Lead
to Progressivism
A. Clean
Gov't not enough
B. Environment
makes the person
C. Multiculturalism
means votes
D. Follow
the Money
IV. Not So Progressive
Reform
A. Jim
Crow
B. Americanization
and the New Klan
C. Corking
the Bottle
V. The Legacy of Progressivism?
6. "Progressive Era~Progressive Achievements?"
I. Robber Barrons and Reform
A.Merger
Movement
B. Why
Businessmen wanted reform
C. Why
everyone wanted reform
II. Trustbusting with TR,
"Bully!"
III. Greenbacks and the
Taxman Cometh
IV. Good Meat is Good Business
V. Safety is the Business
of Business and Gov't
VI. Three Words: Democracy,
Democracy, Democracy!
VII. Where Will It All
End?
7. "The
Foreign Policy of Progressivism: Manifest Destiny Extended."
(or The
Stars and Stripes
Forever: Progressivism Goes Global)
I. An American Empire of
Liberty?
A. Historical
and Progressive Impulses
B. European
Competition and AT Mahan
II.Chasing Columbus's Dream
on a Steamer
A.Somoa,
Hawaii, the Phillipines and points west
B.An
"Open Door" with China
III. "Cuba Libre!": Progressivism
Goes to War
A.Buthcer
Weyler and Yellow Journalism
B. Intervention?
C. The
War to Free Cuba...
1. Starts in Manilla?
2. Is a "Splendid Little War"?
IV. Treaty of Paris and
the Age of Empire
A.The
Platt and Teller Amendments
B. The
Phillipines: Our First "Vietnam"
V. Can We Have Our Cake
And Eat It Too?
8. "Safe For Democracy!: A Progressive World War?"
I. A War to End All Wars?
A.Entangling
Alliances
B. No
Man's Land
C. Neutrality
and "Peace Without Victory"
D. U-Boats
and Q-Ships
E. "Safe
For Democracy"
II. Progressivism Goes
to War
A. Social
Reform Wrapped in the Flag
B. Gov't
Planning for Business Rationalization
C. Special
Interests Win the War
III. Progressivism Goes
to Hell
A. Liberty
Cabbage and Salisbury Steak
B. Poor
Robert Prager
C. Wobblies
D. Sedition
Acts
IV. Safe For Democracy?
Peace Without Victory?
A. Wislon's
14 Points
B. Treaty
of Versailles and Wilson's Failure
C. Ratification
Debate and Wislon's Failure
V. With Progressivism Dead,
What's Left to Believe In?
9. "The Roaring Twenties: The Model T and the Road to Ruin."
I. Normalcy the End of Progressivism?
II. Revolutionizing the
Industrial Revolution
A. Electricity
B. Massive
Production
C. the
Industrial Domino Effect
D. Republican
Laissez-Faire
III. Consumerism--The New
Faith
A. PCI
vs Real Wages
B. Easy
Money!
C. The
Model T and the New America
D. Radio
and A New National Culture
E. The
New American Woman
F. The
New American Yourth and "Blotto in the Backseat!"
IV. Consumerism Takes Us
For a Ride
10. "New Era Political Economy and the Crash of the Market."
I. The New Era Political
Economy
A. Deregulation
and Rationalization
Harding, Coolidge, Mellon, and Hoover
II. Black
Tuesday October 29, 1929: Causes Depression?
A. Mellon's
Easy Money
B. Decline
in Real Wages
C. Overproduction
D. Inflation
of the Market
III. International Crash
A. The
Cycle
B. The
Dawes Plan
IV. How Bad Can it Get?
or "Nobody's Actually Starving, Are They?"
11. "The Great Depression and 'Nobody's Starving'?"
I. Brother, Can You Spare
A Dime?: What the Depression Meant to...
A. Workers
and Industry
B. Farmers
C. Women
and Families
D. African-Americans
E. Physical
and Mental Health
II. The Prophets of Progress
Have No Answers
A. Samuel
Insell's Answer
B. Mellon's
Advice
C. State
Gov'ts and Charities Respond
D. Hoover
and Indirect Relief
III.Hoovervilles and the
Road to Revolution
A. "Nobody
is Actually Starving" and "We're in the Money"
B. Hoovervilles,
Hoover Flags, and Hoover Stew
C. The
Bonus Army
D. Farmer's
Holiday Association
E. Communists,
and Fascists, and Socialists...Oh My!
IV. Now What Is There To
Believe In?
12. "FDR: The First New Deal and Indirect Relief."
I. So You Say You Want A
Revolution? Well, You Know...
A. The
Left and the Failure of Capitalism
B. The
Right and the Failure of Democracy
C. FDR
and the Middle Road
II. The "First Hundred
Days" and the "First New Deal" 1933-1934
A. Restoring
Confidence in Capitalism
B. Restoring
Industry
C. Restoring
Health
D. Restoring
Farmers
E. Restoring
Rural Americans
F. Restoring
Urban Americans
III. The Bleeding Has Slowed,
But the Wounds May Yet Be Mortal
13. "FDR: The Second New Deal and Direct Relief."
I. New Deal or Raw
Deal?
A. State
of the Nation, 1935
B. New
Deal Under Attack
II. Priming the Pumbp and
Digging New Wells--A Second New Deal
A. New
Attitude Toward Business and Direct Relief
B. Election
of 1936
III. Done Deal?
A. Supreme
Court Attacks
B. Court-Packing
C. War
Brings a Real New Deal
IV. The New Deal Save the
Old Deck
14. "Toward a Second World War."
I. A War to End All Wars?
A. Failure
of Wilsonianism
B. Armistice
Day, 1921 and a Worried World
II. Fascism Was the Fashion
of the 1930s
A. Japan
B. Germany
C. Italy
III. U.S. Depression Diplomacy
A. Economic
Diplomacy
B. Isolationism
IV. Fascists Expand While
the World Watches
A. Europe
B. Pacific
V. How Do You Win A Global
War?
15. "Winning the War at Home."
I. War Gives Us a New Deal
A. Gov't
Spending Kills Depression
B. Gov't
Regulation Kills Depression
C. Gov't
Programs Kill Depression
II. War Gives Us a New
Society
A. Wacs
'n' Waves 'n' "Rosie the Riveter"
B. "Latch-Key
Kids" and "Victory Girls," Oh My!
C. The
4th Great Migration
III. We Win the War At
Home...
A. Gov't
Wins the War
B. Lagor
Wins the War
C. Conservation
Wins the War
D. Civil
Defense Wins the War
E. Moral
Support Wins the War
F. Propaganda
Wins the War
IV. ...Yet At What Cost?
A. American
Concentration Camps
B. Zoot
Suit Riots
C. Shenango
Affairs
V. How Did We Win the War
Abroad?
I. Europe First and the
"Not So" Grand Alliance
A. Atlantic
Charter
B. The
"Second Front"
C. Italy
D. Soviet
Offensive
E, Overlord
F. Yalta
II. Asia Second
A. Turning
the Tide: Island Hopping
B. May
5, 1945
C. The
Manhattan Project and Potsdam
D. The
Bomb
III. Is This The End or
Just The Beginning? Or The Beginning of the End?
17. "The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950."
I. And Then There Were Two
A. A
Bad Start, 1917-1945
B. Us
and Them
C. Mutual
Paranoia
II. Who Left the Freezer
Open?
A. European
Front
B. Asian
Front
III. What is "Freedom"
and How Much Will It Cost?
18. "The 1950s: Happy Days in an Age of Fear"
I. A National Security State
and the Price of Freedom
A. The
National Security Act of 1947
B. Better
Dead Than Red!
C. Joe
McCarthy and the Politics of Fear
II.National Security and
the "Fat Fifties"
A. Post-War
Economioc Boom
B. Consumerism--50s
Style
III.National Security and
Conformity in the 50s
A. A
National Suburb
B. TV
Homogenizes Us
The
Organization Man
IV. Youth is Revolting!
And So Is Elvis!
A. Rock-n-Roll
B. Rebel
Without A Clue
V. But Bigger Storms Are
Brewing...
19. "The Cold War Heats Up: Korea, Latin America, and Vietnam to 1968."
I. Cold War Casualties and
the Spectre of Nuclear Holocaust
A. Korean
War
B. Ike
and the "New Look"
C. Cooling
Off or Warming Up, or whatever
D. U-2
and Back to a Hot Cold War
II. JFK and "Flexible Response"
A. Cuba
B. Viet
Nam
III. LBJ and Escalation
A. Total
War
B. "...with
one arm tied behind our backs?"
IV.Should We Come in From
the Cold?
20. "The American Civil Rights Movement: African Americans, 1954-1968."
I. "We Shall Overcome"
A. Jim
Crow
B. Origins
C. Warren
Court
D. Culture
and Civil Rights
E. The
Media and Bi-Racialism
II. "Keep Your Eyes on
the Prize"
A. School
Integration
B. Public
Facilities Integration
C. A
National Movement
D. Voting
Rights
E. Economic
Equality
III. "How Many Roads?"
21. "The Sixties... Man, and Civil Rights for Everybody."
I. Expansion of Civil Rights
A. Counterculture
and an Age of Protest
B. "Women's
Lib"
C. Take
A.I.M.
D. Libre
Para Los Pescadores
E. Coming
Out
F. "4
Dead in Ohio"
G. Civil
Liberties for All
H."Give
a Hoot, Don't Pollute!"
II. Expanding the New Deal
A. Truman's
Fair Deal
B. Kennedy's
"New Frontier"
C. LBJ's
"War on Poverty"
D. The
"Great Society" Rolls On, 1969-Present
III. "Where Have All the
Flowers Gone?"
22. "Ending the Cold War: 1969-1999?"
I. Nixon, Kissinger, and
Detente
A. China
and Salt
II. Cold War Heats Back
Up
A. Afghanistan
B. Central
America
C. Reagan
and "The Evil Empire"
III. Soviets "dropov" and
Tensions Ease
A. Reagan
and Gorbachev
B. Beijing
Spring
C. The
Wall Falls
D. A
Second Russian Revolution, or "Bottom's Up, Boris"
IV. Who Won the Cold War?
V. The "New" Multi-National
Foreign Policy
A. Sudan,
Haiti, Kosovo
23. "The U.S., the Middle East, and the New American Political Economy, 1972-1999."
I. The Problem
A. Oil
and the Middle East
B. Recession
of 1973-1984 and Post-Industrial America
II. Presidents Responds
A. Nixon
Treats the Symptoms
B. Ford
Falls Down a Lot
C. Carter
Treats the Problem
D. Reagan
"Attacks" the Problem
E. Bush
Fights the Problem
F. Clinton
Feels Our Pain, And Then Some!
III. The "New" Political
Economy--Open Trade
A. GATT,
NAFTA, APEC
B. Steel
Dumping
C. A
National Service Economy? "Want Fries With That?"
IV. The Future? That's
Your Problem.