BUILDING
THE AMERICAN NATION:
THE U.S., 1789-1920
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| Lecture
List |
Click
on the links on the right for a reading list and
more information about each lecture topic. Remember that
there is a reading week (no lecture) between weeks 5 and
6 in the First term, and between weeks 15 and 16 in the
Second term. For details of the seminars click here.
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| First Term |
| 1.
Introduction: themes in nineteenth century American history |
| 2. War,
frontiers and the new nation, 1789-1815 |
3. Power
and politics in the new republic, 1789-1815
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| 4. Markets,
communication and
economic growth, 1800-1860 |
| 5. Democracy:
politics and the people, 1815-1860 |
| 6. Religion
and reform, 1800-1860 |
| 7.
The slaveholders'
republic, 1800-1860 |
| 8. Conquest,
expansion and sectional conflict, 1815-1854 |
| 9. The
coming of the Civil War, 1854-1861 |
| 10. Overview:
the antebellum republic |
| Second Term |
| 11. The
Republic at War,
1861-1863 |
| 12. Emancipation
and the destruction of the Confederacy,
1863-1865 |
| 13. Reconstruction,
1865-1877 |
| 14. Race,
redemption,
and the romance of reunion, 1877-1920 |
| 15. The
transformation of the West, 1860-1920 |
| 16. The "Gilded
Age",
1865-1896 |
| 17. Immigration,
race and national identity, 1830-1920 |
| 18. Populists
and progressives,
1890-1920 |
| 19. The
United States and the world, 1898-1920 |
| 20. The
United States in 1920 |
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