First Term
1. Introduction [no seminar]
2. Modern Times: The 1920s
3. Hard Times: The Great Depression
4. The Roosevelt "Revolution" [no seminar]
5. The New Deal and American Society
6. The Culture of Jim Crow
7. The "Good War": Mobilisation and Transformation
8. Red Scare: Politics and the Early Cold War
9. Affluence and Anxiety: The 1950s
10. The Liberal Consensus Abroad [no seminar]

Second Term
11. Race and the Liberal Consensus [no seminar]
12. The Struggle for Civil Rights
13. The Great Society and the Tragedy of Vietnam
14. The War Comes Home
15. Nixon and the "Silent Majority"
16. The Transformation of American Life in the 1970s
17. The Reagan "Revolution"
18. "Culture Wars" in the 1980s and 90s
19. Conservatism on Trial: Bush's America [no seminar]
20. Overview [no seminar]