WEEK

TOPIC (coursebook readings & downloadable seminar materials)

1

Colonial Period (1606 - 1774)

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 1: Early America  & CHAPTER 2: The Colonial Period  ADDITIONAL SOURCE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 1. First Americans & 2. Explorers from Europe
2. SEMINAR: VIDEO Colonial period: Virginia & Massachussetts-seminar video worksheet (from A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA: 2. English Setllement)
   

Towards Independence (1775 -1783) 

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 3: The Road to Independence
2. SEMINAR: The Declaration of Independence (original text)
   

3

The Formation of a National Government (1783 -1791)

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 4: The Formation of a National Government
2. SEMINAR: The Bill of Rights (original text)
   
3. The Bill of Rights (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
   

4

Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 5: Westward Expansion and Regional Differences
2. SEMINAR VIDEO Westward Expansion: seminar video worksheet (from AMERICA: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES EPISODE 6 Gone West)
   

5

The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 - 1877)

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 6: Sectional Conflict  & CHAPTER 7: The Civil War and Reconstruction 
2. SEMINAR: The Strange Advent of Emancipation.pdf

6

Years of Growth and the American Empire

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY CHAPTER 8: Growth & Transformation  ADDITIONAL SOURCE:AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 16. The Amerindians Last Stand, The Golden Door;
2. SEMINAR  VIDEO Years of Growth: The New City-seminar video worksheet (from A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA: 15. The New City)

7

TEST I (on topics 1 - 6)

1. SEMINAR (or LECTURE) VIDEO: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA  17. Capital and Labour (J. P. Morgan, the Coal Mining Industry & the Anthracite Miners’ Strike of 1900)

8

Discontent and Reform

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY CHAPTER 9: Discontent and Reform   ADDITIONAL SOURCE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 19.The Reformers and Progressives
2. SEMINAR: Andrew Carnegie: Extracts from Wealth
3. SEMINAR: Andrew Carnegie-biography

War and Prosperity (1917 - 1929)

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY  CHAPTER 10: War, Prosperity, and Depression   ADDITIONAL SOURCE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA  21. A War and Peace
2. SEMINAR: Wilson Imagines a Better Future-article.doc
3. SEMINAR: The Fourteen Points (original text).doc

10

Depression and the New Deal (1929 -1941)  

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY  CHAPTER 11: The New Deal and World War II    
2. SEMINAR VIDEO Depression and New Deal-seminar video worksheet 2005.doc

From Isolationism to Hiroshima: World War II

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY  CHAPTER 11: The New Deal and World War II  
2. SEMINAR: Conflicting Historical Viewpoints-Why Was Atom Bomb Used on Japan.doc
3. SEMINAR: Origins of Cold War, Diplomatic Crossroad-Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima, 1945.doc

12

Cold War and Conflict Abroad: America in the Fifties

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY  CHAPTER 12: Postwar America   
2. SEMINAR: 12 McCarthyism-article.doc
3. SEMINAR: 12 Senator Joseph McCarthy-article.doc
4. SEMINAR: 12 Padesata leta-uryvok z knihy A Zemana.doc 

America in the Sixties and Early Seventies   

1. COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY  CHAPTER 13. Decades of Change
2. SEMINAR: VIDEO: United States' role as military superpower (from AMERICA: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES EPISODE 12 Arsenal)
   
3. SEMINAR: BRINGING HISTORY UP-TO-DATE: Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies who pay too little (Guardian Article)