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WEEK
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TOPIC (coursebook readings & downloadable seminar materials)
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1
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Colonial Period (1606 - 1774)
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 2. English Settlement (TRANSCRIPT) ADDITIONAL SOURCE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 1. First Americans 2. Explorers from Europe
- SEMINAR: Colonial period: Virginia & Massachussetts-seminar video worksheet.doc
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Towards Independence (1775 -1783)
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 4. The Cominng of Independence
- SEMINAR: The Declaration of Independence (original text).doc
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3
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The Formation of a National Government (1783 -1791)
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 5. A New System of Government ADDITIONAL SOURCE: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY 4. The Formation of a National Government
- SEMINAR ALTERNATIVE: The Bill of Rights (original text)
- The Bill of Rights (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
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4
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Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 6. Westward Expansion
- SEMINAR: Westward Expansion: Gone West-seminar video worksheet.doc
- VIDEO: Gone West
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5
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The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 - 1877)
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 9. Slavery, 10. The Coming of the Civil War, 11. The Civil War, ADDITIONAL SOURCE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 13. Reconstruction
- SEMINAR: The Strange Advent of Emancipation.pdf
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6
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Years of Growth and the American Empire
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 15. The New City ADDITIONAL SOURCE: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY 7. Growth & Transformation AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 16. The Amerindians Last Stand, The Golden Door;
- SEMINAR: Years of Growth: The New City-seminar video worksheet.doc
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TEST I (on topics 1 - 6)
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- SEMINAR: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 17. Capital and Labour (J. P. Morgan, the Coal Mining Industry & the the Anthracite Miners’ Strike of 1900)
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8
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Discontent and Reform
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 17. Capital and Labor 18. TR & Wilson ADDITIONAL SOURCE: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY 8. Discontent & Reform AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 19.The Reformers and Progressives
- SEMINAR: Andrew Carnegie: Extracts from Wealth
- SEMINAR: Andrew Carnegie-biography
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War and Prosperity (1917 - 1929)
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 20. The Twenties ADDITIONAL SOURCE: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY 9. War, Prosperity & Depression AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 21. A War and Peace
- SEMINAR: Wilson Imagines a Better Future-article.doc
- SEMINAR: The Fourteen Points (original text).doc
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10
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Depression and the New Deal (1929 -1941)
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 21. FDR and the Depression AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 23. Crash and Depression
- SEMINAR: Depression and New Deal-seminar video worksheet 2005.doc
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From Isolationism to Hiroshima: World War II
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 22. World War II ADDITIONAL SOURCE: ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 25. The Arsenal of Democracy
- SEMINAR: Conflicting Historical Viewpoints-Why Was Atom Bomb Used on Japan.doc
- SEMINAR: Origins of Cold War, Diplomatic Crossroad-Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima, 1945.doc
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12
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Cold War and Conflict Abroad: America in the Fifties
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 23. The Fifties ADDITIONAL SOURCE: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY 12. Postwar America
- SEMINAR: 12 McCarthyism-article.doc
- SEMINAR: 12 Senator Joseph McCarthy-article.doc
- SEMINAR: 12 Padesata leta-uryvok z knihy A Zemana.doc
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America in the Sixties and Early Seventies
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- COURSEBOOK: A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 24. The Sixties ADDITIONAL SOURCE: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY 13. Decades of Change
- SEMINAR: Arsenal (video, Alistair Cooke's America
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