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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: 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
- SEMINAR: VIDEO Colonial period: Virginia & Massachussetts-seminar video worksheet (from A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA: 2. English Setllement)
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Towards Independence (1775 -1783)
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- COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 3: The Road to Independence
- SEMINAR: The Declaration of Independence (original text)
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3
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The Formation of a National Government (1783 -1791)
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- COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 4: The Formation of a National Government
- SEMINAR: 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: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 5: Westward Expansion and Regional Differences
- SEMINAR VIDEO Westward Expansion: seminar video worksheet (from AMERICA: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES EPISODE 6 Gone West)
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5
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The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 - 1877)
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- COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 6: Sectional Conflict & CHAPTER 7: The Civil War and 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: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY CHAPTER 8: Growth & Transformation ADDITIONAL SOURCE:AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF USA 16. The Amerindians Last Stand, The Golden Door;
- SEMINAR VIDEO Years of Growth: The New City-seminar video worksheet (from A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA: 15. The New City)
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7
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TEST I (on topics 1 - 6)
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- 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)
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8
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Discontent and Reform
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- COURSEBOOK: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY CHAPTER 9: Discontent and Reform ADDITIONAL SOURCE: 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: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY CHAPTER 10: War, Prosperity, and Depression ADDITIONAL SOURCE: 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: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY CHAPTER 11: The New Deal and World War II
- SEMINAR VIDEO 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: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY CHAPTER 11: The New Deal and World War II
- 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: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY CHAPTER 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: OUTLINE OF U. S. HISTORY CHAPTER 13. Decades of Change
- SEMINAR: Arsenal (video, Alistair Cooke's America
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