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U.S. History to 1920 (or so)
What Seems to Have Been the Meaning of Christmas to Early Americans? // How Did Early Americans Celebrate Christmas? George Washington: 1740’s to 1795 Samuel Adams: 1730s to 1777 & Beyond Thomas Jefferson: 1770s to 1809 Benedict Arnold: 1776 to 1801 Alexander Hamilton: Late-1700’s / Early-1800s Founding Brothers: The Crucial Years After the Ratification of the Constitution Noah Webster & James Monroe: 1776 - 1831 John Quincy Adams: Before 1817, SecState, President, & Congressman James & Dolley Madison: 1774 - 1809 Clay, Calhoun, and Webster (1819 - 1850) James Knox Polk & the Mexican War Andrew Jackson & The Battle of New Orleans The Origin of the Temperance Movement Before the Civil War & the Onset of the Civil War . . . Abraham Lincoln: Childhood Thru Assassination The Dakota War in Minnesota (1862) Custer & the Battle of Little Bighorn . . . Ulysses Grant: Civil War / President The Impeachment & Attempted Removal of President Andrew Johnson (1868) Temperance: The Women's War John D. Rockefeller & Standard Oil Why Did the South Win the Battle for Reconstruction? The Assassination of President James Garfield Edweard Muybridge (& Thomas Edison) Chester A. Arthur (The Unexpected President) Theodore Roosevelt (Before/During/After His Presidency) The Progressive Era . . . The Wright Brothers: Before Kitty Hawk to Wilbur in NYC in 1909 The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 The Great War: 1913, Mobilization, The Goeben, Harry Truman Woodrow Wilson: Before the Great War to The Treaty of Versailles The Lusitania Disaster (7 May 1915) Red Summer (1919) The History of Drinking in America (17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries) The Political History of the Cigarette (19th, 20th, & 21st Centuries) The Secret History of Food (18th, 19th, 20th, & 21st Centuries) The History of Class in America [in progress] (17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, & 21st Centuries) |
U.S. History Since 1920 (or so)
Prohibition: 18th & 21st Amendments Marcus Garvey and the KKK in Nebraska Calvin Coolidge: Boston Police Strike (1919), Economic Strategies as President Harry Truman: WW I / Pendergast Machine Herbert Hoover: Humanitarian, President, Post-Presidency Clarence Birdseye & Frozen Food FDR: From Before 1920 to His 2nd Term . . . The Dust Bowl (Timothy Egan / Ken Burns) “Those Angry Days” (1939 - 1941) - Internationalism vs. Isolationism Intrepid: The British Master Spy of World War II The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich . . . The US and World War II . . . Turning the Tide of World War II . . . The Immediate Aftermath of World War II - The Atomic Bomb & MacArthur in Japan "Citizen Soldier": The Life of Harry Truman The Election of 1948: "Dewey Defeats Truman" The Korean War (1950 - 1953) - General MacArthur & Sgt. Reckless David Halberstam: The 1950's . . . The "Lost Cause", the 2nd KKK, FDR, and Senator Joseph McCarthy President Dwight Eisenhower's First Term . . . President Eisenhower: The White House Years . . . The Campaigns & Election of 1960 . . . Rachel Carson & the Emergence of the Environmental Movement The Life of Malcolm X (Pre-1925 through 1965) JFK & His Advisors . . . The Civil Rights Act of 1964 . . . America & Vietnam: 1964, 1965, 1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson: Before 1938 to 1968 . . . Richard Nixon: Pre-1946 to 1968 . . . Robert Kennedy: A Liberal Icon . . . Walter Cronkite: “The Most Trusted Man in America” The Transformative Election of 1968 . . . Apollo 8: NASA's 1st Journey to the Moon (Dec 1968) The Watergate Scandal (& So Much More . . .) The 1970s: The Rise of Conservatism in the US Ronald Reagan: 1947 - 1981 . . . George H.W. Bush: 1970 - 1981 . . . President Jimmy Carter (1977 - 1981) Feminism on TV in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s The Challenger Disaster . . . Actors: Steve McQueen / Lee Marvin |
