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Video The Sixties
Professor Scharff weaves the story of the Civil Rights movement with stories of the Vietnam War and Watergate to create a portrait of a decade. Lyndon Johnson emerges as a pivotal character, along with Stokely Carmichael, Fanny Lou Hamer, and other luminaries of the era.
Program 24: The Sixties (Transcript) (Broadband Video on Demand)Contemporary History
The entire team of historians joins Professor Miller in examining the last quarter of the twentieth century. A montage of events opens the program and sets the stage for a discussion of the period — and of the difficulty of examining contemporary history with true historical perspective. Television critic John Leonard offers a footnote about the impact of television on the way we experience recent events.
Program 25:New World Encounters (Transcript) (Broadband Video on Demand)
Text Chapter 13: Decades of Change Outline of American HistoryKennedy and the New Frontier Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society Confrontation Over Cuba The Space Program The War in Vietnam Detente Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats The Ford Interlude The Carter Years Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy The Civil Rights Movement 1960-1980 The Women's Movement The Latino Movement The Native American Movement The Counter-Culture and Environmentalism Chapter 14: Toward the 21st Century Outline of American History
A Society in Transition Conservatism and the Rise of Ronald Reagan The Economy in the 1980s Foreign Affairs U.S.-Soviet Relations Space Shuttle Iran-Contra and Black Monday The Presidency of George Bush Budgets and Deficits End to the Cold War The Gulf War Panama and Nafta 1992 Presidential Election Afterword A Nation of Immigrants Third-Party and Independent Candidates Chapter 15: Bridge to the 21st Century Outline of American History
1992 Presidential Electrion A New Presidency Launching a New Domestic Policy The American Economy in the 1990s The Election of 1996 and the Political Aftermath American Foreign Relations in the Clinton Years Intimations of Terrorism The Presidential Election of 2000 and the War on Terror The 2004 Presidential Election Afterword I>Basic Reading in U.S. Democracy
PART X: A MORE INCLUSIVE AMERICA66. John F. Kennedy, Address to Southern Baptist Leaders (1960)
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67. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
68. Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
69. NOW Statement of Purpose (1966)
70. Clyde Warrior, "We Are Not Free" (1967)
PART VI: ON THE ROAD FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM36. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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37. Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
38. Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream" (1963)
39. Civil Rights Act (1964)
40. Lyndon B. Johnson, "The American Promise" (1965)
PART VII: Freedom of Expression47. Engel v. Vitale (1962)
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PART VI: ON THE ROAD FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM41. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
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PART VII: Freedom of Expression48. New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
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PART VIII: Facing the World54. Foreign Aid and Human Rights (1976)
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55. Jimmy Carter, Human Rights and Foreign Policy (1977)
56. Sanctions Against South Africa (1986)
PART IX: COLD WAR ISSUES
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61. Democracy and Foreign Policy (1990)
PART X: A MORE INCLUSIVE AMERICA71. Maya Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993)
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PART XI: CONTINUING VITALITY72. United States v. Nixon (1974)
73. Excerpts from Presidential Debates (1992)
Lectures Sparknotes The Korean War (1950-1953
Sparknotes The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)
Sparknotes The Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Click on Enter then click on study guides and then on American History Chapter 11 The Post-war PeriodChronology of Major Events in this Period Conditions at Home The Employment Act The Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act Truman's Civil Rights Program The McCarthy period The Cold War Abroad The Korean War The Eisenhower Administration at Home The Civil Rights Movement and the Question of Desegregation The Labor Reform Act The Budget The Economy in the 60s The Communist Threat abroad The Threat of Nuclear War The Exploration of Outer Space The Geneva Conference on Disarmament Our World Today Conclusion Lecture 25: Eisenhower & Kennedy (Schultz)
Lecture 26: Civil Rights in an Uncivil Society (Schultz)
Lecture 27: The Almost Great Society: The 1960's (Schultz)
Lecture 28: The Asian Connection: The Road to Vietnam (Schultz)Vietnam (O'Malley)
Lecture 29: The Twilight of Liberalism: The Nixon Years (Schultz)
Lecture 30: America Sinking Through a Watergate (Schultz)[WEBSITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION] Click on Civil Rights The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rutledge)
Click on War at Home Uptown, Chicago, Illinois (Rutledge)
Click on Vietnam Vietnam War, 1959-1973 (Rutledge)
Click on Overextened Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania (Rutledge)Kennedy and Johnson (Rankin)
Post Nixon America (Rankin)
LBJ, Nixon and Ford: 1963-1976 Mayer
Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton: 1976-1996 Mayer
The 1980's Mayer
The Reagan Revolution Mayer
The Reagan Revolution Fails Mayer
The Concentration of Wealth Mayer
Rap Music and White Fears Mayer
Goodwill Towards US is Dwindling Mayer
The Gilded Age, the 1920's and the 1980's Compared Mayer
Into the 21st century Mayer
Post Cold War Military Contradictions: Virtual Tanks Mayer
Three Strikes Against the New Economy MayerAnita Hill (O'Malley)
Quiz The American People - Brief Edition (Nash)
or Sixth Edition (Nash)
Chapter 29: The Struggle for Social ReformThe American People - Brief Edition (Nash)
or Sixth Edition (Nash)
Chapter 30: The Revival of Conservatism
Library Bibliography from Biography of AmericaChapter 14: Brief Reading List in American HistoryOutline of American History
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H[Update in process] enry Demarest Lloyd, Click on The Lords of Industry
Jacob Riis classic about urban poverty in New York, "How the Other Half Lives,"Browse Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
For the Following go to The History Channel and enter the keywords in the Search box.
.November Warriors Part Four: The Modern Campaign Suggested Reading:
Atlantic Monthly article: In The Strawberry FieldsSelected Internet Resources
Timeline of American History at the National Museum of American History. Click on Virtual Exhibitions.
Douglass Archives of American Public Address archive of American oratory from Northwestern University.
Speeches arranged chronologically.Personal Accounts and Primary Source Materials from Miami University of Ohio.
[Update in process]A look at American History by examining the life and times of each President Start here.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Lyndon Baines Johnson Richard Milhous Nixon Gerald Rudolph Ford James Earl Carter, Jr. Ronald Wilson Reagan George Herbert Walker Bush William Jefferson Clinton George Walker Bush The following provide a brief biography and many links:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 (POTUS) Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969 (POTUS) Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974 (POTUS) Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 (POTUS) James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 (POTUS) Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989 (POTUS) George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 (POTUS) William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001 (POTUS) George Walker Bush (POTUS) There are extensive links for each program in the Biography of America series. Click on the Homepage then click on the program, and then on Webography.
From American Memory by the Library of Congress. Follow the links.
Postwar United States, 1945-1968Offline Resources
CD-ROM Time Almanac of the 20th Century (can often be found at discount)
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