Lecture Outlines
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WARNING: If there is no date listed, then the outline is from the old (2001) edition of the course. This year's lectures will be very similar, but be warned that there will be some changes.
| DATE | LECTURE TOPIC(s) |
| Jan. 20 | Introduction: What History is Not |
| Prologue: The Last Crisis | |
| Patriarchy, Sovereignty, and the European-Indian Encounter, part 1 | |
| Patriarchy, Sovereignty, and the European-Indian Encounter, part 2 | |
| 17th-Century Origins of the North and South: | |
| The Origins of North American Slavery | |
| The Middle Colonies and a Middle Way | |
| Liberalism and Neglect: The 18th-Century Origins of U.S. Politics | |
| The Coming of the American Revolution | |
Unintended Consequences of
the RevolutionA
Roof Without Walls: Creating the United States
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| Conflicting Visions: The Early American Republic | |
| The Jeffersonian Experiment and Its Ironies | |
| The Age of Martin Van Buren: Party, Democracy, and Nationalism | |
| The Cotton Kingdom: The Expansion of Slavery and the Hardening of Southern Culture | |
| A Benevolent Empire? Northern Culture in the Age of the New Abolitionism (summary) | |
| The Decline and Fall of the Old Republic | |
| Nationality by Force of Arms: The Civil War |