Knowing History & Knowing Who We Are by David McCullough

Unit 1: Colonization

• The Encounter
• Good Guy, Dirty Word; Spanish Empire, Colonization or Exploitation; Mayflower Compact
• Treaty of Tordesillas: the 1494 Decision Still Influencing Today's World by Stephen R. Brown
• Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress by Howard Zinn
• Report of Joliet and Marquette
• Dutch and Swedish Culture in Colonial America by RW Young
• Rethinking Jamestown by Jeffrey L. Sheler

Unit 2: Revolutions

• Enlightenment Thinkers
• Coming Battle for NY, Remember the Ladies, Six Types of Revolutions, Common Sense
• Was the American Revolution really a Revolution?

Unit 3: Constitutions

• First American Constitutions (Lutz) and The Constitutional Convention (Solberg)
• Constitution Debates
• Articles of Confederation
• The Constitution

Unit 4: The Early Republic

• Philosophies of Hamilton and Jefferson
• Charles Beard
• Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
• Connecting the President and the People by Christopher Young
• Thomas Jefferson's Federalism by Kevin Gutzman

Unit 5: The Age of Jackson

• PBS Documentary: Andrew Jackson

Unit 7: Antebellum America

• Calhoun's Response to Clay

Unit 8: The Civil War

• The Gettysburg Address
• The New South

Unit 9: The Gilded Age

• Frederick Jackson Turner Bio
• Cross of Gold Speech
• Omaha Platform
• The Business of Government
• Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth & William G. Sumner on Social Darwinism
• Henry George, Progress and Poverty
• Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
• Tweed & Nast
• Women's Rights Movement 1848-1920

Unit 10: Imperialism/Progressives

• Monroe Doctrine
• Brief Breakdown of the Monroe Doctrine

• Carrie Chapman Catt, Address to Congress on Womens' Suffrage
• Wilson's, A World Safe for Democracy
• The War That Changed Everything

• Anti-suffragettes
• JB Sanford on Suffrage
• Political Cartoons - Anti-suffrage sentiments
• Susan B Anthony Trial - Her Objections

Unit 11: The 20s

• Vanzetti's Last Statement
• The New Negro, Alain Locke

Unit 12:

• Ken Burns: The War - Watch 19:00 - 1:00.45
• Jimmy Cagney: WWII Buy Bonds
• Rationing and Bonds: WWII
• The Atomic Bombs Reconsidered by Barton Bernstein

Unit 13:

• Many Rivers to Cross: Episode 5
• Many Rivers to Cross: Episode 6