HISTORY 17A
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LECTURE 1 - INTRODUCTION: TWO WORLDS
LECTURE 2 - SPANISH CONQUEST AND THE MYTH OF COLUMBUS
LECTURE 3 - THE ENGLISH COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA
LECTURE 4 - THE ORIGINS OF SLAVERY IN THE COLONIAL SOUTH
LECTURE 5 - THE NORTHERN COLONIES: NEW ENGLAND AND THE MIDDLE COLONIES
LECTURE 6 - "ALL OF US AMERICANS": CULTURE AND POLITICS IN COLONIAL AMERICA
(updated)
LECTURE 7 - TOWARDS AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
(updated)
LECTURE 8 - THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
LECTURE 9 - DEFINING A "REPUBLICAN" SOCIETY
LECTURE 10 - "A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT": THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
LECTURE 11 - ESTABLISHING A "REPUBLICAN" SOCIETY
LECTURE 12 - THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLIC
LECTURE 13 - THE MARKET REVOLUTION
LECTURE 14 - INDIAN REMOVAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY
LECTURE 15 - SOCIAL TENSIONS IN AMERICA AND THE ROOTS OF JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
LECTURE 16 - THE AGE OF JACKSON
LECTURE 17 - THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION: SLAVERY IN AMERICA
LECTURE 18 - MANIFEST DESTINY AND WESTERN EXPANSION
LECTURE 19 - RACIAL OPPRESSION IN CALIFORNIA
LECTURE 20 - THE COMING CRISIS, 1820-1860
LECTURE 21 - THE END OF COMPROMISE: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR
LECTURE 22 - A CIVIL WAR OR A REVOLUTION?
