HISTORY 17B

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LECTURE 1    -    WHAT IS HISTORY?

LECTURE 2    -    POSTWAR IDEALS AND STRUGGLES

LECTURE 3    -    WINNERS AND LOSERS OUT WEST

LECTURE 4    -    PROGRESS AND CONFLICT IN THE NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDER

LECTURE 5    -    THE CONFLICT BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL AMERICA

LECTURE 6    -    PROGRESSIVISM AND THE REFORM IMPULSE IN AMERICA

LECTURE 7    -    EXPANSION AND IMPERIALISM:  THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN EMPIRE

LECTURE 8    -    THE ROARING TWENTIES

LECTURE 9    -    AMERICA IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION

LECTURE 10  -    AMERICA AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR

LECTURE 11  -    COLD WAR CONTAINMENT

LECTURE 12  -    A COLD WAR HOME FRONT

LECTURE 13  -    A DATE WITH THE FAMILY:  POSTWAR PROSPERITY IN AMERICA

LECTURE 14  -    THE ERA OF REFORM:  NEW FRONTIERS AND GREAT SOCIETIES

LECTURE 15   -    THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

LECTURE 16   -    THE TRAGEDY OF VIETNAM

LECTURE 17   -    COMING APART AT HOME:  AMERICA IN THE VIETNAM ERA

LECTURE 18   -    THE PARANOID STYLE OF AMERICAN CONSPIRACY HISTORY

LECTURE 19    -   THE AGE OF LIMITS AND DISILLUSIONMENT:  AMERICA IN THE SEVENTIES

LECTURE 20   -    THE REAGAN REVOLUTION

LECTURE 21   -    RACE AND ETHNICITY IN MODERN AMERICA

LECTURE 22   -    CLINTON AND THE CULTURE WARS