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🦅 American History

From Colonial Foundations to the Modern Era

🏛️ Colonial & Revolutionary Era

🪶 The quill is still scratching... lectures coming soon!
📜 Still deciphering the colonial manuscripts...
🗺️ Surveying the continental frontier... check back soon!
🫖 Brewing up some revolutionary content...
🔔 Let freedom ring... as soon as these lectures are done!
⚓ Navigating the early republic... stay tuned!

🌾 Antebellum America

🏭 The market revolution awaits... coming soon!
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The Old South
Slavery's Central Role in Shaping Global Capitalism
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Slave Religion in the Antebellum South
Religion as a system of control and a source of spiritual resistance
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Democratization of Culture
Print, Literacy, and the New Public
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Faith in Action
The Second Great Awakening and the Remaking of American Society
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Staging America and Cultural Development
Arts, Entertainment, and Cultural Expression in Early America
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Post-War of 1812 Political Events
The Era of Good Feelings and its aftermath
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Social History in Jacksonian America
Democracy, class, and the common man
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Ethnic Cleansing in American History
Indian Removal and its lasting consequences
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Civil Society and the Moral Republic
Antebellum Reform and the Art of Association
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Moral Laboratories
Prisons, Asylums, and Schools — Reformers as Architects of the Human Soul
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The Temperance Movement
Moral Reform, Women's Activism, and the Politics of Alcohol
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Children's Rights Movement
From the Moral Family to Civil Society
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01
Manifest Destiny and Whig Opposition
How the United States Transformed from a Young Republic to a Continental Power
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Manifest Destiny as Discourse
How Manifest Destiny functioned as discourse to naturalize American expansion as divine and inevitable.
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Picturing Manifest Destiny
Art, Photography, and the Myth of the Vanishing Indian, 1840–1910
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Uncle Tom's Cabin — Study Buddy Edition
Self-guided reading deck with pop-ups, definitions, and quick checks
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⚔️ Civil War & Reconstruction

01
Chapter 14 Presentation
Political conflict and moral crisis in the 1850s — Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott, and the coming war
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Gothic Science
Phrenology, Mesmerism, and Monster Shows in Antebellum America
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OpenStax Civil War Presentation
Comprehensive visual overview of the Civil War from OpenStax U.S. History
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The Civil War:
Why the Union Won and What the War Did to America
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The Civil War: The 2nd American Revolution
Overview of the war's causes, course, and consequences
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Through the Lens of War
Civil War Photography and the Making of Modern Memory
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Lost Cause Historiography
How postwar memory recast the war and why it still shapes public memory
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🕊️ Emancipation lectures in progress...
🔨 Reconstructing these lectures as we speak...

🏭 Gilded Age & Progressive Era

🤠 Heading west to round up these lectures...
💰 Investing in lecture development... returns expected soon!
🌆 Urban lectures under construction...
📢 Reforming these lectures... progressively!
🚢 Setting sail on imperial waters... stay tuned!
🎖️ Over there... developing lectures over here!

🗽 Modern America

🎷 These lectures are the bee's knees... coming soon!
📉 Lecture market crashed... recovery underway!
✈️ Mobilizing lecture forces... D-Day approaching!
☢️ Containing lecture development... stand by!
📺 Tuning in these lectures... please adjust your antenna!
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