1. Welcome to the Course
2. History 2020 Syllabus
3. Why Study History
4. Problems in Peacemaking
5. Radical Reconstruction
6. Abandonment of Reconstruction
7. Reconstruction Fades Away
8. The Gilded Age
9. The Old South
10. The New South
11. Tenants and Sharecroppers
12. Southern Industrialization - Part 1
13. Southern Industrialization - Part 2
14. The New West - Part 1
15. The New West - Part 2
16. The New West - Part 3
17. Habits of Industry - Part 1
18. Habits of Industry - Part 2
19. Urban Development - Part 1
20. Urban Development - Part 2
21. The Rise of Organized Labor
22. The Haymarket Riot
23. The American Federation of Labor - Part 1
24. The American Federation of Labor - Part 2
25. The Populist Movement - Part 1
26. The Populist Movement - Part 2
27. The White City
28. The Imperialist Process
29. U.S. Imperialism - Part 1
30. U.S. Imperialism - Part 2
31. The Spanish-American War - Part 1
32. The Spanish-American War - Part 2
33. The Spanish-American War - Part 3
34. Jim Crow - Part 1
35. Jim Crow - Part 2
36. Jim Crow - Part 3
37. Progressivism
38. Roosevelt Rising
39. Teddy Roosevelt and Conservation
40. The Square Deal
41. Troubled Succession: Taft
42. Roosevelt and the "Bull Moose" Party
43. The Federal Reserve
44. Americans Abroad - Philippines through WWI
45. World War I - Abroad/Trench Warfare
46. America Moves Toward War
47. Coordinating Total War
48. Impact of The Great War on Labor
49. The Great War and Free Speech
50. Versailles: The Peace
51. Harding and Coolidge - Part 1
52. Harding and Coolidge - Part 2
53. The Jazz Age and the Economy - Part 1
54. The Jazz Age and the Economy - Part 2
55. The Jazz Age and Culture - Part 1
56. The Jazz Age and Culture - Part 2
57. Conflicts of Culture in the Jazz Age
58. Depression
59. Hoover vs. F.D.R.
60. The New Deal - Part 1
61. The New Deal - Part 2
62. The New Deal - Part 3
63. F.D.R.'s Critics - Part 1
64. F.D.R.'s Critics - Part 2
65. The Second New Deal
66. The New Deal in Disarray
67. Neutrality and War
68. V Was for Victory
69. Origins of the Cold War
70. Potsdam
71. The Truman Doctrine
72. The Berlin Airlift
73. Korean War
74. Affluent America: Post-War to Mid-50's
75. Eisenhower
76. The U.S. Missile Gap
77. Khruschev and Eisenhower
78. The Suez Crisis
79. The Bay of Pigs
80. The Cuban Missile Crisis
81. Surviving in an Affluent Society
82. NAACP Challenges Jim Crow
83. Brown v. Board of Education
84. Massive Resistance
85. Battle for Equality
86. The Changing Civil Rights Movement
87. Vietnam
88. Great Society
89. Introduction to the Election of 1968
90. Year 1968
91. The Rise of the New Right
92. Election Dynamics
93. Nixon
94. Introducing the 1970's
95. Nixon's Foreign Policy - Part 1
96. Nixon's Foreign Policy - Part 2
97. Stagflation in the Economy
98. Cultural Tensions of the 1970s - Part 1
99. Cultural Tensions of the 1970s - Part 2
100. Cultural Tensions of the 1970s - Part 3
101. Cultural Tensions of the 1970s - Part 4
102. Nixon's Federal Policy
103. Watergate
104. Ford and Carter
105. Trials of Jimmy Carter
106. Reagan Revolution
107. The End of the Cold War - Part 1
108. The End of the Cold War - Part 2
109. The End of the Cold War - Part 3
110. The End of the Cold War - Part 4
111. The End of the Cold War - Part 5
112. The Clinton Years - Part 1
113. The Clinton Years - Part 2
114. The Clinton Years - Part 3
115. The Clinton Years - Part 4
116. The 21st Century

Trace the historical development of our modern national institutions and social and economic structures. Learn how enormous economic and social changes in the late 19th century from industrialization and urbanization led to massive upheaval in American society and laid the foundations for modern America.

This free, online college class will familiarize students with the historical development of the United States from Reconstruction to the present (or thereabout). We will examine social, political, and economic change in the Americas in order to understand better the emergence of the United States as a world power and contemporary issues confronting the United States. The course has three interrelated goals:
to acquaint the student with the main events and themes of the history of the United States from the 1877 to the present
to cultivate analytical thought and develop dialogue among students
to build the skills necessary for clear written communication about the historical development of our modern national institutions and social and economic structures


These videos are a part of East Tennessee State University's OpenBUCS free online courses. For more information, visit http://www.etsu.edu/openbucs