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History 131

by David Hoogland Noon

Survey of the social, political, economic and cultural transformations that took place in colonial North America and the US from the 15th through the 19th centuries.

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Episodes

  1. Civil War I

    "Crimsoned in human gore.

  2. Crisis of the 1850s (II)

    Everyone goes insane.

  3. Abolitionism/Manifest Destiny

    "A compact with death, an agreement with hell."

  4. Reform Movements (1830s)

    History and toddlers don't mix well. This is another short lecture, interrupted periodically by the strange antics of my daughter. Best of luck making sense out of this one...

  5. Jacksonian Democracy (short lecture)

    This one's only about 50 minutes long and gets cut off at the end because my battery died. You didn't miss much.

  6. The Market Revolution

    It's more interesting than it sounds.

  7. War of 1812

    A weird little war.

  8. Jefferson's Era

    An "Empire for Liberty," sort of.

  9. Federalist Era II

    Foreign policy of the 1790s; Alien and Sedition Acts; the fall of the Federalist Party.

  10. Federalist Era I

    Back again after a long layoff. Lecture deals with the domestic politics of the Federalist Era during the 1790s.

  11. 1780s

    This lecture deals with the Articles of Confederation period.

  12. Revolution II

    The war continues.

  13. Revolution I

    Origins of the revolutionary war.

  14. Empires in Conflict

    This lecture covers some of the major geopolitical events for the British colonies in the 18th century, including the wars of the 1730s-1760s and the colonists' growing discontent with Great Britain.

  15. Jamestown and Virginia

    You wouldn't have wanted to live there.

  16. Colonial Knowledge/French and English Ventures

    Lecture covers the sources of European "knowledge" about the Western hemispheric peoples; then addresses the particular features of French and English forays into North America.

  17. New Spain

    The origins of European colonialism. Examination of the motives and processes that brought Spain into the western hemisphere. Plus, I waste ten minutes at the start of class discussing the particularities of National Waffle Week and National Biscuit Month.

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Survey of the social, political, economic and cultural transformations that took place in colonial North America and the US from the 15th through the 19th centuries.

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David Hoogland Noon

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