Class #59

Omit: A Carpetbagger from Vermont

 

Class #57

Aftermath of the Nightmare

 

Omit: John Wilkes Booth and the Higher Law

 

Class #56

The Election of 1864 

 

Class #55

Clement Vallandigham - The Most Unpopular Man In The North

 

Class #54

The Battle For Freedom: Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation

 

Omit: Ballston Spa and the Draft Riots of 1863

 

Class #53

The Dead at Antietam  [Google Docs Version]

 

Class #52

Witness to The First Battle of Bull Run [Google Docs Version] 

 

Class #51

Girding for War  [Google Docs Version]

 

Class #50

Ballston Journal on Lincoln and Slavery [Google Docs Version]

 

Omit: The First Casualty in the Civil War.  [Google Docs Version]

 

Class #49
Political Climate of the 1850's [Google Docs Version]

 

 

Class #48

Clay's Compromise [Google Docs Version]

 

Omit: Solomon Northrup [Google Docs Version]

 

Class #47

The Wilmot Proviso [Google Docs Version]

 

Class #46

Historical Context of Manifest Destiny  [Google Docs Version]

 

 

Class #44

The Grimke Sisters and the Seneca Falls Convention

 

Omit: Darkness Visible - 1831 Year of Eclipse

 

Class #43

Impact of Second Great Awakening

 

Class #42

The Erie Canal and the birth of American religion 

 

 

Class #39

Omit The Legacy of Nat Turner

 

Omit:The Amistad Case 

 

 

Class #38

Alexis de Tocqueville's  Democracy in America

 

 

Class #37

Antebellum Migration Patterns - The March of Millions 

 

Omit: Immigrant Stories - Budweiser and Blue Jeans

 

Class #36

 

Andrew Jackson: The American Franchise

 

Andrew Jackson's Shifting Legacy

 

 

Class #33

A New Chapter in American Politics - the Election of 1824

 

The Election of 1824 - A Clash of Personalities

 

Class #32

The Brief Period 200 Years Ago, When American Politics was Full of Good Feelings

 

Omit: Ballston Spa's John Taylor - Speaker of the House

Omit: “The wolf by the ear”: Thomas Jefferson and the Missouri Crisis, 1819-21

 

Class #31

Nascent Nationalism and the American System 

 

Omit: Thank the Erie Canal for Spreading People, Ideas and Germs across America

 

Omit: The Irish Backbone of the Erie Canal

 

Omit: The Forgotten Conflict that Defined the US

 

Class #29

Judiciary Waterloo for Minimalist Government

 

Class #27

Omit: The Presidential Election of 1800: A Story of Crisis, Controversy, and Change

 

Class #24

Omit: A Review of David McCulloch's book John Adams

Omit: The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

 

Class #23

Alexander Hamilton, The Man Who Made America Prosperous; Alexander Hamilton.pdf

 

Class #22

The Antifederalists: The Other Founders of the American Constitutional Tradition? ; The Antifederalists.pdf 

 

 

Class #21

Omit: The Union Wasn’t Worth the Three-Fifths Compromise on Slavery

Omit: The three-fifths compromise: Rationalizing the irrational

 

 

Class #20

The Constitution that Failed   ;  The Constitution That Failed 

 

Omit: A Patriot's History of the United States - Shays Rebellion; Shays Rebellion.pdf

 

Class #18 

Consequences of the American Revolution

 

Class #16

No Taxation Without Representation 

 

Class #15

Evolving British Tax Policy

 

Class #11

Origins and Legacy of Pennsylvania Quakers

 

Class #9

Reading on The Puritans and Dissent

 

Class #8

The Origins of Slavery

 

 

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Matter of Influence

 

Clay's Compromise

 

The Underground Railroad

 

The Indomitable Grimké Sisters

 

The Book That Spooked the South

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/book-spooked-south-180968101/

 

David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829

http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/religion-and-reform/david-walkers-appeal-to-the-colored-citizens-of-the-world-1829/

 

David Walker's Appeal

 

The Legacy of the Stono Rebellion

 

Reliving American Slavery in 12 Years a Slave

 

Creating Life Within the Confines of Slavery: Comparing Northrup's Memoir Twelve Years a Slave and Genovese's The World the Slaves Made

 

The Great Disease Migration

 

Untrue Confessions By Tony Horwitz December 5, 1999

 

Erie Canal and the Birth of American Religion 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/nat-turner-was-far-from-alone.html

 

Frederick Douglass in Not Dead

 

 

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