Lecture Outlines

This page has the links to the outlines of the lectures given in class.  Please observe that these are the outline or "bullet" points, as well as the graphics; in no way are these links the lectures themselves, nor are they what should be in your notebook after listening to the lectures in class.

Introduction: The Emergence of Modern America and the Industrial Revolutions, Sept. 23, 2004 Agrarian Protest Movements
Rise of Big Business Part 1, Sept. 28, 2004 Race Relations
Rise of Big Business Part 2, Oct. 5, 2004 The 1890s and the Emergence of Progressive Reform
Responses to Industrial Change Imperialism and Anti Imperialism
1877 Origins of Progressive Reform
Sylvis and the National Labor Union Political Capitalism and Progressive Reform
Powderly and the Knights of Labor Municipal Reform
Gompers and the American Federation of Labor Child Labor Reform
Partisan Politics in the Gilded AgeProhibition
Politics in the Gilded Age Part 2 Immigration