8. Ella Baker Inspires the Student Movement (October 18, 2007)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
9. Bob Moses: Mississippi Organizer (October 23, 2008)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
7. Awele Makeba on the Women Who Made the Montgomery Movement (October 16, 2007)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
6. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Social Gospel (October 11, 2007)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
5. Bayard Rustin, the Radical Outsider (October 9, 2007)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
4. Paul Robeson: From Star to Outcast (October 4, 2007)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
3. Shirley Graham: Transformation of an Artist/Intellectual (October 2, 2007)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
2. Du Bois and the Great Depression (September 27, 2007)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
1. Introduction/W. E. B. Du Bois – Biography of a Race (September 25, 2007)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
African-American History: The Modern Freedom Struggle Course Syllabus
Course - Group - African-American History: The Modern Freedom Struggle Course Syllabus - Stanford > African-American History: The Modern Freedom Struggle > African-American History: The Modern Freedom Struggle Course Syllabus
18. The Mirror of Representation (November 12, 2008)
History, American history, Revolutionary War, military history, American victory, battlefield strategy. New England, revolutionary politics, 1777 campaign, southern campaign, Philadelphia, George Washington, John Burgyone, Pennsylvania, Brandywine, Beddin
4. Washington's Frontier and Hamilton's Marketplace: Visions of Post-Revolutionary Greatness (May 22
History, American history, government, American Revolution, Revolutionary War, founders, George Washington, colonial America, political culture, Alexander Hamilton, Native Americans, northern frontier, Congress, political economy, Henry Knox, westward exp
3. When Abigail and John Met George and Charlotte, or, The American Rebellion Viewed from London (Ma
History, politics, American history, American Revolution, founders, Great Britain, Europe, John Adam, Abigail Adams, colonies, King George III, constitutional monarchy, Tea Act, Boston Port Act, taxation, tea, India, Stamp Act, Townshend duties, East Indi
2. How Radical was the Revolution and How Reactionary was the Constitution? (April 21, 2009)
History, American history, American revolution, radicalism, politics, 1776, academic writing, radicalism, race, founders, Declaration of Independence, constitution, Thomas Jefferson, Bill of Rights, constitutional conventions, Abraham Lincoln, republic, d
06 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
In this lecture, Professor Blight discusses some of the conflicts, controversies, and compromises that led up to the Civil War. After analyzing Frederick Douglass's 1852 Fourth of July speech and the inherent conflict between American slavery and American freedom, the lecture moves into a lengthy discussion of the war with Mexico in the 1840s. Professor Blight explains why northerners and southerners made "such a fuss" over the issue of slavery's expansion into the western territories. The lectu
02 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
Professor Blight offers a number of approaches to the question of southern distinctiveness. The lecture offers a survey of that manner in which commentators--American, foreign, northern, and southern--have sought to make sense of the nature of southern society and southern history. The lecture analyzes the society and culture of the Old South, with special emphasis on the aspects of southern life that made the region distinct from the antebellum North. The most lasting and influential sources of
25 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.)
Course - Group - 25 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.) - Yale University > The American Novel Since 1945 - Audio > 25 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.)
24 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Course - Group - 24 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated - Yale University > The American Novel Since 1945 - Audio > 24 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
23 - Edward P. Jones, The Known World (cont.)
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20 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.)
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