US History II - American Pageant Reading Schedule

 

  

Text + Supplements:

• The American Pageant, 12th edition by David M. Kennedy, Lizbeth Cohen, Thomas A. Bailey (.PDF chapter files)
• American Pageant Workbook (top of the page)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Voices of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (.PDF)
• A History of the American People by Paul Johnson (.PDF)

 Other Resources:

• Teach with Movies
• American History Through the Eyes of Radio

1ST QUARTER

 

The Gilded Age

Chapter 23.1, Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Chapter 26.1, The Great West
Chapter 24, Industry Comes of Age
Chapter 25, America Moves to the City
Chapter 23.2, Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Chapter 26.2, Agricultural Revolution

 

2ND QUARTER

 

Imperialism

Chapter 27, The Path of Empire
Chapter 28, America on the World Stage
The Progressive Era
Chapter 29, Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
Chapter 30, Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
World War I
Chapter 31, The War to End War
The Roaring Twenties
Chapter 32, American Life in the Roaring Twenties

 

3RD QUARTER

 

The Great Depression

Chapter 33, The Politics of Boom and Bust
Chapter 34, The Great Depression and New Deal
World War II
Chapter 35, FDR and the Shadow of War
Chapter 36, America in World War II

 

4TH QUARTER

 

The Cold War

Chapter 37, The Cold War Begins
Chapter 38, The Eisenhower Era
Chapter 39, The Stormy Sixties
Chapter 40, The Stalemated Seventies