Topics in American History Ron Paul Curriculum Instructor: Gary North, Ph.D. Week 1 Mapping the Past Los Lunas Stone Bat Creek Stone West Virginia Cave Inscription Week 2 Barry Fell Barry Fell s America BC (1976) Barry Fell s Saga America (1980) Barry Fell s Bronze Age America (1982) Revisionist History 17 th century Week 3 American Nations The Collapse of Indigenous Cultures Tidewater Culture Maryland s Religious Toleration Applying Historical Criteria Week 4 New England, Part 1: Plymouth Colony (1) New England, Part 2: Plymouth Colony (2) New England, Part 3: Plymouth Colony (3) New England, Part 4: Plymouth Colony (4) New England, Part 5: Plymouth Colony (5) 1
Week 5 New England, Part 6: Massachusetts Bay Colony (1) New England, Part 7: Massachusetts Bay Colony (2) New England, Part 8: Massachusetts Bay Colony (3) New England, Part 9: Massachusetts Bay Colony (4) New England, Part 10: Massachusetts Bay Colony (5) Week 6 New England, Part 11: Connecticut New England, Part 12: Rhode Island New England, Part 13: King Philip s War New England, Part 14: Navigation Acts New England, Part 15: of Lessons 21 29 Week 7 New Amsterdam Pennsylvania Dominion of New England Glorious Revolution 18 th century Week 8 The Carolinas From Indentured Servitude to Slavery Zenger Trial First Great Awakening Week 9 Colonial Money Rival Empires Seven Years War 2
Parliamentary Taxation Liberty! (1) Week 10 Freemasonry Boston Tea Party Coordinating Resistance/Liberty! (2a) Continental Congresses/Liberty! (2b) Liberty! (3) Week 11 Declaration of Independence (1) Declaration of Independence (2) Militias and Loyalists Finances/Valley Forge Liberty! (4) Week 12 Major Battles Articles of Confederation (1) Articles of Confederation (2) The Confederation/Liberty! (5a) Liberty! (5b) Week 13 Shays Rebellion Constitution vs. Articles Constitution (1) Constitution (2) Week 14 National Debt 3
First Bank of the U.S. Whiskey Rebellion Alien and Sedition Acts Liberty! (6) 19 th century Week 15 The economy of 1800 Jefferson and Madison Judicial Second Great Awakening (1) Week 16 Monroe and Adams Webster, Clay, and Calhoun (1) Second Bank/panic of 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Week 17 Jackson vs. South Carolina Jackson vs. the Bank Texas Independence (1835/36) Second Great Awakening (2) Week 18 Politicians, 1837 48 Trail of Tears Manifest Destiny Mexican War (1846 48) 4
Week 19 Railroads and Telegraph Compromise of 1850 Bleeding Kansas John Brown s Raid Week 20 Election of 1860/Secession Causes of the War Financing the War: North and South Civil Liberties: North and South Week 21 Johnson through McKinley Election of 1896 Spanish-American War Carnegie and Rockefeller 20 th century Week 22 Eugenics Movement Social Darwinism and Social Gospel Progressive Movement Modern Advertising Week 23 Roosevelt and Taft Election of 1912 Federal Reserve System 5
16 th and 17 th Amendments Week 24 Henry Ford World War I Tax-exempt Foundations/CFR 18 th and 19 th Amendments Week 25 Harding and Coolidge Roaring Twenties Scopes Trial (1925) Federal Reserve Policy Week 26 Hoover (1): Progressive Hoover (2): Economics FDR (1): Wall Street Banker FDR (2): FDR: Rhetoric Week 27 FDR (3): FDR vs. Gold FDR (4): New Deal FDR (5): Foreign Policy (1) FDR (6): Foreign Policy (2) Week 28 FDR (7): World War II (Overseas) 6
FDR (8): World War II (Home Front) Truman Conservative Movement Week 29 Eisenhower Civil Rights Movement (1) Television Elvis Week 30 Kennedy Johnson Civil Rights Movement (2) New Age/Counter-Culture Vatican II in America Week 31 Decline of Mainline Protestantism Nixon Nixon Shock (1971) Watergate (1973 74) Ford Week 32 Carter Reagan George H. W. Bush Fall of the Soviet Union 7
Week 33 Clinton Internet/Web Matt Drudge Election of 2000 21 st century Week 34 George W. Bush 9/11 Patriot Act Afghanistan and Iraq Week 35 Panic of 2008 Alinsky Obama Snowden (2013) Election of 2016 Week 36 : Pre-Columbus to 1763 : 1764 to 1897 : 1898 to Present High School Report Card ROI: Return on Investment Beating the Collegiate System 8