US History

obligatory courses

Classroom

The course discusses the history of the US from the colonial period to the early 21st century, focusing on the most important social and political changes, and the most significant conflicts in the nation's history.

The course discusses the history of the US from the colonial period to the early 21st century. It presents the following topics:

1) The beginnings: Native Americans, the Colonial period, and the road to revolution.

2) The American Revolution, setting up the new nation.

3) The Federalist and Jeffersonian periods. The first party system, the Quasi War and the Louisiana Purchase.

4) The War of 1812, the Era df Good Feelings, the second party system.

5) The Jacksonian Era; the beginnings of the third party system, Manifest Destiny and travels west.

6) The Civil War.

7) The Reconstruction and the Gilded Age.

8) The Progressive Period and World War I.

9) The interwar period: Women's Suffrage, the Great Depression and the New Deal.

10) World War II; The Korean War; The Beginnings of the Cold War.

11) The 1950s; the Civil Rights Movement.

12) Counterculture in the 1960s; the Vietnam War; The Great Society program.

13) The Crises of the 1970s and the beginning of the Neoliberal Era.

14) The US in the 1990s: The first Iraqi War, Clinton's presidency, 9/11.

15) The War on Terror; the Great Recession; the rise of populism.

Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans.

Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Colonial Experience

Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The National Experience

Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Democratic Experience

Breen, TH. The Marketplace of the Revolution.

Foner, Eric. The Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.

Kyvig, David. Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940.

Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974.

Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis.

Sellers, Charles Grier. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846

Slaughter, Thomas P. Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution.

Remini, RV. The Jacksonian Era.

K_W09 The student has the advanced knowledge and understanding of events of US history, and important aspects and features of culture, along with their impact on US culture.

K_W12 The students have the knowledge and understanding of the significance of multiculturality in building the identity of the individual and the society.

K_U03 The students can recognise, analyse, and interpret various types of English texts; can anchor them in the general historic-cultural context; can conduct their analysis with specialist terminology and adequate methods.

K_U12 The students can cooperate in a team work, including the multicultural environment.

K_K05 The student is ready to show respect and care for preserving cultural heritage.

Written exam.

There are 3 absences allowed in the term.