Module 7: The Emergence of Modern America

The Great Depression; Culture and the Arts

Langston Hughes,
W.E.B. DuBois

Module 6: Development of the Industrial United States

American Environmental History

Rachel Carson,
Cesar Chavez,
Dan Gibson,
Lois Gibbs

Module 6: Development of the Industrial United States

The Society of the Gilded Age; America and World Politics; The Great Migration

Andrew Carnegie,
Lewis Hines,
Jacob Riis,
Jane Adams

Module 5: Civil War and Reconstruction; Freeman’s Bureau; “Forty Acres and a Mule”

Reconstruction-era Legislation; Indian Removal: the Ghost Dance

Hiram Revels,
Blanche K. Bruce,
Andrew Johnson,
John Roy Lynch

Module 4: Expansion and Reform

Henry Thoreau,
George Ripley,
Bronson Alcott,
John Humphrey Noyes,
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Field Trip to Salem Massachusetts
Peabody Essex Museum
Derby House and the East Indies Trade