HIST 4490 – Cable, Satellite, Videodrome

3 – The Challenge of New Media

HIST 4490 – Media and the Origins of TV

2 – Media and the Origins of TV

HIST 4490 – The Nature of Television

1 – The Nature of Television

HIST 2110 – Rendezvous with Destiny

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin—just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain.  Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it’s a simple answer after all…

- Ronald Reagan, 1964

HIST 2110 – Final slides for the semester

23 – The Washington Consensus

24 – America in Globalization and War (short version)

24 – America in Globalization and War (long version)

HIST 2110 – Final Exam Study Guide

The Cold War

Containment

Levittown

McCarthyism

Sputnik

Cuban Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)

“Daisy” ad

The Civil Rights Movement

Brown v. Board of Education (1955)

Betty Friedan

The Voting Rights Act (1965)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Stokely Carmichael

Stonewall Riot (1969)

The Rise of the New Right

The Vietnam War

Watergate

Jimmy Carter

Iran Hostage Crisis

Anita Bryant

Ronald Reagan

The War on Drugs

PATCO strike

After the Cold War

Mikhail Gorbachev

The Washington Consensus

Bill Clinton

Deindustrialization

The “New Economy”

Welfare reform (1996)

America in Globalization and War

2000 Presidential election

The Project for a New American Century

Osama Bin Laden

The Iraq War (2003)

“Weapons of mass destruction”

Hurricane Katrina

Global Financial Crisis (2008)

Barack Obama

Snooki

HIST 2110 – Final Exam Date and Time

The final exam for our course will be held on April 24, from 10:45 to 1:15 in our regular meeting place, GCB 531.