Riku Sayuj's Reviews > Turning Points in American History

Second experiment with a great courses lecture. Used the guidebook and transcript as much as the lecture, hence adding here. Prof. Edward is a good storyteller and covers all these turning points in nice bite-sized lectures, without compromising on context or detail. Good lecture to pick inf you want a refresher.

List of turning points (in case anyone is curious):

1. 1617: The Great Epidemic
2. 1619: Land of the Free? Slavery Begins
3. 1636: Freedom of Worship - Roger Williams
4. 1654: Yearning to Breathe Free - Immigration
5. 1676: Near Disaster - King Philip's War
6. 1735: Freedom of the Press - The Zenger Trial
7. 1773: Liberty! The Boston Tea Party
8. 1776: We're Outta Here - Declaring Independence
9. 1777: Game Changer - The Battle of Saratoga
10. 1786: Toward a Constitution - Shay's Rebellion
11. 1789: Samuel Slater - The Industrial Revolution
12. 1800: Peaceful Transfer - The Election of 1800
13. 1803: Supreme Authority - Marbury v. Madison
14. 1807: On the Move - Transportation Revolution
15. 1816: One Man, One Vote - Expanding Suffrage
16. 1821: Reborn - The Second Great Awakening
17. 1831: The Righteous Crusade - Abolition
18: 1844: What's New? The Communication Revolution
19. 1845: The Ultimate American Game - Baseball
20. 1846: Land and Gold - The Mexican War
21. 1862: Go West, Young Man! The Homestead Act
22. 1862: Terrible Reality - The Battle of Antietam
23. 1868: Equal Protection - The 14th Amendment
24. 1872: Open Spaces - The National Parks
25. 1873: Bloody Sunday - Ending Reconstruction
26. 1876: How the West Was Won and Lost - Custer
27. 1886: The First Red Scare - Haymarket
28. 1898: The End of Isolation - War with Spain
29. 1900: The Promised Land - The Great Migration
30. 1901: That Damned Cowboy! Theodore Roosevelt
31. 1903: The Second Transportation Revolution
32. 1909: The Scourge of the South - Hookworm
33. 1917: Votes for Women! The 19th Amendment
34. 1919: Strikes and Bombs - The Year of Upheaval
35. 1933: Bold Experimentation - The New Deal
36. 1939: Einstein's Letter - The Manhattan Project
37. 1942: Surprise - The Battle of Midway
38. 1945: The Land of Lawns - Suburbanization
39. 1948: The Berlin Airlift and the Cold War
40. 1950: Tuning In - The Birth of Television
41. 1960: The Power to Choose - The Pill
42. 1963: Showdown in Birmingham - Civil Rights
43. 1968: Losing Vietnam - The Tet Offensive
44. 1969: Disaster - The Birth of Environmentalism
45. 1974: An Age of Crisis - Watergate
46. 1975: The Digital Age - The Personal Computer
47. 1989: Collapse - The End of the Cold War
48. 2001: The Age of Terror - The 9/11 Attacks

Each of these lectures should ideally be a starting point to explore more about these pivotal events. Don't leave it at the lectures...