Lecture Pages in U.S. History for courses taught by Michael Ward
 

Please scroll down this page to go to a directory
of lecture sections related to American history


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Click here to go to a discussion about
European Expansion in the Americas


Click here to go to a discussion about
English Colonization in the Americas


Click here to go to an article on colonial New England by Michael Ward, as published in the Fall 1999 issue of the New England Journal of History


Click here to go to a discussion about the Characteristics of Puritan New England society and the Salem Witchcraft Craze


Click here to go to a discussion about the Late period of the British colonies and the Colonial Wars in North America


Click here to go to a discussion about
the Background for, and the Effects of, 
the European Enlightenment on the British North American Colonies


 Click here to go to a discussion about 
The Causes of the American Revolution


Click here to go to a discussion about the American Revolution, (1775-1783)


Click here to go to a discussion about 
the Impact of Colonization and the Revolution on Native Americans


Click here to go to a discussion about Consolidating the Revolution: Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789


Click here to go to a discussion about 
The Federalist Period, 1789-1800
and Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1815


Click here to go to a discussion about the 
Era of Nationalism (1815-1828) & Jacksonian Democracy (1829-1840)


Click here to go to: a discussion about 
African Slavery in the Atlantic World


Click here to go to a discussion about 
Ibrahima, the enslaved prince


Click here for a discussion about the 
Age of the Common Man, Territorial Expansion and War with Mexico, and the Second Party System


Click here for a discussion about the 
Controversies of the 1850s that led to the American Civil War


Click here for a discussion about 
“The Union Severed” – Civil War

Click here to go to a web site where you can gain an intimate and detailed understanding of the Civil War as it played out in the 
Shenandoah Valley


Click here to go to a discussion about Rconstruction and the Emergence of 
the New South


Click here to go to a discussion about
The Frontier Midwest, Far-West and the Expansion of Rural America


Click here to go to a discussion about
Big Business and Industry, Progressivism, Social Darwinism, Positivism, Populism, and Organized Labor


Click here to go to a discussion about 
American Empire: U.S. Expansion and Theodore Roosevelt


Click here to go to a discussion about 
Progressivism and World War I


Click here to go to a discussion about 
the magic of new technologies and flight


Click here to go to a discussion about 
the Post-World War I era, the 1920s, and events leading to the Great Depression


Click here to go to a discussion about 
the FDR New Deal 
and the opening of World War II


Click here to go to a discussion about
World War II and the roots of the Cold War

 

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