Or my mouth is smaller than my eyes. Or something.
The canonical course on American economic history spends:
- one week on the Spanish conquest
- one week on Amerindians
- one week on colonial settlement
- one week on the American Revolution
- one week on Alexander Hamilton
- one week on agriculture in the Old Northwest
- one week on New England manufactures
- one week on slavery
- one week on the Civil War
- one week on the Gilded Age
- one week on Populism
- one week on Progressivism
- one week on immigration
- one week on the Roaring Twenties
- one week on the Great Crash and the Great Depression
- one week on the New Deal
And we have overshot the end of the semester by three weeks.
I have students who have never lived under any president not named "Clinton" or "Bush," students who graduated from elementary school in 1998.
So I am going to try to greatly compress the first half of the course so as to make space for post-WWII economic history: 1865 by week four!
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