American Heritage: From Colonial Settlement to the Current Day
by Professor Larry P. Arnn Other, Professor Bradley J. Birzer Other, Professor Thomas H. Conner Other, Professor Matthew Gaetano Other, Professor Paul Moreno Other, Professor Paul A. Rahe Other
On July 4, 1776, America—acting under the authority of “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”—declared its independence from Great Britain. The new nation, founded on the principle that “all Men are created equal,” eventually grew to become the most prosperous and powerful nation in the world. This course will consider the history of America from the colonial era to the present, including major challenges to the Founders’ principles. This course will consider the history of America from the colonial era to the present, including major challenges to the Founders’ principles.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Video
- Print Status
- In Print
- Lectures
- 28
- Suggested Grades
- 9th - 12th
- Publisher
- Hillsdale College
- URL
- https://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/free-online...
Lectures
- 1 The Study of American History
- 1a Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
- 1b Alexander Hamilton, Federalist ; Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Henry Lee, May 8, 1825; Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Roger Weightman, June 24, 1826; Abraham Lincoln, “Fragment on the Constitution and Union,” January 1861
- 2 Colonial Settlement + Quiz
- 3 Enlightenment and the Great Awakening; Quiz
- 3a George Whitefield, "The Kingdom of God"
- 3b Free Grace: John Wesley Denounces the Doctrine of Predestination (1740)
- 4 The American Founding + Quiz
- 4a Edmund Burke's Plea for Conciliation with the American Colonies, March 22,1775
- 4b Brutus, “Essay I”
- 4c Publius, Federalist 10; Publius, Federalist 51
- 5 Jacksonian Democracy + Quiz; Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
- 5a Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Earth’s Holocaust,” 1844
- 6 The Crisis of the Union + Quiz
- 6a Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
- 6b The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
- 7 Western Expansion + Quiz
- 7a John Lewis O'Sullivan, “The Great Nation of Futurity”; William Barret Travis, Letter from the Alamo
- 8 Progressivism + Quiz
- 8a Theodore Roosevelt, “The New Nationalism”
- 8b Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom”; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
- 9 America as World Power + Quiz
- 9a George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
- 9b Charles Lindbergh, “America First,” 1941; Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine, 1947
- 10 Post-1960s America + Quiz
- 10a Winston Churchill, “What Good’s a Constitution?”
- 10b Ronald Reagan, “A Time for Choosing”
- 11 Final Quiz
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