Lecture 19 of 26 · America at 250: A History
19: Money, Power, and Progressivism
America at 250
Lectures
David Blight, Joanne Freeman and Beverly Gage
America at 250 · 26 lectures
A History · DeVane Lectures, Yale
26 lectures
1: The Road to 250
2: Revolutionary (and Not So Revolutionary) Beginnings
3: Declaring Independence
4: What Kind of Union?
5: Framing a Nation: The Constitution
6: Republican Precedents & Presidents: The Placement of Power
7: What Kind of Nation? Democracy, Hamilton, Jefferson, & More
8: Jacksonian “Democracy”
9: Whose America? Protest and Reform
10: The Mexican War and its Aftermath: Compromise or Armistice
11: Road to Disunion: Politics, Dred Scott and the 1850s Crisis
12: Two Constitutions, Secession and War, 1860-1862
13: Union Victory, Confederate Defeat, and Emancipation
14: Reconstruction: Andrew Johnson vs. the Radical Republicans
15: The Defeat of Reconstruction, 1870-1877 & Beyond
16: The Gilded Age and the Aftermath of Reconstruction
17: A Violent Reunion
18: Melting Pot or Guarded Gate19: Money, Power, and Progressivism
20: A New Deal for America
21: A New Deal for the World
22: Anticommunism and the American Way
23: Race, Rights, and Resistance
24: Reagan’s America
25: Making Sense of the Millennium
26: Meanings on the Eve of 2026