final examination topics: MA, American history

“A New World”: Colonial America
“A New Nation”: Causes and Consequences of the War of Independence
“America’s Manifest Destiny”: The Significance of the Westward Movement
“One Divided Nation under God”: American Society Before and After the Civil War
“The Rebirth of the Nation”: The Reconstruction
The Fate of the Amerindians
“The Gilded Age”: Economy and Society at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
“A Nation of Immigrants”: The Role of Immigration in U.S. History
“The Loss of Innocence”: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries
The U.S. in World War I and in the Peace-making Process
The Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
“The Arsenal of Democracy”: The U.S. in World War II
The Bipolar World: The U.S. in the Cold War
Domestic Policy in Cold War U.S.
The U.S. and the Post-Cold War World

recommended readings

Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans: The Colonial Experience, Vol. I, New York: Random House, 1958.
Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans: The National Experience, Vol. II, New York: Vintage Books, 1965.
Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans: The Democratic Experience, Vol. III, New York: Vintage Books, 1974.
Brinkley, Alan, The Unfinished Nation. New York, etc.: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
Chafe, William H., The Unfinished Journey. America since World War II. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
Combs, Jerald A., The History of American Foreign Policy, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
Commager, Henry Steel, The American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.
Ferguson, Niall, Colossus. London: Penguin Books, 2005.
Frank, Tibor, and Tamás Magyarics, Handouts for U.S. History. 2nd ed. Budapest: Panem, 1999.
Gaddis, John Lewis, We Now Know. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
Kissinger, Henry A., Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
LaFeber, Walter, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2000. Boston, etc.: McGraw-Hill, 2002.