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 = final examination topics: MA, American history = 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.
  
-1. “A New World”: Colonial America 
-2. “A New Nation”: Causes and Consequences of the War of Independence 
-3. “America’s Manifest Destiny”: The Significance of the Westward Movement 
-4. “One Divided Nation under God”: American Society Before and After the Civil War 
-5. “The Rebirth of the Nation”: The Reconstruction 
-6. The Fate of the Amerindians 
-7. “The Gilded Age”: Economy and Society at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries 
-8. “A Nation of Immigrants”: The Role of Immigration in U.S. History 
-9. “The Loss of Innocence”: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries 
-10. The U.S. in World War I and in the Peace-making Process 
-11. The Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal 
-12. “The Arsenal of Democracy”: The U.S. in World War II 
-13. The Bipolar World: The U.S. in the Cold War 
-14. Domestic Policy in Cold War U.S. 
-15. 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. 
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