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2008 - 2009 Theme

The Making of Modern America, 1820 - 1900: Patterns of Economic Development

Fall 2008 Book Discussions

How did economic development and the Industrial Revolution transform work and life in American during the 19th century?

Essays

The Industrial Revolution in the Connecticut River Valley

The Debit Economy of the 1830s (PDF)

What a Dollar Would Buy in 1838 (PDF)

19th-Century Wage and Price Figures (PDF)

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• Fall 2008
• The Making of Modern America, 1820 - 1900: Patterns of Economic Development
• Fall 2008
• The Making of Modern America, 1820 - 1900: Patterns of Economic Development
• Fall 2007
• The Origins of America: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Colonial World
• Spring 2007
• The American West and the Shaping of American Character
• Fall 2006
• "The Problem of the 20th Century is the Problem of the Color Line": Exploring the Civil Rights Movement
• Spring 2006
• "America's Unfinished Revolution:" Searching for Democracy and Equality through Reconstruction and the Great Migration
• Fall 2005
• Social Justice and Social Control: Reading the Progressive Era
• Spring 2005
• Crisis of the Union: The Civil War through Many Perspectives
• Fall 2004
• Change and Continuity in American Democracy: Early 19th Century Reform
• Spring 2004
• Development of Modern America: Immigration 1865-1920
• Fall 2003
• Colonial Settlement 1607-1763 and Expansion and Reform 1801-1861