Professor Jennifer Burns is a historian who gained her PhD from Berkeley in 2005. Her 2006 lectures for History 7b (US History from the Civil War to the Present) at Berkeley, where she taught from 2005-2007, have been made available in podcast form: see here to download them.
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Introductory Lecture
The Civil War and Its Aftermath; Emancipation
Reconstruction
The Conquest of the West
The Vietnam War
Feminism and Antifeminism
The Great Depression and New Deal
Economics of Industrialization
Concluding Lecture: 9/11 and Beyond
Gilded Age Politics
Meaning of Whiteness
The 'New South'
Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon
WWII: The War Economy
Progressivism
New Deal, Part 2
Workers and Unions
The Settling of the West
The Great War
Cold War: The Domestic Front
In the Shadow of the Bomb: 1950s Culture
Spanish American War
1960s Protest: From Reform to Revolution
Immigrant Culture
The Religious Right
The Roaring 20's and The Scopes Trial
Emergence of the Postwar Order
Victorian Women
WWII: Pacific Front
Social Thought in the Gilded Age
The Election of 1912
WWII: The Good War?
Conservatism Reborn - From Reagan to W. Bush II
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
Barry Goldwater and the Rise of the Right
Building a Movement: Civil Rights Part 1
The 1920's: The Jazz Age
Reconstruction Redux: Civil Rights Part 2
Barry Goldwater and the Rise o
Ayn Rand's Affinities and Animosities
Midterm Review Lecture
Reconstruction Redux: Civil Ri
Building a Movement: Civil Rig
Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom
Milton Friedman
The Civil War and It's Aftermath; Emancipation
November 26, 2009 featuring Jennifer Burns
Lecture 6: In the Shadow of the Bomb: Postwar Culture
The Spanish American War I
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