KC Johnson

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Schedule

Week 1: Introduction

• Constitution-Era Documents

Week 2: Washington

Burns and Dunn, George Washington

Week 3: Jefferson

Appleby, Jefferson (Isaac)

Supplementary: John Ferling, John Adams (George)

Week 4: J.Q. Adams

Traub, John Quincy Adams (Amanda)

Supplementary: HW Brands, Andrew Jackson, pp. 363-528 only (Nathaniel)

Week 5: Buchanan

Baker, James Buchanan (Patrick)

Supplementary: Walter Bornman, Polk (Amy)

Week 6: Lincoln

Donald, Lincoln (Corina)

Supplementary: David Stewart, Impeached (Angelica)

Week 7: Reconstruction

Simpson, Reconstruction Presidents (George)

Supplementary: Tony Senik, A Man of Iron (Isaac)

Week 8: Turn of Century

Rove, William McKinley (Christian)

Supplementary: Jean Yarborough, Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition (Amanda)

Week 9: Wilson

Cooper, Woodrow Wilson (Amy)

Supplementary: Martin Fausold, The Presidency of Herbert Hoover (Patrick)

Week 10: FDR

Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill (Angelica)

Supplementary: Greg Robinson, By Order of the President (Corina)

Week 11: LBJ

Dallek, Lyndon Johnson (Zhané)

Week 12: Nixon

Farrell, Nixon (Alina)

Week 13: Bush I

Naftali, George H.W. Bush (Nathaniel)

Supplementary: Lou Cannon, Reagan (Christian)

Week 14: Presidency in the Contemporary Era