H271 Spring 2012 Class Schedule

Read the documents first, then the "additional reading"--then jot down a few points or questions about the assigned era. After you have read the documents and book excerts, which you will find on Moodle, then read the text chapter/s last. Use the text to understand the historical context for the documents and other assigned reading.

Week
Topic/ Work Due
Class Readings (Assigned Text and Moodle Readings)

#1

1-21

Introduction to Class

Reconstruction

Class

Weekly Reading

 

 

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Reading

Doc #1: "An address to the Loyal Citizens and Congress of the United States of America adopted by a convention of Negroes held in Alexandria, Virginia, from August 2 to 5, 1865," in Documents 1851-1871, From Revolution to Reconstruction (Linked on Moodle) Web link here: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1851-1875/slavery/addres

Additional Reading:

Taylor Branch, Intro to Parting the Waters, pp. 1-26 (Moodle)

Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic, pp. 1-88 (Moodle)

Text: Chapter 15 on Reconstruction

#2

1-28

The West

Class

Weekly Reading

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Reading

Doc #2: Smithsonian Lakota Winter Count Exhibit at http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html (Moodle Link)

Additional Reading: Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, pp. 1-58 (Moodle)

Text: Chapter 16 on The West

#3

2-4

Industrialization & Urbanization

 

Class (11-12:30)

Weekly Reading &

TA Meetings (12:45-1:45)

 

 

 

 

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Reading

Doc #3: "Horatio Alger, Who Shall Win, A Story of School Life," Golden days for boys and girls. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 6, 1880) Published: Philadelphia : James Elverson, 1880. Found at: Northern Illinois Library (online)/ Northern Illinois University Libraries DeKalb IL, 60115-2868 (815) 753-1995 http://www.ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/alger/DigRepos/whoshallwin.cfm--you can also google up "Alger Who Shall Win"--also, see the Horatio Alger Bio at Northern Illinois University, their Alger Collection, http://www.ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/alger/index.cfm (linked on Moodle)

Doc #4: "Andrew Carnegie note, Wealth, June 1889, " in Documents 1876-1900, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1876-1900/reform/carnegie (linked on Moodle)

Doc #5: Mark Twain on Horatio Alger found at "Horatio Alger, Jr. Resources, Washburn University. "Good" & "Bad" Boy Paradies of Horatio Alger, web link: http://www.washburn.edu/sobu/broach/algerres.html (linked on Moodle)

Additional Reading: David O. Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877, pp. 1-69 & 116-127 (on Moodle)

Text: Chapters 17 & 18 on Industrialization and Middle Class Life

#4

2-11

Industrial and Urban Reform

Class

Weekly Reading

Paper #1 Due

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Reading

 

Doc #6: "Henry George note, Excerpt from:Progress and Poverty 1879, " in Documents 1876-1900, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1876-1900/reform/progress (linked on Moodle)

Doc #7:"Lower East Side Tenement Museum," http://www.tenement.org/ Take an hour to go to New York and to take this VIRTUAL TOUR of a tenement. There are other exhibits at this site that are worth visiting. Explore. (linked on Moodle)

Additional Reading: Robert Caro, The Power Broker, pp. 1-135 (On Moodle)

Text: Chapter 19 on Urbanization and Reform

#5

2-18

Reforming the Political System: Socialism, Populism, & Progressivism

Class

Weekly Reading

Reading Quiz-Reading Quiz Moved to Next Week

Vanessa Elias on TR

 

 

 

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Reading

Doc #8: "Rutherford B. Hayes, Inaugural address, Monday, March 5, 1877" in Documents 1876-1900, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/rh19/speeches/hayes (linked on Moodle)

Doc #9: "James Abram Garfield (1831-1881), 20th president of the United States: 1881-1881" in Documents 1876-1900, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/jg20/index.htm (linked on Moodle)

Doc #10: "Grover Cleveland, First inaugural address, Wednesday, March 4, 1885" in Documents 1876-1900, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gc2224/speeches/cleve1.htm (linked on Moodle)

Doc #11: "Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd president of the United States: 1889-1893" in Documents 1876-1900, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/bh23/index.htm (linked on Moodle)

Additional Reading: Robert Caro, Power Broker, pp. 1-259 (on Moodle)

Text: Chapter 20 on Politics of Reform, from City & State to Nation

#6

2-25

Imperialism

 

Class (11-12:30)

Weekly Reading

Reading Quiz

&

TA Meetings (12:45-1:45)

 

Kevin Riley on the Spanish American War

 

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Reading

Doc #12: "Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th president of the United States: 1901-1909," in Documents 1901-25, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tr26/index.htm (linked on Moodle)

Doc #13: "American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899," in Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Found under "Imperialism, Celebrations and Objections." Direct Link: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899antiimp.html (linked on Moodle)

Doc #14: "Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899," in Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Found under "Imperialism, Celebrations and Objections." Direct Link: http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/kipling.html (linked on Moodle)

Doc #15: World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago--go to this fair via visual documents found in "The Dream City:" http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/ and in The Encyclopedia of Chicago: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html (linked on Moodle)

Additional Reading: Robert Caro, Power Broker, pp. 260-367 (On Moodle)

Text: Chapter 21 on Emerging U.S. World Power

#7

3-3

Modern Life: WWI & 1920s

Class

Weekly Reading

Vanessa Elias on Immigration and the 1920s

Maite Peterson on Cultural Aspects of the 1920s

Andy Ligeti on Harlem Renaissance

 

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Reading:

Doc #16: "President Wilson's Fourteen Points," found at the WWI Document Archive (BYU): Click "Conventions, Treaties, and Official Papers," then "United States" under "Official Papers by Country," then "President Wilson's Fourteen Points." Direct Link: http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1918/14points.html (linked on Moodle)

Doc #17: "WWI Image Archive, Photographs":

Found at: http://www.gwpda.org/photos/greatwar.htm

(key words "photos of the Great War" and "Heads of State")

A-"Heads of State"--United States (View U.S. Heads of State Photos):

Look through this photo archive, who are the main leaders and commanders involved in WWI? Can you identify them?

Also look at medecine and the development of XRays/ http://www.vlib.us/medical/medindex.html (linked on Moodle)

Text: Chapter 22 Wrestling with Modernity, 1918-1929

#8

3-10

Midterm Week

Midterm #1

Midterm Examination, Reconstruction through the 1920s

#9

3-17

Great Depression & New Deal

Class (11-12:30)

Weekly Reading &

TA Meetings (12:45-1:45)

 

 

 

We appreciate your punctuality to class and to TA Meetings and after breaks--computers are not allowed in class, please take notes with pen and paper, we will be happy to suggest excellent ways of taking notes - and thanks for not texting and for putting phones, etc away

Reading

Doc #18: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First inaugural address, Saturday, March 4, 1933," in Documents 1926-1950, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/fr32/ (linked on Moodle)

Doc #19: "America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945," Library of Congress, found at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/ (linked on Moodle)

Go to the SUBJECT INDEX and explore photographs according to your interest. Choose FIVE photographs that you find most reflective of the Great Depression. Why did you choose these five?

Doc #20: "By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943," Library of Congress, found at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposquery.html (linked on Moodle)

Go to SUBJECT INDEX and explore the posters from various categories. What do you think was the impact of these posters?

Text: Chapter 23 on the Great Depression and the New Deal

#10

3-24

WWII & Cold War

Class

Weekly Readings

 

Kevin Riley on WWII

 

 

 

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Reading

Doc #19: As listed for previous week - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/

Doc #20: As listed for previous week - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposquery.html

Doc #21: War of the Worlds (linked on Moodle)

WOW TRANSCRIPT: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/orsonwellswaroftheworlds.htm
(American Rhetoric Online) Read transcripts, listen to radio show, and read news accounts that followed the program. Why did this event happen?

Prelinger Audio: http://www.archive.org/details/CMMugsyCalamWaroftheWorlds_1

Additional Reading: Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns, pp. 1-180; 527-538 (Introduction, Beginnings & Epilogue on Moodle)

Text: Chapter 24 & 25 on WWII and the Cold War

#11

3-31

No Class

 

Spring Break

(Chavez Day)

#12

4-7

Spring

Class

  

Spring Break

#13

4-14

Suburban Life & the Middle Class

Class

Weekly Reading

Paper #2 Due

 

We appreciate your punctuality to class and to TA Meetings and after breaks--computers are not allowed in class, please take notes with pen and paper, we will be happy to suggest excellent ways of taking notes - and thanks for not texting and for putting phones, etc away

Reading

Doc #22: Fifties & Advertisements

1-AdClassix.com: http://www.adclassix.com/sitemap.htm

2-Advertising Archives: Fifties at http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/gallery_1950s.php (linked on Moodle)

Doc #23: ARE YOU READY FOR MARRIAGE (1950) http://www.archive.org/details/AreYouRe1950 (linked on Moodle)

Additional Reading: Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters, pp. 272-311; 451-491; 452-523 (Quickening; Summer of Freedom Rides; Moses in McComb, King in Kansas City on Moodle)

Text: Chapter 26, Triumph of the Middle Class

#14

4-21

Suburban Children, Liberalism, and Civil Rights

Class

Weekly Reading Reading

Quiz

 

Andy Ligeti on Freedom Riders

We appreciate your punctuality to class and to TA Meetings and after breaks--computers are not allowed in class, please take notes with pen and paper, we will be happy to suggest excellent ways of taking notes - and thanks for not texting and for putting phones, etc away

Reading

Doc #24: The Pill, a PBS Film with website and links found at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/ Make sure to find the links to the Interviews with mostly women "before and after." (linked on Moodle)

Doc #25: Civil Rights Movement Veterans at http://www.crmvet.org/ (linked on Moodle)

Additional Reading: Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat, pp. 1-125; 395-407 (on Moodle)

Text: Chapter 27 on Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

#15

4-28

Vietnam & the New Left

Class (11-12:30)

Weekly Reading

TA Meetings (12:45-1:45)

 

 

Maite Peterson on Counterculture

 

 

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Reading

Doc #26: "Year of the Pig" 1968 (film) Interview with Antonio at http://www.reverseshot.com/article/emile_de_antonio_interview

Year of the Pig on YouTube (watch first part): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQhwEGVVGS4 (linked on Moodle)

Doc #27: FSM & Counter Culture at UCB: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/ (linked on Moodle)

Doc #28: Prelinger: The Haight at http://www.archive.org/details/SanFrancisco1968 (linked on Moodle)

Doc #29: CBC Archives: Youth Rebellion/ http://archives.cbc.ca/society/youth/topics/580/ (linked on Moodle)

Doc #30: Watergate (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/ (linked on Moodle)

Text: Chapter 28 on Uncivil Wars, 1964-1972

5/5

#16

 1950s-1960s Social Movement  

#17

5-12

From New Left to New Right

Class

Weekly Reading

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Reading

Doc #31: Douglass Coupland's Generation X, New Vocabulary for a New Era: http://www.scn.org/~jonny/genx.html (linked on Moodle)

Text: Chapters 29 & 30 on Limits and Conservative U.S.

#18

5-19

 Midterm #2

10:15-12:15

Midterm Examination, Great Depression to the New Right