H 371: Class Schedule

WEEK

TOPIC
READING
WORK DUE

Week

#1

(8/29)

Class Introduction

Reconstruction

Introduction to Class & to Each Other

The Crossroads: Civil War & Reconstruction

Reading:

Henretta Chpt. 15 (Reconstruction)

Branch, Parting the Waters, pp. 1-26

Horwitz, Confederates, pp. 1-195 (pp. 1-88 copied here, to begin)

Week

#2

(9/5)

Labor

Day

Monday

Reconstruction

The West

Agriculture

Reconstruction, West, & the Rural Frontier

Documents:

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 (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1851-1875/slavery/addres

Doc #2: "Navajo Treaty of 1868, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, June 1, 1868, Ratification August 12, 1838," in Documents 1851-1871, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1851-1875/indians/navajo

Reading:

Henretta Chapter 16 (The West)

Horwitz, Confederates, pp. 195-390

Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, pp. 1-58

Week

#3

(9/12)

 

Industrializaation

Ubanization

Capitalism

Patterns of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, & Class

Socialism

Industrial & Urban Worlds

Documents:

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

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

Doc #5: "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

Doc #6: 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

Reading:

Henretta Chapters 17 & 18 (Industrialization & Urbanization)

Green, Death in the Haymarket, pp. 1-101

 

Reading Quiz #1, Week #3 (Th)

Week

#4

(9/19)

Political Economy

Populist & Progressive Responses to Industrialization

Doc #7: "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

Doc #8: "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

Doc #9:"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

Doc #10: "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

Reading:

Henretta Chapters 19 & 20 (Gilded & Progressive Era Economy & Politics)

Green, Death in the Haymarket, pp. 102-208

 

Document Rev #1 Due Week Four (Thursday)

 

Week

#5

(9/26)

Imperialiam

1890s

Imperialism & the World of the Nineties

Doc #11: "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

Doc #12: "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

Doc #13: "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

Doc #14: World Columbain 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

Reading:

Henretta Chapter 21 (Imperialism)

Green, Death in the Haymarket, pp. 209-320

 

 

 

Week

#6

(10/3)

WWI/ 1920s

 

World War & the Early 20th Century

Doc #15: "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

Doc #16: "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?

Reading:

Henretta Chapter 22 (WWI)

 

Reading Quiz #2, Week #6 (Th)

Week

#7

(10/10)

1920s

Great Depression

Ultimate Boom & Bust: 1920s & Geat Depression

Doc #17: "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.

Document #18: Museum of American Finance/http://www.moaf.org/index to to the Archive of Exhibits and pick one that interests you, then read its description. For example, there is a current exhibit on "Women of Wall Street," and there have been exhibits on Wall Street Trading, Wells Fargo, and J.P. Morgan. Choose one that you find interesting (http://www.moaf.org/exhibits/archive )

You might look through other WWI photos of interest, and the WWI Archive includes a marvelous section on medicine and the Great War, including the development of Xray use--THIS is an incredible view into the way in which new medical techniques and tools have been develeoped.

Reading:

Henretta Chapter 23 (1920s & Great Depression)

 

 

 

Week

#8

(10/17)

Review & Exam

 

Midterm Review & Exam

Exam #1 (TH)

Week

#9

(10/24)

New Deal

Federal Government

Political Leadership

Political Economy and the Federal Government

Doc #19: "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/

Doc #20: "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/

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 #21: "By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943," Library of Congress, found at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposquery.html

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

Reading:

Henretta Chapter 24 (New Deal)

Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns, 1-175

 

Week #10

(10/31)

 

 

WWII

WWII Era

Doc #22: "WAR OF THE WORLDS!"

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?

Doc #23: Various ibrary of Congress, Collections on WWII found at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/WW2/WW2bib.html

Which interests you?

You will find various photos and posters in the LC Memory Gallery C--explore the various posters produced during WWII, for example, to what extent do you think they were powerful in conveying government propaganda about the war?

(LC WWII Memory Gallery C: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr11c.html#wwii )

Reading:

Henretta Chapter 25 (WWII)

Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns, 180-363

 

Reading Quiz #3 Week #10 (Th)

Week #11

(11/7)

11/11 Veterans Day

Cold War

WWII to Vietnam: Cold War Foreign Policy

"Its a Small World": American Suburban Dream

Cold War Fifties

Doc #24: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Second inaugural address, 1937," 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/speeches/fdr1.htm

 

Reading:

Henretta Chapter 26 (Affluence)

Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns, 364-526

Papers Set #1 Due (See your addigned Date, Course Requirements Page)

Papers Set #1 Due/ or next Tuesday-11/15 at the latest

Week #12

(11/14)

Cold War

Fifties

Suburbia continued. . .

WWII & Civil Rights on the Homefront

 

Cold War Fifties

Doc #25: Fifties & Advertisements

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

Advertising Archives: Fifties at http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/gallery_1950s.php

Doc #25: Fifties: Literature & Culture at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Reading:

Henretta Chapter 27 (Liberalism)

Klibanoff & Roberts, Race Beat, 1-221

Week #13

(11/21)

Thanks

Giving

Week

11/24+

Civil Rights

Vietnam

Civil Rights & Vietnam

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

Doc #27: Civil Rights Movement Veterans at http://www.crmvet.org/

Reading:

Henretta Chapter 28 (Liberal Consensus)

Klibanoff & Roberts, Race Beat, 222-333

Papers Set #2 Due (See your addigned Date, Course Requirements Page)

Papers Set #2 Due/ 11/22-following Tuesday at the latest 11/29

Week #14

(11/28)

 

"The Sixties"

The Building of a Counterculture, 1950s-1970s

Doc #28: Watergate (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/

Doc #29: FSM & Counter Culture

UCB: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificafsm.html

Prelinger: The Haight at http://www.archive.org/details/SanFrancisco1968

CBC Archives: Youth Rebellion/ http://archives.cbc.ca/society/youth/topics/580/

Doc #30: 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."

Doc #31: ARE YOU READY FOR MARRIAGE (1950) http://www.archive.org/details/AreYouRe1950

Reading

Henretta Chapter 29 (Toward Conservative Am)

 

Klibanoff & Roberts, Race Beat, 334-408

 

Reading Quiz #4 Week #14 (Th)

Week #15

(12/5)

 

 

New Right

1980s

Generation X?

 

 

Why the New Right in the 1980s?

Doc #32: Reagan Accepts Nomination,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsaiggDPOQ

"Reaganomics" from TIME Magazine (19 October 1981)

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924952,00.html

Doc #33: "Douglas Coupland's Generation X Neo-logisms"

http://www.scn.org/~jonny/genx.html

Reading

Henretta Chapter 30 & 31 (Division & Economy)

Papers Set #3 Due (See your addigned Date, Course Requirements Page)

Papers Set #3 Due/ Thursday 12/8 Latest

 

Week #16

(12/12)

Finals

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Exam #2