1/21           INTRODUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, AND THE WEST

                                Reading: Foner, Ch. 15  

First Day of Class --Wednesday

See Blackboard for video of course introduction

 1/28         THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM

                                Reading: Foner, Ch. 16

Section Documents:

VOF: Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (1889), p.32

VOF: William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca. 1880), p. 35

                                Reading: Foner, Ch. 17

Reading: Bellamy (Ch. I-XVIII)  

Section Documents:

VOF: The Populist Platform (1892), p. 52

 2/11                AMERICA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

                                Reading: Foner, Ch.18

Section Documents:

VOF:J osiah Strong, Our Country (1885), p. 72

VOF: Emiliano Aguinaldo on American Imperialism in the Philippines (1899), p. 74

VOF: The Industrial Workers of the World and Free Speech Fights (1909), p. 87

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 2/18                THE PROGRESSIVE ERA and WWI

                                Reading:  Foner, Ch. 19

Section Documents:

Blackboard: Scharff, Ch. 1-3

VOF: Randolph Bourne, “War is the Health of the State” (1918), p. 107

 2/25            THE RED SCARE and the ROARING 20s

                                Reading: Foner, Ch. 20

Section Documents:

VOF: Congress Debates Immigration (1921), p. 147

VOF: Meyer v. Nebraska and the Meaning of Liberty (1921), p. 151

VOF: Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925), p. 155

3/4                DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL

                                Reading: Foner, Ch. 21 and Comic Book Nation, Ch. 1

Section Documents:

VOF: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech to Democratic National Convention (1936), p. 172

VOF: Herbert Hoover on the New Deal and Liberty (1936), p. 175

 3/11                THE SECOND WAR TO END ALL WARS

                                Reading: Foner, Ch. 22

                               MIDTERM--WEDNESDAY

Section Documents:

Blackboard: WW2 Videos

 3/18                THE COLD WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD

                                Reading: Foner, Ch. 23

Section Documents:

Blackboard: Red Nightmare

VOF: Walter Lippmann, A Critique of Containment (1947), p. 225

VOF: Margaret Chase Smith, Declaration of Conscience (1950), p. 242

 3/25           THE 50S AND 2ND RECONSTRUCTION

                                Reading: Foner, Ch. 24 and Comic Book Nation, Ch. 5

Section Documents:

Blackboard: Making Sense of the 60s: Civil Rights

VOF: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955), p. 267

4/1           SPRING BREAK

4/8              VIETNAM AND 60s LIBERALISM

Reading: Foner, Ch. 25 and Comic Book Nation, Ch. 7

Section Documents:

Blackboard: Sarantakes, "Cold War Pop Culture and the Image of U.S. Foreign Policy"

VOF: Barry Goldwater on “Extremism in the Defense of Liberty” (1964), p. 280

 4/15               PROTESTS AND RIGHTS: THE 1960s

                                      Section Documents:

VOF: The Port Huron Statement (1962), p. 288

Blackboard: Hippie Documentary clip

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 4/22             LIBERATION AND THE 60s

                          RESEARCH PAPER DUE ONLINE--THURSDAY

Section Documents:

Blackboard: "Genies and Witches"

VOF: Cesar Chavez, “Letter from Delano” (1969), p. 300

Blackboard: All in the Family "Archie's Helping Hand"

4/29                THE NEW RIGHT AND REAGAN'S AMERICA

                                Reading: Foner, Ch. 26

Section Documents:

VOF: Jerry Falwell, Listen, America! (1980), p. 319

VOF: Watt, "Environmentalists: A Threat to the Ecology of the West:" (1978), p. 327

VOF: Reagan, Inaugural Address (1981), p. 329

5/6                THE END OF THE COLD WAR TO THE WAR ON TERROR

Reading: Foner, Ch. 27-28

Last day of class is Wednesday, May 8th

  FINAL EXAM: MONDAY, MAY 13th, 8AM-10AM 

 

*Schedule is subject to change