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)
PTW, 27 - 68
Reading Quiz #1, Wednesday 9/1
Week #3
(9/6)
Labor Day Monday
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
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
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)
PTW, 143-205
Characters
Week #6
(9/27)
NO CLASS
Film or Museum Week
1-Choose a feature-length film from/ or about any era, Reconstruction through the Great Depression--you may view one of the following:
-A Documentary (For example, on Reconstruction, the West, or the era of Jim Crow)
-A Period Film (from Jazz Singer, for example, to "42nd Street" or "I'm No Angel" (up through 1933--take a look at the Film-by-Decade website)
-A feature film on any American History topic up through the Great Depression (for example, "Reds")
2-Go to a museum of your choice that has an exhibit on a topic that falls within the first part of class, from Reoconstruction through the Great Depression. For example:
-Gene Autrey Museum
-MOMA, LA
-LA Museum of Natural History
(unlimited choices, just be sure you are focused on American History b/t 1865 and 1933)
Reading:
PTW, 206-311
Assignment:
WRITE A 4-5 PAGE REVIEW OF THE FILM OR MUSEUM
BE SURE TO INCLUDE:
1-An Overview of the film or Museum Exhibit (be thorough in your description)
2-Your Critique, to what extent does the film/ exhibit truly reflect the era depicted--why or why not?
(If this is a film produced in the era, then your question here would be: What does the film reveal about the era and why?)
3-Your Overall Opinion of the film/ exhibit
4-A Full Reference of the Film/ Exhibit--who produced it?
Week #7
(10/4)
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)
PTW, 312-411
Characters
Reading Quiz #2, Wednesday 10/6
Week #8
(10/11)
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)
PTW, 412-491
Characters
Document Review #1 Due by Wednesday 10/13
Week #9
(10/18)
Review & Exam
Midterm Review & Exam
Midterm
Exam #1
Week #10
!10/25)
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?
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?
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
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)
PTW, 888-922
Characters
Week #15
(11/29)
New Right
1980s
Why the New Right in the 1980s?
Doc #32: Total Woman by Marabel Morgan
Doc #33: To Be Posted
Doc #34: To Be Posted
Reading
Henretta Chapter 30 & 31 (Division & Economy)
Characters
Reading Quiz #4 Wednesday 12/1
Week #16
(12/6)
Generation X?
1980-2000,
Your Views
Gen X
Document #35: Generation X excerpt by Douglas Coupland
Reading
Henretta Chapters 32 (21rst Century)
Document Review #2 Due by Wednesday 12/8 (or earlier)
Week #17
(12/13)
Finals'
Week
FINAL
EXAMS
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