Daily Schedule* - The following is a daily agenda for the class. Note that readings are to be finished before class begins on specified day. These will usually include readings from the textbook and source readings from the WWW. Also, some text readings only include specific pages within chapters. Please bring textbook and source excerpts to class that you are ready to discuss.

*Note (very important): This schedule is highly subject to change. Listen in class for revisions, additions or subtractions to listed assignments.

- Introductions

- What is History?

- End of the Civil War & Reconstruction

readings: - ch. 23, 498-507

- Gilded Age: Society & politics

readings- ch. 24 & Tweed RIng: Examine a few of the images at:

http://www.buffnet.net/~starmist/nast/tweed.htm

What do they tell us?

, Andrew Carnegie. "Wealth:" http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/carnegie.htm

- Industrialization

- readings-Ch. 25, 536-554,

- Organized labor, late-19^th century

- readings: -Ch. 25, 554-563 &

Stephen Crane, "In the Depths of a Coal Mine:"

http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/coal/CraneDepths/CraneDepths.htm

- Urbanization, immigration & growth of a middle class

- readings: ch. 26, 568-580, 582-596 – Jacob Riis, "The Mixed Crowd" (1896): http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/chap3.html

(Ram's Horn cartoons: http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/Ram's_Horn/

- Western expansion & conflict between white settlers & Indians

- readings: ch. 27, 598-616, 621 & Geronimo, "His Own Story:" http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geroni12.htm &

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geroni17.htm

- Populism & political turmoil in the late 19^th century

- readings: ch.27, 616-620, ch.28, The People's Party Platform * William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" speech: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~laniel/crossgold.html

- Growth of American empire: Spanish-American War, imperialism

- readings- ch.29, cartoon:

http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/Ram's_Horn/Light/World,htm

Mark Twain, "To A Person Sitting in Darkness:"

http://www.rochester.edu/ican.net/~fjzwick/twain/persit.html

- Progressivism

readings: - ch.26, 580-581, ch.31, 682-695, Booker T. Washington, "The Atlanta Exposition" address:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/History/Progs/BTW.html

WEB Dubois, "Of Mr. Washington and Others:"

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/History/Progs/Dubois.html

Jane Addams, "THE SUBJECTIVE NECESSITY FOR SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS," http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/History/Progs/Addams.html

- Developing foreign policy & beginning of World War I

readings: ch.30, 666-676, ch. 32-710-719, Woodrow Wilson: Warning to Germans (1915) : http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/strict.html

World War I & Resolution & Zimmerman Telegram: readings: - ch. 34

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1917/zimmerman.html &

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/14points.htm l

http://www.amug.org/~avishai/WWI.html

readings: ch.34, Prohibition readings:

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/laguardi.htm

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/student.htm

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/drywmn.htm

Bruce Bliven, "Flapper Jane:"

http://www.pandorasbox.com/jane.html

- 1930's: Dust Bowl & Depression l

readings: ch. 35 &

http://www.sidwell.edu/~jewell/newdeal.html

Choose 1 Depression testimonial from this link. Read & analyze.

& Dust Bowl memory:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/dustbowl/eyewitness.html

Later Depression & The New Deal

readings: ch.36, FDR 1^st Inaugural Address:

http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/inaugural/pres49.html

- Rise of totalitarianism in Europe & Asia & American response, beg. of World War II

readings: ch. 37

World War II, part 1

readings: ch. 38, & choose 1 story from the following:

http://members.aol.com/twdiv2/archive.htm

What do we learn about the combat experience of WWII?

Also, choose 1 story from the following site:

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html

What do we learn about the homefront during the war?

Use specific quotes & ideas to support your answer.

Also, peruse the following site:

http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html

World War II , part 2

http://www.glue.umd.edu/~enola/

http://www.anesi.com/ussbs01.htm

http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html

Read various documents & selections from these website to answer the following question: "Was the US justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki?" Come to class ready to justify your answer!!

- early Cold War: ideology, nuclear arms race, Korean War

readings: ch.39, 40: pp.908-912 &

NSC-68:

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/05/documents/nsc.report.68/

Joseph McCarthy vs. the State Department:

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/documents/mccarthy/

& Dr. Fred Schwartz, "You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists)"

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schwarz4.html

- Civil Rights Movement, African-American separatism & unrest: 1954-1968

readings: ch. 40, 914-916, ch.41, 942-945, 949-951 – Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail:"

http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/USA/Afro-Amer/birmingham.king &

the Black Panther Party Platform:

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/Panther_platform.html

1950's tranquillity (?) , JFK, LBJ: "New Frontier" & "Great Society"

readings: ch. 40: 912-914, ch.41: 936-940, 945-949 &

John F. Kennedy, "Inaugural Speech:"

http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/inaugural/pres56.html &

Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A-Changin':"

http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~bkf3938/bob8.html#times &

Betty Friedan excerpt: from The Feminine Mystique (on reserve at library - LRC)

The Vietnam Era (1964-1975), part 1

readings: ch. 40, 918-919, ch. 41: 940-941, 952-962, ch.42, 967-968, 973, 975-976, 979-980 &

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/documents/tonkin/ &

State Department Speech on the War:

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/documents/white.paper/ &

The Vietnam Era (1964-1975), part 2

Read:

"[Not Much of a] War Story:"

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Narrative/Lanquist_War_Story.html &

Stephen Stills, "For What Its Worth:"

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~arthur/songs/for_what_its_worth &

Richard Nixon, "silent majority" speech:

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/documents/nixon.speech/ &

Popular statements on Vietnam, 1966-1969:

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/viet.html

- Nixon Presidency & early 1970's

readings: ch. 42, 964-980, Richard Nixon "Address to the nation..." (April, 1974):

http://www.texcat.com/~nrn/nixon/speeches/rn740429.shtml

http://www.now.org/issues/economic/eratext.html

The Carter & Reagan years

ch. 42, 980-988, ch.43, 990-1005

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/m8310017.htm

Mon. 5/3- late 1980's & early 1990's, Bush years, Persian Gulf War, LA Riots, beg. of Clinton era

ch. 43, 1005-1022