27 Aug: Introduction to the class, the syllabus, the course expectations.
        ►Begin reading Four Hats in a Ring and all of Chapter 24 in America

29 Aug: The Progressive Spirit

• The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
• Jane Addams
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Carrie Chapman Catt

1 Sept:  The Progressive Presidents

•  TR:  On Film and With Sound --click on the photo of TR at the top

3 Sept:  ►Discussion over Chapters 1-4 in Four Hats in a Ring

5 Sept:  Wilson's New Freedom:  Progressive or Not?

•  Woodrow Wilson

8 Sept:  The Looming European Crisis (Chapter 25)

• The Zimmerman Telegram
• The Russian Revolution

10 Sept:  The War to End All Wars

•  World War I in pictures, sounds, letters, essays
• Timeline of the War
• Words to George M. Cohan's "Over There"
• Trenches on the Web
• Wilson's Fourteen Points

12 Sept: Over Here: The War at Home

• Library of Congress WWI and WWII homefront site  
•  History of a Hello Girl  

15 Sept: The Jazz Age (Chapter 26)

• Temperance and Prohibition
• The Red-Hot Jazz Archive--hear jazz played by the greats!
•  Chicago's South Side Jazz Clubs, ca.1915-1940s 

17 Sept: The Other Side of the 1920s

• The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
• Sacco &  Vanzetti

19 Sept:  The Coming of the Great Depression (Chapter 27)

22 Sept: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal:  (Chapter 28)

• New Deal Arts Programs:  Kentucky Mural Art

24 Sept: Changing Society

26 Sept:  The Legacy of the New Deal

    ► Four Hats in a Ring exam due at the beginning of class today.
    ► Begin reading Martin Luther King, Jr.

29 Sept:  first midterm examination:  Progressive era through the new deal

1 Oct:  The Coming of World War II (Chapter 29)

3 Oct:   The "Good War" (Chapter 30)

• Images from the Nazi Work & Concentration Camps--modern-day photographs  
•  The Bracero Program, 1942-1963        
• Documents Describing the Decision to Drop the WWII Atomic Bombs    
• Fifty Years From Trinity--a Seattle Times website with arguments for and against, and a consideration of the legacy of nuclear weapons
•  Photo of an A-bomb casing
• Library of Congress WWI and WWII homefront site

6 Oct: The Post-War Years (Chapter 31)

8 Oct: Affluence and Anxiety

10 Oct: Cracks in the Picture Window (Chapter 32)

• The Beats, NY
• The Beats, SF

13 Oct:  Fall break   

15 Oct:  Korea and the Red Scare

17 Oct:  Civil Rights in the Eisenhower Era: The Gathering Storm (Chapter 33)

• Poem about a church bombing in Birmingham

20 Oct:   Eisenhower and the Second Stage of the Cold War

•  A picture of Sputnik

22 Oct:   The Cold War Heats Up 

24 Oct:  SECOND MIDTERM EXAM:  WWII THROUGH THE EARLY COLD WAR

27 Oct:  In-class film:  Vietnam 

29 Oct:   Kennedy's New Frontiers and Johnson's Great Society  (Chapter 34)

• Text of President Johnson's Great Society speech.
• Joseph Califano, Jr. on the Great Society

31 Oct: discussion over Frady book

3 Nov:  Vietnam:  America's Longest War

   ► Martin Luther King, Jr. exam due at the beginning of class today.
    ► Begin reading House to House 

5 Nov:  Discussion:  the 2008 Presidential Election, followed by conclusion to 3 Nov. lecture

6 Nov:  Extra Credit Opportunity:  Ten points for a one-page, single spaced paper summarizing and describing your response to the GUEST LECTURE BY DR. DEREK ANDERSON:  THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE TO WWI.  6:00 p.m. in the Highlander Room.  Paper due 7 November.

7 Nov:  The New Left

• Port Huron Statement
• Mario Savio's famous speech
• The Sixties:  Primary Documents and Oral Histories

10 Nov:  The Counterculture

• Drugs
• Rock and Roll
• 1960's posters
• Hippies
• Archives of the Free Speech Movement
• NOW's 1966 Statement of Purpose
• W.I.T.C.H.
• Manifesto of the Black Panthers
• "What is a Chicano?" from the Atzlan/Azteca website

12 Nov:  The Rise of the Conservative Right

13 Nov:  Extra Credit Opportunity:  Ten points for attending the VETERANS ROUNDTABLE, 7:00 p.m. in the Morgan Room, if you show up on time, stay until the end, and sign in with me.

14 Nov:   Nixon's Domestic and Foreign Agendas (Chapter 35)

17 Nov:  Nixon and Watergate

• Watergate, including a time-line
•  Text and some audio clips from many of Nixon's speeches 
• Chronological Table of Nuclear Weapons

19 Nov: Ford and the Energy Crisis

21 Nov:  Carter and the Middle East

24 Nov: The Rise of Ronald Reagan (Chapter 36)

26 Nov:  Thanksgiving Break

28 Nov: Thanksgiving Break

1 Dec:  Discussion over House to House

3 Dec:  The Iran-Contra Affair

• The Iran-Contra Affair--documents and explanation

5 Dec:  The Clinton Years (Chapter 37)

• The Clinton Years, a PBS site

8 Dec:  Bush, 9/11 and the Future

• 9/11 Commission Official Report

    ► House to House exam due at the beginning of class today.

10 Dec:  Class wrap up and questions about the final exam

The final exam for this class is 8:00 a.m. on Monday, 15 December 2008.
Neither the date nor the time of the final may be changed.

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