COURSE SCHEDULE

13 January: Introduction to the class, the syllabus, the course expectations.
        ►Chapter 20

15 January: Progressives:  Why They Cared

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

20 January:  Progressives:  What They Cared About
     ►Chapter 21

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

22 January:  Wilson's New Freedom:  Progressive or Not?

•  Woodrow Wilson

25 January:  The Looming European Crisis
     ►Chapter 22

• The Zimmerman Telegram

27 January:  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

29 January: Over Here: The War at Home

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

1 February: The Jazz Age
     ►Chapter 23

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

3 February: The Other Side of the 1920s

• The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
• Sacco &  Vanzetti

5 February:  The Coming of the Great Depression
     ►Chapter 24
     ►Winesburg, Ohio book exam due

8 February: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
     ►Chapter 25

• New Deal Arts Programs:  Kentucky Mural Art

10 February: Changing Society

12 February:  The Legacy of the New Deal

15 February:  first midterm examination:  Progressive era through the new deal

17 February:  The Coming of World War II
     ►Chapter 26

19 February:   The "Good War"

• 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

22 February: Discussion:  Luck of the Draw

24 February:   The Post-War Years
     ►Chapter 27

26 Febrary:  NO CLASS

1 March:  Affluence and Anxiety

• The Beats, NY
• The Beats, SF

3 March:  Cracks in the Picture Window

5 March:  Korea and the Red Scare
      ►Luck of the Draw book exam due

15 March:  Civil Rights in the Eisenhower Era: The Gathering Storm
     ►Chapter 28

• Poem about a church bombing in Birmingham

17 March:   Eisenhower and the Second Stage of the Cold War

•  A picture of Sputnik

19 March:  The Cold War Heats Up 

22 March:  SECOND MIDTERM EXAM:  WWII THROUGH THE EARLY COLD WAR  

24 March:   Eisenhower and the Second Stage of the Cold War

• Tom Lehrer's "New Math" song

26 March:  Kennedy's New Frontiers and Johnson's Great Society
     ►Chapter 29

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

29 March: Vietnam:  America's Longest War

31 March:  Vietnam:  America's Longest War, continued

2 April:  Good Friday:  no school 

5 April:  Easter Monday:  no school

7 April:  The New Left

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

9 April:  no class

  ► Death of Innocence book exam due.  You must print out the exam and hand it to Mrs. Crum, the secretary in the basement of Wallace Hall.  She must write the date and time on it.  Your essay is late and will drop one letter grade if it arrives to Mrs. Crum after the start of your class (i.e., the 10:00 a.m. class papers are late at 10:01 and the 1:00 p.m. class papers are late at 1:01 HOWEVER, Mrs. Crum goes to lunch from noon until 1:00--so, unless you are planning to pounce the moment she returns, and unless you are a gambler, ready to trust that she won't be delayed that day, then 1:00 p.m. students should get the papers in to Mrs. Crum BEFORE noon.  I'm giving you loads of extra time on this exam, and therefore I will show NO MERCY if a paper is late!!!

12 April:  The Counterculture

• Drugs
• Rock and Roll
• 1960's posters
• Hippies
• Country Joe and the Fish, "Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die" Rag
• 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

14 April: Nixon's Domestic and Foreign Agendas 
  ►Chapter 30

16 April:  Nixon and Watergate

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

19 April: Ford and the Energy Crisis

21 April:  Carter and the Middle East

23 April:  The Rise of Ronald Reagan
     ►Chapter 31

26 April:  The Iran-Contra Affair

• The Iran-Contra Affair--documents and explanation

28 April:  The Clinton Years

• The Clinton Years, a PBS site

30 April:  Discussion:  Sisters in a Band of Brothers

3 April  Bush, 9/11 and the Future
     ►Chapter 32
     ► Sister in a Band of Brothers book exam due

• 9/11 Commission Official Report

5 April:  Class wrap up and questions about the final exam

The final exam for the 10:00 a.m. class is 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, 12 May 2010.
The final exam for the 1:00 p.m. class is 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 11 May 2010.
Neither the date nor the time of the final may be changed.  You may not take your final with the other class.

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