Monmouth College
History 112
Fall 2008

HISTORY 112 COURSE SCHEDULE


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


1 Sept:  The Progressive Presidents

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

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


8 Sept:  The Looming European Crisis (Chapter 25)

10 Sept:  The War to End All Wars

12 Sept: Over Here: The War at Home


15 Sept: The Jazz Age (Chapter 26)

17 Sept: The Other Side of the 1920s

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


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

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)


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

8 OctAffluence and Anxiety

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


13 Oct:  Fall break   

15 Oct:  Korea and the Red Scare

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


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

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)

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


10 Nov:  The Counterculture

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

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 DecThe Iran-Contra Affair

5 Dec:  The Clinton Years (Chapter 37)


8 Dec:  Bush, 9/11 and the Future

    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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