Week 1: Introductions
ThursdayJanuary 12 |
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Week 2: The View from Springfield, 1860-1900
January 17, 19 |
Tuesday: LectureThursday: Quiz, Discussion of White and sources “Always the Greater Reconstruction was as much about control as liberation, as much about unity and power as about equality. Indians were given roles they mostly didn’t want, and freedmen were offered roles they mostly did, but both were being told that these were the roles they would play, like it or not. There has always been a darker side to e pluribus unum, and when we look at the parallel policies toward Indians and blacks, we can see it in its full breathtaking arrogance.” Elliot West “What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.” Henry George, 1872 “Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: ‘I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.” Mark Twain, 1872 Reading:
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Week 3: the View from Atlanta, 1850-1900
January 24,26 |
Tuesday: Lecture – Jim Crow and the New SouthThursday: Quiz, Discussion Primary Sources: Choose two collections Atlanta Document Series 1: Adams, Cable, Washington, Plessy, Literacy Test Atlanta Document Series 2: Grady, Tompkins, Sharecropper and Lien Contracts, Nate Shaws Story Atlanta Document Series 3: To the Union Convention, Petition, Miss. Black Codes, Douglass, Elliott GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight (Remember: email attachment. pdf. last name assignment name) Graf Summaries: Lepore, Chapter 8 “The Face of Battle”Primary Source AnalysisThursday Quiz |
Week 4: the view from the plains, 1860-1910
January 31 February 2 |
John Gast, American ProgressThe Battle of the Greasy Grass Remington, A Rodeo at Los Ojos GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight Graf Summaries: Lepore, Chapter 9 “Of Citizens, Persons, and People”Primary Source AnalysisQuiz |
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Week 5: the View from New York, 1865-1920
February 7, 9 |
Fisher, City of RefugeIn this week’s primary source analysis write up a three paragraph description of the immigrant experience in the United States during these years. GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight Graf Summaries: Lepore, Chapter 10 “Efficiency and the Masses”Primary Source 3-paragraph paperQuiz |
Week 6: The view from battle creek, 1900-1940
February 14, 16 |
GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight Graf Summaries: Lepore, Chapter 11 “A Constitution of the Air”Primary Source AnalysisQuiz |
Week 7: the view from amarillo. 1900-1945
February 21, 23 |
The Plow that Broke the Plains (Original Version)Plow the Broke the Plains Script For this week’s primary source analysis (due Friday by 5:00 pm.) rewatch the film and pay particular interest to the narrative structure. It’s called a “jeremiad” and it’s a particularly important form of moral story-telling in American history. Your job is to summarize each of the film’s ten short sections and explain briefly its overall message to Americans. Then posit your theory as to why it was so controversial. Remember, you are more than encouraged to do your own research. GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight Graf Summaries: Lepore, Chapter 12 “The Brutality of Modernity”Primary Source AnalysisQuiz |
Week 8: THe view from atlanta, 1900-1950
TuesdayFebruary 28 March 2 |
The New South Documents |
Week 9: the view from los angeles, 1940-1965
March 7, 9 |
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GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight Graf Summaries: Lepore, Chapter 13 “A World of Knowledge”Primary Source AnalysisQuiz |
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Week 10: the view from atlanta 1950-1975
March 28, 30 |
GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight Graf Summaries: Lepore, Chapter 14 “Rights and Wrongs”Primary Source AnalysisQuiz |
Week 11: The view from Phoenix, 1945-1975
April 4,6 |
GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight Graf Summaries: Lepore, Chapter 15 “Battle Lines”The View From Phoenix: Introduction Worksheet Shermer, Sunbelt Capitalism, “Introduction” Needham, Power Lines, “Introduction” Quiz |
Week 12: the view from Ann Arbor, 1960-1980
April 11,13 |
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GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight Graf Summaries: Lepore, Chapter 16 “America Disrupted”Primary Source AnalysisQuiz |
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Week 13: The view from flint, 1950-2020
April 18, 20 |
GradesAll written assignments due Wednesday by midnight Graf Summaries: Lepore, EpiloguePrimary Source AnalysisQuiz |
Week 14: the views from ________________
April 22, 27 |
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Week 15: the view from Wooster 2023
may 2 |
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