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| Introduction | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| 2 | | | | Legacies of War | | | | - Foner, Eric. A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. Pp. xi-xvi, 1-15, 104-123.
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| 3 | | | | The Politics of Reconstruction (*PR 1) | | | | - Foner, Eric. A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. Pp. 124-198.
- You may want to look at the chapter on Reconstruction in Pauline Maier, et al., Inventing America... Pp. 535-560, if there is anything that you want to examine in further detail, but you are not expected to read that as well.
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| The New Industrial Society: Center and Margins | |
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| 4 | | | | The "Winning" of the West | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 564-573, 582-584, 599-602.
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| 5 | | | | The New Industrial Society (*PR 2) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 573-580, 584-588.
- Carnegie, Andrew. "How I Served My Apprenticeship."
- Conwell, Russell H. "Acres of Diamonds."
- Sumner, William Graham. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other. Pp. 7-24, 63-87.
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| Work and Play in Urban America | |
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| 6 | | | | The Modern Labor Movement | | | | - Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. Begin reading.
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| 7 | | | | The Emergence of Consumer Culture (*PR 3) | | | | - Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. Finish reading.
- Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 607-616, 633-638.
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| America in the World | |
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| 8 | | | | Immigrants Remake America (*PR 4) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 588-593, 603-604.
- Yezierska, Anzia. "How I Found America."
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| 9 | | | | The Wars of 1898 (*PR 5) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 661-662, 664-673.
- Roosevelt, Theodore. "The Strenuous Life."
- Twain, Mark. "As Regards Patriotism."
- Cabranes, José A. "Some Common Ground."
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| Progressivism and Its Limits | |
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| 10 | | | | In Search of Progressivism (*PR 6) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 617-625, 638-640, 694-706.
- Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905).
- Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908).
| | | | FIRST DRAFT of second paper due at the beginning of class. | | | | Lochner v. New York (1905) Muller v. Oregon (1908) | |
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| 11 | | | | Violence in the Postwar South | | | | - Allen, James, et al. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.
- Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Pp. 217-237.
- DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Pp. 36-50.
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| War and Depression | |
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| 12 | | | | War, Revolution, and the Flapper (*PR 7) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 720-731, 741-749.
- Susman, Warren I. "Culture Heroes: Ford, Barton, Ruth."
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| 13 | | | | The Great Depression (*PR 8) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 752-758, 761-767, 770-778.
- Allan, Lewis. "Strange Fruit."
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| World War II | |
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| 14 | | | | World War II | | | | - The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.
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| 15 | | | | The Legacies of War (*PR 9) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 814-844. Everyone will be responsible for a section of this chapter, although you should read any parts of it that you need to help you learn about World War II.
- Luce, Henry R. "The American Century."
- United Nations General Assembly, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
| | | | REVISED ESSAY for group one due in class. | | | | UN Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| 16 | | | | The Cold War as a Political Crisis (*PR 10) | | | | - May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Pp. ix-xxvi, 1-29, 80-203. Begin reading.
- Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 847-879, 882-913. Read only those sections that you need to help you understand Homeward Bound.
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| 17 | | | | The Cold War as a Cultural Crisis (*PR 11) | | | | - May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Pp. ix-xxvi, 1-29, 80-203. Finish reading.
- Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 847-879, 882-913.
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| The Civil Rights Movement | |
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| 18 | | | | The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement | | | | - Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. Pp. 1-117.
- O'Connor, Flannery. "Everything That Rises Must Converge."
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| 19 | | | | What the Civil Rights Movement Did (*PR 12) | | | | - Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. Pp. 261-384.
- Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 921-922, 933-935, 943-944. Recommended as background reading.
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| Why Were We in Vietnam? | |
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| 20 | | | | Vietnam (*PR 13) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 952-957, 968-971.
- Johnson, Lyndon B. "Speech at Johns Hopkins University."
- O'Brien, Tim. "On the Rainy River."
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| The Sixties and Beyond | |
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| 21 | | | | The Sixties and Its Legacies (*PR 14) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 944-945, 957-967.
- Ginsberg, Allen. "America."
- Friedan, Betty. "The Problem That Has No Name."
- Berry, Wendell. "The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character."
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| 22 | | | | The Seventies: From Watergate to Disco (*PR 15) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 978-981, 984-988, 993-999, 1003-1007.
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| The New Conservatism | |
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| 23 | | | | The Reagan Revolution (*PR 16) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 1008-1011, 1014-1034. Everyone will be responsible for a section.
- Liu, Eric. The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker. Begin reading.
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| 24 | | | | A Changing America (*PR 17) | | | | - Liu, Eric. The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker. Finish reading.
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| The Next American Century? | |
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| 25 | | | | The American Dream in a Global Age (*PR 18) | | | | - Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America. Pp. 1044-1048.
- Reich, Robert B. The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for Twenty-First-Century Capitalism. Pp. 3-9, 43-57, 119-135, 301-315.
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| 26 | | | | The American Dream after September 11 | | | | | | | | FINAL PAPER due at the beginning of class. | | | | | |
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