David Lauderback
Professor of History

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HIST 1302 029

TTH 7:30-8:50 am

SYN 45853

RGC 129

 

 

                                

 
Date
 

Topic


Reading
 


Assignments
 

UNIT 1: “Industrializing America” — 1865-1896

Music Lyrics

 Jan. 17  “The Useable Past”  


 Regarding the Italian Population 1888
 The Good Wife's Guide
Housekeeping Monthly 1955

 Working Stiffs
 Concise History of Black-White Relations 2007
 The Doll Test 2007

 Jan. 19  “Reconstruction
Ch. 17 


 “Birth of a Nation” (1915)
“Secret History of The KKK” Video
 Louisiana Legislature (1868)
 
13th Amendment (1865)
 14th Amendment (1868)
 15th Amendment (1870)
 US v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 555 (1875)
 Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883)

 Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) 
 

 Jan. 24

 “The Frontier in American History

Ch. 18


 
Treaty Ft. Laramie (29 Apr. 1868)
 Yellowstone Park (1 Mar. 1871)
 Dawes Act (8 Feb. 1887)
Edward Curtis Photos
 

 Jan. 26

 “The Consolidation of Industry”

Ch. 19


 John D. Rockefeller
 Titus Well (1861)
 Herr Farm Oil Lease (1864)
 Densmore Cars
  Thompson Steel Works (1891)

 Miner and Mules
 “Pull Up Boys” (1886)
 Forging Press (1893)
 Bessemer Converter

Bessemer Factory (1893)
 Coronor's Report (12 July 1 1892)
Carnegie Library Homestead (1898)

 Jan. 31

 “The Rise of Organized Labor”

 SELECT RESPONDENT


Vanderbilt (1877)
 
Chicago RR Yard (1877)
The Plea for Eight Hours (1890)
Haymarket Notice
 AFLs Plans for Race Workers
(1920)
 

 Feb. 2

 “Revolt of the Farmers

  pp. 422-435


Patrons of Husbandry (1868) 
“Gift for the Grangers”
(1873)
Texas Farmers Alliance (1877)
Colored Farmers Alliance (1886)
 Tom Watson
People's Party Platform (1896)
Francis S. Strickland


 Feb. 6

 UNIT 1 EXAM:  “Industrializing America”
 — 1865-1896

 

 

UNIT 2:  “The Progressive Era” -- 1896-1920

Feb. 8

 “New Empire

  pp. 435-445

 Feb. 13

 “Nation of Nations”

 Ch. 20


 Ellis Island  
 Ellis Island Search Engine

 US Census Immigration Tables
 US Census Immigration Maps

 Feb. 15

 “Reaction and Reform

 Ch. 22


 
Cherry Coal Mine Disaster
(13 Nov. 1909)
 

 Feb. 20

 “The Warrior and the Priest

INTERVIEW/
TOPIC PAGE
DUE

 

 Feb. 22

 “The Ordeal of Total War

 Ch. 23

 Feb. 27

 “The Red Summer of 1919”

 

 

 Feb. 29

 UNIT 2 EXAM“The Progressive Era”
  — 1896-1920

 

 

UNIT 3:  “Modern America” — 1920-1945

Mar. 6

 “Consumer Culture”

 Ch. 24

 

 Mar. 8

 “Rural Counterattack

 

 

Mar. 12-18

 NO CLASS -- SPRING BREAK

   

 Mar. 20

 “Crash and Depression”

 Ch. 25
ANNOT.
BIBLIO.
DUE

 

 Mar. 22

 “FDR and the New Dealers

 


Roosevelt Shakes Hand


 Mar. 27

 “Civilians at War

 Ch. 26


Challenge to Democracy -- Japanese Internment
Leipzig & Penig (1945)
Ordruf (1945)
Breendonck (1945)
Mauthausen (1945)
Buchenwald (1945)
Dachau & Bergen Belsen (1945)
Oswiecim
A Day in Auschwitz 1, 2, & 3

 Mar. 29

 “The Atomic Age”

REVIEW NOTE CARDS

  VJ Day & Peace!
  A Tale of Two Cities

 Apr. 3

 UNIT 3 EXAM:  “Modern America” — 1920-1945

 

 

UNIT 4: “The Cold War” — 1945-1989

Apr. 5

 “Iron Curtain”

Ch. 27


 Make Mine Freedom
 What's Your Job?
 Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation

 A Is for Atom
 Hollywood 10
 HUAC
 Alger Hiss
 "Enemies Within"
Joseph McCarthy 9 Feb. 1950

 Joseph McCarthy

 Apr. 10

 “American Way of Life”

Ch. 28


 Body Care & Grooming
 Levittown
 The House in the Middle
 How Much Affection

 Dancing Cigarettes
 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
 Classic TV Ads


 Apr. 12

 “Struggle for Civil Rights”

Ch. 30
MAKE-UP EXAM


 Smith
v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944)

 UT Negro Law School -- Sept. 22, 1947
 60,000 Teachers Rally to Sweatt -- Jan. 1950

 Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950)
 Daily Texan -- 18 Oct. 1950
 Brown v. Bd. of Education (1954)
 A Call for Unity American Service Committee 12 Apr 1963
 Letter from a Birmingham Jail 16 Apr. 1963
 "I Have a Dream" 28 Aug. 1963 Text & Audio
 "I Have a Dream" 28 Aug. 1963 Video


 Apr. 17

 “New Frontier”

 


 Summit Crisis: Mr. K. In Ugly Mood 16 May 1960
 Eisenhower's Farewell Address -- 17 Jan. 1961
 Military Industrial Complex
 Kennedy v. Nixon TV Debate 1960 #1 Part 1

 Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 (Audio)
 Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 (Video)

 Anti-Castro Units Trained To Fight At Florida Bases 7 Apr 1961
 Bay of Pigs Invasion Map -- Soviet
 Bay of Pigs Address 20 Apr 1961

 Vienna Summit 3-4 June 1961
 Berlin Wall Photographs
 NSAM 62 -- Berlin 24 July 1961
 GDR Defense of the Berlin Wall Feb. 1962
 Time Magazine Cover 31 Aug. 1962

 Kennedy Man on the Moon Speech   12 Sept. 1962  
 U2 Photos
16 Oct. 1962
 Address to the Nation 22 Oct. 1962 (Video)
 Khrushchev's Letter 26 Oct. 1962
 Khrushchev's Communique 28 Oct. 1962
 Rudolph Wilde Platz 26 June 1963
 Kennedy Assasination -- 1st TV Report 22 Nov. 1963
 Johnson Sworn in (Photos) 22 Nov. 1963
 Johnson's 1st Speech (Video) 22 Nov. 1963
 Lyndon Johnson Cotulla, Texas 1928
 "Let Us Continue" 27 Nov. 1963 (Text)
 "Let Us Continue" 27 Nov. 1963
(Video)
 "These Are the Stakes"  The "Daisy" Ad 1964


 Apr. 19

 “Vietnam”

Ch. 30
OUTLINE DUE


 Battle of Ap Bac -- Washington Post 7 Jan. 1963
 JFK to Mr. and Mrs. McAndrew 8 Feb. 1963
 Bobbie Lou Pendergrass to JFK (Slide 12) 18 Feb. 1963
 
JFK to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass (Slide 13) 6 Mar. 1963
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
7 Aug. 1964
 Johnson McNamara Tapes -- 2 Aug.- 5 Aug. 1964
 "Why Are We There?" -- 18 Feb. 1966

 Apr. 23

 NO CLASS -- LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW    

 Apr. 24

 “Confidence Gap”

 


 Port Huron Statement -- Students for a Democratic Society 1962
 Thousands Oppose Vietnam War
 A Time to Break Silence -- 4 Apr. 1967
 Mario Savio Sproul Hall
2 Dec. 1964

 Selma Mayor Smitherman on MLK -- Mar. 1965
 Watts -- 11-15 Aug. 1965
 March Against Fear -- 5 June 1966
 James Meredith Shot -- 6 June 1966

 Black Power -- Oct. 1966
 This Is 12th Street -- 23-28 July 1967
 Black Day in July -- 23-28 July 1967

 Case Study LSD
 Renunciation Speech 31 Mar. 1968 (Text, Audio, & Video)
 "I've Been to the Mountaintop" -- 3 Apr. 1968

 "The Eagle Has Landed" 20 July 1969
 The Great Silent Majority -- 3 Nov. 1969 Audio &Text
 The Great Silent Majority -- 3 Nov. 1969 Video

 "LT Accused of Murdering 109 Civilians"
 by Seymour Hersh 13 Nov. 1969

 Stonewall Riots 27 June 1969
 Fred Hampton
 The Weather Underground
 “Ohio” Neil Young Lyrics (1970)
 “Ohio” Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young Audio (1970)
 Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) 
 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)


 Apr. 26

 “New Cold War”

   

 May 1

 “The Holy Land”

 

 May 3

 “Into the Labyrinth”

Ch. 32

 

 May 8

 UNIT 4 EXAM:  “The Cold War” — 1945-1989

 

 

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