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HIST 1302-700	MW 12:00-1:20 pm
SYN 35679	RGC 129

 

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UNIT 1: “Progress” — 1865-1920

Aug. 22	“Savagry & Civility”		Zealots  The Art of War & The Art of War  6th Century BCE See Ch. 1 v. 13-26  The Black Death 1347-50  The Prince 1513/152 See Ch. XIX  Lord Jeffery Amherst 1763  The Justification of the Use of Terror 5 Feb. 1794
Aug. 24	“Insurgents”	C & B Ch. 1 & 2
Aug. 29	“The Klan” &  “Indian Wars”	Davidson, Ch. 17 & 18 SELECT COUNTRY	“Birth of a Nation” (1915)  Louisiana Legislature (1868)  13th Amendment  14th Amendment  15th Amendment  “Secret History of The KKK” Video  US v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 555 (1875)  Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883)  Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)  Sand Creek (1864)  Ft. Laramie Treaty (1868)  George Armstrong Custer (1876)
Aug. 31	“Terrorists”	C& B Ch. 3 & 5
Sept. 5	LABOR DAY -- NO CLASS
Sept. 7	“The Company Town”	Davidson, pp. 376-90	John D. Rockefeller  Titus Well (1861)  Herr Farm Oil Lease (1864)  Densmore Cars  Carnegie Library Homestead (1898)  Miner and Mules  “Pull Up Boys” (1886)  Forging Press (1893)  Bessemer Converter  Coronor's Report (12 July 1 1892)  Thompson Steel Works (1891)
Sept. 12	“The Boss”	Davidson, pp. 390-6 & Ch. 20 COUNTRY PAGE DUE
Sept. 14	“New Empire”	Davidson, pp. 435-44 M & P Ch. 1 CRITICAL REVIEW DUE	Significance of the Frontier (1892)  Influence of Seapower on History (1890)  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2 July 1890)  Frederick Jakson Turner
Sept. 19	“New Empire”	M & P Ch. 1  CRITICAL REVIEW DUE

UNIT 2:  “Modern America” — 1920-1945

Sept. 21	“Consumer Culture”	Davidson, Ch. 24	Vintage Ads 1920s (1920s)  Car Ads (1920s)   Ads American Memory LOC (1920s)  The $5 Day
Sept. 26	“Rural Counterattack”
Sept. 28	“The Great Terror”	C & B Ch. 8 & 9 CRITICAL REVIEW DUE
Oct. 3	“Crash & Depression”	Davidson, Ch. 25
Oct. 5	“Good Neighbors”	M & P Ch. 4 CRITICAL REVIEW DUE
Oct. 10	“Civilians at War”	Davidson, Ch. 26	ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
Oct. 12	“The Atomic Age”	M & P Ch. 6 CRITICAL REVIEW DUE

UNIT 3: “The Cold War” — 1945-1989

Oct. 17	“American Way of Life”	Davidson, Ch. 28
Oct. 19	“The Black List”
Oct. 24	“Authoritarians & Totalitarians”	M & P Ch. 9 CRITICAL REVIEW DUE
Oct. 26	“Struggle for Civil Rights”	Davidson, Ch. 29
Oct. 31	“The Great Society”
Nov. 2	“Vietnam”	Davidson, Ch. 30 M & P Ch. 11 CRITICAL REVIEW DUE
Nov. 7	“Confidence Gap”	Davidson, Ch. 31

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