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HIST 1302-701 SYNCHRONOUS	MW 12:00-1:20 pm
16 Week Session  21 AUG - 10 DEC	SYN 63837

 

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UNIT 1: “Progress” — 1865-1920

AUG 22	“Savagry & Civility”		The Art of War & The Art of War  6th Century BCE See Ch. 1 v. 13-26  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	Zealots  The Black Death 1347-50  UN Declaration of Human Rights 10 Dec. 1948
AUG 29	“The Klan” &  “Indian Wars”	Foner, Ch. 15 C& B Ch. 3 & 5	“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)  “Freedom to Broadcast Hate” (2015)
AUG 31	“The Company Town”	Foner, Ch. 16	John D. Rockefeller  Titus Well (1861)  Herr Farm Oil Lease (1864)  Densmore Cars  Carnegie Library Homestead (1898)
SEPT 5	LABOR DAY -- NO CLASS
SEPT 7	“The Boss”	Foner, Ch. 18	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	“New Empire”	Foner, Ch. 17 & 19 M & P Ch. 1	Significance of the Frontier (1892)  Influence of Seapower on History (1890)  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2 July 1890)  Frederick JaCkson Turner
SEPT 14	“New Empire”	M & P Ch. 1

UNIT 2:  “Modern America” — 1920-1945

SEPT 19	“Consumer Culture”	Foner, Ch. 20	Vintage Ads 1920s (1920s)  Car Ads (1920s)   Ads American Memory LOC (1920s)  The $5 Day
SEPT 21	“Rural Counterattack”
SEPT 26	“The Great Terror”	C & B Ch. 8 & 9
SEPT 28	“Crash & Depression”	Foner, Ch. 21
OCT 3	“Good Neighbors”	M & P Ch. 4
OCT 5	“Civilians at War”	Foner, Ch. 22	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
OCT 10	“The Atomic Age”	M & P Ch. 6

UNIT 3: “The Cold War” — 1945-1989

OCT 12	“American Way of Life”	Foner, Ch. 23 & 24	Body Care & Grooming  Human Reproduction  Levittown  The House in the Middle  The Good Wife's Guide Housekeeping Monthly 13 May 1955  Are You Popular?  Distribution of Wealth  How Much Affection  Dancing Cigarettes  Attack of the 50 Foot Woman  Classic TV Ads
OCT 17	“The Black List”		A Is for Atom  Hollywood 10  HUAC and Hollywood 1 2 3 4 5 6  Cold War Hollywood 10  HUAC  Alger Hiss  "Enemies Within" Joseph McCarthy 9 Feb. 1950  Joseph McCarthy  "Checkers Speech" Richard Nixon (Intro)  "Checkers Speech" Richard Nixon (All)  Elec. of 1952  Rosenberg Trial  Army McCarthy Hearings
OCT 19	“Authoritarians & Totalitarians”	M & P Ch. 9
OCT 24	“Struggle for Civil Rights”	Foner, Ch. 25	Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944)  UT Negro Law School -- Sept. 22, 1947  Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950)  Daily Texan -- 18 Oct. 1950  Brown v. Bd. of Education (1954)  Virginia Responds  Montgomery Bus Boycott Timeline  White Citizens Council  MLK on Boycott  Rosa Parks on Boycott Video  Rosa Parks on Boycott Audio  Ask Me, Don't Tell Me  James Meredith  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
OCT 26	“The Great Society”		Kennedy Assasination -- 1st Radio Report  Kennedy Assasination -- 1st TV Report 22 Nov. 1963  Johnson Sworn in (Photos) 22 Nov. 1963  Johnson Sworn in (Audio) 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)  Lyndon Johnson at Work  (Photos)  War on Poverty -- 8 Jan. 1964 (Text & Audio)  The Great Society -- 22 May 1964 (Text & Audio)  The Great Society -- 22 May 1964 (Video Segment)  Civil Rights Act -- 2 July 1964 (Text)  Civil Rights Act -- 2 July 1964 (Video)  Signing Civil Rights Act -- 2 July 1964  "Smoking Collegiate Republican" Johnson Ad 1964  "KKK & Goldwater" Johnson Ad 1964  "These Are the Stakes"  The "Daisy" Ad 1964  Elec. of 1964  The American Promise -- 15 Mar. 1965 (Audio)  The American Promise -- 15 Mar. 1965 (Video)  Hurricane Betsy -- 10 Sept. 1965 (Audio)  Selma Mayor Smitherman on MLK -- Mar. 1965  "Police Attack Alabama Marchers" -- 7 Mar. 1965  Selma to Montgomery -- Mar. 1965  Selma to Montgomery -- Mar. 1965  Malcom X v. MLK  Muhammed Ali "The Greatest"  Muhammed Ali and the Draft  John Lewis Recalls Selma  Voting Rights Act -- 6 Aug. 1965 (Text)  Voting Rights Act -- 6 Aug. 1965 (Video)  MLK in Selma -- 6 Aug. 1965 (Video)  "One Million New Negro Voters" -- 14 Aug. 1965  Freedom Summer in Mississippi -- 1964  Watts -- Newsreel Aug. 1965  Watts -- 11-15 Aug. 1965  March Against Fear -- 5 June 1966  James Meredith Shot -- 6 June 1966  Black Power -- Oct. 1966  Black Day in July -- 23-28 July 1967
OCT 31	“Vietnam”	M & P Ch. 11	Lansdale's 1961 Report on Vietnam  Green Berets  Thich Quang Duc  "Buddhist BBQ" 8 June 1963  Battle of Ap Bac: The Plan 2 Jan. 1963  Battle of Ap Bac -- Memorandum for the President 3 Jan. 1963  Battle of Ap Bac -- Washington Post 7 Jan. 1963  JFK to Mr. and Mrs. McAndrew 8 Feb. 1963  Bobbie Lou Pendergrass to JFK 18 Feb. 1963  JFK to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass 6 Mar. 1963 Tonkin Gulf Resolution -- 5 Aug. 1964  Johnson McNamara Tapes -- 2 Aug.- 5 Aug. 1964  McNamara Remembers the Events of 2-5 Aug. 1964  Johnson Public Report on Tonkin Gulf -- 4 Aug. 1964  Johnson Calls Sen. Russell -- 27 May 1964  "Peace without Conquest" -- 7 Apr. 1965  Showdown in Vietnam -- 8 Feb. 1965  New Moves Counter Red Infiltration -- 26 Apr. 1965   Johnson Vows to Fight Until Reds Parley 13 May 1965  Enterprise Planes Support Troops -- 12 Sept. 1965  Ia Drang Valley -- 12 - 14 Nov. 1965  Johnson and Eisenhower discuss Vietnam -- 3 Oct. 1966  Iron Triangle -- 8 - 26 Jan; 12 Feb. - 15 Apr. 1967  “The Vietnamese War, as See by the Victors” The Atlantic 16 Apr 2015
NOV 2	“Confidence Gap”	Foner, Ch. 26	Renunciation Speech 31 Mar. 1968 (Text, Audio, & Video)  "I've Been to the Mountaintop" -- 3 Apr. 1968 Text  "If I Had Sneezed" -- 3 Apr. 1968 Audio  "I've Been to the Mountaintop" -- 3 Apr. 1968 Video  Robert F. Kennedy on the Assassination of MLK  “Oblawa” Jacek Kaczmarski Lyrics (1968)  “Oblawa” Jacek Kaczmarski Video (1968)  “Contessa” Paolo Peitrangeli Lyrics (1968)  “Contessa” Paolo Peitrangeli Video (1968)  “Hasta Siempre” Lyrics (1968)  “Hasta Siempre” Video  Soviet Invasion -- 21 Aug. 1968 Photos  1968 Olympic Protest -- 18 Oct. 1968  "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 Video (1970)  “Ohio” Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young Video (1970)  Jackson State (1970)  Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)   Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)  "I'm Not a Crook" Richard Nixon -- 17 Nov. 1973  Ambassador on Board -- 29 Apr. 1975

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