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Course Schedule
US History II -- Honors

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

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignments

UNIT 1: “Progress” — 1865-1920

Aug. 22	“Savagry & Civility”
Aug. 24	“Insurgents”	C & B Ch. 1 & 2
Aug. 29	“The Klan” &  “Indian Wars”	Davidson, Ch. 17 & 18	SELECT COUNTRY
Aug. 31	“Terrorists”	C & B Ch. 3 & 5
Sept. 5	LABOR DAY -- NO CLASS
Sept. 7	“The Company Town”	Davidson, Ch. 19
Sept. 12	“The Boss”	Davidson, Ch. 20	COUNTRY PAGE DUE
Sept. 14	“New Empire”	Davidson, pp. 580-97-44 M & P Ch. 1	CRITICAL REVIEW DUE
Sept. 19	“New Empire”	M & P Ch. 1	CRITICAL REVIEW DUE

UNIT 2:  “Modern America” — 1920-1945

Sept. 21	“Consumer Culture”	Davidson, Ch. 24
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 & 31	CRITICAL REVIEW DUE
Nov. 7	“Confidence Gap”	M & P Ch. 11	CRITICAL REVIEW DUE

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