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Lecture and Text Links
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Week |
Date |
Lectures |
Textbook/Other Links (Reading
Assignments)
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1 |
Tu 08/30 |
Introduction and Overview |
Course Syllabus
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Th 09/01 |
The Rise of
Big Business 1
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Prerequisites for
Industrialization,
Steel, Electricity,
Communications,
Transcontinental Railroad
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2 |
Tu 09/06 |
The Rise of Big Business 2 |
Standard Oil
Company, Role of
Government,
Rise of the
City,
Machine
Politics,
Political
Corruption
Social
Darwinism,
Immigration,
Reform
Darwinism,
Gospel of
Wealth
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Th 09/08 |
The Wild, Wild West
1: American Indian Policy and The
Last Holdouts |
Removal,
Trail of Tears,
Fort Laramie Council,
Concentration Policy,
Conflict,
Reservation Policy,
Role of the Railroad,
The Tragedy of American Indian Policy |
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3 |
Tu 09/13 |
The Wild Wild West 2: The Indian Wars
and Settlement of the West |
Little Big Horn,
The Apache Wars,
The Flight of the Nez Perce,
Wounded Knee,
The Dawes Act,
Cowboys and Ranching,
Farming,
Mining,
Lumber Industry
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Th 09/15 |
The
Labor and
Populist Movements |
Organizing Unions,
American Federation of Labor,
Strikes by Unions,
Farmer Unrest,
the Granger Movement,
The Populist
Party (1892),
Free Silver,
Populism in 1896,
the
Rise and Fall of Populism
First Steps toward Controlling Big Business
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4 |
Tu 09/20 |
Imperialism: The
Spanish/American War
Progressive Foreign Policy |
Foreign Policy
Background,
Motives
for Expansion,
Anti-Imperialism,
Spanish American War
US in China,
US in Latin America,
Panama Canal,
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Th 9/22 |
Introduction to
Progressivism--Domestic |
The
Progressive Movement,
The
Progressive Agenda,
Early Reformers,
Political
Reform,
Business Reform,
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5 |
Tu 9/27 |
The
Progressivism of Roosevelt, Taft and
Wilson |
Teddy Roosevelt,
The Square Deal
Taft,
Dollar Diplomacy;
Election of
1912,
Wilson |
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Th 09/29 |
Wilson's Foreign
Policy 1: Latin America |
Wilson and the
Mexican Revolution;
Pancho Villa
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6 |
Tu 10/04 |
The US
and WWI |
Overview,
Causes,
Early War,
US Neutrality,
Sinking of
Lusitania,
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare,
Zimmerman Note,
US Enters War,
Mobilization,
War
Industries Board,
Sedition Act, Versailles,
Wilson's 14
Points, |
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Th 10/06 |
Aftermath
of WWI in the US |
Disillusionment,
Demobilization,
Red Scare,
Sacco and Vanzetti,
Nativism,
Republican
Ascendancy,
Prohibition
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7 |
Tu 10/11 |
Return to
"Normalcy" |
Revolution in Manners
and Morals, the
Flappers, Teapot
Dome, Rise of Mass
Culture,
Escapism,
Lost Generation,
Fundamentalism,
The
Monkey Trial |
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Th 10/13 |
Culture in
the 1920s |
Red Scare,
Nativism,
Fundamentalism,
Prohibition,
Speakeasies,
Revolution in Manners
and Morals,
Hero
Worship |
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8 |
Tu 10/18 |
Review for Midterm
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IDs for Midterm |
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Th 10/20 |
Midterm Exam |
IDs for Midterm
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9 |
Tu 10/25 |
The Stock
Market Crash and Great Depression |
Trading on the
Margins,
Stock Market Crash,
Black Thursday,
Downward Spiral,
Hoover's
Response,
Smoot-Hawley Tariff, RFC,
Causes of
the Depression,
Bonus March,
Election of 1932
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Th 10/27 |
Roosevelt and the Great
Depression |
Election of 1932,
First 100 Days,
First New Deal,
Second New Deal.
Deficit
Spending, FDIC,
FERA,
CCC,
WPA,
TVA,
Wagner Act,
Social Security,
Court Packing,
Impact of New
Deal,
Success
of New Deal |
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10 |
Tu 11/01 |
Prelude to
War: US Foreign Policy in the 1930's |
Rise of
Fascism in Italy,
Rise of Hitler in
Germany, Militarization
of Japan, Civil War in
China,
Recognition of USSR,
Good Neighbor Policy,
Italian Invasion of
Ethiopia, 1st US
Neutrality Act,
German Occupation of the Rhineland,
Spanish Civil
War, Japanese
Invasion of China,
Anschluss, 3rd US
Neutrality Act,
Sudetenland,
Czechoslovakia,
Appeasement,
German/Soviet
Non-Aggression Pact,
Poland,
Cash and Carry |
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Th 11/03 |
World War II |
Fall of
France,
Battle of Britain,
Lend/Lease,
Embargo against Japan,
Havana Act,
Peacetime
Draft in US,
Germany
Invades Russia,
The Atlantic
Charter, Pearl
Harbor, Battle
of North Africa,
Battle of the
Atlantic,
Invasion of Sicily,
D-Day (Normandy Invasion),
Surrender of
Germany
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11 |
Tu 11/08 |
WWII in
Pacific |
Early
Japanese Victories,
Fall of the
Philippines, Midway
Island,
Guadalcanal,
Battle of the Philippine Sea,
Island Hopping,
Potsdam Conference,
Manhattan
Project, Dropping of
the A-Bomb,
Japanese Surrender
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Th
11/10 |
Designing the Peace/Origins of the Cold War
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Yalta,
Birth of the UN,
Purposes of the
UN, 1st Meeting of
the UN,
Organization of the UN,
Origins of Containment
Doctrine, George Kennan,
Iran,
Crisis in Greece
and Turkey, The
Truman Doctrine
USSR in Eastern
Europe,
National Security Act,
Marshall Plan
Berlin Blockade,
NATO |
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12 |
Tu 11/15 |
Red Scare at Home |
Chinese
Civil War,
PRC is
Formed, Korean War,
Loyalty Oaths,
House Un-American Activities
Committee, Algier
Hiss, the Rosenburgs,
Internal
Security Act, Joseph
McCarthy,
End of McCarthy,
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Th 11/17 |
The Civil
Rights Movement: Introduction |
Plessy
versus Ferguson,
Brown versus Board of Education,
Rosa Parks,
Montgomery Bus Boycott,
Martin Luther King,
Voting
Rights Act of 1957,
Freedom Rides,
Birmingham Campaign
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13 |
Tu 11/21 |
Kennedy and Johnson |
March
on Washington,
Civil
Rights Act of 1964,
Voting
Rights Act (1965),
Great Society,
War on Poverty,
Black Panthers |
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Th 11/23 |
Vietnam and
the Crisis of American Hegemony |
Ho Chi Minh,
Dien Bien Phu,
Geneva Agreements,
Ngo Dinh Diem,
National Liberation Front,
JFK Policy,
Strategic
Hamlet Program,
Early
Opposition in US,
Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution,
Escalation,
Rising
Protests in US,
Tet Offensive,
Election of 1968,
Nixon:Peace With
Honor,
Vietnamization,
Invasion of
Cambodia,
Pentagon Papers,
Paris Peace
Agreement
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14 |
Tu 11/29 |
The 1970's |
The Counterculture,
Stagflation,
Wage and Price Controls,
OPEC,
Nixon in China,
Detente,
Watergate,
Results of
Watergate, NEPA,
AIM,
Wounded Knee,
Roe versus
Wade,
Title
IX
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Th
12/01 |
The Reagan Revolution |
Reagan and Bush 1 |
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15 |
Tu 12/06 |
The Clinton Boom |
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Th 12/08 |
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16 |
Tu 12/13 |
Review for Final Exam |
ID's For Final Exam |
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Th 12/15 |
Final Exam |
ID's For Final Exam |
