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DATE |
UNIT
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TOPIC
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READINGS |
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F 8/24: |
INTRODUCTION
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Introduction |
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M 8/27: |
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Who Writes
American History? (And why?) |
Paul Johnson (PJ), 3, 976. Howard Zinn (HZ), 618-619. |
W 8/29:
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TRANSFORMATION
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Industrialization
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PJ, 511-18, 531-43, 550-569.
HZ,
247-251, 257-277. |
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F 8/31: |
OF THE UNITED STATES: |
Discussion |
“ “ “ |
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M 9/3: |
1877-1900 |
No Class: Labor Day |
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W 9/5: |
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WRITING HISTORY
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F 9/7: |
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How “progressive” were the
Progressives? |
PJ, 601-611. HZ, 314-334, 339-349. |
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M 9/10: |
PROGRESSIVE ERA
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Imperialism
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PJ, 611-614. HZ, 290-313. |
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W 9/12: |
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Discussion |
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F 9/14: |
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The War to End All
Wars?
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PJ, 642-648.
HZ, 350-367.
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M 9/17
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Red Summer, Red
Scare, and the Suffragettes
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PJ, 655-660.
HZ, 334-339,
368-372.
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W9/19:
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WORLD WAR I AND THE 1920S |
How Roaring were the
1920s? |
PJ, 656-683. HZ, 372-377. |
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F 9/21: |
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Ragtime and Racism (Paper
1 due) |
PJ, 660-676, 697-707. |
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M 9/24: |
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Discussion |
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W 9/26: |
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Down and Out in the Great
Depression |
PJ, 727-746. HZ, 377-381. |
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F 9/28: |
THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND
THE NEW DEAL: |
New Deal or Raw Deal? |
PJ, 747-766. HZ, 382-397. |
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M 10/1: |
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Discussion
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W 10/3: |
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MIDTERM
EXAM
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F 10/5: |
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WRITING HISTORY II |
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M 10/8: |
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The Gathering Storm: The U.S. and the World in the
1930s |
PJ, 768-776. |
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W 10/10: |
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The Good War? |
PJ, 777-783. HZ, 398-412. |
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F 10/12: |
THE WAR YEARS |
Rosie the Riveter’s
America |
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M 10/15: |
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Hiroshima and American
Memory |
PJ, 783-785, 799-804. HZ, 413-416. |
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W 10/17: |
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Discussion |
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F 10/19: |
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The Fifty Years War |
PJ, 804-825. HZ, 416-422. |
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M 10/22: |
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Beyond the Cleaver’s:
Conflict and Consensus in the Age of McCarthy |
PJ, 833-841. HZ, 423-428. |
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W 10/24: |
THE COLD WAR AT HOME AND
ABROAD |
Life Under a (Mushroom)
Cloud: Cold War Culture (Paper 2 Due) |
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F 10/26: |
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Hard Rain: Cuba and the Kennedy’s |
PJ, 845-868. HZ, 429-434. |
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M 10/29: |
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Rogue Elephants: The CIA and the FBI |
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W 10/31: |
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Discussion |
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F 11/2: |
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Civil Rights Part I:
The 1950s
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PJ, 891-893. HZ, 435-459. |
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M 11/5: |
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT |
Eyes on the Prize |
“ “ “ |
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W 11/7 |
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Discussion |
“ “ “ |
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F 11/9: |
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Into the Big Muddy:
America and Vietnam |
PJ, 869-890. HZ, 460-492, 537-541. |
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M 11/12: |
VIETNAM ERA |
No Class: Veteran’s Day |
“ “ “ |
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W 11/14: |
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Secret Plans, Christmas
Bombings, and Countercultures |
“ “ “ |
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Special Showing of Hearts and Minds
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Date and Time TBA
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F 11/16:
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You Say You Want a
Revolution?
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HZ, 493-504,
526-529.
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M 11/19: |
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Discussion
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W 11/21:. |
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TBA |
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F 11/23: |
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No Class: Thanksgiving |
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M 11/26: |
1970S TO Y2K |
Watergate and Its
Aftermath |
PJ, 894-906. HZ 530-537, 542-551. |
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W 11/28: |
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Morning in America: The Reagan Revolution |
PJ, 917-931. HZ, 561-588. |
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F 11/30: |
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Resistance to the
Revolution |
HZ, 589-606. |
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M 12/3: |
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Love and Lies in the 1990s
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PJ, 931-940. HZ, 606-617, 629-634. |
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W 12/5: |
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Discussion |
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F 12/7: |
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FINAL
EXAM (7:45-10:15 a.m.) |
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