AMH 2020: U.S. History, 1877-present

SCHEDULE

 

 

DATE

UNIT
TOPIC

READINGS

F 8/24:

 

 

INTRODUCTION

Introduction

 

M 8/27:

 

Who Writes              American History?         (And why?)

Paul Johnson (PJ), 3, 976.

Howard Zinn (HZ), 618-619.

W 8/29:

 

 

TRANSFORMATION

Industrialization

PJ, 511-18, 531-43, 550-569.

HZ, 247-251, 257-277.

F 8/31:

OF THE

UNITED STATES:

Discussion

         

M 9/3:

1877-1900

 

No Class: Labor Day

 

W 9/5:

 
WRITING HISTORY

 

F 9/7:

 

How “progressive” were the Progressives?

PJ, 601-611.

HZ, 314-334, 339-349.

M 9/10:

PROGRESSIVE ERA

Imperialism

PJ, 611-614.

HZ, 290-313.

W 9/12:

 

Discussion

 

F 9/14:

 

The War to End All Wars?

PJ, 642-648.

HZ, 350-367.

M 9/17

 

 

Red Summer, Red Scare, and the Suffragettes

PJ, 655-660.

HZ, 334-339, 368-372.

W9/19:

WORLD WAR I

AND THE 1920S

How Roaring were the 1920s?                      

PJ, 656-683.

HZ, 372-377.

F 9/21:

 

Ragtime and Racism

(Paper 1 due)

PJ, 660-676, 697-707.

M 9/24:

 

Discussion

 

W 9/26:

 

Down and Out in the Great Depression

PJ, 727-746.

HZ, 377-381.

F 9/28:

THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL:

New Deal or Raw Deal?

PJ, 747-766.

HZ, 382-397.

M 10/1:

 

Discussion

 

W 10/3:

 

MIDTERM EXAM

 

F 10/5:

 

WRITING HISTORY II

 

M 10/8:

 

The Gathering Storm:   The U.S. and the World in the 1930s

PJ, 768-776.

W 10/10:

 

The Good War?

PJ, 777-783.

HZ, 398-412.

F 10/12:

THE WAR YEARS

Rosie the Riveter’s America

 

M 10/15:

 

Hiroshima and American Memory

PJ, 783-785, 799-804.

HZ, 413-416.

W 10/17:

 

Discussion

 

F 10/19:

 

The Fifty Years War

PJ, 804-825.

HZ, 416-422.

M 10/22:

 

Beyond the Cleaver’s: Conflict and Consensus in the Age of McCarthy

PJ, 833-841.

HZ, 423-428.

W 10/24:

THE COLD WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD

Life Under a (Mushroom) Cloud: Cold War Culture (Paper 2 Due)

 

F 10/26:

 

Hard Rain:

Cuba and the Kennedy’s

PJ, 845-868.

HZ, 429-434.

M 10/29:

 

Rogue Elephants: 

The CIA and the FBI

 

W 10/31:

 

Discussion

 

F 11/2:

 

Civil Rights Part I: 

The 1950s

PJ, 891-893.

HZ, 435-459.

M 11/5:

 

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Eyes on the Prize

         

W 11/7

 

Discussion

         

F 11/9:

 

Into the Big Muddy: America and Vietnam

PJ, 869-890.

HZ, 460-492, 537-541.

M 11/12:

VIETNAM ERA

No Class: Veteran’s Day

         

W 11/14:

 

Secret Plans, Christmas Bombings, and Countercultures

          

 

 

Special Showing of Hearts and Minds

Date and Time TBA

F 11/16:

 

You Say You Want a Revolution?

HZ, 493-504, 526-529.

M 11/19:

 

Discussion

 

W 11/21:.

 

TBA

 

F 11/23:

 

No Class: Thanksgiving

 

M 11/26:

1970S TO Y2K

Watergate and Its Aftermath

PJ, 894-906.

HZ 530-537, 542-551.

W 11/28:

 

Morning in America:    The Reagan Revolution

PJ, 917-931.

HZ, 561-588.

F 11/30:

 

Resistance to the Revolution

HZ, 589-606.

M 12/3:

 

Love and Lies in the 1990s

PJ, 931-940.

HZ, 606-617, 629-634.

W 12/5:

 

Discussion

 

F 12/7:

 

FINAL EXAM

(7:45-10:15 a.m.)

 

 

 

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