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Introduction: Review requirements and plan your course. Think about the essays you plan to write and look over practice quizzes & exams. Post Introduction in Blackboard.

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Documents listed below are required reading.
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Part 5: America 1865-1900
(Note: Parts 1-4 are History 121)

Reconstruction & the Gilded Age

• Introduction to Part 5
• Reconstruction

Review history of the Civil War from History 121.

Documents:

• With Malice Toward None
• Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation
• Civil War Amendments
• Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction
• Louisiana and Mississippi Black Codes
• Judge Albion Tourgee on the KKK
• Texas v. White
• Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise
• W.E.B. Du Bois on Booker Washington
• Plessy v. Ferguson—Harlan’s Dissent
• Plessy v. Ferguson

The Gilded Age

• The American West
• Native Americans
• Western Railroad Building
• Industrialization

Documents:

• Turner's Frontier Thesis
• Indian Stories—Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, et. al.
• Helen Hunt Jackson

Discussion Forum 1

Gilded Age 2

• The War Between Capital and Labor
• Immigration/Urbanization
• Gilded Age Politics
• The Populist Movement
  

Last date to withdraw with tuition refund January 29.

Documents:

• Constitution of the Knights of Labor 
• Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
• Henry George: The Problem
• Interstate Commerce Act of 1877
• Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
• The Populist Platform of 1892
• Bryan: “Cross of Gold” Speech 1896
• Lincoln Steffens: Shame of the Cities 

Discussion Forum 2

Part 6: Progressive America Looks Outward

Progressivism: Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson

• Part 6 Home
• Introduction
• Progressive Roots
• Progressivism

Take Quiz 1 by February 6. All readings through this week are included.

Documents:

• Theodore Roosevelt on Progressivism
• T. Roosevelt on Labor
• T. Roosevelt on Trusts
• T. Roosevelt on Conservation
• Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
• The Socialist Party Platform of 1912
• T. Roosevelt's Acceptance Speech 1912
• Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
• Ida Tarbell, the Standard Oil Company

Discussion Forum 3

The Age of Imperialism

• Introduction
• American Imperialism
• Mahan and Sea Power
• The Spanish-American War
• United States and Asia

Essay1 Due this Week
Inactive Students dropped Feb 15

Documents:

• Cleveland on Hawaii
• McKinley on Cuba
• The Teller Amendment 
• The Anti-Imperialist League
• John Hay's Open Door 
• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
• Walter Hines Page on Spanish-American War

Discussion Forum 4

America and World War I: “The Yanks are Coming”

• WWI Background
• America and World War I
• Versailles Treaty & League of Nations

Documents:

• Wilson and Neutrality 
• Wilson Peace without Victory
• Wilson's 14 Points
• The Zimmermann Telegram
• Wilson Takes America to War
• Senator Norris on World War I

Discussion Forum 5

Part 7: America 1920-1945
The Roaring Twenties

• Introduction
  
• Twenties Introduction
• The Roaring Twenties
• The Crash of 1929
• The Great Depression
• Rise of Franklin Roosevelt

Documents:

• Caroline Bird on Poverty
• The Depression in Chicago
• The Depression and Men’s Self-Esteem
• FDR Commonwealth Club Address
• FDR's First Inaugural Address
• FDR Fireside Chat on the New Deal, 1934

Discussion Forum 6

The New Deal 1933-1938

• The Second New Deal
• FDR's Second Term
• Roosevelt & the Supreme Court
• The New Deal Winds Down

Last Date to withdraw without grade penalty: March 24

Documents:

• The National Industrial Recovery Act
• FDR's Second Inaugural Address
• Inside the New Deal
• Huey Long: “Share Our Wealth”
• The Social Security Act
• Harry Hopkins on the New Deal

Discussion Forum 7

AMERICA AND WORLD WAR II

• World War II Home
• World War II Background
• The Rise of Nazi Germany

Essay 2 Due this Week

Documents:

• The Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Roosevelt: “I Hate War”
• Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech
• FDR on Outbreak of War, 1939

World War II: The “Good War”

• World War II: The World at War
• America at War
• World War II: Pacific
• World War II: Europe

Documents:

• The Arsenal of Democracy 
• The Atlantic Charter 
• Pearl Harbor, "A Day of Infamy"
• FDR Third Inaugural

Discussion Forum 8

World War II Continued

• The Air War Over Germany
• The Holocaust
• The Home Front
• Internment of the Japanese
• Diplomacy & Summary
• Legacy of World War II
• Resources & Chronology

Take Quiz 2 by April 10

Documents:

• FDR Fourth Inaugural
• Hiroshima

Review all material since Midterm

Discussion Forum 9

Part 8: Postwar America: The Cold War

• The Legacy of World War II
• Cold War: The Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy Years
• Korea: The Forgotten War
• McCarthyism
• JFK and the Cold War: The Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis

Documents

• Truman's Containment Policy 
• The Marshall Plan 
• MacArthur's Farewell 
• McCarthy Speech
• Eisenhower on McCarthy
• The Eisenhower Doctrine
• Eisenhower: The Spirit of Geneva
• John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
• JFK on Berlin: “Ich bin ein Berliner”

Discussion Forum 10

Postwar America: Domestic Issues

• The 1940s and 1950s: Truman and Eisenhower
• Automobile Age
• Civil Rights Introduction
• The Modern Civil Rights Movement
• The 1960s: Johnson & Nixon
• Women's Rights

Research Essay/Site Visit
Due this week

Documents:

• Harry Truman's Executive Order
• Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
• The 1957 Civil Rights Act
• The 1964 Civil Rights Act
• King: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• Baker v. Carr
• LBJ On the Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Johnson's Great Society
• The National Organization for Women

America in Vietnam

• America In Vietnam
• Vietnam Chronology
• The Village
  

Documents:

• Eisenhower: The Domino Theory
• Review: JFK Inaugural
• The Tonkin Resolution
• President Johnson on Vietnam
• Robert McNamara on Vietnam
• General Vo Nguyen Giap
• President Nixon on Vietnam
• Chronology of the Vietnam War
• Other Vietnam & Cold War Documents (for additional study—optional reading)

Apr 26

16

Reagan, Bush, Clinton Years, to2001

• From Ford to 2001

Exam Passes are in Syallabus in Blackboard

Take Final Exam by Saturday, May 8. Review all material since Midterm.

NOTE: I STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you complete the final exam before May 8 to avoid crowds.

Course Ends May 10

History 122 | Writing Projects | Updated February 19, 2010