Documents listed below are required reading.
Writing Projects

Jan 14

Intro

Introduction: Distance learning requires you to be a self starter. The materials on your right --> are designed to help you succeed. My goal is for everyone to complete the course with a good grade.
Post Introduction in Blackboard.

• Read Syllabus and Course Policy
• Read Blackboard Instructions & Course Description and Objectives
• See How to Succeed, Test Taking, Study Hints, Writing Tips, Grading policy & How to Avoid Plagiarism pages.
• Visit the ELI Orientation Page.

Jan 21

1

Part 1: America 1865-1900

RECONSTRUCTION: “America's Unfinished Revolution”

• Introduction
• Legacy of the Civil War
• Lincoln's View
• Radical Reconstruction
• Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Election of 1868
• The End of Reconstruction & the Compromise of 1877
• Aftermath
  

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

Jan 28

2

The Gilded Age

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

Documents:

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

Feb 4

3

Gilded Age 2

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

Take Quiz 1 this week—by Monday, February 11. All readings through this week are included.

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 
• Upton Sinclair: The Jungle

Feb 11

4

Part 2: America Looks Outward

Progressivism under Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson

• Introduction
• Progressivism
• Roosevelt’s Reforms
• Election of 1912
• Wilson's Progressivism
• The Socialist Alternative

First Essay Due this Week

• Theodore Roosevelt on Progressivism
• T. Roosevelt on Labor
• T. Roosevelt on Conservation
• Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
• The Socialist Party Platform of 1912
• T. Roosevelt's Acceptance Speech 1912

Discussion Forum 1

Inactive students will be dropped February15.

Feb 18

5

The Age of Imperialism

• Introduction
• Ambivalent Empire
• Mahan and Sea Power
• United States and Asia
• Imperial Europe
  

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

Feb 25

6

Woodrow Wilson and World
War I: “The Yanks are Coming”

• WWI Background
• America and World War I
• The Versailles Treaty & the 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

Mar 3

7

Mar 10

8

Part 3: America 1920-1945

• Introduction

THE ROARING TWENTIES

• Twenties Introduction
• Summary of the 1920s
• 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

Mar 17

9

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

Second Essay Due this Week

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

Mar 24

10

AMERICA AND WORLD WAR II

• World War II Background
• The Rise of Nazi Germany

Last Date to withdraw without grade penalty: March 26

Documents:

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

Mar 31

11

World War II: The “Good War”

• World War II: The "Good War"
• World War II: Pacific
• World War II: Europe

Third Essay Due this Week

Documents:

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

Apr 7

12

World War II Continued

• The Air War Over Germany
• The Home Front
• Summary: Diplomacy & Chronology
• Legacy of World War II
• Resources

Take Quiz #2 this week.

Documents:

• FDR Third Inaugural
• FDR Fourth Inaugural
• Hiroshima

Discussion Forums 2-4

Review all material since Midterm

Apr 14

13

Part 4: Postwar America: The Cold War

• The Legacy of World War II
• Introduction: Cold War
• 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”

Apr 21

14

Domestic Issues in Postwar America

• The 1940s and 1950s: Truman and Eisenhower
• Automobile Age
• Civil Rights Introduction
• The Modern Civil Rights Movement
• The 1960s: Kennedy & Johnson
• 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
• JFK on Space Exploration
• Johnson's Great Society
• The National Organization for Women
• The Port Huron Statement

Apr 28

15

Vietnam

• The Vietnam War Home
• 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)

May 5

16

Take Final Exam this week. Review all material since Midterm.

Exam Passes are in Exams & Quizzes in Blackboard

History 122 | Writing Projects | Updated May 5, 2008