Interactive Schedule of Assignments
NOTE: This schedule is subject to change and modification as needs arise. You should check for modifications with regularity.
Hot Links will appear on this schedule as they become available.
REVISION DATE: 11/13/06
Week 1: Reconstruction
M 8/21: Course introduction,
Reconstruction: A Time of Uncertainty
W 8/23: Give Me
Week 2: The Gilded Age and the West
M 8/28: GML: Chap. 16
Lecture: Miracles of Science
W 8/30: Lecture: The Wild
West and Real West in American Culture
Week 3: Populism and Imperialism
M 9/4: GML: Chap 17. Understanding what drove Populism
W 9/6: Imperialism: Attitudes and
Anxieties: The White Man’s Burden and the Black Man’s Frustration
Week 4: Turn-of-the-Century
M 9/11: Test 1
Tuesday Night 9/12: Screening
of Ragtime
W 9/12: GML: Chap 18,
Johnson: Chap 1-7. Why the Progressives were like Velveeta Cheese
Week 5: World War I
M: 9/18: Johnson: Chap 8-end.
Wilsonian ideas of diplomacy
W 9/20: GML: Chap 19. The grim task of putting the Great War in perspective.
Week 6: The Jazz Age and the Great Depression
M 9/25: GML: Chap 20: The
Twenties in all their contradictory glory.
W 9/27: Gangsters and the
Jazz Age: American Music, our most widely-appreciated unsolicited gift to the
world.
Week 7: The New Deal
M 10/2: Test 2
W 10/4: GML: 21. The New Deal
in context: A dangerous neighborhood: Longism and
Fascism
Week 8:
M 10/9: Fall Break
W 10/11: GML: 22 to page 755. Hillerman Chap 1-9. The Clouds of War. Max Schmeling and Joe Louis.
Information about the fight, rematch, and radio broadcasts of both.
Week 9: No Class – Instructor out of town. Be reading Hillerman,
Chaps. 10-14 and GML 22.
Week 10: World War II and the “Greatest Generation”
M 10/23: Hillerman,
Chap 10-14. A Shameless Military History of The War:
Guns, Bombs, and Explosions, Oh My!
Tuesday Night 10/24:
Screening of The Best Years of Our Lives
W 10/25: Discussion of film and Hillerman
Week 11: World War II: Demobilization and homecomings
M 10/30:
W 11/1: Test 3 (Note, NEW DATE)
Week 12:
M 11/6: GML: 23. Truman and The Cold War. Hillerman, Chap, 15-16
W 11/8:
Week 13:
M 11/13:
W 11/15: No class, instructor
at conference
Week 14: Thanksgiving. Eat a
Week 15: Coming apart at the seams: the 1960s and 70s
M 11/27:
Tuesday Night 11/28: Screening
of Wallace documentary (both parts)
W 11/29:
Week 16: Unfinished Business
M 12/4
Tuesday Night 12/5:
Re-Screening of Wallace documentary (both parts – part II will be shown first).
W 12/6:
