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MODERN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION |
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Spring 2006 M W F 12:00-1:00pm LH14 |
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| Professor:
Sarah Boyle Email: sboyle@binghamton.edu Office: LT608 Hours: M 4:00 - 5:30, W 2:00 - 3:30 |
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TEACHINIG
ASSISTANTS:
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| Stewart Anderson
Email: sanders3@binghamton.edu Office: LT805 Hours: TBA |
Loretta Charles Email: lcharle1@binghamton.edu Office: LT813 Hours: TBA |
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| Jeff Cronk Email: jcronk1@binghamton.edu Office: LSG 272 Hours: M 1-3 T 1-2 |
Derek Lan Email: Office: TBA Hours: TBA |
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| Eve Snyder Email: esnyder2@binghamton.edu Office: TU 3J Hours: M/W 10:30-12 |
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| This course explores social, political, and cultural trends in the United States from 1865 to the present. Lecture Decorum: Basic respect and maturity will be expected of everyone. Come to lecture on time. Do not talk during lecture. Do not fall asleep during lecture. Turn off all cell phones, pagers, etc. If you act inappropriately, I will ask you to leave. Let's not embarrass either one of us, all right? Discussion Participation: Your participation in discussion is 20% of your grade. Make the most of it! Come to discussion on time each week, and come prepared. Written Work: For 104a students: There will be three papers for this course, each 3-5 pages long. Topics TBA. There will be an in-class midterm and an in-class final. The midterm and the final will be a mixture of essay and short answer questions. For 104b students: There will be three papers for this course, each 5-7 pages long. Topics TBA. There will be a take-home midterm exam and an in-class final. The midterm exam will be an essay exam, for which you will be expected to produce a 5-7 page paper, and the final will be a mixture of short answer and essay. Paper Due Dates for Students in 104A/B: Paper #1 - February 24. Paper #2 - March 31. Paper #3 - May 5. Make Ups and Extensions: There will be no extensions for papers. Late papers will be graded down accordingly. Make up exams are given at the discretion of the professor and the teaching assistants, but anything short of severe illness or family crisis probably will not be considered grounds for a make-up exam. Plagiarism: If your teaching assistants or I discover anyone submitting plagiarized work as their own, he/she will fail the course and I will report him/her to the Academic Honesty Committee. Grading:
Hoffman and Gjerde, Major Problems in American History, vol. II Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi In addition to these texts, you are responsible for a large amount of material on the web. You need to print out web citations that are preceded with an asterick (*), read them, and bring them to section. Web sites that are not preceded with an asterick, you do not have to print out. However, you are still responsible for knowing the material they contain. |
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| WEEK 1 | January 23 - 27: THE LEGACY OF RECONSTRUCTION | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday: Intro to the Course Wednesday: Overview of Reconstruction Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 1 *"Freedmen's Bureau report of outrages in Louisiana--the case of Mary Stewart" http://freedmensbureau.com/louisiana/outrages/marystewart.htm Reports of murders in Georgia, 1865-1868 http://freedmensbureau.com/georgia/gaoutrages2.htm#Macon%201867 Index of marriages in Tennessee. Spend some time going through the names and reading the entries. Get a feel for the importance of marriage to the freed population. http://freedmensbureau.com/tennessee/marriages/tennesseemarriages.htm |
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| WEEK 2 | January 30 - February 3: THE WEST AND THE SOUTH | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday: The West: Conquest and
Conflict Wednesday: The South: The Rise of Jim Crow Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 2 *“A Red Record” Ida B. Wells (This is a document from a BU only database, so you need to be on campus or logged in on your BU account in order to access it) http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/wasm/wasmrestricted/aswpl/doc4.htm *“Their Own Hotheadedness: Senator Benjamin Tillman Defends Violence Against Southern Blacks” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/55 |
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| WEEK 3 | February 6 - 10: INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday: The Gilded Age Wednesday: The Progressive Era Assignments: *Herbert Gutman, “Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919” The American Historical Review 78:3 (June 1973), 531-588. Available through JSTOR. (JSTOR is available through the BU library's metaLINK databases, which can be found on the Bartle Library homepage.) *“United We Stand?: Tom Watson on Interracial Southern Populism” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5348 *“Carnegie Speaks: A Recording of the Gospel of Wealth” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5766 Virtual Tour of The Elms, Andrew Carnegie’s Newport Mansion http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/tour.html Virtual Tour of a Tenement Apartment Building, Lower East Side, NYC http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html *“Thugs for Hire: Ads for Security Agents” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5664 *“Working Her Fingers to the Bone: Agnes Nestor’s Story” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5728 *“The Great Debate: Gompers vs. Hilquit” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5757 |
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| WEEK 4 | February
13 - 17: ACTIVISM AND IMPERIALISM |
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| Monday: Racial Violence, Black
Resistance Wednesday: The Rise of A World Power Assignments: Major Problems, 98-106, 114-120 *“If You Believe the Negro Has a Soul: ‘Back to Africa’ with Marcus Garvey” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5124 *“Let Us Reason Together: W. E. B. DuBois Defends Black Resistance” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5128 *“We Thought the Street Would Be Heaven Itself: Black Migrants Speak Out” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5337 *“Don’t Have to Mister Every Little White Boy: Black Migrants Write Home” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5339 *“The Chicago Daily Tribune Reports the Chicago Race Riot, 1919” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4975 *“The Chicago Defender Reports the Chicago Race Riot, 1919” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4976 *“The White Man’s Burden” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478 *“The Real White Man’s Burden” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5477 *“The Black Man’s Burden” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5476 *Political Cartoons on imperialism (print out 3-5 and bring them to discussion) http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/us_intro.html |
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| WEEK 5 | February
20 - 24: THE PROGRESSIVES FIRST PAPER DUE! |
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| Monday: The Presidents Wednesday: The Reformers Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 5 *“Mind Your Business!: One Woman’s Encounter with Reformers” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5002 *“The Solitude of Self: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Appeals for Women’s Rights” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5315 *“A Heritage of Scorn: Frances Harper Urges a Color-Blind Case” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5316 |
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| WEEK 6 | February 27 - March 3: WORLD WAR I AND THE RED SCARE | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday: Film: Woodrow Wilson Wednesday: The Red Scare Assignments: Major Problems, 164-180 *The Sacco And Vanzetti Trial. Go Through the entire site and be ready to discuss the trial. Print out Sacco and Vanzetti's statements at sentencing and bring them to discussion http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm |
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| WEEK 7 | March 6 - 10: THE 1920S | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday: Midterm Wednesday: Cultural Conflict Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 7 |
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| WEEK 8 | March 13-17: HAVE A GOOD BREAK! | ||||||||||||||||
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| WEEK 9 | March 20 - 24: THE JAZZ AGE, THE CRASH, AND THE NEW DEAL | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday: The Jazz Age Wednesday: FDR and the New Deal Assignments: Terkel, Hard Times. Book One: "Hard Travelin'," "The Big Money," "Three Strikes." Book Two: "The Farmer is the Man." Book Three: "Concerning the New Deal," "An Unreconstructed Populist," "The Circuit Rider," "Scarlett Banners and Novenas." Book Five: "Evictions, Arrests, and Other Running Sores," "Strive and Succeed." |
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| WEEK 10 | March
27 - 31: THE DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II SECOND PAPER DUE! |
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| Monday: Labor Activism and Racial
Violence in 1930s America Wednesday: World War II: Over There Assignments: "Trio: Father Coughlin, Huey Long, and Upton Sinclair; Voices for the Disaffected in 1930s America." Read the entire project. Because of its length and because if its extensive use of photographs and video, you do not have to print out the site. However, you are responsible for knowing the information. So take notes as you read. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Kidd/thesis/index.html *The Scottsboro trial. Print out the trial account by Douglas Linder and bring to discussion. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm *"The Republic is Imperiled: John L. Lewis Warns of Ignoring Laboring People" http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5135 *“Orville Quick Remembers Pearl Harbor” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/139 *“I Saw the Walking Dead: A Black Soldier Remembers Buchenwald” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/142 |
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| WEEK 11 | April 3 - 7: WORLD WAR II AND THE AGE OF CONTAINMENT | |
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| Monday: World War II: The Home Front Wednesday: The Age of Containment Assignments: Major Problems, 270-277, 293-308 *Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery" http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html Classic TV Ads. Navigate using the categories menu on the right. http://www.roadode.com/classicindex.shtml |
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| WEEK 12 | April 10 - 14: THE COLD WAR | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday: Film: Dr. Strangelove,
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Wednesday: Cold War Culture Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 10 |
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| WEEK 13 | April 17-21: COLD WAR, CONCL. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday: NO CLASS Wednesday: JFK, Nixon, and the Cold War Assignments: Interview with Henry Kissinger on Nixon's China visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/sfeature/kissinger.html *John F. Kennedy's address to the nation on the Cuban missile crisis (Be patient. this page is slow to load) http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkcubanmissilecrisis.html |
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| WEEK 14 | April 24-28: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday: Post World War II and the
1950s Wednesday: The 1960s and 1970s Assignments: Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi *Civil Rights Movement Veterans, oral histories and memoirs. Got to "Our Stories." Print out one memior or interview and bring to discussion. This page uses frames. It will not print properly if you just hit the button on the tool bar. So in order to print, do the following: in Internet Explorer, right click on the page you want and select the "print" option. In Netscape, right click on the page you want, select the frames option and click on "show this frame only." Then print. http://www.crmvet.org/ |
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| WEEK 15 | May 2
- 5: VIETNAM AND CULTURE WARS THIRD PAPER DUE! |
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| Monday: The War in Vietnam Wednesday: Culture Wars Assignments: Major Problems, 374-385, chapter 14. |
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| WEEK 16 | May 8 - 12: THE 1980S AND THE 1990S | ||||||||||||||||
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| Monday:1980s Wednesday: 1990s Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 15 |
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