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AMERICA BETWEEN THE WARS, 1919-1941 |
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Spring 2006 M W F 9:40 - 10:40am SW 231 |
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| Professor:
Sarah Boyle Email: sboyle@binghamton.edu Office: TBA Hours: M 4:00 - 5:30, W 2:00 - 3:30 |
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| This course is an exploration of American society and culture during the the interwar era. Classroom Decorum: Come to class on time. Turn off all cellphones and pagers before class begins. Do not carry on private conversations during class. This course will combine lectures with classroom discussion and, occasionally, films. Classroom participation is 20% of your grade, so come prepared to contribute each week. Written Work: There will be three written assignments in this course: two papers and one midterm exam. Paper #1: Every student will be responsible for delivering a lecture to the class. For this assignment, you will be grouped into teams of four or five. You may divide the work amongst you any way you see fit, but every student is responsible for the following: a 10-15 minute presentation and a 5-7 page paper on the required topic. The paper is due one week after the lecture is given. Paper #2: The 1920s and 1930s had a succession of sensationalistic trials that captured the popular imagination. In a 5-7 page paper, you will analyze how ONE of these trials relates to one or more of the themes of the course. Transcripts and information on these trials can be found at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm. Other outside sources are acceptable, but they must be cleared with me at least one week in advance. The second paper is due at the beginning of class on May 12th. Midterm exam: The midterm will be a take-home essay exam. You will receive the exam questions one week before the exam is due. Completed exams must be submitted to me at the beginning of class on March 10th. Make Ups and Extensions: There will be no extensions for written work Late work will be marked down accordingly. Plagiarism: I will go over the proper way to cite sources in class. If you improperly cite a source after I have reviewed the procedures with you, I will mark you down for it. If you flat-out submit any work that is not your own (e.g. printing something off the web or using a friend's paper), and I discover it, you will fail the course, and I will report you to the Academic Honest Committee. Grading:
Goldberg, Discontented America: the United States in the 1920s Gordon, Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945 Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression In addition to these texts, you are also responsible to material on the web. Web sites listed with an asterick (*) should be printed out and brought to class. Websites without the asterick do not need to be printed out, but you are still responsible for the material therein. |
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| WEEK 1 | January
23 - 27: OVERVIEW OF COURSE |
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Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 1 |
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| WEEK 2 | January
30 - February 3: THE RED SCARE |
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Assignments: Discontented America, 41-44 *"Robert Benchley on 'The Making of a Red'" http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4982 *Emma Goldman on her deportation http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/15 *The 1919 Steelworkers' Strike (look over all the documents, and print out two or three that you think are most relevant. Be prepared to explain your choices) http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/7 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/8 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/9 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/10 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/11 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/12 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/106 |
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| WEEK 3 | February
6 - 10: FROM THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO THE POLITICS OF BUSINESS |
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Assignments: Discontented America, chapters 2 and 3 Major Problems, 36-45, 219-229 |
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| WEEK 4 | February
13 - 17: THE FATE OF LABOR AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT |
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Assignments: Discontented America, chapter 4 Major Problems, chapter 3 *"How Did Women Peace Activists Respond to 'Red Scare' Attacks During the 1920s?" (Print otu the introduction to the project and 3-5 documents that you found especially interesting/informative/relevant) http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wilpf/intro.htm |
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| WEEK 5 | February
20 - 24: NATIVISM IN THE 1920S |
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Assignments: Major Problems, pp. 153-159, 165-180 Discontented America, chapters 6 and 7 *Immigration Quotas, 1925-1927 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5078 *A Congressman Denounces Quotas http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5079 *A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restrictions http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5080 *White Sheets in Washington, DC http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6689 |
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| WEEK 6 | February 27 - March 3: BLACK AMERICA: RESISTANCE AND RENAISSANCE | ||||||||||||||||
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Assignments: Major Problems, 128-135 Discontented America, chapter 5 *The First Pan-African Congress, 1919 http://members.tripod.com/~DuBois/pan19.html *“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 *Zora Neale Hurston's first story http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5131 *Advertisement from the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6786 |
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| WEEK 7 | March
6 - 10: FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANITY MIDTERMS
DUE! |
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Assignments: Write midterm |
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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 AND MODERNIST SENSIBILITIES | ||||||||||||||||
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Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 4 *A Modern Marriage http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5081 *Robert Benchley Satirizes Science http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5098 *Debating Bobbed Hair http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5117 *The flapper on Life magazine http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6684 |
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| WEEK 10 | March
27 - 31: A CONSUMER CULTURE |
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Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 9 Print out one of the first four documents: Model Kitchens http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6665 Automobile Advertisement http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6666 Cigarette Advertisement http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6667 "Music and Milking Time" http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6668 *"Kissing Valentino" http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/21 *"Movie Dreams and Movie Injustice" http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/23 *"From Cowboys to Clara Bow" http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/22 *The Rise of a Baseball Fan http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5087 |
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| WEEK 11 | April 3 - 7: RURAL AMERICA | |
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Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 5 |
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| WEEK 12 | April
10 - 14: CRASH! |
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Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 7 |
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| WEEK 13 | April
17-21: FDR AND THE NEW DEAL |
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Assignments: Terkel, Hard Times, books 3-5 Major Problems, 315-336 |
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| WEEK 14 | April
24-28: VOICES OF DISSENT |
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Assignments: Terkel, Hard Times, books 1 and 2 "Trio: Father Coughlin, Huey Long, and Upton Sinclair; Voices for the Disaffected in 1930s America" http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Kidd/thesis/index.html |
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| WEEK 15 | May 2
- 5: THE RE-BIRTH OF LABOR |
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Assignments: Major Problems, chapter 12 |
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| WEEK 16 | May 8 - 12: RACE IN 1930S AMERICA | ||||||||||||||||
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