American History, 1877-Present
Dr. Patrick D. Reagan

          
History 2020-021 (#10892)				Dr. Reagan
9:40-11:40 MTWRF					Summer 2007
HH 205							HH109

Instructor Information

Office: Henderson Hall 109
Office Hours: MTWRF before and after class
Telephone: 372-3342 (office), 372-3332 (message), 528-3998 (home)
E-mail: preagan@tntech.edu
Professional Experience of Dr. Reagan

Course Requirements

• Review course web site
• Learn to use TTU History web site
• Read sections on Study Tips first week and before examinations.
• Class attendance and participation (up to 10 bonus points)
• Examination-- June 8 (100 points)
• Examination-- June 19 (100 points)
• Final essay examination-- June 29 (100 points)
• Final Grade based on points earned:
  A=180-200 points
  B=160-179
  C=140-159
  D=120-139
  F=below 120
• To pass course, all requirements must be met on time and all exams taken. Plagiarism--representing someone elese's work as your own--or cheating of any kind will result in failure for the course.

Disability Accommodations

Students with a disability requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Disability Services (ODS). An Accommodation Request (AR) should be completed as soon as possible, preferably by the end of the first week of classes. The ODS is located in the Roaden University Center, Room 112, telephone 372-6119.

Study Tips for History Classes

• Understanding University Success (Center for Educational Policy Research)
• David Bollier, "Reclaiming the Commons: why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment," Boston Review 27 (Summer 2002)
• Facing History and Ourselves: Examining History and Human Behavior
• Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
• Textbook Information on the Internet
• Connecting Information [TTU Computer center]
• History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
• A Tour Through the Internet for History Students
• Especially for Researchers (Library of Congress)
• Locating Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)
• A Student's Guide to the Study of History (S. Kreis)
• TTU Student Handbook
• How to Succeed as a Student (K. Bucknall)
• Counseling Center (Tennessee Technological University)
• Counseling Center Workshops, TTU
• Study Guides and Strategies (University of St. Thomas)
• The Learning Strategies Database (Muskingum College)
• Content-Specific Learning Strategies for History
  (The Learning Strategies Database, Muskingum College)
• Tips for History Students (Ohio State University)
• How to Read a Book (P.N. Edwards, University of Michigan)
• Critical Reading (D. Kurland)
• Guides to Historical Research (University of Washington Library)
• Study Guides for History Classes
• How to Prepare for and Take Essay Examinations
• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (M. Harvey, Washington College)
• Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students (P. Rael, Bowdoin College)
• A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW (C. Branham, St. Louis University)

Required Book

• Steven M. Gillon and Cathy D. Matson. The American Experiment: A History of the United States, Volume II: Since 1865, second edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006). (Text below)
• The American Experiment by Gillon and Matson web site (Houghton Mifflin)

Course Themes

• Changes in political values and party dominance over time
• Economic changes and impact on people (Society and Culture)
• Changing place of minorities in United States
  (Indians, immigrants, dissenters, women, and blacks)
• Foreign policy changes, wars, and U.S. role in the world

Reading Assignments with
Lecture and Discussion Schedule

Readings should be completed before/during the day assigned for.

Changes in Postwar America

Assignment: Text, pp. xxi-xxvi and pp. 611-712
Internet Resources:

• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
  
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project (University of Maryland, College Park)
  
• African-American History and Studies
  
• WestWeb: Western History Resource (C. Lavender, College of Staten Island, CUNY)
  
• Center of the American West (University of Colorado at Boulder)
• Western History Collections: Photo Archives [focus on 1870-1940 period]
  (University of Oklahoma Libraries)
  
• New Perspectives on the West (WETA/PBS)
  
• The West and the Frontier in American Culture (American Library Association)
  
• History of the American West (Denver Public Library)
  
• Exploring the Life and History of the "Buffalo Soldiers" (W. Hill, National Archives)
  
• Native American History and Studies
  
• Picturing Business in America: Hedcuts from the Wall Street Journal (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
  
• The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie (The American Experience/PBS)
• Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum (Dunfermline Fife)
• Edison National Historic Site (National Park Service)
  
• Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904
  (American Memory Project, Lib. of Congress)
  

Industrialization, 1870's-1900

Assignment: Text, pp. 713-924, Study for examination, Text pp. 804-917
Internet Resources:

• Labor History on the Internet
• World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893)
  
• 1896 Presidential Election (R. Edwards, Vassar College)
  
• City Sites: Multimedia Essays on New York and Chicago, 1870's-1930s (University of Birmingham Press)
  
• Three Cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: Literary and Visual Representations of Three American Cities, 1870s to 1930s
  (University of Nottingham and University of Birmingham, U.K.)
  
• Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway (International Channel)
  
• Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty--Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
  
• Save Ellis Island
• Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota)
  
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era U.S. History Internet Resources
  
• Jazz Age Chicago: Urban Leisure from 1893 to 1934 (S.A. Newman)
  
• Jane Addams: Mother of the World (Swarthmore College)
  
• Jane Addams Manuscript Collection (Swarthmore College)
  
• Jane Addams' Hull House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago
  
• Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 (Hull House/University of Illinois, Chicago)
  
• Rediscoring Jane Addams Conference, February 1-2,2002 (Swarthmore College)
  
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States (Internet Public Library)
  
• Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (1954, 1963)
• George E. Mowy, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 (1958)
• Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  
• Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Libary of Congress, 1759-1919
  
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
  
• 1912: Competing Visions for America (Ohio State University)
  
• Temperance and Prohibition (K.A. Kerr, Ohio State University)
  
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (Harvard University)
  
• African-American History
  
• Black History Month
  
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  
• Susan B. Anthony University Center (University of Rochester)
  
• Women's Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls, NY)
  
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online (Rutgers University)
• The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (University of South Carolina)
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
  (class materials from National Archives and Records Administration)
  
• "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1860-1920
  (Library of Congress)
  
• 95/75, 75th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage in America (University of Rochester)
  
• The Age of Imperialism (Small Planet Communications)
• Chronology of the Spanish-American War (Library of Congress)
• The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War
  (Hispanic Division, Library of Congress)
• The Spanish-American War Centennial Website
• Remember the Maine (Maine PBS)
• A Special Report, "What Really Sank the Maine,"
  edited by Thomas B. Allen Naval History magazine
• William McKinley and the Spanish-American War (Ohio State University)
• The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The U.S Army in the War with Spain (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
• Events--Spanish-American War (U.S. Naval Historical Center)
• U.S. Warships of the Spanish American War
  (American Military History Web Rng
• Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  (site of U.S.S. Olympia, Commodore George Dewey's flagship at Battle of Manila Bay
• 1898: La Guerra Hispano Americana en Puerto Rico
• Centennial of the War of 1898
  (Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá)
• A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish-American Conflict (New York Public Library)
• Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Perspectives (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Annexation of Hawaii: A Collection of Documents
  (University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries)
• Philippine History 101 (Tribung Pinoy)
• BoondocksNet.com (Jim Zwick)
• Philippine-American War Centennial Initiative
• The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, John M. Gates (Wooster College)
• First World War.com: The War to End All Wars
• WWI: The World War I Document Archive
  
• World War I: Trenches on the Web
  
• World War I Document Archive (Brigham Young University)
  
• The Great War: 80 Years on (BBC News)
  
• The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  

Progressive Reform and Making the World Safe for Democracy, 1901-1920

Assignment: Text, pp. 898-1033, 1041-1052
Internet Resources:

• Red Scare (Baruch College Library, CUNY)
  
• Seattle General Strike Project (Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington)
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (1931)
• Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s (Ohio State University)
• Kulturkampfen ("Wars for Civilization") of the 1920s (Assumption College)
• The 1920s (K.P. Rayburn, University of Louisville)
• Felix Frankfurter, "The Case of Sacco and Vanzatti," The Atlantic Monthly, March 1927
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Centennial Celebration (University of South Carolina)
• The World of Gertrude Stein
• Who Won the Debate Over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s?
  (Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000 (SUNY, Binghamton)
• The Henry Ford [Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Benson Ford Research Center]
• Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
• History of Country Music (Roughstock Productions)
• Tennessee vs. John Scopes: The "Monkey Trial"
  (Famous American Trials site at University of Missouri, Kansas City Law School)
• The Scopes Evolution Trial of 1925 (Rhea County, Tennessee site)
• Ku Klux Klan (American Radicalism Collection, Michigan State University Libraries)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
  [March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem number] (Library of Virginia)
• William P. Gottlieb Photographs of the Golden Age of Jazz (Music Division, Library of Congress)
• The History of Jazz (D. Morgenstern)
• Club Kaycee [Kansas City Jazz of the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's] (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
• Swinging Through Time: The Graystone Museum and the Story of Detroit Jazz (Internet Public Library)
• Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
• The 1920s (K.P. Rayburn, University of Louisville)
  
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  
• Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (1931)
  
• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum (West Branch, Iowa)
• "The Great Depression," 1993 film series by Blackside Films
• Teaching about the Great Depression
• Transiency in the Great Depression (C. Pound, SFSU)
  
• Riding the Rails (film about hoboes in the 1930's
  
• Riding the Rails
  
• Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940
  
• Southern Folklife Collection (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Heritage Center, Inc. (Worcester, MA)
  
• FDR Cartoon Archive (Niskayuna High School, New York)
  
• The New Deal Network (Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University))
  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center
  
• Roosevelt and the New Deal (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
• America From the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project)
  
• TVA: Electricity for All (New Deal Network)
  
• From the New Deal to a New Century: A Short History of the TVA (official TVA site)
  
• History Page (Social Security Administration)
  
• The Great Flint Sitdown [1937] (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)
  
• The Battle of the Overpass [May 1937] (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)
  
• Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 (Historical Voices.org)
• Labor in the 1930s Bibliography (New Deal Network)
  
• A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979 (George Meany Memorial Archives)
  
• By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  
• New Deal Cultures: National and Local Resources (Center for History and the New Media)
  
• National New Deal Preservation Association
  
• New York State Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
  
• The New Deal Art Project (Syracuse University Library)
  
• Works Progress Administration [WPA] Art (Chicago Public Schools Art Collection)
  
• Picture Archive: Photographs of the Great Depression, 1935-1942 [FSA photographs] (Corbis)
  
• The Second World War: A Selected Bibliography (Yale University Library)
  
• Bibliography from National World War II Memorial
• World War II: A Selected List of References [June 1992] (Humanities and Social Science Division, Library of Congress)
  
• World War II in Europe (Felician College)
  
• World War II Timeline (University of San Diego)
  
• World War II Links on the Internet (University of San Diego)
  
• World War II links (Steerforth Press)
  
• Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library [Adobe Acrobat .pdf format files] (Southern Methodist University)
  
• World War II Resources: Primary source materials on the Web (L.W. Jewell)
  
• Pearl Harbor: A Bibliography (Minneapolis Public Library)
  
• Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic Society)
  
• Pearl Harbor Remembered (D. Schaaf)
  
• The Day After the Day Which Will Live in Infamy: "Man on the Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (American Folklife Collection, Library of Congress)
  
• Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)
• The Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings (L.W. Jewell)
  
• The War (PBS documentary film about World War II)
• World War II Resources on the Internet (Miami University)
  
• World War II pictures (Corbis)
  
• The World War II Picture of the Day
  
• Go for Broke Educational Foundation (100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II)
• Operation Overlord, D-Day, June 6, 1944: A Select Bibliography (Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, KS)
• Normandy (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
  
• D-Day Web: The Real Normandy (T. White)
  
• National D-Day Museum (New Orleans, LA)
  
• Historical Archives, Eisenhower Center for American Studies (University of New Orleans)
  
• American Aces of World War II (S. Sherman)
  
• International Midway Memorial Foundation [Battle of Midway, June 4-5, 1942]
  
• DoD Celebrates African American History Month (U.S. Department of Defense)
• History of Black Military Service
  (Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
  
• African-Americans the the U.S. Navy (Navy Historical Center)
  
• Tuskegee Airmen (Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)
  
• 50th Anniversary of the Integration of the Armed Forces
  (Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
  
• Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II (Library of Congress)
  
• The National World War II Memorial
  
• World War II Registry of Remembrances (National World War II Memorial)
  
• Audie Murphy Memorial Web Site (R.L. Rodgers)
  
• Brief History of the Corps (Marine Corps Historical Center)
  
• U.S. Marine Corps History and Museums Division: Gateway to Marine Corps History
  
• United States Straqtegic Bombing Survey web site (W.D. O'Neil)
• Atomic Archive (AJ Software & Multimedia)
  
• Trinity Atomic Test Site and High Energy Weapons Archive
  
• Enola Gay Exhibit (National Air and Space Museum)
  
• A-Bomb WWW Museum (Hiroshima, Japan)
  
• Enola Gay Controversy Home Page
  
• Remembering Nagasaki
  
• Doomsday Clock (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
  

From Prosperity to Depression, 1920-1941

From the "Good War" to the Cold War, 1939-1950

Assignment: Text, pp. 1033-1082, Study for examination, Text, pp. 1082-1201 after exam
Internet Resources:

• American Women and the World War II Experience (University of Illinois)
  
• What did you do in the war, Grandma? An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II (South Kingston High School)
  
• Jill and Al: World War II's Biggest and Best Letter Archive (Grazian Archive)
  
• World War II Propaganda Posters
  
• Holocaust and Jewish Studies Sites (D. Graf, Virginia Wesleyan College)
  
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.)
  
• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University)
  
• Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
  
• Holocaust Education Resources (Center for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, UK)
  
• A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979 (George Meany Memorial Archives)
  
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 (NEH/Berkeley SunSITE)
• National Japanese American Memorial Foundation
• Japanese American Voice
• United Nations 50th Anniversary page
  
• Robert Griffith, "Un-Tangling the Web of Cold War Studies, or, How One Historian Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet," Journal of Multimedia History 3 (2000).
  
• The Cold War (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
  
• Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
  
• Russian History Index (WWW Virtual Library)
  
• Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress)
  
• White House Offices and Agencies (Official site)
  
• U.S. Department of State (official site)
  
• National Security Council (Official site)
  
• The National Security Archive (George Washington University)
  
• McCarthyism (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
  
• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, 5 vols., 83rd Cong., 1st and 2nd sess., 1953-1954 [Army-McCarthy Hearings] (made public January 2003)
  
• The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth
  
• Korean War Project
• The Korean War (Project Whistlestop: Truman Digital Archive Project)
• 50th Anniversary of the Korean War
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• 50th Anniversary of the Integration of the Armed Forces
  (Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
  
• Guide to Web Resources for the Study of the History of the United States Since 1945 (R. Griffith, American University)
  
• Project WhistleStop (Harry S. Truman Library, University of Missouri, Columbia, and others)
  
• Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb (P. B. Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago)
  
• The Fifties (Lakewood High School, Ohio)
  
• Center for the Study of the American South (University of North Carolina)
  
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture (University of Mississippi)
  
• Elvis Presley Web Sites
  
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s (A. Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Jump, Jim Crow or, What Difference Did Emancipation Make? (University of California, Berkeley)
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (Ferris State University)
• The History of Jim Crow
• 50th Anniversary of the Integration of the Armed Forces
  (Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
• The Forgotten Leagues: The Official Site of the Forgotten Negro Baseball Leagues
• Negro Leagues Baseball Online Archive
• Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers (1947-1997)
• Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
  (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Literary Kicks (Beat Generation) site
  
• The Sixties: A Bibliography (Kent H. Manno)
  
• The Peace Corps
  
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration History Office (NASA)
  
• National Space Agency Historical Archive (NASA)
  
• NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis (U.S. National Security Agency)
  
• The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (National Security Archive)
  
• The National Security Archive (George Washington University)
  
• The Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc. (University of Virginia)
  
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Ciivil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 [1987, 2006] (American Experience, PBS)
• Voices of the Civil Rights Era
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (Seattle Times)
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (Stanford University)
  
• Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, GA)
  
• Selma to Montgomery March [March 21-26, 1965]
  
• National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tennessee)
  
• Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee
  (B. L. Lovett and L. T. Wynn, Tennessee State University)
  
• The Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975 (Vassar College)
  
• Vietnam War Bibliography (R. Jensen)
  
• Vietnam War Related Internet Sites (University of Houston)
  
• The Vietnam War Newsgroup (Soc.History.War.Vietnam)
  
• The My Lai Massacre: A Case Study (Major T. Raimondo)
  
• Vietnam Veterans Home Page
  
• Vietnam Veterans Against the War
  
• Vietnam POW/MIA Database (Library of Congress) [Searchable]
  
• Vietnam: Stories Since the War (P.O.V./PBS)
  
• The Sixties (MetroNews and SC Foundation)
  
• Counterculture of The Sixties
  
• The Village Voice Worldwide
  
• Communal Studies Association
  
• Concise Bibliography of the Haight-Ashbury (Museum of the City of San Francisco)
  
• The Diggers Archives: The San Francisco Diggers (1966-1968)
  
• The Farm (Summertown, Tennessee)
  
• J. M. Mancini, "Vox Pop: Reviving the Folk Revival," Common-Place 3 (October 2002)
  
• McGuinn's Folk Den (R. McGuinn)
  
• The Fillmore (San Francisco, California)
  
• Woodstock Festival & Concert (1969)
  
• Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland, Ohio)
  
• The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968 (Brown Univrsity)
• Historians Ask Congress to Suspend Nixon [Papers] Transfer (National Security Archive)
• Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace (Yorba Linda, CA)Watergate 25 (Washington Post)
  
• Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers Collection (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas)

Abundance, Liberal Reform, and Troubled Times, 1945-1974

Our Times: Whither Goest Thou, America?

Assignment: Text, pp. 1201-1309 and Study for final examination
Internet Resources:

• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  
• The Pill (American Experience, PBS)
  
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Special Collections Library, Duke University)
  
• Gender History and Studies
  
• The Sierra Club--A Proud History (official site)
  
• Jimmy Carter (American Experience, PBS)
  
• Meltdown at Three Mile Island [March 28, 1979) [American Experience, PBS)
• The Carter Center (Atlanta, GA)
  
• RonaldReaganWeb.com
• American Conservative Union Links to Other Resources
• The '80s Server
• The Gulf War (Frontline, PBS)
  
• The Clinton Years (ABC News Nightline and PBS Frontline)
  
• Clinton Presidential Materials Project (National Archives and Records Administration)
  
• Electronic Field Trip to the United Nations (PBS)
  
• Bosnia
  
• Assessing the New Federalism (The Urban Institute)
  
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• workingfamilies.com: The AFL-CIO Internet Community
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• (Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Economic Policy Institute
• Money Income in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Poverty in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• Connect for Kids: Guidance for Grown-Ups
• If Not Now.Com
  
• Women: The Shadow Story of the Millenium (New York Times Magazine)
  
• Future Labor and Skills Shortage Threatens America's Economic Prosperity (Employment Policy Foundation)
  
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
  
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
  
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• United Way State of Caring Index: A Summary Measure of Americans' Capacity to Care for One Another
  
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. (U.S. Census Bureau)
  
• Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
• Money Income in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
  
• Poverty in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
  
• Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
  
• Assessing the New Federalism (The Urban Institute)
  
• U.S. Census Bureau WWW Site
  
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• National Council on Public Polls
  
• Gallup Opinion Polls online
  
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (University of Conn.)
  
• Computer History Museum
• Guides for Using the Internet (TTU History web site)
  
• American Public Opinion & U.S. Foreign Policy 1999
  (Chicago Council on Foreign Relations)
  
• What the World Thinks in 2002: How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
• Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)
• 911: Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)
• Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
• 9/11 Public Discourse Project [ten-member 9/11 Commission followup group after release of final report]
• America's War Against Terrorism: World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorism and the Aftermath (Documents Center, University of Michigan)
• Information Sources On Afghanistan and International Terorrism
  
• Television and the War on Terrorism: The War at Home and Abroad
  (Museum of Television & Radio)
  
• Defend America: U.S. Department of Defense News About the War on Terrorism
  
• Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, October 2002 (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency report)
  
• A Nation at War (New York Times
  
• War in Iraq (Washington Post)
  
• The Mideast: A Century of Conflict (NPR--National Public Radio)
  
• Michael Ignatieff, "The Burden," The New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003
  
• Joseph S. Nye, "Limits of American Power," Political Science Quarterly 117 (Winter 2002-2003): 545-559.
  
• Carl Kaysen, Steven E. Miller, Martin B. Malin, William d. Nordhaus, John D. Steinbruner, "War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives"
  (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
  
• The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict
  Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph # 8, C. Conetta, 20 October 2003
• Iraq: The Human Cost (Center for International Studies, MIT)
• C. C. Crane and W. A. Terrill, "Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario," February 2003
  (Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College)
  
• Bounding the Global War on Terrorism, Dr. Jeffrey Record (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College)
• Walter Laqueur, "The Terrorism to Come," Policy Review, August 2004
• Crisis with Iraq (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
  
• North Korea and Nuclear Weapons (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
  
• 100 Questions About Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide (Detroit Free Press)
  
• Frontline documentary series (PBS)
• The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• The Choice 2004 (Frontline, PBS)
• Bibliography on War in Iraq, Bush Administration, and Election of 2004 (Patrick D. Reagan, Ph.D.)
• Report to the President, March 31, 2005, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
• The Leaked Iraq War Documents [The Sunday Times, London, U.K.]
• Reports from The Future of Iraq Project (U.S. Department of State)
• Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
• Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion (Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
• The Terrorism Index by Foreign Policy magaine & The Center For American Progress, June 2006
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• The Jefferson Project
  
• The Freedom Forum
  
• Almanac of American Politics
  
• The Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2000 (American Museum of the Moving Image)
  
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
  
• U.S. Election Campaign Information

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