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

          
History 2020-002 (#82836)                            	Dr. Reagan
12:20-1:15 MWF                                          Fall 2008
HH 205                                                  HH 109

Instructor Information

Office: Henderson Hall 109
Office Hours: 10-11 a.m. MWF and by appointment
Telephone: 372-3342 (office), 372-3332 (message), 528-3998 (home)
E-mail: preagan@tntech.edu
Professional Experience of Dr. Reagan

Course Requirements

Read section on Study Tips below first week and before examinations.

This course is expected to help students achieve several General Education Outcome Goals. A description of these goals can be found on the TTU web site at http://www.tntech.edu/UGCAT/html/university_requirements_for_a_ba.asp Read the information carefully.

• Class attendance and active participation (up to 10 bonus points)
• Examination-- September 29 (100 points)
• Examination-- October 27 (100 Points)
• Final essay examination-- December 10 (100 points)
• Final Grade based on total points earned:
  A = 270-300 points
  B = 240-269 points
  C = 210-239 points
  D = 180-209 points
  F = below 180 points
• No extra credit assignments will be offered
  
• To pass course, all requirements must be met on time and all examinations taken.

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
• Tennessee Tech Bookstore (Barnes & Noble)
• Especially for Researchers (Library of Congress)
• Locating Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)
• FTX Bookstore
• The Learning Strategies Database (Muskingum College)
• Content-Specific Learning Strategies for History
  (The Learning Strategies Database, Muskingum College)
• How to Succeed as a Student (K. Bucknall)
• 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)
• How to Prepare for and Take Essay Examinations
  
• A Student's Guide to the Study of History (S. Kreis)
• 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
• Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (Bartleby.com)
• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (M. Harvey, Washington College)
• Online Student Writing Labs
• 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 Books

• Steven M. Gillon and Cathy D. Matson. The American Experiment: A History of the United States, second edition. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006). (Referred to as Text below.)
• Web site for Gillon and Matson
• Stephen B. Oates and Charles J. Errico, editors. Portrait of America, Volume Two: From 1865, ninth edition. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007). (Referred to as Oates below.)

Course Themes

• Changes in political values and party dominance over time (politicians, elections, and changing role of government)
• Economic changes and impact on people (business, workers, and consumers)
• Changing place of social groups in United States
  (Indians, immigrants, dissenters, women, and blacks)
• Foreign policy, wars, and changing U.S. role in the world

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Reading Assignments with
Lecture and Discussion Schedule

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Readings should be completed before/during the week assigned.

Changes in Postwar America

Assignment: Text, pp. xxi-xxvi and pp. 611-649; Oates, Preface, pp. 1-25
Internet Resources:

• "The Last Battle: Confederate Veterans, Confederate Daughters, History Textbooks, and the Lost Cause" (University of Virginia)
• The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• African-American History and Studies
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project (University of Maryland, College Park)
• The Fisk Jubilee Singers
• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (HarpWeek)
• Impeachment 1868/1999 (Eric Foner/History Matters)
August 25--Course Syllabus and Responsibilities
August 27--Introduction: America in 1877
August 29--Film: "The American Industrial Revolution"


Assignment: Text, pp. 655-695 and Oates, pp. 26-49
Internet Resources:

• Native American History and Culture
• Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin (Lakota Information Home Page)
• Academic Info The American West Page
• New Perspectives on the West (WETA/PBS)
• WestWeb (C. Lavender, College of Staten Island, CUNY)
• The West and the Frontier in American Culture (American Library Association)
• History of the American West (Denver Public Library)
• Western History Collections: Photo Archives [focus on 1870-1940 period]
  (University of Oklahoma Libraries)
• American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming)
• Center of the American West (University of Colorado at Boulder)
• Chisholm Trail (1867-1997)
• Exploring the Life and History of the "Buffalo Soldiers" (W. Hill, National Archives)
• The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier
  (International Museum of the Horse)
• Texas Buffalo Soldiers
• The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive (University of Virginia)
• Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks of the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection (American Memory, Library of Congress)
September 1--Labor Day holiday, No Class
September 3--Transformation of the Old West
September 5--Discussion based on Oates, pp. 26-49


Industrialization, 1870's-1900

Assignment: Text, pp. 696-729 and Oates, pp. 50-66
Internet Resources:

• Gilded Age and Progressive Era U.S. History Internet Resources
• Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
• Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Ohio State University)
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era U.S. History Internet Resources
• Picturing Business in America: Headcuts from the Wall Street Journal (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
• Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Dunfermline Fife
• The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie (The American Experience/PBS)
• About Andrew Carnegie (Carnegie Moscow Center)
• Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
• 1896 Presidential Election (R. Edwards, Vassar College)
• Horatio Alger, Jr. Resources (Washburn University)
• Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)
• Cartoon of John D. Rockefeller (Horace Taylor, The Verdict, January 22, 1900)
• Edison National Historic Site (National Park Service)
• Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904
  (American Memory Project, Lib. of Congress)
• Labor-Management Conflict in American History (Ohio State University)
• A Short History of American Labor
  (adapted from AFL-CIO American Federationist, March 1981)
• Leadership Profiles and Labor History (Union Online)
• Illinois Labor History Society
• The Parable of Pullman (Illinois Labor History Society)
September 8--Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business
September 10--Workers' Response to Industrialization
September 12--Discussion based on Oates, pp. 50-66


Assignment: Text, pp. 730-803 and Oates, pp. 66-87
Internet Resources:

• William Jennings Bryan: Resources [mostly photographs]
  (Speer Memorial Library, Mission, TX)
• "A Righteous Cause: a film about William Jennings Bryan (Century VII)
• William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech, 1896
• The Era of William McKinley (Ohio State University)
• The American 1890s (Bowling Green State University)
• 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.)
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) [Hypertext edition] (Yale University)
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) (hypertext edition by tenant.net)
• On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century (W. Crozier et al.)
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum (WNET)
• Jazz Age Chicago: Urban Leisure from 1893 to 1934 (S.A. Newman)
• Toledo's Attic: A Virtual Museum of Toledo, Ohio
  (University of Toledo)
• Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
• 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)
• Rediscovering Jane Addams Conference, February 1-2,2002 (Swarthmore College)
• World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893)
• Ellis Island Museum (Statue of Liberty--Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
• Save Ellis Island
• Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway (International Channel)
• Port of Entry: Immigration Teaching Material (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota)
• American Jewish Historical Society (Waltham, MA)
• Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (Hebrew Union College)
• Ida Tarbell: Life and Works (Allegheny College)
• Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era U.S. History Internet Resources
• America 1900 (The American Experience, PBS)
• Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 (American Memory Project, Lib. of Congress)
September 15--Farm Protest, 1870's-1890's
September 17--The Emergence of Urban America


Progressive Reform, 1901-1917

September 19--Progressive Reform, I


Assignment: Study for Examination and Text, pp. 804-847 and Oates, pp. 100-134
Internet Resources:

• Study Guides and Strategies (University of St. Thomas)
• How to Prepare for and Take Essay Examinations
• A Student's Guide to the Study of History (S. Kreis)
• Tips for History Students (Ohio State University)
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
  (Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University)
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
  (National Museum of American History)
• Katharine Bement Davis: New York City's Suffragist Commissioner (New York City Dept. of Correction)
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace (New York City)
• Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural (Buffalo, New York)
• Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Libary of Congress, 1759-1919
• Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (1954, 1963)
• George E. Mowy, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 (1958)
• 1912: Competing Visions for America (Ohio State University)
• Essays and Speeches by Theodore Roosevelt in the Election of 1912
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
• National Parks and Conservation Association
• 1912: Competing Visions for America (Ohio State University)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Temperance and Prohibition (K.A. Kerr, Ohio State University)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 (SUNY, Binghamton)
• 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)
• Women's History Resource Center (General Federation of Women's Clubs
• "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Votes for Women (Huntington Library, San Marino, CA)
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1860-1920 (Library of Congress)
• Susan B. Anthony University Center (University of Rochester)
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
  (class materials from National Archives and Records Administration)
• Suffragists Oral History Project (University of California Berkeley Library)
• A History of the Socialist Party of America University of North Carolina)
• In the Shadow of the I.W.W. (Walter P. Reuther Library)
• Vincent St. John, The I.W.W.: Its History, Structure and Methods
• Publications by the Industrial Workers of the World (University of Arizona Library)
• Joe Hill, I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
• The Labadie Collection (University of Michigan)
• American Radicalism Collection (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Radicalism Collection: Titles in Subject Order (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Radicalism Collection: Titles in Alphabetical Order (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Digital Images from the American Radicalism Collection (Michigan State University)

September 22--Progressive Reform, II
September 24--Discussion based on Oates, pp. 112-134
September 26--Review for examination


America's Rise to World Power and
World War, 1898-1920

Assignment: Study for examination> and after examination
Text, pp. 848-917 and Oates, pp. 87-99, 135-150
Internet Resources:

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• The Age of Imperialism (Small Planet Communications)
• First World War.com: The War to End All Wars
• The Nations Involved in the Great War
  (World War I Document Archive, University of Kansas)
• Trenches on the Web
• First World War Statistics (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
• The World War I Document Archive (WWI-L list and Brigham Young University)
• The First World War (Sparatcus Internet Encyclopedia, United Kingdom)
• Photos of the Great War: World War I Image Archive (University of Kansas)
• The Great War: 80 Years on (BBC News)
• The Major Museums of Europe Commemorate the 80th Anniversary
  of the Armistice of 1918 [art of the First World War]
• In the Trenches: The Soldier's Experience in World War I (E.G. Lengel)
• Western Front Tourist's Guide (Trenches on the Web)
• Remembrance and Mourning: Literature of the Great War (Haverford College)
• World War I, 1914-1918 [Emphasis on British war poetry] (Oxford University, U.K.)
• Armenian National Institute
• Armenian Research Center (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
• The Great War Society
• The Western Front Association
• Western Front Association: United States Branch
• The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (PBS)
• First Division Museum at Cantigny
• American Battlefields in France: Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood Area (G. Lagin, France)
• The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Red Fighter Pilot by Manfred von Richthofen (1917)
• Fighting the Flying Circus by Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker (1919)
• The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary
  by Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, U.S. Army (1919)
• Pershings Doughboys (World War I US Army Living History Group)
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• Aftermath: When the Boys Came Home
• Sow the Seeds of Victory: Posters from the Food Administration During World War I (National Archives)
• Tennesseans in World War I

September 29--Examination
October 1--America's Rise to World Power
October 3--The Great War, 1914-1918


From Prosperity to Depression, 1920-1941

Assignment: Text, pp. 898-938 and Oates, pp. 151-159
Internet Resources:


• Influenza 1918 (American Experience, PBS)
• The Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents (National Archives)
• 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)
October 6--Mobilizing the Home Front, 1917-1918
October 8--The Red Scare, 1917-1919
October 10--New Era Prosperity


Assignment: Text, pp. 938-968 and Oates, pp. 159-177
Internet Resources:


• Felix Frankfurter, "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti," The Atlantic Monthly, March 1927
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (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)
October 13-14--Fall Break, no classes
October 15--Cultural Tensions in the 1920's
October 17--The Underside of Prosperity


Assignment: Text, pp. 969-1009; Oates, pp. 178-201; and Study for Examination
Internet Resources:

• "The Great Depression," 1993 film series by Blackside Films
• Teaching about the Great Depression
• Riding the Rails (film about hoboes in the 1930's
• Riding the Rails
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Heritage Center, Inc. (Worcester, MA)
• Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  (Mid-Hudson Information Center)
• Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project)
• FDR's Ties to Georgia (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• FDR Cartoon Archive (Niskayuna High School, New York)
• The New Deal Network (Columbia University)
• Subject Index for The New Deal Network
• New Deal Document Library (New Deal Network)
• New Deal Network Image Library
• Roosevelt and the New Deal (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
• Center for New Deal Studies (Roosevelt University)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center
• Arthurdale Heritage, Inc. (Arthurdale, West Virginia, site of first New Deal Homestead)
• New York State Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
• National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni
• TVA: Electricity for All (New Deal Network)
• From the New Deal to a New Century: A Short History of the TVA (official TVA site)
• Father Charles E. Coughlin (Social Security Administration)
• History Page (Social Security Administration)
• L. Gordon, "Share-Holders in Relief: The Political Culture of the Public Sector"
  (Russell Sage Foundation)
• New Deal Cultures: National and Local Resources (Center for History and the New Media)
• National New Deal Preservation Association
• Mercury Theatre on the Air (requires RealAudio RealPlayer)
• Virtual Greenbelt [Greenbelt, Maryland]
• America from the Great Depression to World War II:
  Black-and-White Photographs of the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945) (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Using Oral History (Library of Congress)
• Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940
• Southern Folklife Collection (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Tour (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
• The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• America in the 1930s (American Studies Program, University of Virginia)
• The New Deal Art Project (Syracuse University Library)
• By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Works Progress Administration [WPA] Art (Chicago Public Schools Art Collection)
• Archival Sources on the Great Depression
  (Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives)
• A New Deal for the Arts (National Archives)
• Federal Theatre Project Materials (Special Collections, George Mason University)
• 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)
• Marian Anderson: A Life in Song (University of Pennsylvania Library) A History of the Socialist Party of America University of North Carolina) Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration (Columbia College)
• Study Guides and Strategies (University of St. Thomas)
• How to Prepare for and Take Essay Examinations
• A Student's Guide to the Study of History (S. Kreis)
• Tips for History Students (Ohio State University)
October 20--The Great Depression and the Early New Deal
October 22--The Later New Deal, 1934-1938
October 24--Review for Examination


Assignment: Study for Examination and after examination,
Text, pp. 1010-1033 and Oates, pp. 202-264
Internet Resources:


• Study Guides and Strategies (University of St. Thomas)
• How to Prepare for and Take Essay Examinations
• A Student's Guide to the Study of History (S. Kreis)
• Tips for History Students (Ohio State University)
• Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (Brandeis University)
• 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)
• Development of United States Foreign Policy
  Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• World War II Timeline (University of San Diego)
• World War II Links on the Internet (University of San Diego)
• Hyperwar: A Hypertext History of WWII
  (Historical Text Archives, Mississippi State University)
• Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library [Adobe Acrobat .pdf format files] (Southern Methodist University)
• World War II Resources on the Internet (Miami University)
• Yahoo World War II subject search
• World War II links (Steerforth Press)
• The War (PBS documentary film about World War II)
• Pearl Harbor: A Bibliography (Minneapolis Public Library)
• World War II Resources: Primary source materials on the Web (L.W. Jewell)
• 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 World War II Picture of the Day
• The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color (American Experience, PBS)
• Institute on World War II and the Human Experience (Florida State University)
• A Date Which Will Live in Infamy [Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941] (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic Society)
• Pearl Harbor Remembered (D. Schaaf)
• The Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings (L.W. Jewell)
• William's WW II Page (William E. Maxwell)
• World War II Seminar (University of California, San Diego)
• Echoes of War: Stories from the Big Red One (First Division Museum at Cantigny, Wheaton, IL and Ball State University)
• Operation Overlord, D-Day, June 6, 1944: A Select Bibliography (Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, KS)
• D-Day Web: The Real Normandy (T. White)
• National D-Day Museum (New Orleans, LA)
• Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial (American Battlefield Monuments Commission)
• Historical Archives, Eisenhower Center for American Studies (University of New Orleans)
• Oral History Archives of World War II (Rutgers University)
• Planes and Pilots of World War Two (C.C. Jordan)
• American Aces of World War II (S. Sherman)
• Marshall Stelzriede's Wartime Story (8th U.S. Army Air Force in Europe)
• Tuskegee Airmen (Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)
• 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)
• FAQ for soc.history.war.world-war-ii
• Holocaust and Jewish Studies Sites (D. Graf, Virginia Wesleyan College)
• Center for Holocaust Studies (Drew University)
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Gopher (Washington, D.C.)
• Holocaust Assets (U.S. Department of State)
• Lest We Forget: A History of the Holocaust
• Guide to the Holocaust (About.com)
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.)
• Holocaust Assets (U.S. Department of State)
• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University)
• Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
• The Holocaust History Project
• Holocaust Education Resources (Center for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, UK)
• Germ War and Experiments on Humans (University of Minnesota)
• The War in the Pacific: A Brief History and Timeline
• International Midway Memorial Foundation [Battle of Midway, June 4-5, 1942]
• Brief History of the Corps (Marine Corps Historical Center)
• U.S. Marine Corps History and Museums Division: Gateway to Marine Corps History
• Okinawa: The American Years, 1946-1972 (N.E. Sarantakes, Texas A & M University)
• United States Straqtegic Bombing Survey web site (W.D. O'Neil)
• Atomic Archive (AJ Software & Multimedia)
• Leo Szilard Home Page (G. Dannen)
• Trinity Atomic Test Site and High Energy Weapons Archive
• A-Bomb WWW Museum (Hiroshima, Japan)
• The Enola Gay Controversy (University of Maryland)
• Enola Gay exhibit (National Air and Space Museum)
• Remembering Nagasaki
• "Nuclear Arms and the Human Race" forum
  (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
• The High Energy Weapons Archive (Federation of American Scientists)
• Nuclear Weapons Frequently Asked Questions (MILNET)
• Bureau of Atomic Tourism
• Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Resources
• The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project (Brookings Institution)
October 27--Examination


From the Good War to the Cold War, 1941-1950's

October 29--Interwar American Diplomacy
October 31--World War II Abroad


Assignment: Text pp. 1033-1093 and Oates, pp. 265-278
Internet Resources:


• World War II Poster Database (Northwestern University Library)
• World War II Propaganda Posters
• Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss (University of California, San Diego)
• Books Go to War: The Armed Services Editions in World War II (University of Virginia)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II (Library of Congress)
• 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)
• William E. Maxwell, "Reds, Whites, and Blues: World War II and Memphis, Tennessee"
• William E. Maxwell, "Beans, Blankets, and Barbed Wire: The Memphis Army Service Forces Depot in World War II"
• A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979 (George Meany Memorial Archives)
• War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 (NEH/Berkeley SunSITE)
• Go for Broke Educational Foundation (100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II)
• National Japanese American Memorial Foundation
• Japanese American Voice
• 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).
• Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
• Cold War (CNN Perspectives)
• Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson Center)
• Cold War International History Project Electronic Bulletin
• The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project (Brookings Institution)
• "Nuclear Arms and the Human Race" forum
  (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
• Doomsday Clock (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
• U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index (University of Southern California)
• U.S. Diplomatic Historians' Web Pages Index (University of Southern California)
• United Nations 50th Anniversary page
• NATO Pictorial History Database
  (NATO Office of Information and Press Media Library)
• 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)
• Russian History Index (WWW Virtual Library)
• Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress)
• The Cold War (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
• 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
• One in Ten: Adrian Scott and the Hollywood Ten (University of Maryland)
November 3--World War II: The Home Front
November 5--Origins of the Cold War
November 7--The Cold War at Home: McCarthyism


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

Assignment: Text, pp. 1094-1157, 1179-1183 and Oates, pp. 279-290, 306-317
Internet Resources:


• Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb (P. B. Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago)
• The Fifties Web
• The Fifties (Lakewood High School, Ohio)
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s (A. Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)
• The State of Public School Integration: Brown v. Board of Education at 50 (Lewis Mumford Center, SUNY, Albany)
• 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)
• 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)
• Korean War Project
• Korean War (Canada in Historical Perspective)
• Elvis Presley Web Sites
• Literary Kicks (Beat Generation) site
• The Majic Bus (Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans)
• John F. Kennedy Executive Orders (University of Michigan)
• The Peace Corps
• 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 President John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection (National Archives)
• LBJ in the Oval Office (Sound files in RealAudio format)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) History Office
• National Space Agency Historical Archive (NASA)
• Johnson Space Center History Archive
• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (NASA History Office)
• The Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc. (University of Virginia)
• Sixties-L Archives: History of the 1960's (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 Kings, Jr. (Seattle Times)
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Man Who Stirred the Nation (Black Voices)
• 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]
• Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography (University of Southern Mississippi) [includes complete transcripts]
• National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN)
• Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee
  (B. L. Lovett and L. T. Wynn, Tennessee State University)
November 10--The Fifties: Affluence and Anxiety
November 12--From Camelot to the Great Society
November 14--The Civil Rights Movement


Assignment: Text, pp. 1115-17, 1144-46, 1157-1176, 1119-21, 1206-09 and Oates, pp. 290-305, 316-330
Internet Resources:

• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Vietnam (Australian National University)
• The Vietnam Pictures Archive (Sunsite.Unc.Edu)
• Investigating the Vietnam War (Spartacus Educational Publishing, U.K.)
• Vietnam War Bibliography (E.E. Moise)
• Vietnam War Bibliography (R. Jensen)
• Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (ABC-Clio)
• The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975 (Vassar College)
• Resources on the Vietnam Conflict (Texas Tech University)
• Vietnam War subject search (Yahoo)
• Vietnam War Internet Project
• Vietnam War Related Internet Links (University of Houston)
• soc.hist.war.vietnam Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Art (J. Pollock)
• The My Lai Massacre: A Case Study (Major T. Raimondo)
• Vietnam Veterans Home Page
• Vietnam Veterans Against the War
• The Wall: The Official Search Engine/Database for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
• Vietnam POW/MIA Database (Library of Congress) [Searchable]
• Cambodian Genocide Program (Yale University)
• Vietnam: Stories Since the War (P.O.V./PBS)
• Free Speech Movement: Student Protest--U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65
  (Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley)
• Berkeley Free Speech Movement (photos by Ron Enfield)
• Mario Savio's Pages
• Free Speech Movement Archives
• The Pacifica Foundation/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project
• The Psychedlic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change (University of Virginia Library)
• 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: San Francisco Diggers (1966-1968)
• The Farm (Summertown, Tennessee)
• Intentional Communities (Fellowship for Intentional Communities)
• J. M. Mancini, "Vox Pop: Reviving the Folk Revival," Common-Place 3 (October 2002)
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland, Ohio)
• McGuinn's Folk Den (R. McGuinn)
• The Fillmore
• Summer of Love 30th Anniversary Celebration
• Woodstock Festival & Concert (1969)
• Woodstock Nation
• The Labadie Collection (University of Michigan)
• American Radicalism Collection (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Radicalism Collection: Titles in Subject Order (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Radicalism Collection: Titles in Alphabetical Order (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Digital Images from the American Radicalism Collection (Michigan State University)
• Changing Men Collections (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Radical History and Politics
• 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
• Women's Studies (University of Maryland)
• Women's/Gender Studies (University of California, Berkeley)
• Making Faces, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist homepage
• Men's Issues WWW Page
• 1968: Timeline (The Whole World Was Watching, Brown University)
• The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968
  (Brown University)
• The Nixon Links
• Historians Ask Congress to Suspend Nixon [Papers] Transfer (National Security Archive)
• Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace (Yorba Linda, CA)
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
  [includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
• Watergate 25 (Washington Post)
• Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers Collection (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas)
November 17--America and the War in Vietnam
November 19--Women in Modern America
November 21--The Road to Watergate: Richard Nixon and Postwar America


Our Times: Whither Goest Thou, America?

Assignment: Text, pp. 1173-1176, 1184-1261 and Oates, pp. 331-353
Internet Resources:


• C-SPAN 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey
• Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb (PBS)
• The Sierra Club--A Proud History (official site)
• Environmental History and Studies
• Jimmy Carter (American Experience, PBS)
• The Carter Center (Atlanta, GA)
• International Affairs Network (IANWeb) (University of Pittsburgh)
• American Conservative Union Links to Other Resources
• The '80s Server
• RonaldReaganWeb.com
• Central Intelligence Agency WWW Server (CIA)
• CIA World Factbook
• World Indigenous Studies Project
• The Gulf War (Frontline, PBS)
• Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM Bibliography
  (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
• Iraq and Arms Inspectors (New York Times)
• Electronic Field Trip to the United Nations (PBS)
• Information Sources on Bosnia
• American Public Opinion & U.S. Foreign Policy 1999
  (Chicago Council on Foreign Relations)
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• United Way State of Caring Index: A Summary Measure of Americans' Capacity to Care for One Another
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
• Occupational Employment Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Money Income in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Poverty in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
• 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)
• If Not Now.Com
• L. Gordon, "Share-Holders in Relief: The Political Culture of the Public Sector"
  (Russell Sage Foundation)
• National Institute on Out-of-School Time (Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College)
• Health Insurance Coverage in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Assessing the New Federalism (The Urban Institute)
• From Classrooms to Cell Blocks: A National Perspective (Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice)
• U.S. Census Bureau WWW Site
• Executive PayWatch (AFL-CIO)
• Center for Working-Class Studies (Youngstown State University)
• Center for Millenial Studies
• Civil Society: USA (Center for Civil Society International)
• The Jefferson Project
• The Freedom Forum
• Almanac of American Politics
• Civic Education Network (American Political Science Association)
• The Democracy Project (PBS)
• Election '98 (The Democracy Project, PBS)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• The :30 Second Candidate (The Democracy Project, PBS)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Roundtable: Race in America (Atlantic Unbound)
• Million Man March information, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1995
• The Million Woman March, Philadelphia, PA, October 25, 1997
• Roundtable: Race in America (Atlantic Unbound)
• The State of Black America 1998 (National Urban League)
• Black Voices
• Black Church Fires Online Resource Guide (United Methodist Church)
• U.S. Election Campaign Information
• The Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2000 (American Museum of the Moving Image)
• Center for the American Woman and Politics (Rutgers University)
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
  [includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
• Attack on Iraq (New York Times)
• The Clinton Years (ABC News Nightline and PBS Frontline)
• Clinton Presidential Materials Project (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Impeachment of the President coverage (New York Times)
• Impeachment: The Process and History (New York Times)
• Locations to access Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's Report on President Clinton
• Guide to Impeachment and Censure Materials Online (Jurist: The Law Professors' Network)
• The Federal Impeachment Process: A Bibliographic Guide (T.C. Kingsley, Cornell Law Library)
• Donald R. Shaffer, "Andrew Who? The Clinton Scandal From the Perspective of the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson," (SUNY Plattsburgh)
• Impeachment 1868/1999 (Eric Foner/History Matters) Scandals Throughout Presidential History (Washington Post)
• Women: The Shadow Story of the Millenium (New York Times Magazine)
• Future Labor and Skills Shortage Threatens America's Economic Prosperity (Employment Policy Foundation)
November 24--Discussion based on Oates, pp. 344-353
November 26--The Conservative Experiment
November 27-28--Thanksgiving holiday, no class


Assignment:: Text pp. 1262-1309 and Oates, pp. 354-395
Internet Resources:


• C-SPAN 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey
• The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press
• National Council on Public Polls
• Gallup Opinion Polls on line
• Gallup Research Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• National Opinion Research Center
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (University of Connecticut)
• PollingReport.com
• 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]
• Information Sources On Afghanistan
• America's War Against Terrorism: World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorism and the Aftermath (Documents Center, University of Michigan)
• Television and the War on Terrorism: The War at Home and Abroad
  (Museum of Television & Radio)
• 100 Questions About Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide (Detroit Free Press)
• National Security Study Group (The Hart-Rudman Commission)
• Information Sources on Afghanistan and International Terrorism
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• A Nation at War (New York Times
• War in Iraq (Washington Post)
• 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)
• 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
• Frontline documentary series (PBS)
• The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• The Choice 2004 (Frontline, PBS)
• 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)
• Bibliography on War in Iraq, Bush Administration, and Election of 2004 (Patrick D. Reagan, Ph.D.)
• Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
• The Terrorism Index by Foreign Policy magaine & The Center For American Progress, June 2006
• Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion (Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• State and Local Government on the Net
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• U.S. State Government Information
• American South Internet Resource Center (University of North Carolina)
• Center for the Study of the American South (University of North Carolina)
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture (University of Mississippi)
• Tennessee Higher Education and State Government Sites
• Tennessee State Budget: Information, Issues, Problems
December 1--A Post-Cold War World?
December 3--Impact of the Computer
December 5--Contemporary America: Politics, Diplomacy, Culture, and Society


Assignment: Study for Final Examination
Internet Resources:


• How to Prepare for and Take Essay Examinations
• A Student's Guide to the Study of History (S. Kreis)
• Tips for History Students (Ohio State University)
• Studying and Teaching History
  
December 10--Wednesday, Final Examination, 3:30-5:30 p.m

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