The Transformation of Modern America, 1912-1945
Dr. Patrick D. Reagan

          
History 4050-001 (#02885)                                     Dr. Reagan
10:10-11:05 MWF                                               Fall 2007
HH 114                                                        HH 109

Instructor Information

Office: Henderson Hall 109
Office Hours: 11:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m. MWF and by appointment
Telephone: 372-3342 (office), 372-3332 (message), 528-3998 (home)
E-mail: preagan at any time or preagan@tntech.edu from off campus
Professional Experience of Dr. Reagan

Course Requirements

• Class attendance and active participation in discussions
• Examination--September 28
• 2-4 page double-spaced, typed book review--due October 8
• Research paper portfolio evaluating a) to e) below due November 19:
  a) Paper topic chosen in consultation with instructor by September 14.
  b) Approved, printed bibliography of 3-4 sources due September 24.
  c) Tentative paper outline due October 19.
  d) Final proofread, 10-12 page, double-spaced paper due November 19.
• Final essay examination (December 11)
• Components of final grade:
  Class attendance and active participation; (25 points)
  Examination (50 points)
  Book review (25 points)
  Bibliography, outline, final research paper (50 points)
  Final Examination (50 points)
• Final grade based on points earned by your work:
  180-200=A
  160-179=B
  140-159=C
  120-139=D
  Below 120=F
• To pass course, all requirements must be met on time.

Sample Book Reviews

• Brian Balogh, ed., Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structures, and Legitimacy of Public Policy in a Turbulent Decade on H-Pol Internet list, May 11, 1998, part of the H-Net Reviews Project.
• J. Richard Piper, Ideologies and Institutions: American Conservative and Liberal Governance Prescriptions Since 1933 on H-Pol Internet list, March 10, 1998, part of the H-Net Reviews Project.
• Michael J. Bennett, When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America on H-State Internet list, May 5, 1997, part of the H-Net Reviews Project.

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)
• 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
• Office of Career Services, TTU
• How to Succeed as a Student (K. Bucknall)
• Counseling Center (Tennessee Technological University)
• Counseling Center Workshops, TTU
• How to Succeed as a Student (K. Bucknall)
• 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)
• Preparing to Write a Research Paper
• TTU Inter Library Loan request form for books
• TTU Inter Library Loan request form(s) for article(s)
• Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (Bartleby.com)
• Citation of Electronic Documents

Required Books

• Maureen Flanagan. America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890's-1920's. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (Flanagan below.)
• Nathan Miller. New World Coming: The 1920's and the Making of Modern America. New York: Da Capo Press, 2004. (Miller below.)
• Alan Lawson. A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 (Lawson below.)
• David M. Kennedy. The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear, Part Two. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 2004.

Reading Assignments and
Lecture and Discussion Schedule

Readings should be completed before.during the week they are assigned for.

Prologue

Assignment: Flanagan and pp. 1-32
Internet Resources:

• Gilded Age and Progressive Era U.S. History Internet Resources
• Picturing Business in America: Headcuts from the Wall Street Journal (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
• H-Urban Web Links
• 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 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)
• The American 1890s (Bowling Green State University)
• 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)
• Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904
  (American Memory Project, Lib. of Congress)

Progressive Reform, 1900-1917

Assignment: Flanagan, pp. 33-98
Internet Resources:

• Gilded Age and Progressive Era U.S. History Internet Resources
• 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)
• Ida Tarbell: Life and Works (Allegheny College)
• Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)
• 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)
• 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)
• La Follette School of Public Affairs (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• George E. Mowy, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 (1958)
• 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
• 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)
• Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (1954, 1963)
• George E. Mowry, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 (1958)
• Temperance and Prohibition (K. A. Kerr, Ohio State University)

September 3--Labor Day Holiday, No Class
September 5--Who Were the Progressives?
September 7--Business, Government, and Labor in Progressive America

Assignment: Flanagan, pp. 99-197
Internet Resources:

• POTUS: Presidents of the United States (Internet Public Library)
• Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
  (American Memory, Library of Congres)
• Presidential Preview (American Memory, Lib. of Congress)
• The American Presidency (Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Interactive)
• Academic American Encyclopedia articles on The American Presidency (Grolier Online)
• Hall of Presidents (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)
• U.S. Presidential Addresses Since 1789 (Inaugural, State of the Union, and Farewell Addresses)
• Dead Presidents (includes pictures of presidential burial sites)
• 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)
• Jo Freeman, "The Rise of Political Woman in the Election of 1912" (2003)
• Temperance and Prohibition (K.A. Kerr, Ohio State University)
• The Anti-Saloon League, 1893-1933 (Westerville, Ohio Public Library)
• Labor-Management Conflict in American History (Ohio State University)
• A Short History of American Labor
  (adapted from AFL-CIO American Federationist, March 1981)
• U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project (G. Zahavi, University of Albany, SUNY)
• Leadership Profiles and Labor History (Union Online)
• Illinois Labor History Society
• A History of the Socialist Party of America University of North Carolina)
• Eugene V. Debs Foundation
• In the Shadow of the I.W.W. (Walter P. Reuther Library)
• Vincent St. John, The I.W.W.: Its History, Structure and Methods
• I.W.W. Pamphlets: Selections from the Colorful and Stirring I.W.W. Chapbooks
• 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)
• NYU and the Village: An Urban University in Bohemia [Greenwich Village]
• [art work from] The Masses [1913-1917]
• Emma Goldman (American Experience, PBS)
• Emma Goldman Papers (University of California, Berkeley)
• Margaret Sanger Papers Project (New York University)
• The Pill (American Experience, PBS)

Assignment: Flanagan, pp. 198-232
Internet Resources:

• 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 Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1880-1920
  (Library of Congress)
• 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)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online (Rutgers University)
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
  (class materials from National Archives and Records Administration)
• Margaret Sanger Papers Project (New York University)
• The Pill (American Experience, PBS)
• Suffragists Oral History Project (University of California Berkeley Library)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Foreign Relations of the United States [FRUS] series, 1900-1918 (University of Wisconsin)
• 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 (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia, United Kingdom)
• Photos of the Great War: World War I Image Archive (University of Kansas)
• The Major Museums of Europe Commemorate the 80th Anniversary
  of the Armistice of 1918 [art of the First World War]
• The Poster War--Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War (Provincial Museum of Alberta)
• French Posters from World War I (Library of Congress)
• In the Trenches: The Soldier's Experience in World War I (E.G. Lengel)
• The Great War: 80 Years on (BBC News)
• 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)

America and the Great War, 1917-1920

September 21--The Great War and U.S. Entry, 1914-1918

Assignment: Flanagan, pp. 232-236 and Study for Examination
Internet Resources:

• Sow the Seeds of Victory: Posters from the Food Administration During World War I (National Archives)
• Influenza 1918 (American Experience, 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)
• Tennesseans in World War I
• World War I History Commission Questionnaires (Library of Virginia)
• 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)
• Pershing's Doughboys (World War I US Army Living History Group)
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• Aftermath: When the Boys Came Home
• League of Nations Bibliography
  (League of Nations' Photo Archive, Indiana University Center for Study of Global Change)
• League of Nations' Photo Archive (Indiana University Center for the Study of Global Change)
• League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents (Northwestern University Library)
• The Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents (National Archives)

New Era Capitalism, 1920-1929

Assignment: Flanagan, pp. 237-286 and Miller, pp. 1-197
Internet Resources:

• Red Scare (Baruch College Library, CUNY)
• Seattle General Strike Project (Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington)
• Communism in Washington State: History and Memory Project (University of Washington)
• Elaine [,Arkansas] Riot [September 30, October 1-3, 1919] Project (Arkansas State University)
• American Civil Liberties Union Archives, 1917-1999 (Firestone Library, Princeton 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]
• Calvin Coolidge: 30th President of the United States
• Proseprity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Henry Ford [Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Benson Ford Research Center]
• Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s (Ohio State University)
• 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)
• Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 (Duke University)
• John W. Hartman Center for Sales Advertising, and Marketing History (Duke University Library)
• Ad*Access (John W. Hartman Center for Sales Advertising, and Marketing HIstory, Duke University Library)
• The 1920s (K.P. Rayburn, University of Louisville)

Assignment: Miller, pp. 199-271, 295-340
Internet Resources:

• Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (1931)
• Martin Scorsese presents The Blues (PBS, 2003)
• Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (American Experience, PBS)
• Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project (African Studies Center, UCLA)
• Harlem Renaissance (Father Ryan High School, Nashville, TN)
• Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
  [March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem number] (Library of Virginia)
• Harlem: Past and present (Skidmore College)
• Langston Hughes: Artist and Historian (M. Blue)
• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (Harvard University)
• Artistic Justice: The Art as Historian and Social Critic [poet Langston Hughes] (M. Blue)
• Felix Frankfurter, "The Case of Sacco and Vanzatti," The Atlantic Monthly, March 1927
• "Vanzetti's Last Statement: A Record by W.G. Thompson," The Atlantic Monthly, February 1928
• Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty--Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
• Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway (International Channel)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (University of South Carolina)
• The World of Gertrude Stein
• 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)
• 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
• Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio (American RadioWorks)
• 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)
• History of Country Music (Roughstock Productions)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Ku Klux Klan (American Radicalism Collection, Michigan State University Libraries)
• Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
  [March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem number] (Library of Virginia)
• The History of Jazz (D. Morgenstern)
• Club Kaycee: Jazz Sights and Sounds [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)

Assignment: Miller, pp. 341-389 and begin Lawson, Preface and Introduction
Internet Resources:

• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum (West Branch, Iowa)

Assignment: Lawson, pp. 1-114
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
• Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Heritage Center, Inc. (Worcester, MA)
• Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  (Mid-Hudson Information Center)
• 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]
• 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)

October 22--The Hoover Legacy and the Great Depression
October 24--Discussion based on Lawson, pp. 1-32
October 26--FDR and the Early New Deal

Assignment: Lawson, pp.
Internet Resources:

• Franklin D. Roosevelt Heritage Center, Inc. (Worcester, MA)
• 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]
• 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
• On-Line Documents (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center
• Roosevelt and the New Deal (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
• Center for New Deal Studies (Roosevelt University)
• National New Deal Preservation Association
• Arthurdale Heritage, Inc. (Arthurdale, West Virginia, site of first New Deal Homestead)
• Eleanor, West Virginia: A 1930's New Deal Community
• 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)
• Golden Gate Bridge (American Experience, PBS)
• National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni
• 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)
• A Short History of American Labor
  (adapted from AFL-CIO American Federationist, March 1981
• Leadership Profiles and Labor History (Union Online)
• The Great Flint Sitdown [1937] (Walter P. Reuther Library)
• 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)
• Leadership Profiles and Labor History (Union Online)
• Labor in the 1930s Bibliography (New Deal Network)

Assignment: Review materials on this site immediately below about New Deal culture
Internet Resources:

• New Deal Cultures: National and Local Resources (Center for History and the New Media)
• 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)
• Picture Archive: Photographs of the Great Depression, 1935-1942 [FSA photographs] (Corbis)
• America from the Great Depression to World War II:
  Black-and-White Photographs of the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945) (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Works Progress Administration [WPA] Art (Chicago Public Schools Art Collection)
• Arthurdale Heritage (Arthurdale, West Virginia, site of first New Deal Homestead)
• Virtual Greenbelt [,Maryland]
• Tennessee: A Guide to the State [WPA guide] (New Deal Network)
• History of Country Music (Roughstock Productions)
• 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)
• Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Tour (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• William P. Gottlieb Photographs of the Golden Age of Jazz (Music Division, Library of Congress)
• WPA Life Histories (Federal Writers' Project, 1936-40)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
• American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
• African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps (New Deal Network)
• American Slavery: A Composite Autobiogrpahy [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Federal Theatre Project Materials (Special Collections, George Mason University)
• America in the 1930s (American Studies Program, University of Virginia)
• Kresge Art Museum Walking Tour of New Deal Art and Architecture [East Lansing, MI] (Michigan State University)
• WPA Film Library (MPI Media Group)
• By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• New Frontiers in American Documentary Films (University of Virginia)
• Reaping the Golden Harvest: Pare Lorentz, Poet and Filmmaker (University of Virginia)
• Archival Sources on the Great Depression
  (Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives)
• The New Deal Art Project (Syracuse University Library)
• A New Deal for the Arts (National Archives)
• New Deal and the Arts Oral History Interviews Conducted by the Archives of American Art, 1963-1965
• The Diego Rivera Mural Project (City College of San Francisco)
• Harold Lehman Murals, 1938-42
• The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Federal Theatre Project Materials (Special Collections, George Mason University)
• Marian Anderson: A Life in Song (University of Pennsylvania Library)A History of the Socialist Party of America University of North Carolina)Student Activism in the 1930s (New Deal Network)
• American Communism and Anticommunism: A Historian’s Bibliography and Guide to the Literature (compiled and edited by John Earl Haynes)
• Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration (Columbia College)
• Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (Brandeis University)
• Development of United Stats Foreign Policy
  Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Assignment: Carefully read Lawson, pp. 235-252
November 12--The Crisis of the New Deal
November 14--The Third New Deal?: American National Planning
November 16--Discussion: New Deal Legacy based on Lawson, pp. 235-252

Assignment: Lawson, pp. 222-234 and Kennedy, Preface and pp. 1-90
Internet Resources:

• League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents (Northwestern University Library)
• The Spanish Civil War: Dreams & Nightmares exhibit (Imperial War Museum, London, U.K.)
• Spanish Civil War (Spartacus Educational, U.K.)

November 21--FDR, Isolation, and Public Opinion
November 22-23--Thanksgiving Holiday, No Class

Assignment: Kennedy, pp. 91-189, 244-320, 373-426
Internet Resources:

• The Second World War: A Selected Bibliography (Yale University Library)
• Bibliography from National World War II Memorial
• World War II Timeline (University of San Diego)
• World War II Links on the Internet (University of San Diego)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Heritage Center, Inc. (Worcester, MA)
• Development of United Stats Foreign Policy
  Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Hyperwar: A Hypertext History of WWII
  (Historical Text Archives, Mississippi State University)
• World War II Resources on the Internet (Miami University)
• Yahoo World War II subject search
• World War II links (Steerforth Press)
• World War II Resources: Primary source materials on the Web (L.W. Jewell)
• Institute on World War II and the Human Experience (Florida State University)
• Pearl Harbor: A Bibliography (Minneapolis Public Library)
• Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic Society)
• A Date Which Will Live in Infamy [Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941] (National Archives and Records Administration)
• 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)
• William's WW II Page (William E. Maxwell)
• World War II Seminar (University of California, San Diego)
• World War II pictures (Corbis)
• A Historic Context for the African American Military Experience (S.D. Smith and J. A. Zeidler, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories)
• 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)
• 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)
• D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery (Portsmouth, England)
• Normany 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)
• Tanks! (W.A. Kirk, Jr.)
• 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
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust (University of South Florida)
• 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.)
• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University)
• Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
• The Holocaust History Project
• Voice Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories Archive (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
• Holocaust Education Resources (Center for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, UK)
• Idea: A Journal of Social Issues
• The Second World War: A Selected Bibliography (Yale University Library)
• Bibliography from National World War II Memorial
• The World War II Picture of the Day
• The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color (American Experience, PBS)
• 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
• Frankel-y Speaking: About World War II in the South Pacific (Stanley A. Frankel, 1919-1999)
• 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)
• The Nuclear Files: Project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• 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)

November 26--World War II: The European Theater
November 28--World War II: The Pacific Theater
November 30--The Home Front: Economic Mobilization

Assignment: Kennedy, pp. 190-243, 321-372 and Flanagan, pp. vi-viii, 283-286, Miller, pp. 1-10, 365-389; and Kennedy, Preface and pp. 427-433; and Lawson, pp. 235-252
Internet Resources:

• The Second World War: A Selected Bibliography (Yale University Library)
• Bibliography from National World War II Memorial
• World War II Database (Northwestern University Library)
• World War II Propaganda Posters
• Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalag of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss (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)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Books Go to War: The Armed Services Editions in World War II (University of Virginia)
• 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)
• 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)
• Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas
• National Japanese American Memorial Foundation
• Japanese American Voice
• The Nuremberg Project (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion)
• United States Straqtegic Bombing Survey web site (W.D. O'Neil)
• 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).
• Guide to Web Resources for the Study of the History of the United States Since 1945 (R. Griffith, American University)
• Russian History Index (WWW Virtual Library)
• Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress)

Legacies of Depression, Reform, and World War

December 5--Discussion based on Kennedy, pp. 190-243, 321-372
December 7--Legacies: Discussion based on Flanagan, pp. vi-viii, 283-288; Miller, pp. 1-10, 365-389; Kennedy, Preface and pp. pp. 427-433; and Lawson, pp. 325-352

Assignment: Study for Final Exam and reread and think carefully about Flanagan, vi-viii, 283-288, Miller, pp. 1-10, 365-389; and Kennedy, Preface and pp. 427-433
December 12--Wednesday, Final Examination, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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