Week
1 =
June 27
---No readings
June
29
Western Expansion & Gilded Age Prosperity
---Foner = Ch. 16 & 17
=Read
Online Primary Documents =
-Frederick
Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in
American History, 1893
-The
Success of Standard Oil (1899)
-PREAMBLE
TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR Adopted 3 January
1878
=Watch
Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Gilded Age
= Chicago
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Week 2 =
July 4
NO CLASS
July 6
Progressive
Reaction
-Foner=
Ch. 18
=Read
= How the Other Half Lives (Read the
entire book)
=Read
Online Primary Documents =
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
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Week 3 =
July 11
Imperialism,
WWI
-Foner=
Ch. 19
=Read
Online Primary Documents =
Subjugation
of the Philippines - Sen. Hoar
The Phillippine Question
- Sen. Beveridge
Zimmerman Telegram
July 13
Era
of Paradox= 1920s, Great Depression
-Foner
Ch. 20 & 21
=Read
Online Primary Documents
-The Man
Nobody Knows - Bruce Barton
-“Somebody Must be
Blamed”: Father Coughlin Speaks to the Nation
-FDR first inaugural -March 4, 1933
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Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-1920s
- Era of Paradox
-Uncle
Sam and the Bolsheviks
-Klan
March 1928
-The
Great Depression
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Week
4 =
July 18
WWII & Cold War
-Foner=
Ch. 22 & 23
=Read
Online Primary Documents =
-America
and European Wars (Delivered September 15, 1939) Charles
Lindbergh
-"The
Long Telegram" Kennan (excerpts)
-“Enemies from Within”:
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s Accusations of Disloyalty
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-Cold
War Origins
July 20
Suburban Conformity
-Foner=
Ch. 24
=Read
= Animal Farm (Read the entire book)
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Conformity
at School - the Survival
Answer - 1950's (video)
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Week
5 =
July 25
1960s Activism & Civil Rights Mvt.
-Foner= Ch. 25 & 26
=Read
Online Primary Documents =
-Port
Huron Statement - 1962
-Kennedy
Inaugural Address - 1961
-Our
Bodies Ourselves -Preference
-Letter
From Birmingham City Jail (Excerpts) Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 16, 1963
-The
Ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm X April 3, 1964
July 27
Vietnam War & Fall of Soviets
-Foner= Ch. 27
=Read
Online Primary Documents =
-Letters from Ngo Dinh Diem
-Tonkin Bay Resolution
-George
Bush-Mikhail Gorbachev Memorandum of Telephone Conversation
=Watch
below Video Links:
-Fall of
Berlin Wall 1989
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Week 6 = August 1
Collapse of Soviets, Post Cold War America, Globalism
-Foner= Ch. 28
=Read
Online Primary Documents =
-"New World Order Speech" George
H.W. Bush
-"History's Unmarked Grave of Discarded Lies" Speech to
Joint Session of Congress, September 21, 2001 George W. Bush
-"Immigration:The
Perpetual Controversy" The Atlantic,
April 1996
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Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Post Cold
War America
-Globalism