HIST 2020, Section 007:
The U.S.
SINCE 1877. Dr. Margaret
Caffrey. Spring 2009.
Textbooks:
Davidson and others, Nation of Nations, Vol. 2,
6th Edition
Ellen Levine, ed., Freedom's
Children
Week 1.
Jan. 16-23
The
1980's to the Present: The Remembered
Past
Davidson, 929-933,
938-955 and Chapter 32
Documents: On
Saddam
Links
to Websites: Bill Clinton's/Andrew
Johnson's Impeachments
*Bring from the class website the Overview and the Syllabus
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16
*Bring from the class website pages on Internet/Library Papers
and Grammar Problems WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21
*Bring Writing Guidelines
website pages FRIDAY, JANUARY 23
**Sign up for turnitin.com by FRIDAY, JANUARY 23
*Blue Books due FRIDAY,
JANUARY 23
Week 2.
Jan. 26-30 The
New South, The Segregated South
Davidson,
Chapter 17 and 496-506
Documents:
Sharecropping in Arkansas,
1888
Links to
Websites: Henry Blake, Sharecropper,
Southern
Journey,
1936
*Discussion of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, MONDAY
*Internet/Library
Paper #1 due FRIDAY, if chosen
Week 3.
Feb. 2-6 The North: Industrialization,
Urbanization, Immigration
Davidson,
Chapters 19
& 20
Documents: Factory Work
Links to Websites: Piece Work in
Slums, Immigrant Story
*Discussion: The Consequences of Technology--the Railroad
and Automobile, WEDNESDAY
*Internet/Library Paper #2 due FRIDAY, if chosen
Week 4.
Feb. 9-13
The Multiple Frontiers of the
West
Davidson, 507-535
Documents: Zitkala-sa (Gertrude Bonnin)
Links
to Websites: Chief
Joseph
*Discussion of the Native American Gambling Act of 1988, pros and cons,
FRIDAY
*Internet/Library Paper #3 due FRIDAY, if chosen
Week 5.
Feb. 16-20 The
1890's:
Populism and Imperialism
Davidson, Chapter 21 and 628-631, 660-667
Documents: Battle
of San Juan Hill
Links
to Websites: The Populist Party
Platform, 1892
*Internet/Library Paper #4 due WEDNESDAY, if chosen
***FIRST
EXAM, FRIDAY
Week 6.
Feb. 23-27
The
Progressive Era and World War I
Davidson,
Chapter 22 and 667-689
Documents: From The
Jungle, "Why We Oppose Votes for
Men”
Links to
Websites: The Triangle Factory Fire
*Discussion: Effects of presidential assassinations on
history, Garfield to Kennedy, MONDAY
*Internet/Library Paper
#5 due FRIDAY, if chosen
Week 7. Mar.
2-6
The 1920's:
Modernism and Reaction
Davidson,
Chapter 24
Links to Websites: The Red Scare,
The Flapper, Prohibition,
The
Scopes Trial
*Discussion: Prohibition--Why did it not work?
WEDNESDAY
*Internet/Library Paper #6 due FRIDAY, if chosen
Week 8.
Mar.
9-13 SPRING
BREAK, NO CLASSES
Week 9.
Mar. 16-20
The
1930's: Depression and New Deal
Davidson, Chapter 25
Links to Websites:
Depression
Stories, Report to Harry
Hopkins on Gastonia, NC,
African-Americans and the New
Deal,
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
*Internet/Library Paper #7 due FRIDAY, if chosen
Week 10.
Mar. 23-27
World
War II
Davidson, Chapter 26 and 796-799
Links to Websites: On the
Homefront, A WAC in the War,
Japanese
Relocation, Tuskegee
Airmen, Navajo Code
Talkers,
Hiroshima
*Discussion: WWI & II, Causes and Results, MONDAY
*Internet/Library Paper #8 due WEDNESDAY, if chosen
***SECOND
EXAM--FRIDAY
Week 11.
Mar. 30-Apr. 3
Post-War
and 1950's: Containment and Cold War
Davidson, Chapters 27 & 28, 898-900,
946-948
Links to Websites: The
Cuban Missile Crisis,
McCarthyism
*Internet/Library Paper #9 due FRIDAY, if chosen
Week 12.
Apr. 6-10
The
Civil Rights Movement (1954-1980)
Davidson, 856-870 & 900-905, 911-912
Links to Websites: Letter
from a Birmingham
Jail
**BOOK DISCUSSION: Freedom's Children, MONDAY
Week 13.
Apr. 13-17
The
1960's: Breaking Out
Davidson, 870-883,
905-906
Links to Websites: Black
Panthers, Woodstock, Alcatraz
Protest, Women's Movement, 1968
*Discussion: Women, Indians, Hispanics, Gays, Diff Abled
working for rights, MONDAY
**RESEARCH PAPER due FRIDAY
Week 14.
Apr. 20-24
Vietnam
(1964-1975)
Davidson, 884-898, 918-919, 922-925
Documents:
Two Vietnam
Stories
Links to
Websites:
Vietnam
Vets Against the War
*Discussion: Comparison of Iraq War with Vietnam, FRIDAY
Week 15. Apr. 27-29
The
1970's: A Decade of Limits
Davidson, 907-918,
927-938
Links to Websites: Watergate, Iran
Hostage Crisis
FINAL
EXAM, MONDAY, May 4, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., MI 323