MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY
INTERACTIVE
WEEK-
BY-WEEK SYLLABUS
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MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY INTERACTIVE
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OVERVIEW | ASSIGNMENTS | READING GUIDE
COMPUTER LAB | LINKS | EXAMS AND PAPERS
INTERACTIVE WEEK-BY-WEEK SYLLABUS
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READING
& QUIZZES
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COMPUTER
LAB
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RESOURCES/LINKS
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Wednesday,
January 30 -click HERE for Two Photos computer lab assignment |
Links: --History Matters --The American Memory Project (Library of Congress) --New Perspectives on the West (PBS) --Central Pacific RR Photographic Museum |
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| Monday,
February 4. pp. 21-46 in chapter one of WBA. Wednesday, February 6. pp. 47-69 in chapter one of WBA. Quiz on reading in chapter one. click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday, February 6. Computer Lab - Two Photos/ Many Stories. -click HERE for Two Photos computer lab assignment |
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| Monday,
February 11. Reading -- Handout: Iron Horse vs the Buffalo (click here
to go to web version of Iron Horse). Quiz on Iron Horse.
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday, February 13. Computer Lab - Two Photos/ Many Stories. Film - In the White Man's Image -click HERE for Two Photos computer lab assignment |
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| Wednesday,
February 20. Reading -- pp 91-103 & 106-114 in chapter two and pp
121-149 &156-161in chapter three of WBA. Quiz on reading in chapters two
& three.
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
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| Monday,
February 25. Reading -- pp 149-156 in chapter three and 167-201 in chapter
four of WBA. Quiz on reading in chapters three & four.
click
HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday,
February 27. Computer lab: Expansion and Race Film - Savage Acts. -click HERE for Expansion and Race assignment |
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| Monday,
March 4. Reading -- pp 207 - 248 in chapter five of WBA. Quiz on chapter
five
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday,
March 6. Computer Lab and film -- Heaven Will Protect the Working
Girl.
-click HERE for "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl" computer lab assignment |
Links: --Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl --The Triangle Factory Fire (Cornell) --Votes For Women (Library of Congress) --Women's Suffrage & the 19th Amendment (NARA) |
| Monday,
March 11. Reading -- pp 255 - 257 and 276-282 in chapter six of WBA Wednesday, March 13 - Midterm Paper Due |
Wednesday,
March 13. Computer Lab and Film - Up South.
-click HERE for "Up South"computer lab assignment |
Links: --Great Migration Interviews (History Matters) Powerpoint Slides: --Jacob Lawrence: The Great Migration Series |
| Monday,
March 18. Reading -- pp 315-316, 318-319, 323-342, 347-353, 361-362.
in chapter seven of WBA. Quiz on chapter seven.
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday, March 20. Computer Lab. | Links: --Ad*access (Duke) --Harlem: 1900-1940 (NYPL-Schomburg) --Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro (Univ. of Va.) --Marcus Garvey and the UNIA Papers Project |
| Monday,
April 1. Reading -- pp 368-402 in chapter eight of WBA. Wednesday, April 3. Reading -- pp 402-419 in chapter eight of WBA. Quiz on chapter eight click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday,
April 3. Computer Lab - TVA: Electricity For All.
-click HERE for TVA computer lab assignment |
Links: --The New Deal Network --Voices From the Dustbowl (Library of Congress) --The FDR Cartoon Archive --The 1930s Project (Univ. of Virginia) |
| Monday,
April 8. Reading -- pp 424-459 in chapter nine of WBA. Wednesday, April 10. Reading -- pp 459-477 in chapter nine of WBA.
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Wednesday,
April 10. Reading -- pp 459-477 in chapter nine of WBA. Quiz on chapter
nine. Computer Lab - TVA: Electricity For All.
-click HERE for TVA computer lab assignment
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Links: --John & Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (Library of Congress) --American Life Histories: Manuscripts fromn the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1940 (Library of Congress) --Americans from the Great Depression to WWII: Photos from FSA & OWI, 1935-1940 (Library of Congress) -- |
| Monday,
April 15. Reading -- pp 503-535 in chapter ten. Quiz on chapter ten.
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday,
April 17. Computer Lab - "Instructions to all Persons of Japanese
Ancestry" .
-click HERE for "Instructions to all Persons of Japanese Ancestry" computer lab assignment |
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| Monday,
April 22. Reading -- pp 545-581, 586-596 in chapter eleven of WBA. Quiz
on chapter eleven
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday,
April 24. Computer Lab - "Instructions to all Persons of Japanese
Ancestry".
-click HERE for "Instructions to all Persons of Japanese Ancestry" computer lab assignment
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| Monday, April 29. Reading -- pp 606-640 in chapter twelve of WBA. | Wednesday, May 1. Computer Lab - Civil Rights Sort. |
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| Monday,
May 6. Reading -- pp 640-657; 662-66; and 671-676 in chapter twelve
of WBA. Quiz on chapter twelve.
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday. May 8. Computer Lab - Assessing the Photography of the Civil Rights and Vietnam Era. | Links: --Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore --The Sixties Project (Univ. of Virginia) --When Nixon Met Elvis(National Archives) --The Hard Hat Riots (Geo.Mason Univ) |
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May 13. Reading -- pp 698-735 and 741-745 in chapter thirteen of WBA.
Quiz on Chapter 13.
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday,
May 15. Review. |
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