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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Monday, February 2. Overview of course. |
Wednesday, February 4 Introduction -- What is History? -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 9. pp. 21-46 in chapter one of WBA. Film: In the White Man's Image. Wednesday, February 11. 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 11. Computer Lab - Two Photos/ Many Stories.
Film: In the White
Man's Image (continued). -click HERE for Two Photos computer lab assignment
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Links: --Native American Document Project --New Perspectives on the West (PBS) --Andrew Carnegie & The Gilded Age (PBS --Like a Family: The Making of A Southern Cotton Mill World --The History Place: Child Labor in America |
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Wednesday,
February 18.* 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 18. Classes follow a Monday schedule. No computer lab this week |
Links: --Native American Document Project --New Perspectives on the West (PBS) --WestWeb --Iron Horse vs Buffalo --Edward Curtis: North American Indian Photographs |
| Monday, February 23. Reading and quiz -- pp 91-114 in chapter two of WBA. | Wednesday, February 25. Computer Lab. Finish Two Photos computer lab assignment. Begin new assignment |
Links: --Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Haymarket Affair --United States Historical Census Data Browser (Univ. of Virginia) --Jo Labadie and His Gift to Michigan |
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Monday, March 1.
Reading and quiz -- pp 121-161 in chapter three of WBA. Film:
Savage Acts
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday, March 3. |
Links: --Anti-Imperialism in the U.S: 1898-1935 --Crucible of Empire: Spanish American War (PBS) --Public Appeals, Memory & the Spanish-American Conflict (NYPL) --Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory |
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Monday, March 8. Reading -- pp 167-201 in chapter four of WBA. Quiz
on reading in chapter four.
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday, March 10. Computer lab:
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Links: --The Emergence of Advertising in America (Duke) -- Gotham Comes of Age:NYC Through the Lens of the Byron Company, 1892-1942 (Museum of City of NY) --Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists & Their New York |
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Monday, March 15. Reading -- pp 207 - 248 in chapter five of WBA.
Quiz on chapter five
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday, March 17. Computer Lab and film -- Heaven Will Protect
the Working Girl.
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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) |
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Monday, March 22. Reading -- pp 255 - 257 and 276-282 in chapter six
of WBA Wednesday, March 24 - Midterm Paper Due |
Wednesday, March 24. Computer Lab and Film - Up South.
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Links: --Great Migration Interviews (History Matters) Powerpoint Slides: --Jacob Lawrence: The Great Migration Series |
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Monday, March 29. 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 31. 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 |
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Wednesday, April 14. Reading -- pp 368-419 in chapter eight of WBA. click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday, April 14 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) |
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Monday, April 19. Reading -- pp 424-459 in chapter nine of WBA. Wednesday, April 21. Reading -- pp 459-477 in chapter nine of WBA.
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Wednesday, April 21 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) -- |
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Monday, April 26. Reading -- pp 503-535 in chapter ten. Quiz on
chapter ten.
click HERE for this weeks reading questions and guide |
Wednesday, April 28. Computer Lab - "Instructions to all Persons of Japanese Ancestry" . |
Links: --Powers of Persuasion: World War Two Posters (National Archives) --World War Two Posters (Northwestern) --Japanese American Internment --War Relocation camps in Arizona: 1942-1946 (Univ. of Arizona) --Japanese American Exhibit & Access Project (Univ. of Washington) --Remembering Nagasaki |
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Monday, May 3. 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, May 5.
Reading 607-633 in chapter
twelve of WBA. Computer Lab.
Computer Lab - Civil Rights Sort
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Links: --Literature and Culture of the 1950s --Cold War Hotlinks --By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson & Other Baseball Highlights: 1860s-1960s (Library of Congress) --Martin Luther King Papers (Stanford) --Civil Rights in Mississippi (Univ. of Southern Miss.) |
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Monday, May 10. Reading -- pp 633-657;
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 12. Computer Lab - Assessing the Photography of the Civil Rights and Vietnam Era |
Links: --The American Experience: Vietnam Online (PBS) --Links:Vietnam Yesterday and Today --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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Monday, May 17. 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 19. Computer Lab - Review |
Links: -Blackout History Project: NYC 1965/1977 (Geo. Mason Univ.) --AdFlip (Archive of Print Ads: 1940s-present) --The American President (PBS) --Making the MacIntosh: Culture & Technology in the Silicon Valley (Stanford) --Digital Atlas of the U.S. (Cal. State/Northridge) Movie clips of campaign ads: --Reagan and the Bear --Reagan: Morning Again in America --Bush, Sr: Willie Horton: Is DuKasis soft on crime? |