HISTORY 125/ SPRING 2005

MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY

INTERACTIVE WEEK-
BY-WEEK SYLLABUS

 

Striking 1910 NYC immigrant garment workers march to City Hall    

                                        

OVERVIEW | ASSIGNMENTS | READING GUIDE

COMPUTER LAB | LINKS | EXAMS AND PAPERS

INTERACTIVE WEEK-BY-WEEK SYLLABUS

 

READING & QUIZZES
COMPUTER LAB
RESOURCES/LINKS

Monday, January 31
Overview of course.
 

Wednesday, February 2

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
Monday, February 7.
pp. 21-46 in chapter one of WBA.
Film: In the White Man's Image.
Wednesday, February 9.
pp. 47-69 in chapter one of WBA. Quiz on reading in chapter one.

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Wednesday, February 9. Computer Lab - Two Photos/ Many Stories. Film: In the White Man's Image (continued).

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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
Monday, February 14.  Reading -- Handout: Iron Horse vs the Buffalo (click here to go to web version of Iron Horse). Quiz on Iron Horse.

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Wednesday, February 16.

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Links:
--Native American Document Project
--New Perspectives on the West (PBS)
--WestWeb
--Iron Horse vs Buffalo
--Edward Curtis: North American Indian Photographs

Wednesday, February 23 Reading and quiz -- pp 91-114 in chapter two of WBA. 

Wednesday, February 23Computer Lab. 

Links:
--Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Haymarket Affair
--United States Historical Census Data Browser (Univ. of Virginia)

--Jo Labadie and His Gift to Michigan

Monday, February 28.  Reading and quiz -- pp 121-161 in chapter three of WBA.  Film: Savage Acts

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Wednesday, March 2 Computer Lab

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

Monday, March 7. Reading -- pp 167-201 in chapter four of WBA. Quiz on reading in chapter  four.

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Wednesday, March 9.  Computer lab:

 

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