Calendar
August 24 Introduction of the Course and Course Requirements
August 26 The Failure of Reconstruction - chapt. 18
August 31 American Politics in the late 19th Century - 22
September 2 Immigration - 21
September 7 No class - Labor Day
September 9 Industrialization - 20
September 14 Populism and Agrarian Protest - 22
September 16 American Imperialism and the Spanish-American War - 23
September 21 The U.S. at the Beginning of the 20th Century; 1st Paper Due
- 23
September 23 The Progressive Movement - 24
September 28 Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson - 24 and 25
September 30 World War I at Home and Abroad; Discussion of the book - The
Leo Frank Case - 25
October 5 Race Relations and Postwar America - 26
October 7 Herbert Hoover and FDR and the Great Depression - 27
October 12 The New Deal - 28
October 14 World War II - 29, 30
October 19 America at War and Social Developments at Home; Discussion of
the book - Prisoners Without Trial - 30
October 21 Origins of the Cold War - 31
October 26 The Roots of Racial Reform; 2nd Paper Due - 33
October 28 The Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Courts - 33
November 2 Film - Eyes on the Prize - "Fighting Back;" Discussion of the
book - Coming of Age in Mississippi - 34
November 4 JFK and LBJ and Social Reform in the Sixties - 34
November 9 Vietnam - 34, 35
November 11 Film on Vietnam
November 16 Race and the New Ethnicity; Discussion of the book - Boston
Against Busing
November 18 The Women's Movement - 35
November 23 The Rise of Republicanism and Watergate- 35
November 25 No class - Thanksgiving recess
November 30 The Reagan Era; 3rd Paper Due - 36
December 2 The Collapse of Communism and its Meaning for the U.S. - 36
December 4 The U.S. at the end of the 20th Century - 37
December Final Examination - Little 101: 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
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