History writing
Week 2 Aug 30 – Sept 3 Reconstruction
Monday – Read Chapter 15 primary source documents: Jourdon Anderson writes his former enslaver, 1865, Mississippi Black Code, 1865, General Reynolds describes lawlessness in Texas, 1868, A case of sexual violence during Reconstruction, 1866
Friday – Read Chapter 16 Primary Source Documents: Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (1889), William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca.1880s) , Henry George, Progress and Poverty, Selections (1879) , and Lucy Parsons on Women and Revolutionary Socialism (1905)
Wednesday – Read: Chapter 18 primary source document: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America” (1900), Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper” (1913), Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890), Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918), Mulberry Street (ca. 1900)
Week 5 Sept 20 – 24 – Continue American Empire & Exam 1
Monday – Read Chapter 19 documents: William McKinley on American Expansionism (1903),
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899), William James on “The Philippine Question” (1903), and Emilio Aguinaldo (posted to D2L under “Handouts and Readings” tab)
Friday – Read Chapter 21: World War I & Its Aftermath and Chapter 21 primary source documents: Woodrow Wilson Requests War (April 2, 1917), Manuel Quezon calls for Filipino Independence (1919), W.E.B DuBois, “Returning Soldiers” (May, 1919), The Sedition Act of 1918 (1918), and “A World Safe for Democracy” (posted to D2L under “Handouts and readings” tab)
Week 7 Oct 4 – 8 The New Era
Monday – Read Chapter 22 The New Era
Wednesday – Read Chapter 22 primary source documents: Warren G. Harding and the “Return to Normalcy” (1920), Crystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin” (1920), Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1921), Hiram Evans on the “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism” (1926), Ellen Welles Page, “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents” (1922), Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925) **Beyond the Classroom Instructions will be discussed in class.
Wednesday – Read Chapter 23 The Great Depression and Chapter 23 primary source documents: Herbert Hoover on the New Deal (1932), Franklin Roosevelt’s Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936), Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937)
Wednesday – Read Chapter 24 Primary Source Documents: Charles A. Lindbergh, “America First” (1941), A. Phillip Randolph and Franklin Roosevelt on Racial Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941), The Atlantic Charter (1941), FDR, Executive Order No. 9066 (1942), Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) and Atomic Bomb Activity (day 2)
Friday – Read Chapter 24 Primary Source Documents: Harry Truman Announcing the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (1945) and Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945) and Atomic Bomb Activity (day 3).
Wednesday – Read Chapter 25 Primary Source Documents: The Truman Doctrine (1947), NSC-68 (1950), Joseph McCarthy on Communism (1950), Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience” (1950), Lillian Hellman Refuses to Name Names (1952), Paul Robeson’s Appearance Before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1956). **Exam instructions will be discussed in class.
Wednesday – Read Chapter 26 Primary Source Documents: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), Richard Nixon on the American Standard of Living (1959), Congressman Arthur L. Miller Gives “the Putrid Facts” About Homosexuality (1950)
Friday – Watch Chapter 26 Primary Source Document Video: “In the Suburbs” (1957)
Week 12 Nov 8 – 12 The Sixties
Monday – Read Chapter 27 The Sixties with Read Chapter 27 Primary Source documents: Lyndon Johnson on Voting Rights and the American Promise (1965), Lyndon Johnson, Howard University Commencement Address (1965), The Port Huron Statement (1962), Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony at the Democratic National Convention 1964,
Friday – Read Chapter 27 Primary Source Documents: National Organization for Women, “Statement of Purpose” (1966) as well as “The Redstockings Manifesto” and The Combahee River Collective Statement (posted to D2L under “Handouts and Readings” tab).
Week 14 Nov 22 – 26 The Unraveling
Monday – Read Chapter 28 The Unraveling with Chapter 28 primary source documents: Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), Barbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address (1976), Jimmy Carter, “Crisis of Confidence” (1979), Gloria Steinem on Equal Rights for Women (1970), “Stop ERA” Protest (1977)
Wednesday – Read Chapter 28 primary source documents: First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan (1981), Jerry Falwell on the “Homosexual Revolution” (1981), Statements of AIDS Patients (1983), Statements from The Parents Music Resource Center (1985), Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992), Phyllis Schlafly on Women’s Responsibility for Sexual Harassment (1981), Jesse Jackson on the Rainbow Coalition (1984)
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