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AMERICAN HISTORY

1877 to the PRESENT

COURSE READER

2020

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Welcome!

Welcome to AMH 2020: American history 1877 to the present! This Course Reader contains

suggested reading, “How to” guides for writing, and the forms of assessment (including essay

questions and gobbet exercise topics).

If you have any questions relating to the class or assessment, I can be reached at 305-348-2328.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR – SPRING 2020

Classes Start

Monday, January 6, 2020

Last Day to Add/Drop Monday, January 13, 2020 Martin Luther King Day Holiday Monday, January 20, 2020 Spring Break (No Classes) Monday-Saturday, February 24-29, 2020 Last Day to Drop with a DR Grade Monday, March 16, 2020 Passover Wednesday-Thursday, April 8-16, 2020 Last Regular Class Day Saturday, April 18, 2020 Finals Week (Required Class Meetings)* Monday-Saturday, April 20-April 25, 2020 End of Term Saturday April 25, 2020 Commencement TBA Deadline for Faculty to Submit Grades Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Grades Available for Students Thursday, April 30, 2020

Part A Classes Start Monday, January 6, 2020 Last Day to Add/Drop Monday, January 13, 2020 Martin Luther King Day Holiday Monday, January 20, 2020 Last Day to Drop with a DR Grade Monday, February 3, 2020 Last Regular Class Day Saturday, February 22, 2020 Deadline for Faculty to Submit Grades Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Grades Available for Students Thursday, February 27, 2020 Part B Classes Start Monday, March 2, 2020 Last Day to Add/Drop Monday, March 9, 2020 Last Day to Drop with a DR Grade Monday, March 30, 2020 Passover Wednesday-Thursday, April 8-16, 2020 Last Regular Class Day Saturday, April 18, 2020 Deadline for Faculty to Submit Grades Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Grades Available for Students Thursday, April 30, 2020

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

This listing of specific bibliographies is by no means exhaustive and you are expected to read

beyond the assigned literature, especially for writing assignments, by making use of the library

on a regular basis. I do not expect you to read all the titles. The number of works listed reflects

my concern to ensure you know what is available and reliable, especially as there will be

multiple demands for each work. In short, these bibliographies are intended to broaden your

knowledge in a certain area.

Week 1 – Introduction:

Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press, 2001.

Blum, Edward J. Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865–

1898. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2007.

Cimbala, Paul A. Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Downs, Gregory P. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.

———. Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861–

1908. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Edwards, Laura F. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Egerton, Douglas R. The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive

Era. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014.

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York: HarperCollins,

1988.

Franke, Katherine M. “Becoming a Citizen: Reconstruction Era Regulation of African American

Marriages.” Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 11, no. 2 (1999): 251–310.

Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the

Great Migration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist

Church, 1880–1920. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Hunter, Tera W. To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil

War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Janney, Caroline E. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation. Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 2010.

Kantrowitz, Stephen. More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829–

1889. New York: Penguin, 2012.

Lemann, Nicholas. Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

2006.

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Masur, Kate. An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Nelson, Megan Kate. Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia

Press, 2012.

Parsons, Elaine Frantz. Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 2015.

Richardson, Heather Cox. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post–Civil War

North, 1865–1901. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

———. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale

University Press, 2008.

Rosen, Hannah. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Saville, Julie. The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860–

1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Silber, Nina. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865–1900. Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 1997.

Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920. Athens:

University of Georgia Press, 2009.

Week 2:

Aarim, Najia. Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848–

1882. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Andrews, Thomas. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press, 2009.

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York: Holt,

Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

Cahill, Cathleen. Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–

1933. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1991.

Gordan, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Hämäläinen, Pekka. The Comanche Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

Hine, Robert V. The American West: A New Interpretive History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,

2000.

Huhndorf, Shari M. Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Jacobs, Margaret D. White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of

Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

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Johnson, Benjamin Heber. Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

Kelman, Ari. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 2013.

Krech, Shepard. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: Norton, 1999.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987.

Marks, Paula Mitchell. In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival. New York:

Morrow, 1998.

Montejano, David. Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986. Austin: University of Texas

Press, 1987.

Pascoe, Peggy. Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874–

1939. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. Lincoln:

University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Schulten, Susan. The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Shah, Nayan. Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American

West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. New York: Vintage Books,

1957.

Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528–

1990. New York: Norton, 1999.

Warren, Louis S. Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show. New York: Knopf, 2005.

White, Richard. “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”: A New History of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

Week 3:

Ayers, Edward. The Promise of the New South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Beckert, Sven. Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie,

1850–1896. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States,

1880–1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Briggs, Laura. “The Race of Hysteria: ‘Overcivilization’ and the ‘Savage’ Woman in Late Nineteenth-

Century Obstetrics and Gynecology.” American Quarterly 52 (June 2000). 246–273.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–

1940. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Cole, Stephanie, and Natalie J. Ring, eds. The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. College

Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.

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Cott, Nancy. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.

Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1991.

Edwards, Rebecca. New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North

Carolina, 1896–1920.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Gutman, Herbert. Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working-

Class and Social History. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940. New York:

Pantheon Books, 1998.

Hicks, Cheryl. Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890–1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York: Hill and Wang,

1978.

Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. New York:

Random House, 1993.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture,

1880–1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Odem, Mary. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United

States, 1885–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements. Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

Peiss, Kathy. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture. Philadelphia: University of

Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Putney, Clifford. Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Silber, Nina. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865–1900. Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 1997.

Strouse, Jean. Alice James: A Biography. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.

Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877–1913. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1951.

Week 4:

Beckert, Sven. Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie,

1850–1896. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department

Stores, 1890–1940. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Cameron, Ardis. Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860– 1912. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

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Chambers, John W. The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890–1920, 2nd ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge,

MA: Belknap Press, 1977.

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 1990.

Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1991.

Edwards, Rebecca. New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905. New York: Oxford University

Press, 2005.

Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics

at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Fink, Leon. Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. Chicago: University

of Illinois Press, 1993.

Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1976.

Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2006.

Greene, Julie. Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881–

1917. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania

Press, 1944.

Johnson, Kimberley S. Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877–

1929. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. New York: Knopf, 2006.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Krause, Paul. The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel. Pittsburgh, PA:

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 1985.

McMath, Robert C., Jr. American Populism: A Social History, 1877–1898. New York: Hill and Wang,

1993.

Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor

Activism, 1865–1925. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877–1919. New York: Norton, 1987.

Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. New York: Hill

and Wang, 1982.

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Week 5:

Ayers, Edward. The Promise of the New South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Bay, Mia. To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Hill and Wang, 2010.

Cott, Nancy. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.

Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Dubois, Ellen Carol. Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Rights. New York: New York University Press,

1998.

Filene, Peter. “An Obituary for ‘The Progressive Movement,’” American Quarterly 22 (Spring 1970): 20–

34.

Flanagan, Maureen. America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s–1920s. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2007.

Foley, Neil. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Gilmore, Glenda E. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1998.

Hicks, Cheryl. Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York,

1890–1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Knopf, 1955.

Johnson, Kimberley. Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877–

1929. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-

Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Kloppenberg, James T. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and

American Thought, 1870–1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservatism. New York: Free Press, 1963.

Kousser, J. Morgan. The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the

One-Party South, 1880–1910. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974.

McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–

1920. New York: Free Press, 2003.

Molina, Natalia. Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939. Berkeley:

University of California Press, 2006.

Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890–1935. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press, 2000.

Sanders, Elizabeth. The Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Stromquist, Shelton. Re-Inventing “The People”: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

White, Deborah. Too Heavy a Load: In Defense of Themselves. New York: Norton, 1999.

Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877–1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.

Week 6:

American Imperialism

Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States,

1880–1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Brooks, Charlotte. Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Gabaccia, Donna. Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Greene, Julie. The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal. New York: Penguin,

2009.

Guglielmo, Thomas A. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890–1945. New

York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Harris, Susan K. God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902. New York: Oxford

University Press, 2011.

Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

Hirota, Hidetaka. Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy.New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Hoganson, Kristin. Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865– 1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-

American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign People at Home and

Abroad, 1876–1917. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Kaplan, Amy. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Kramer, Paul A. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Lafeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898. Ithaca, NY:

Cornell University Press, 1963.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920. New York:

HarperCollins, 2009.

Linn, Brian McAllister. The Philippine War, 1899–1902. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

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Love, Eric T. L. Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2009.

Perez, Louis A., Jr. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. New

Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.

Renda, Mary. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of US Imperialism, 1915–40. Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Rosenberg, Emily S. Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–

1945. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.

Silbey, David. A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.

Wexler, Laura. Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of US Imperialism. Chapel Hill: University

of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Williams, William Appleman. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, 50th Anniversary Edition. New York:

Norton, 2009 [1959].

World War I

Capozzola, Christopher. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American

Citizen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Cooper, John Milton. Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of

Nations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Dawley, Alan. Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Doenecke, Justus D. Nothing Less than War: A New History of America’s Entry into World War

I. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011.

Freeberg, Ernest. Democracy’s Prisoners: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to

Dissent. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela, eds. Empires at War: 1911–1923. New York: Oxford University Press,

2015.

Greenwald, Maurine W. Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the

United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1980.

Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the

Great Migration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Hawley, Ellis. The Great War and the Search for Modern Order. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979.

Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War. Champaign: University

of Illinois Press, 2009.

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Keene, Jennifer. Doughboys, The Great War, and the Remaking of America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Kennedy, David. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford University

Press, 1980.

Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1992.

MacMillan, Margaret. The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914. New York: Random House, 2014.

Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Movement: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial

Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor

Activism, 1865–1925. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Murphy, Paul. World War I and the Origins of Civil Liberties in the United States. New York: Norton,

1979.

Neiberg, Michael S. The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2016.

Rosenberg, Emily. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.

Smith, Tony. Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis

Today. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Tuttle, William. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. Champaign: University of Illinois Press,

1970.

Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Sons: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York:

Vintage Books, 2010.

Williams, Chad L. Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Week 7:

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. New York: Harper and Row,

1931.

Baldwin, Davarian. Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Blee, Kathleen M. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–

1940. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939. New York: Cambridge

University Press, 1990.

Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

1995.

Dumenil, Lynn. The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.

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Fox, Richard Wightman, and T. J. Jackson Lears, eds. The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880–1980.New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

Gage, Beverly. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2009.

Grant, Colin. Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. New York: Oxford University Press,

2008.

Hall, Jacquelyn. Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 1987.

Heap, Chad. Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885–1940. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Hernández, Kelly Lytle. Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. New York: University of California Press, 2010.

Huggins, Nathan. Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Larson, Edward. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science

and Religion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

MacLean, Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Marsden, George M. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century

Evangelicalism: 1870–1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

McGirr, Lisa. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. New York: Norton,

2016.

Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor

Activism, 1865–1925. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Ngai, Mae M., Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2004.

Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Scribner, 2010.

Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles,

1900–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Tindall, George Brown. The Emergence of the New South, 1913–1945. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1967.

Weinrib, Laura. The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.

Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Sons: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York:

Vintage Books, 2010.

Week 8:

Balderrama, Francisco E., and Raymond Rodríguez. Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s, rev. ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York: Knopf, 1995.

———. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. New York: Knopf, 1982.

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Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Cowie, Jefferson, and Nick Salvatore. “The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in

American History.” International Labor and Working-Class History 74 (Fall 2008): 1–32.

Dickstein, Morris. Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression. New York: Norton,

2009.

Fraser, Steve, and Gary Gerstle, eds. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 1989.

Gilmore, Glenda E. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950. New York: Norton,

2009.

Gordon, Colin. New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America 1920–1935. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. New York: Norton, 2009.

———. Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare 1890–1935. New York: Free

Press, 1994.

Greene, Alison Collis. No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Katznelson, Ira. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. New York: Norton, 2013.

Kelly, Robin D. G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Kennedy, David. Freedom from Fear: America in Depression and War, 1929–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-

Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

Leuchtenburg, William. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940. New York: Harper and Row,

1963.

Pells, Richard. Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression

Years. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.

Phillips, Kimberly L. Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community and Working-Class

Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945.Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Phillips–Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal. New York:

Norton, 2010

Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 1996.

Tani, Karen. States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935–1972. Cambridge,

UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Wright, Gavin. Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1986.

Week 9:

Adams, Michael. The Best War Ever: America and World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University

Press, 1994.

Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During WWII. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981.

Black, Gregory D. Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profit and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies. New York: Free Press, 1987.

Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II. New York:

Marine Books, 1976.

Borgwardt, Elizabeth. A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 2005.

Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New York: Hill and Wang,

1993.

Dower, John. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon, 1993.

Honey, Maureen. Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda During World War

II. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.

Hooks, Gregory Michael. Forging the Military-Industrial Complex: World War II’s Battle of the

Potomac. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

Kaminski, Theresa. Angels of the Underground: The American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II.New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking, 1990.

Kennedy, David. Freedom from Fear: America in Depression and War, 1929–1945. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1999.

Leonard, Kevin Allen. The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II. Albuquerque:

University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Malloy, Sean L. Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.

Meyer, Leisa D. Creating G.I. Jane: The Regulation of Sexuality and Sexual Behavior in the Women’s Army

Corps During WWII. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Murray, Alice Yang. Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for

Redress. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.

O’Neill, William L. A Democracy at War: America’s Fight at Home and Abroad in World War

II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Russell, Jan Jarboe. The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s

Only Family Internment Camp During World War II. New York: Scribner, 2015.

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Schulman, Bruce J. From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Sparrow, James T. Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2011.

Spector, Ronald H. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Random House,

1985

Takaki, Ronald T. Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II. New York: Little,

Brown, 2000.

Wynn, Neil A. The African American Experience During World War II. New York: Rowman and

Littlefield, 2010.

Week 10:

Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global

Arena. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic

Age. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

Brown, Kate. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium

Disasters. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Carlton, Don E. Red Scare! Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas. Austin:

Texas Monthly Press, 1985.

Dean, Robert. Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Dudziak, Mary. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2000.

Gaddis, John L. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin, 2005.

———. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

———. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Kolko, Gabriel. Confronting the Third World: United States Foreign Policy 1945–1980. New York:

Pantheon Books, 1988.

Krenn, Michael L. Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit: American Art and the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Lafeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1966. New York: Wiley, 1967.

Leffler, Melvyn. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. New

York: Hill and Wang, 2008.

Linn, Brian McAllister. Elvis’s Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.

May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: Oxford University

Press, 2005.

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Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Powers, Richard Gid. Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism. New York: Free

Press, 1995.

Rhodes, Richard. Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race. New York: Knopf, 2007.

Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New York: New Press, 1999.

Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. New York: Little, Brown, 1998.

Schulman, Bruce J. From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the

Transformation of the South, 1938–1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Von Eschen, Penny. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. New

York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Whitfield, Stephen. The Culture of the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Week 11:

Boyle, Kevin. The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968. Ithaca, NY: Cornell

University Press, 1995.

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963. New York: Simon and

Schuster, 1988.

Brown, Kate. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Brown-Nagin, Tomiko. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York: Basic

Books, 1993.

Dudziak, Mary. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2002.

Fried, Richard M. Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective. New York: Oxford University

Press, 1990.

Grisinger, Joanna. The Unwieldy American State: Administrative Politics Since the New Deal. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Hernández, Kelly Lytle. Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

Horowitz, Daniel. Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold

War, and Modern Feminism.Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1985.

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Jumonville, Neil. Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Levenstein, Lisa. A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in

Postwar Philadelphia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books,

1988.

McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press, 2001.

Ngai, Mae. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2003.

Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Roberts, Gene, and Hank Klibanoff. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the

Awakening of a Nation. New York: Knopf, 2006.

Self, Robert. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press, 2005.

Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2005.

Von Eschen, Penny. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 2004.

Wagnleitner, Reinhold. Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Wall, Wendy. Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil

Rights Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Whitfield, Stephen. The Culture of the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Week 12:

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963. New York: Simon and

Schuster, 1988.

———. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–65. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Breines, Winifred. The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Brick, Howard. The Age of Contradictions: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s. Ithaca, NY:

Cornell University Press, 2000.

Brown-Nagin, Tomiko. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights

Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press, 1981.

Chafe, William. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

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Dallek, Robert. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United

States, 1940–1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975. Minneapolis: University of

Minnesota Press, 1989.

Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. New York: Bantam Books, 1987.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past.” Journal of

American History 91 (March 2005): 1233–1263.

Isserman, Maurice. If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New

Left. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Johnson, Troy R. The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self-

Determination. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Joseph, Peniel. Waiting ’til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York:

Holt, 2006.

Kazin, Michael, and Maurice Isserman. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press, 2001.

Orleck, Annelise. Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. New

York: Beacon Books, 2005.

Patterson, James T. America’s Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 1981.

Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. New York: Oxford University

Press, 1996.

Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. New

York: Hill and Wang, 2001.

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long?: African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2005.

Week 13:

Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1995.

Cowie, Jefferson R. Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. New York: New

Press, 2010.

Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the

New Left. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.

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Flamm, Michael W. Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Formisano, Ronald P. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Greenberg, David. Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image. New York: Norton, 2004.

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge, UK: Blackwell, 1989.

Jenkins, Philip. Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America. New

York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Kalman, Laura. Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974–1980. New York: Norton, 2010.

Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

MacLean, Nancy. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 2008.

Marable, Manning. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. New York: Viking, 2011.

Matusow, Allen J. The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.

Murch, Donna Jean. Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California.Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. New York: Oxford University

Press, 1996.

Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. New York: Norton,

2003.

Phelps, Wesley. A People’s War on Poverty: Urban Politics, Grassroots Activists, and the Struggle for

Democracy in Houston, 1964–1976. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014.

Rodgers, Daniel T. Age of Fracture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2011.

Roth, Benita. Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s

Second Wave. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Sargent, Daniel J. A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the

1970s. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. New York:

Free Press, 2001.

Springer, Kimberly. Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980. Durham, NC:

Duke University Press, 2005.

Stein, Judith. Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the 1970s. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.

Thompson, Heather Ann. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. New

York: Pantheon Books, 2016.

Zaretsky, Natasha. No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline. Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

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Week 14:

Brier, Jennifer. Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 2009.

Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the

Transformation of American Politics. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1995.

Chappell, Marisa. The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America. Philadelphia:

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Crespino, Joseph. In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Critchlow, Donald. The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Dallek, Matthew. The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan’s First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in

American Politics. New York: Free Press, 2000.

Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press, 2016.

Hunter, James D. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Kalman, Laura. Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974–1980. New York: Norton, 2010.

Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

MacLean, Nancy. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 2008.

Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Walmart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Nadasen, Premilla. Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States. New York:

Routledge, 2005.

Nickerson, Michelle M. Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2012.

Patterson, James T. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal. New York: Norton, 2010.

Rodgers, Daniel T. Age of Fracture. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2011.

Schoenwald, Jonathan. A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Self, Robert O. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. New York: Hill and Wang, 2012.

Troy, Gil. Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s. Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press, 2005.

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Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

Williams, Daniel K. God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right. New York: Oxford University

Press, 2007.

Zaretsky, Natasha. No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Week 15:

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York:

New Press, 2012.

Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Carter, Dan T. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1996.

Cowie, Jefferson. Capital Moves: RCA’s 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. New York: New Press, 2001.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. New York: Metropolitan, 2001.

Evans, Sara. Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End. New York: Free Press, 2003.

Gardner, Lloyd C. The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present. New York: Free Press, 2008.

Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press, 2016.

Hollinger, David. Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Hunter, James D. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 2004.

Mittelstadt, Jennifer. The Rise of the Military Welfare State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,

2015.

Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Walmart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Nadasen, Premilla. Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Osnos, Evan. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China. New York: Farrar,

Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Packer, George. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America. New York: Farrar, Straus and

Giroux, 2013.

Patterson, James T. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. New York: Oxford

University Press, 2005.

Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2013.

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Ricks, Thomas E. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. New York: Houghton Mifflin

Harcourt, 2001.

Stiglitz, Joseph. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. New York:

Norton, 2010.

Taylor, Paul. The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown. New York: Public Affairs, 2014.

Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

Williams, Daniel K. God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right. New York: Oxford University

Press, 2007.

Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. New York: Knopf, 2006.

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▪ The title page should record the essay question, panther id, class code, and the date.

Essay Question: In what ways did President Theodore Roosevelt change the American

presidency?

Course Code: AMH 2020

Panther ID: 17890078

Date: 3/10/2020

All pages, including the title page and bibliography, should be numbered consecutively.

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LAYOUT OF ASSESSED WORK

▪ All work will normally be word-processed. ▪ The main text should be double-spaced; the footnotes and bibliography should be single-spaced. ▪ Font size for text should be 12pt; for footnotes 10pt. Times New Roman “justified” text layout

is ideal.

▪ 1inch margins. ▪ The title page should record the essay question, panther id, class code and title, and the date. ▪ The bibliography should begin on a separate page at the end of the essay. ▪ Use footnotes rather than endnotes. ▪ Footnote markers should be numerical and superscript (e.g. …as Smith had argued.1); footnotes

should run consecutively throughout the essay.

▪ All pages, including the title page and bibliography, should be numbered consecutively. ▪ A running header containing the essay question only (abbreviated if practical) is useful, but not

essential.

▪ Use quotation marks and correct footnote citations with page numbers to protect yourself from being accused of plagiarism

▪ Quotations of three lines or fewer should run on in the text and be enclosed in quotation marks. Quotations of more than three lines should be inset and single-spaced, without quotation

marks.

▪ Matter inserted into a quotation to clarify a point should be enclosed in square brackets, e.g. ‘he [Lord George Sackville] left the House amid loud cheers.’

▪ Word limit: Word limits include footnotes and appendices, if any, but not the bibliography. ▪ Review for errors of spelling and grammar—this is a formal written report! I recommend using

the advanced spelling and grammar check functions in MS Word.

▪ Submit the paper online using the appropriate Turnitin link on Canvas by the deadline.

STYLE AND PRESENTATION:

Paper Organization – Your paper must include an introduction, several distinct body paragraphs,

and a conclusion. Your introduction should not begin with broad, overly general statements, but

instead should introduce the specific time, place, and topic you are writing about. Do not assume

that your reader knows anything about the history you are describing. Your introduction should

also include a) a thesis statement that interprets your primary sources within the historical context,

and b) an overview of how the remainder of your paper will be organized (a “roadmap” for your

reader).

Your body paragraphs should each be organized around a main idea and should offer evidence to

support that main idea. Be sure that your paragraphs each have a topic sentence. Check to be sure

that all of the evidence you offer in the paragraph relates to and supports that topic sentence. Your

conclusion should summarize your ideas and suggest connections to course themes.

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Please use the “justify” text function in Word. It will make a world of difference to your

presentation, as you can see below:

Aim for this:

What resulted from the Congress of Vienna, and was expanded upon at Aachen in 1819,

was a continental system of checks and balances presided over by a pentarchy of monarchical

Great Powers acting co-operatively. The European Concert system functioned as a combination of

court appeal and peacekeeper for the states of Europe. Any disputes between nations that could

not be resolved at state level, were presented before the European Concert for mediation, with or

without the solicitation from the parties involved. Decisions were made collectively by the five

member states.

Not this:

What resulted from the Congress of Vienna, and was expanded upon at Aachen in 1819, was a

continental system of checks and balances presided over by a pentarchy of monarchical Great

Powers acting co-operatively. The European Concert system functioned as a combination of

court appeal and peacekeeper for the states of Europe. Any disputes between nations that could

not be resolved at state level, were presented before the European Concert for mediation, with or

without the solicitation from the parties involved. Decisions were made collectively by the five

member states.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

▪ The bibliography should list all material which has informed the content of the essay. ▪ All works which appear in the footnotes will also be listed in the bibliography, but the

bibliography may also contain additional works which do not appear in the footnotes.

▪ Additional books which have not directly influenced the essay must not be included in the bibliography; in other words, do not ‘pad’ your bibliography.

▪ The bibliography should be divided into manuscript, printed primary, and secondary sources. Some undergraduate essays will contain only one section for secondary sources.

▪ Internet addresses in the bibliography can be given under the author’s name if appropriate. Otherwise, list them under a subheading of ‘Internet sources’.

▪ In all sections the works should be listed alphabetically by author. Works by the same author should be listed alphabetically by title under his/her name.

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FURTHER INFO AND GUIDES:

Examples on how to format your bibliography and footnotes - Chicago Manuel of Style:

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

For information regarding when to cite sources: https://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/cite/

Tips on how to avoid writing in first person:

https://unilearning.uow.edu.au/academic/2div.html

How to read a Primary Source: https://courses.bowdoin.edu/writing-guides/reading/how-to-read-a-primary-source/

How to read a Secondary Source: https://courses.bowdoin.edu/writing-guides/reading/how-to-read-a-secondary-source/

Getting Help on the Assignment – Unless you happen to live with a history professor or graduate

student, you probably won't be able to get good help at home. Your cousin, uncle, mom, or best

friend might be able to tell you whether you have spelling and typographical errors. They may be

able to help you pinpoint places where your organization could be improved.

Remember that a good history paper does not necessarily look like a good paper for an English,

Criminology, Philosophy, or Psychology class. Every discipline has its own conventions. To be

successful with your writing assignments, you should familiarize yourself with what history papers

are like. For further descriptions of how to approach assignments like this, see Mary Lynn

Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, excerpts from Chapter 4.

The History Department offers free tutoring for students working on history papers. This is

available 5 days per week. Call 305-348-2328 or email [email protected]

You may also visit me during my drop-in office hours.

Office: DM 371A

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:00-4:15 pm

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ESSAYS

Your essays should normally be chosen from the lists below. Essays should be between 1,500-

2,000 words long, should be footnoted and have an appropriate bibliography. My expectation is

that you will use the readings provided – assigned and recommended – as a basis for your

bibliography. Your essay will be marked according to the Grading Scale detailed in your syllabus.

Pay attention to the rubric: you will notice that to achieve higher marks you will have to read

beyond the literature we have provided, so familiarise yourself with the library!

Essays require that you interpret primary source evidence in historical context, drawing from the

assigned course readings. All of your papers must:

▪ closely analyze and describe primary sources using specifics and details; ▪ use scholarly secondary source texts for evidence about the historical context; ▪ select evidence to prove a thesis; ▪ draw conclusions beyond those that are immediately obvious from the evidence; ▪ write a paper that has a clear thesis, evidence organized into logical paragraphs, and a

conclusion;

▪ use correctly formatted footnote citations.

Essays should also:

▪ Consider different perspectives on a problem or controversy related to Modern US History and attempt to reach a resolution about it. (Global Engagement)

▪ Appreciate that U.S. history cannot be understood in isolation from people and events from around the world. (Global Awareness)

▪ Recognize that history is comprised of multiple stories, representing diverse experiences and perspectives (Global Perspective)

▪ Construct an evidence-based argument that integrates multiple perspectives on an issue in Modern US History. (Global Perspective)

On the following pages are your essay questions. There are ten essay questions listed for Essay A

and another ten for Essay B and you must complete one from each section. You can substitute one

of the essay questions for one of the alternative questions on page 8.

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ESSAY A

1. “Reconstruction changed Southern society in important but limited ways.” Explain this quote

in the framework of what you know about the South, paying particular attention to economic

and political developments in both Reconstruction & the time period that followed it.

2. Discuss the manner in which US Indian policy changed after the Civil War. How had the US government misinterpreted both the Battle of Little Bighorn and the later Ghost Dance Movement and what effects did these events have upon US Indian policy?

3. With the influx of immigrants in the latter decades of the 19th century, American society changed in fundamental ways. Discuss these changes with regard to any three of the following:

economically, socially, culturally, demographically, and politically.

4. Examine the economic and ideological roots of American expansionism in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Then, on a more specific note, describe the sequence of events that led to the

Spanish-American War and delineate reasons as to why the United States entered the conflict

between Cuban revolutionaries and their Spanish rulers. Finally, analyze the results of that war, focusing on America’s new imperial position and events in the Philippines.

5. The nineteenth century saw the basis of work change dramatically from an artisan-based system to one based on mass production. Explain this change and its effect upon both workers

and the owners of the means of production.

6. Labor protest in the United States during the period 1870-1910 developed during a period of general prosperity. Reconcile this apparent paradox, remaining aware of economic, social, and

political conditions during this time period.

7. In what ways did President Theodore Roosevelt change the American presidency?

8. Progressive reformers called on the federal government to be an active partner in reforming American society. They demanded the government become involved in areas traditionally left

to state or local governments or to private charities and philanthropic societies. In many

respects, the progressives’ approach to government involvement set the tone for Americans

increased expectations of the federal government. In what ways did the federal government

expand its powers from 1890 to 1945, and how did this growth affect American society?

Ultimately, did this expansion benefit the country? Explain your answer.

9. How revolutionary was the progressive movement? Was it a “triumph of conservatism”, as some historians maintain or was it a genuine reform movement? Using specific examples,

evaluate the effect of progressivism on American society.

10. Compare and contrast the populist movement and the reforms of the progressive era. Discuss their goals, their methods, their constituencies, and their successes and failures. Can it be said

that progressivism grew out of the ashes of the populist movement?

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ESSAY B

1. Women could not vote in national elections until the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Yet, women participated in politics well before this event. Explain and analyze the evolution of this movement and the notion of women’s expanded role in the public arena,

taking special care to focus on what “political” meant in the late 19th & early 20th centuries.

2. President Harding's 1920 presidential campaign is perhaps most notable for introducing the word "normalcy" into the American political vocabulary. What did Harding mean by

"normalcy", and did he in fact make good on his campaign promise?

3. The "Jazz Age," the "Roaring Twenties," the "Turbulent Twenties," and the "Dollar Decade" all describe the decade of the 1920s. Which label, in your opinion, is most accurate? Justify

your answer in an essay describing the decade's major events and problems.

4. Did the New Deal truly represent a dramatic departure from the progressive movement, or did it represent a continuation of that earlier movement? Be sure to consider aims, results,

motivations, and the reformers themselves.

5. During the first half of the twentieth century, two major global conflicts shattered the country's notions of peace and stability, prompting the United States to send money, munitions and

troops overseas. Consider the ways in which Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

approached foreign war. What were their public stances before the United States entered the fray? Why did they eventually commit to U.S. involvement? In what ways did they attempt to

mobilize domestic support, and how successful were these efforts? Ultimately, who was the

more successful wartime leader?

6. The actions of African-American civil rights activists had a broader effect on activists for other minorities. Agree or disagree.

7. What role, if any, did the notion of a "balance of power" play in the international relations of a period you have studied?

8. From your reading on the Vietnam War, evaluate the American role in Vietnam from 1961 to

1975. Was the United States able to fulfill its objectives?

9. The cold war had profound implications for U.S. domestic policy and culture. Discuss the ways in which heightened tension with the Soviets influenced America's national scene from 1945

to 1989. What were the benefits and losses of this "great fear" in American culture?

10. In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has found itself alone atop the world’s military powers. Yet challenges to the US have seemingly multiplied.

Identify some of those challenges. How did the Clinton administration address these challenges? How did the George W Bush administration address these challenges? What

differences and what similarities do you notice?

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ALTERNATE QUESTIONS

Discuss one of the following with reference to a period you have studied:

1. Is there a link between economics and culture?

2. How significant is technology in shaping historical change?

3. What is the relationship between modernity and urbanization?

4. “Peace is more artificial and demands more explanation. Wars sometimes just happen; peace is always caused.” (P. W. Schroeder)

5. Did ideas matter?

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GOBBETS

A Note on How to Write Gobbets

The primary documents, normally an extract of text (especially a quotation) or image, is provided

as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation. A well written gobbet should have the

following elements:

a. it will identify the document and context (including its language, whether the text provided is a translation, and the place where this document was done), its

purpose and the main characters involved;

b. it will comment on the particular point or points raised in the extract (ask yourself, why was this extract set?);

c. it will explain any distinctive words or phrases;

d. it will then, towards the end, comment more discursively on some of the broader issues involved. Is this a true or accurate narrative of events? Are the hopes of

the protagonist ultimately realized? Where does this extract fit into the wider

context of what we know from our sources?

Try to make about four to five points, and do not write more than 800 words or few er than 500.

Avoid an over-lengthy introduction; get to the point quickly, do not simply rephrase the wording

of the gobbet, and make sure that you analyze it. Gobbets are designed to assess your ability to

comment critically upon source material, whether a text or an object. Each gobbet will have at

least one specific point that should be addressed/analyzed, so always consider why a particular

passage/image has been chosen.

For those of you also taking literature modules in other Schools, please note that history

gobbets are less an exercise in textual criticism and much more an attempt to get to the heart

of the issues contained within a document, and the issues concerning the nature of the

document itself.

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GOBBET EXERCISES WEEK 2:

A. Thomas Kelley, “The Fifteenth Amendment,” 1870 Larger Version

B. … though freedom of speech and of the ballot have for the present fallen before the shot-guns of

the South, and, the party of slavery is now in the ascendant, we need bate no jot of heart or hope.

The American people will, in any great emergency, be true to themselves. The heart of the nation

is still sound and strong, and as in the past, so in the future, patriotic millions, with able captains to

lead them, will stand as a wall of fire around the Republic, and in the end see Liberty, Equality, and

Justice triumphant. – Frederick Douglass, “Speech delivered in Madison Square, New York,

Decoration Day.” 1877.

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WEEK 3:

A. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Too-hul-hul-sote is dead. The

old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead.

It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of

them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are—

perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I

can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick

and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever. – Chief Joseph, surrender

speech, as recorded by Lieutenant Wood, Twenty-first Infantry, acting aide-de-camp and

acting adjutant-general to General Oliver O. Howard, in 1877.

B. John Gast, American Progress, 1872 Larger Version

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WEEK 4:

A. The fiat has gone forth! With steam and electricity, and the new powers born of progress, forces

have entered the world that will either compel us to a higher plane or overwhelm us, as nation after

nation, as civilization after civilization, have been overwhelmed before. It is the delusion which

precedes destruction that sees in the popular unrest with which the civilized world is feverishly

pulsing only the passing effect of ephemeral causes. Between democratic ideas and the aristocratic

adjustments of society there is an irreconcilable conflict. Here in the United States, as there in

Europe, it may be seen arising. We cannot go on permitting men to vote and forcing them to

tramp. We cannot go on educating boys and girls in our public schools and then refusing them the

right to earn an honest living. We cannot go on prating of the inalienable rights of man and then

denying the inalienable right to the bounty of the Creator. Even now, in old bottles the new wine

begins to ferment, and elemental forces gather for the strife! – Henry George, Progress and

Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with

Increase of Wealth: The Remedy (1879).

B. Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912 Larger Version

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WEEK 5:

A. Udo Keppler, “Next!” (1904) Larger Version

B. Well, the fire is over, the girls are dead, and as I write, the procession in honor of the unidentified

dead is moving by under my windows. Now what is going to be done about it?

Harris and Blanck, the Triangle Company, have offered to pay one week's wages to the families of

the dead girls--as though it were summer and they are giving them a vacation! Three days after the

fire they inserted in the trade papers this notice:

NOTICE, THE TRIANGLE WAIST CO. beg to notify their customers that they are in good

working order. HEADQUARTERS now at 9-11 University Place.

The day after they were installed in their new quarters, the Building Department of New York City

discovered that 9-11 University Place was not even fireproof, and that the firm had already blocked

the exit to the one fire escape by two rows of sewing machines.

And still as I write the mourning procession moves past in the rain. For two hours they have been

going steadily by and the end is not yet in sight. There have been no carriages, no imposing marshals

on horseback; just thousands and thousands of working men and women carrying the banners of

their trades through the long three-mile tramp in the rain. Never have I seen a military pageant or

triumphant ovation so impressive; for it is not because 146 workers were killed in the Triangle

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shop-not altogether. It is because every year there are 50,000 working men and women killed in

the United States-136 a day; almost as many as happened to be killed together on the 25th of March;

and because slowly, very slowly, it is dawning on these thousands on thousands that such things

do not have to be!

It is four hours later and the last of the procession has just passed. – Martha Bensley Bruere

“What is to be Done?”, First published in Life and Labor, May 1911.

WEEK 6:

A. “School Begins,” Puck, January 25, 1899 Larger Version

B. William McKinley on American Expansionism (1903) – After the surrender of the

Spanish in the Spanish-American War, the United States assumed control of the

Philippines but struggled to contain an anti-American insurgency. Link to Interview

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WEEK 7:

A. Anarchist Emma Goldman was tried for conspiring to violate the Selective Service Act. The following is an excerpt from her speech to the court, in which she explains her views on

patriotism.

Who is the real patriot, or rather what is the kind of patriotism that we represent? The kind of

patriotism we represent is the kind of patriotism which loves America with open eyes. Our relation

towards America is the same as the relation of a man who loves a woman, who is enchanted by her

beauty and yet who cannot be blind to her defects. And so I wish to state here, in my own behalf

and in behalf of hundreds of thousands whom you decry and state to be antipatriotic, that we love

America, we love her beauty, we love her riches, we love her mountains and her forests, and above

all we love the people who have produced her wealth and riches, who have created all her beauty,

we love the dreamers and the philosophers and the thinkers who are giving America liberty. But

that must not make us blind to the social faults of America. That cannot make us deaf to the discords

of America. That cannot compel us to be inarticulate to the terrible wrongs committed in the name

of patriotism and in the name of the country. We simply insist, regardless of all protests to the

contrary, that this war is not a war for democracy. If it were a war for the purpose of making

democracy safe for the world, we would say that democracy must first be safe for America before

it can be safe for the world. - Emma Goldman on Patriotism (July 9, 1917)

B. “Wake Up, America” - The Boy Scouts of America charge up Fifth Avenue in New York

City in a parade to support recruitment efforts. Larger Version

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WEEK 8

A. “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?” - E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and Jay Gorney, 1930. Charlie Palloy & His Orchestra (1932) Audio Link

Once I built a railroad, made it run

Made it race against time

Once I built a railroad, now it's done

Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once I built a tower to the sun

Brick and rivet and lime

Once I built a tower, now it's done

Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits

Gee, we looked swell!

Full of that yankee-doodle-dumb

Half a million boots

Went slogging through hell

And I was the kid with the drum!

Say, don't you remember? They called me "Al"

It was "Al" all the time

Say, don't you remember? I'm your pal!

Brother, can you spare a dime?

B. “The Louisville Flood” January 1937 - Margaret Bourke-White, printed in LIFE, Feb 15,

1937. Larger Version

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WEEK 9:

A. Today we have reason to believe that things are a little better than they were two months ago.

Industry has picked up, railroads are carrying more freight, farm prices are better, but I am not

going to indulge in issuing proclamations of over enthusiastic assurance. We cannot bally-ho

ourselves back to prosperity. I am going to be honest at all times with the people of the country. I

do not want the people of this country to take the foolish course of letting this improvement come

back on another speculative wave. I do not want the people to believe that because of unjustified

optimism we can resume the ruinous practice of increasing our crop output and our factory output

in the hope that a kind providence will find buyers at high prices. Such a course may bring us

immediate and false prosperity but it will be the kind of prosperity that will lead us into another

tailspin - Radio Address “Fireside Chat” of the President Outlining New Deal Program (May

7, 1933) Fireside Chat

B. “Wisdom and Courage” (1938) – David W. Dyer Federal Building and Courthouse, Miami, Florida. Sculpted by Yugoslav-born American artist Alexander Sambugnac.

Larger Version

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WEEK 10:

A. “He never knew what hit him” – Dr. Seuss, PM Magazine, December 8, 1941.

B. Harry Truman Announcing the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (1945) – On August 6, 1945, Harry Truman disclosed to the American public that the United States had

detonated an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. Statement Link

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WEEK 11:

A. NSC-68 (1950) - In 1950, the National Security Council produced a 58-page, top-secret

report proclaiming the threat of Soviet communism. In the new postwar world, the report

argued, the United States could no longer retreat toward isolationism without encouraging

the aggressive expansion of communism across the globe. The United States, the report

said, had to mobilize to ensure the survival of “civilization itself.” Report Extract

B. President Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Oval Office Address - October 22, 1962

Video Link

This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military

buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the

fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The

purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the

Western Hemisphere.

Upon receiving the first preliminary hard information of this nature last Tuesday morning at 9 a.m.,

I directed that our surveillance be stepped up. And having now confirmed and completed our

evaluation of the evidence and our decision on a course of action, this Government feels obliged to

report this new crisis to you in fullest detail.

The characteristics of these new missile sites indicate two distinct types of installations. Several of

them include medium range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for a distance

of more than 1,000 nautical miles. Each of these missiles, in short, is capable of striking

Washington, D.C., the Panama Canal, Cape Canaveral, Mexico City, or any other city in the

southeastern part of the United States, in Central America, or in the Caribbean area.

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WEEK 12:

A. Richard Nixon on the American Standard of Living (1959) - As Cold War tensions

eased, exhibitions allowed for Americans and Soviets to survey the other’s culture and way

of life. In 1959, the Russians held an exhibition in New York, and the Americans in

Moscow. A videotaped discussion between Vice President Richard Nixon

and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev, the so-called “Kitchen Debate,” won Richard

Nixon acclaim at home for his articulate defense of the American standard of living. In the

following extract from July 24, 1959, Nixon opened the American Exhibition in Moscow.

Extract

B. Lyndon B. Johnson sits with Civil Rights Leaders in the White House (January 18, 1964)

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WEEK 13:

A. Statement by John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971) – On April 23,

1971, a young Vietnam veteran named John Kerry spoke on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans

Against the War before the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations. Kerry, later a

Massachusetts Senator and 2004 presidential contender, articulated a growing

disenchantment with the Vietnam War and delivered a blistering indictment of the

reasoning behind its prosecution. Statement Link

B. “Many Subway Cars in New York City Have Been Spray-Painted by Vandals” - Erik Calonius, 1973

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WEEK 14:

A. President Reagan’s Address at the Brandenburg Gate – June 12, 1987

Video

There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance

dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek

peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek

liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear

down this wall!

B. Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992) - Pat Buchanan was a conservative journalist who worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations before running for the

Republican presidential nomination in 1992. Although he lost the nomination to George

H.W. Bush, he was invited to speak at that year’s Republican National Convention, where

he delivered a fiery address criticizing liberals and declaring a “culture war” at the heart of

American life. Extract

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WEEK 15:

A. George W. Bush on the Post-9/11 World (2002) – In his 2002 State of the Union Address, George W. Bush proclaimed that the attacks of September 11 signaled a new, dangerous world that

demanded American interventions. Bush identified an “Axis of Evil” and provided a justification

for a broad “war on terror.” (Link to Speech)

B. “I want to know if my hair is just like yours”- 5-year-old Jacob Philadelphia. In 2008, Barack

Obama became the first African American elected to the presidency. Official White House photo

from May 2009.

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