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Students will be given a list of topics and dates for formal presentations in the second week of class. Students will be expected to give a formal presentation of 5-7 minutes on a topic.

· A minimum of 5 of those minutes has to include you talking. You may include a video or music clip as part of your presentation, but make sure that you are still doing 6 minutes of the talking and that the entire presentation comes in at or under 7 minutes.

· Please arrive for class a little early on your presentation date and set up your material on the class computer before class begins.

· Complete a detailed outline (or a detailed power point) along with a formal bibliography, compiled in Chicago Manual of Style formatting. Have a printout to give to the instructor before you begin your presentation. Your name and the date of your presentation should also be clear on both.

· Give a brief history of the event or item/biography of the person. What influenced it? If it is an event, what were its precursors? Was it the result of something earlier? What influenced the person if it is a person? Where and when were they born? Educated? Died? What did they do for a living? Did they marry? Have children?

· What was the importance of the person or event to American history at that time and in general? How did they contribute to American life/liberty/science/economy? What was the impact of that contribution? Were they one of many big changes or an early change? One of many heroes in a movement or the pioneer of the movement?

· Make sure to give more detail than we get in class or in class readings, and put the event or person in perspective. Mention dates, mention issues or events that shaped the person or event, and mention issues or events that were shaped as a result of this event or person.

· If your person is non-American, other than in the biography portion, focus on how their actions affected the United States and how actions the US took impacted them.

· You need to research this topic in a scholarly fashion, relying on no less than 4 scholarly secondary sources. No Wikipedia answers or about.com should be used at all, no encyclopedia or text book counts towards that 4.

No presentation options will be given on exam days, and in case of teacher absence or snow day, students will be expected to go on the next available non-test day. Students who cannot make their presentation day for important unavoidable emergencies should email the instructor with their power point and bibliography before class, or try to trade with another student later in the semester (or ask for an empty day later in the semester).

WEEK THREE

Thursday

Possible topics: Alfred Kinsey, Joe McCarthy

WEEK FOUR

Tuesday

Possible Topics: Leavittown, Sputnik

Thursday

Possible Topics: Brown v. Board of Education, Allen Ginsberg, Little Rock Nine, Kinsey Reports

WEEK FIVE

Tuesday

Possible Topics: the Beats, Elvis, Women Strike for Peace

Thursday

EXAM ONE, no presentations

WEEK SIX

Tuesday

Possible Topics: Fidel Castro, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, Ngo Dinh Diem

Thursday

Possible Topics: Robert F. Kennedy, Birmingham Campaign (1963), Freedom Rides, Warren Court, Gene McCarthy

WEEK SEVEN

Tuesday

Possible Topics: Ella Baker, CORE, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Watts Riot

Thursday

Possible Topics: SDS, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

WEEK EIGHT

Tuesday

Possible Topics: Black Panthers, Yippies, Vietnam Vets Against the War

Thursday

Possible Topics: Any of the topics from the previous day NOT taken, George Wallace

WEEK NINE- Spring Break, no class

WEEK TEN

Tuesday

Possible Topics: New York Radical Women, Equal Rights Amendment, Phyllis Schlafly, EPA, leak of the Pentagon Papers, Henry Kissinger

Thursday

Possible Topics: Mark Feldt (Deep Throat), 1973 Oil Crisis

WEEK ELEVEN

Tuesday

EXAM, NO PRESENTATIONS

Thursday

Possible Topics: Three Mile Island, Greenpeace

WEEK TWELVE

Tuesday

Possible Topics: Studio 54, MPAA Ratings System, blaxploitation

Thursday

Possible Topics: Ayatollah Khomeini, Jerry Falwell, National Right to Life Committee

WEEK THIRTEEN

Tuesday

Possible Topics: Oliver North, Sandra Day O’Connor, War on Drugs

Thursday

Possible Topics: “Just Say No” or DARE (if War on Drugs is not taken), MTV

WEEK FOURTEEN

Tuesday

Possible Topics: Lech Walesa, Boris Yeltsin, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square

Thursday

Possible Topics: Kenneth Starr, Y2K, Waco

WEEK FIFTEEN

Last week of class before finals, no presentations