History 360 Fall 2007, Pennock
Important! Crucial! Vital
Information!: Assignments and readings are to be
done BY the day
that they appear on this schedule.
Gillon = The
American Paradox: A History of the
Resources = found
as a .pdf file in Resources folder, Hist 360 CTools website
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S 6 |
Introduction: Syllabus; Primary
vs. Secondary Sources; The Historians’ Task, |
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S 11 |
The End of World War II (please read) Gillon, Preface & Introduction For discussion, be
prepared to identify legacies of WWII: A) domestically, B) internationally. Origins of the Cold War
Primary Documents:
Marshall Plan
& Berlin Airlift
(suggested only) |
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S 13 |
The Cold War continued
and the Korean War ·
Gillon, Chapter
3, pp. 46-57 Primary Documents :
·
Douglas MacArthur, The
(*for class
discussion, be prepared to identify the differences in MacArthur’s &
Truman’s perspectives) Optional
Documents: (Resources) ·
The North Korean Perspective ·
Larry Zellers, an American POW ·
Bob Roy, a Interactive Map Essay on Korean War (suggested only) |
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S 18 |
Postwar Politics Document
Analysis Homework Due (link here)
Primary
Documents:
Television
campaign ad for Eisenhower (suggested only) |
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S 20 |
The Age of Affluence
and Anxiety
Documents:
Optional: Allen Ginsberg’s poem “America“ 1956 |
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S 25 |
The Age of Anxiety continued Small group discussion of documents
(link to see which doc you’ve been assigned) Documents:
Optional: Allen Ginsberg poem “America“ 1956 |
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S 27 |
The Age of Inequality
Lawson essay pp. 3-18; Payne essay, pp.
115-129 Documents:
Emmett Till website
(suggested only) Little Rock website (suggested only) Baton Rouge
Bus Boycott website (suggested only) |
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O 2 |
Article Reports &
Discussions Summary and Discussion Questions Due (link here to see
which articles you have been assigned) Cold War Culture scholarly articles: 1. W.
Breines, ” The Other Fifties: Beats
and Bad Girls“ (Resources) 2. JoAnne Brown, “’A
is for Atom, B is for Bomb’: Civil Defense in American Public Education, 1948-1963” (Find it using
ProQuest. Citation: Journal of American History. Jun 1988. Vol. 75. Iss. 1.) 3. S. Coontz,
“’Leave It to Beaver’ and ‘Ozzie and Harriet’: American Families in the 1950s” (Resources) 4. S. Lawson,
“Race, Rock and Roll, and the Rigged Society” (Resources) 5. E.T. May,
“Cold War – Warm Hearth” (Resources) |
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O 4 |
The Cold War During the
Ike and Kennedy Years
Documents:
Optional
document: Kennedy’s inaugural address,1961
(can view transcript or listen |
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O 9 |
EXAM STUDY GUIDE |
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O 11 |
The Civil Rights
Movement
(1960-1965)
Documents:
King in Detroit (sugg only) Medgar
Evers (suggested only) Martin Luther King Jr.”official”
website (suggested only) Photo Tour of Civil
Rights movement (suggested only) Civil Rights Movement Veterans (suggested) Website on civil rights
organization SNCC (suggested only) |
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O 16 |
The Civil Rights
Movement (1965-1970)
Film: Eyes on the
Prize: The Time Has Come Website on Detroit Riot of
1967 (suggested only) Article
on Orville Hubbard, mayor of |
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O 18 |
Civil Rights Movement continued
Payne essay, pp. 144-155 Documents: The following
docs from Debating Civil Rights:
ALSO
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O 23 |
Debating Civil Rights Paper
Due LBJ: The Great Society & Stirrings of the
New Right
Documents:
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O 25 |
The
Origins of America’s Longest War, 1945-1965
Documents :
Article (Resources):
Vietnam War website
(suggested only) |
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O 30 |
America’s
Longest War, continued
Film |
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N 1 |
America’s
Longest War, continued Homework
Due (link here) Articles (Resources): F. Logevall,
“Choosing War” (one perspective on LBJ) R. Dallek “Fear,
Ambition, & Politics” (another perspective on LBJ) Documents:
Martin
Luther King, Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam, 1967 |
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N 6 |
The New Left: 1960-1966
Documents:
The
Psychedelic Sixties (suggested only) Dissent in Berkeley
(suggested only) |
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N 8 |
The Counterculture
The
Feminist Movement (lecture) Analysis of
Women’s Liberation Movement, 1971 (suggested only) On-line Archive
of Feminist Writings (suggested only) |
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N 13 |
Homework: Document Analysis Due 10 points Turmoil of the Late 1960s
Movement documents:
OPTIONAL ONLY 1968 Documents:
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N 15 |
The End of the Vietnam
War and
Richard Nixon
Documents:
Optional documents: ·
Woodward
& Bernstein break the story, 1972 ·
Nixon’s Resignation
speech, 1974 Washington
Post’s Watergate website (suggested only) |
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N 20 |
The 1970s: Staying
Alive Somehow Lecture
Outline
Article
on busing controversy in the Detroit area, 1970s (suggested only –
recommended especially for those reading Boston Against Busing) |
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Thanksgiving Break – no
class this Wednesday |
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N 27 |
Foreign Policy and the
End of the Cold War, 1980s & 1990s
Documents:
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N 29 |
Book Discussion:
Formisano, Boston Against Busing (first half of period) OR David Farber, Taken Hostage
(second half of period) |
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D 4 |
Book Review Paper Due(link here for
guidelines) The
1980s: Culture and Politics
Documents:
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D 6 |
1990s: Culture and
Politics
Documents:
Optional Documents (Resources):
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D 11 |
The History of
Arab-American Relations and September 11th
Documents:
9-11 Digital Archive (suggested only) Summing Up & Final Exam Review |
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D 13 8:30 am |
