Schedule: The following
tentative schedule should be used as a guide for the completion
of assignments and readings. The page numbers of required readings
are listed by the last names of the authors. Assigned readings
should be completed by the class date listed in the left column.
INTRODUCTION
Jan. 16
Introduction
THE GILDED AGE
1877-1900
Jan. 18
Industrialization and the Emergence of Modern America,
1865-1916
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:887-897,
929-965
Jan. 23
Americans Respond to Industrialization
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:898-928,
965-988
Jan. 25
The Rise and Fall of the Third American Party System;
Populism and the Problems of Farmers' in an Industrializing Society
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:837-886,
989-1030
Jan. 30
Expansionism, the New Manifest Destiny, and Imperialism;
the Spanish-American War of 1898
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1031-1071
- Last Day to Secure Approval for Family
History Topic
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
AND WORLD WAR I
1900-20
Feb. 1
Progressivism, Reform, and the Presidencies of Theodore
Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1072-1084,
1084-1116
Feb. 6
Woodrow Wilson and the Origins of World War I
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1117-1135
Feb. 8
World War I and the Treaty of Versailles
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1135-1162
YEARS OF PROSPERITY
AND DEPRESSION
1921-39
Feb. 13
The Twenties: Prohibition, Politics, and Prosperity
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1163-1216,
1286-1294
Feb. 15
Exam 1
Feb. 20
The Origins of the Great Depression
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1217-1231,
1288-1289
Feb. 22
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1232-1285
WORLD WAR II AND ITS
IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH
1939-60
Feb. 27
The Origins of World War II
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1295-1320
- Family History Paper Due-February
27
Mar. 1
World War II and American Society
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1324-1336
Mar 6
World War II: Military Campaigns
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1321-1324,
1336-1360
Mar. 8
The Yalta Conference, the Atomic Bomb, and the Origins
of the Cold War
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1360-1374
- Stoff et al., The Manhattan Project, all pages
Mar. 13
No Class-Spring Break
Mar. 15
No Class-Spring Break
Mar. 20
The Cold War and the Korean War, 1945-53
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1375-1422,
1467-1471
Mar. 22
The Affluent Society, 1945-60
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1423-1500
Mar. 27
Exam 2
Mar. 29
The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, 1940s-50s
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1492-1497
CONTEMPORARY AMERICA
1961-93
Apr. 3
Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar
America
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1501-1522
- Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, 3-249
Apr. 5
Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society, and the Making of
Liberal America
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1522-1530
Apr. 10
Kennedy and Johnson and Civil Rights; American Culture
in the 1960s
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1509-1515,
1531-1535, 1549-1570
- Critical Questions: Manhattan Project
Paper Due-April 10
Apr. 12
The Vietnam War to 1968
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1474-1479,
1519-1520, 1535-1548
Apr. 17
The Vietnam War, 1968-75
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1570-1577
Apr. 19
The Age of Limits: America in the 1970s
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1577-1604
- Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, 250-345
Apr. 24
Ronald Reagan and Conservative America in the 1980s
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1605-1615,
1624-1629, 1629-1634
- Quiz on Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon-April
24
Apr. 26
A New World Order? The End of the Cold War and the
Foreign Policy Ronald Reagan and George Bush
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1616-1624,
1629, 1634-1643
May 1
America in the Nineties
- Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, 2:1643-1690
FINAL EXAM
May 8
Exam 3 will be given
on Tuesday, May 8, at 9:00-11:00.
Other Departmental Courses in American History and Civilization:
| AMS 250 | HIS 223 | HIS 225 | HIS 227 | HIS 306 |
| HIS 308 | HIS 310 | HIS 312 | HIS 314 | HIS 318 | HIS 325 |
| HIS 338 | HIS 426 | HIS 430 | HIS 432 | HIS 470 | HIS 475 |
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