The United States, 1877-1945:
Search for Order
Sarah McNair Vosmeier
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Introduction
September 5, 2017 (Tues.) Lecture: "Defining
Terms."
Workshop: "Adopt a Student" project.
The Gilded Age
September 7, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion: Vosmeier, "On
Marginalia," 2016 (online);
Jackson and Woolsey, descriptions of railroad travel, 1872-1878
(excerpts online);
"Labor Troubles in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania 1887-1888"
(excerpts online);
Kirkman, Science of Railways, 1896 (excerpts online);
"Jim Crow Laws Passed in the 1880s and 1890s," (online).
Lecture: "The Gilded Age."
Friday (Sept. 8), 3:00-6:30, Classic 102: showing of Birth of a Nation
September 12, 2017 (Tues.) Discussion:
Fourteenth Amendment, 1868 (online);
Fifteenth Amendment, 1870 (online);
Hamer sharecropping contract, 1875 (online);
Carter testimony on the KKK, 1872 (excerpts online);
Birth of a Nation, 1915 (on reserve); Jane Addams on Birth of a Nation,
1915 (online).
September 14, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion:
Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American
History" (excerpts online);
Oblinger letters, 1873 (excerpts online);
Zitkala-sa, American Indian Stories, 1921 (excerpts online).
The Progressive Era
September 19, 2017 (Tues.) Discussion: McGerr, A
Fierce Discontent (2003), xiii-xvi; Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890
(excerpts online);
Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905 (excerpts online);
Sixteenth Amendment, 1913 (online);
Seventeenth Amendment, 1913 (online).
Lecture: "Progressivism and Historiography."
September 21, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion: McGerr,
40-74; Addams, "Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements," 1892
(excerpts online);
Pullman strikers' statement, 1894 (excerpts online);
Hacker on plagiarism.
Workshop: Use of Sources.
September 26, 2017 (Tues.)
Discussion: McGerr, 77-117; Willard, Do Everything, 1895
(excerpts online);
Theodore Roosevelt, "The Strenuous Life," 1899 (excerpts online);
Bryan, imperialism speech, 1900 (excerpts online);
"Style Guide for Chicago Manual Footnotes" (online).
Workshop: Use of sources, continued.
September 28, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion: McGerr,
118-55, 160-64, 174-81; Mother Jones, 1902 speech (excerpts online);
Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906 (excerpts online);
Wiley, letter to Millis, 1916 (excerpts online).
October 3, 2017 (Tues.)
Discussion: McGerr, 182-218. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record, 1895
(excerpts online);
Spooner and Tillman, Senate speeches on lynching, 1907 (excerpts online).
October 5, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion: McGerr,
221-35, 245-78, 315-19; Nineteenth Amendment, 1920 (online);
Equal Rights Amendments, 1923-1972 (online);
Hanover news, 1903 (online).
Review of thematic questions.
October 10, 2017 (Tues.) Midterm
exam.
Workshop: Transcribing World War I letters. (Meet in
the archives reading room at 10:55.)
World War I
October 12, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion: Kennedy, Over Here
(1980), vii-ix.
Lecture: "World War I."
October 26, 2017 (Thurs.) Meet in Duggan
Library computer lab.
Workshop: Bibliographic Instruction.
October 31, 2017 (Tues.)*
Discussion: Gershenhorn, "Double V in North Carolina," 2006 (online
-- click "PDF full text" on the left to print out). Schultz,
"The FEPC and the Legacy of the Labor-Based Civil Rights Movement," 2008
(online
-- click "PDF full text" on the left to print out).
*Note that the history conference, "The Lutheran
Reformation: 500 Years Later," will be on campus on Oct. 31, schedule
t.b.a.
The 1920s
November 2, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion: Cohen, Making a
New Deal (1990), 1-9; Eighteenth Amendment, 1919 (online);
Wickersham Commission Report, 1930 (excerpts online);
Twenty-First Amendment, 1933 (online);
Klansman Manual, 1925 (excerpts online);
Imperial Night-Hawk, 1923 (excerpts online).
Lecture: "The 1920s."
Primary source analysis due Friday, Nov. 3.
November 7, 2017 (Tues.) Discussion:
Cohen, 53-64, 99-158; Smith, "Shut the Door" speech, 1924 (excerpts online); Clancy, speech
against the Immigration Act of 1924 (excerpts
online).
The Great Depression
November 9, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion: Hoover, Radio
Address on Lincoln's Birthday, 1931 (excerpts online);
Ford, "Self-Help," 1932 (excerpts online);
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 (online);
Twentieth Amendment, 1933 (online).
Lecture: "The Great Depression."
November 14, 2017 (Tues.)
Discussion: Cohen, 213-49.
November 16, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion: Cohen, 251-89.
Friday (Nov. 17), 3:00-5:00, Classic 102: showing of
Casablanca
November 28, 2017 (Tues.) Discussion: Sparrow, Warfare State (2011), 41-65, 71-74, 78-112; "George Takei on Internment, Allegiance and 'Gaman,'" 2017 (online -- click on the print icon near the top of the interview text to create a clean reading text ).
November 30, 2017 (Thurs.) Discussion: Sparrow,
113-22, 133-56, 160-84.
Final paper due Friday, December 1.