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HIST 142US History 1877-PresentSpring 2015M/W 8:00-9:15Room A208Instructor: Jamie StoopsInstructor Email: jstoops@pima.eduThis course is a survey of American history from the Reconstruction to the present day. Topics covered in the course include the Jim Crow South, the Great Depression, the World Wars, the rise of the US as a global superpower, and recent changes in US foreign and domestic policy such as the War on Terror. Throughout this course, we will explore ways in which American history can inform or complicate our understanding of contemporary domestic and international issues in American politics. How does an understanding of American race and gender history help us to understand ongoing inequalities in American society? How does an analysis of Cold War policy offer lessons for today’s foreign policy concerns? What trends or issues have had the most influence over the development of American society? By the end of the course, students will have a strong grasp of major events and processes in the history of US history, as well as the ability to analyze relevant primary and secondary source material.ReadingsThere is no textbook for this class. Readings consist of primary and some secondary sources available at the links provided in the class calendar.Assignments and GradingParticipation: 30% of final grade. This is a verbal activity that will occur on a daily basis. No makeups.4 Tests: 40% of final grade, each test equally weighted. These will be in class, written, in bluebooks.Primary Source Paper 1: 10% of final grade. Typed, 500 words, with selected primary source attached. This will be submitted by email. One letter grade will be deducted for each day it is late, up to three days.Primary Source Paper 2: 20% of final grade. Format and requirements same as above.Peer Review Workshops: Each paper will include a peer review workshop that is worth 10% of the paper grade. On the day specified in the calendar, you must bring in a draft of your paper and be prepared to critique another student’s work. Class CalendarWednesday January 21st: Introduction to the CourseMonday January 26th: Historical MethodsReading: "Reading Primary Sources: An Introduction for Students." Available at ; Zitkala-sa, Impressions of an Indian Childhood, Chapters I and II. Available at . Wednesday January 28th: The Civil WarReading: Selections from Born into Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938: "Interview with John W. Fields, Ex-Slave of the Civil War Period," available at , The New York Times, "The Mob in New York," July 1863. Available at . Monday February 2nd: The ReconstructionReading: "Address of a Convention of Negroes Held in Alexandria Virginia August 1865," available at ; "Report of the Joint Committee of Reconstruction," available at . Deadline to DropWednesday February 4th: Jim Crow and the Great MigrationReading: Ida B. Wells, "To the Members of the Anti-Lynching Bureau," available at ; Ida B. Wells, "Reply to Gov. Northern and Others," available at . Watch: Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit. Available at . Monday February 9th: The Gilded Age and the Labor Movement Reading: Broadside, "Revenge! Working Men to Arms!" Available at ; Chicago Herald, "Account of the Haymarket Riot," available at . Wednesday February 11th: The Women's Suffrage MovementReading: Interview with Alice Paul, "Interviewer's Impressions" and "Part II," 160-199. Full oral history available at . Monday February 16th: Science, Medicine, and EugenicsReading: Letter by Mary Mallon, available at . Wednesday February 18th: The First World War and American CultureReading: HP Lovecraft, "Dagon." Available at . Monday February 23rd: Test 1Wednesday February 25th: Political Ideologies in the Interwar YearsReading: Emma Goldman, "Anarchism: What it Really Stands For," available at Monday March 2nd: Prohibition and the Great DepressionReading: Explore the Photogrammar Interactive Map of Depression-Era Photographs. Take notes and be prepared to discuss specific trends or examples. Available at . Wednesday March 4th: World War IIWatch: Casablanca. Available for online rental at . Textbook, 1142-1166.Monday March 9th: World War II, ContinuedPrimary Source Paper WorkshopNo DiscussionWednesday March 11th: Postwar International PoliticsReading: Nuremburg Trials, "Testimony of Otto Ohlendorf," pages 308-320. Available at . Friday March 13th: Primary Source Paper DueMarch 16th-22nd Spring BreakMonday March 23rd: Test 2Wednesday March 25th: The Cold WarReading: Winston Churchill, "Iron Curtain Speech," available at ; Joseph Stalin, "Reply to Churchill," available at . Monday March 30th: The Red ScareReading: Congressional Record, 96, 4 (1950) ; Testimony of Walt Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, available at . Wednesday April 1st: Gender and Sexuality in the 1950sWatch: Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Available for online rental at . Monday April 6th: The Emergence of the Counter-CultureReading: Jack Kerouac, "Part 1" On the Road. Available on MyPima.Primary Source Paper #2 WorkshopWednesday April 8th: The Civil Rights MovementReading: The Black Panther Party Platform and Program. Available at . April 9th: Deadline to WithdrawSunday April 12th: Primary Source Paper #2 due. Monday April 13th: VietnamReading: Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh, "Letter Exchange." Available at . Wednesday April 15th: 1968Watch: Jim Morrison, "The Unknown Soldier," available at ; The Rolling Stones, "Gimme Shelter," available at ; Country Joe and the Fish, "Vietnam Song," available at ; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, "Ohio," available at . Monday April 20th: Test 3Wednesday April 22nd: FeminismReading: "NOW Statement of Purpose, 1966," available at ; Combahee River Collective Statement, available at . Monday April 27th: Stonewall and LGBT PoliticsIn Class Movie: American Experience: Stonewall UprisingReading: "Documents from the 1969 Furor," available at . Wednesday April 29th: Domestic Policy, 1970s-1980sFinish MovieNo DiscussionMonday May 4th: Foreign Policy, 1970s-1980sReading: "Report on CIA Chilean Task Force Activities," 18 November 1970, available at . Wednesday May 6th: 9/11 and the War on TerrorReading: The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 1. Full text available at . Watch: Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight (full film). Available at . Monday May 11th: The Contemporary US: Globalization and the EnvironmentWatch: Ted Talk: "Lord Nicholas Stern: The State of the Climate—And What We Might Do About It," available at . Explore and look at some of the current articles and blog posts Wednesday May 13th: The Contemporary US: Social Justice and EqualityRead: Human Rights Watch, "Nation Behind Bars: A Human Rights Solution." Available at . Explore the Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map. Available at . Monday May 18th: Final ExamCaveatsI reserve the right to make changes to the syllabus and will notify students of those changes in class. I also reserve the right to give pop quizzes or other unannounced activities if I feel that students are not completing the reading. ................
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