Semester | Fall Semester, 2020 | ||
Department | Sophomore Class of Department of History | ||
Course Name | American History, 1865 to Present | ||
Instructor | EATON WILLIAM JOSEPH | ||
Credit | 2.0 | ||
Course Type | Elective | ||
Prerequisite |
Course Objective |
Course Description |
Course Schedule |
Course outline: subject to change
Please complete reading assignments (particularly the online reading) by date indicated.
1 - September 16 – Introduction to the Course; Rebuilding after the Civil War – Reconstruction Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 1
2 - September 23 – The West Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 1 continued
3 – September 30 – Gilded Age/Progressive Era/Women’s Suffrage
4 - October 7 – Spanish-American War: American Empire Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 2 Albert Beveridge, “March of the Flag” (1898) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1898beveridge.html Samuel Gompers, “Imperialism – Its Dangers and Wrongs” (1898) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web09/features/source/docs/C14.pdf
5 - October 14 – War in Europe, Flu Everywhere Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 3 Fourteen Points http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/President_Wilson%27s_Fourteen_Points Wilson defends the League https://www.msu.edu/~mageemal/hst201/Pueblo.html 1918 Flu Pandemic https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
6 - October 21 – The Roaring 1920s Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 4
7 - October 28 – Hoover and the Depression; A New Deal for America – FDR Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 5 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/f_roosevelt_legacy.html FDR Legacy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013002760.html Amity Shales, “FDR Was a Great Leader, But His Economic Plan Isn’t One to Follow” Washington Post, February 1, 2009 William E. Leuchtenburg, “Why the Candidates still use FDR as their Measure” http://www.americanheritage.com/content/why-candidates-still-use-fdr-their-measure?page=show
8 – November 4 – Election Day (USA) – To be announced
9 – November 11 – Midterm examination
10 - November 18 – World War II Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 6 The Real Meaning of Pearl Harbor http://www.americanheritage.com/content/real-meaning-pearl-harbor?page=show Charles Cawthon, D-Day, “What it meant” http://www.americanheritage.com/content/d-day-what-it-meant?page=show
11 - November 25 – The 1950s and Early Cold War Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 7 Alexander Burns, The Horror of Sputnik – And the Real Good It Did http://claver.gprep.org/fac/sjochs/Sputnik.htm
12 - December 2 – Civil Rights, Great Society Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 8
13 - December 9 – 60s Counterculture; Death of the 60s Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 9 Allen J. Matusow, Heyday of the Counterculture http://journeytohistory.com/History102/Articles/Heyday%20of%20the%20Counterculture.pdf Walter Russell Mead, Shame of the Cities http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/07/04/the-shame-of-the-cities-and-the-shade-of-lbj/
14 - December 16 – Nixon’s America Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 10 Otto Friedrich, “I Have Never Been a Quitter” http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,164282,00.html
15 – December 23 – The 70s Nicholas Lemann, How the Seventies Changed America http://www.americanheritage.com/content/how-seventies-changed-america
16 – December 30 – Reagan’s America: The 80s Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 11 Richard Brookhiser, Reagan: His Place in History http://www.americanheritage.com/content/reagan-his-place-history?page=show Essay due in class
17 - January 6 – Innovation, Challenges, and Change Reading: Dailey, Building the American Republic, chapter 12 “Apple, Rising” 1976-1985 http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=apple-computer-ipo Steve Jobs 2005 @ Stanford http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html BBC video “Birth of Hip-Hop” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8303430.stm
18 - January 13 – Final Examination |
Teaching Methods |
Teaching Assistant |
to be announced |
Requirement/Grading |
Assignments and grading criteria: Participation and attendance: 10% (‘perfect’ attendance policy – 0 or 1 absence, regardless of cause, includes abstinence from cellphone) Mid-term: 30% (November 11) Essay: 30% (December 23 in class)
Final: 30% (January 13) |
Textbook & Reference |
Textbook: Jane Dailey, Building the American Republic, Volume II: A Narrative History to 1877 (Chicago, 2018) The textbook is available as a free e-book. Download online: https://www.bibliopen.org/p/bopen/9780226300962 Additional reading assignments from Web or handouts, as needed see syllabus |
Urls about Course |
NA |
Attachment |
revised_US History II syllabus fall 2020.pdf |