Watch Intro video and Read Syllabus

Syllabus Quiz due August 23, 2022 at 11:59PM on D2L

Read American Yawp, “Capital and Labor”

Primary Source: Henry George, Progress and Poverty, Selections (1879)

Blog Post #1 Due Friday, August 26 at 11:59pm on D2L

Read, American Yawp, “The West,” Part I, II, III, IV

Primary Source: Frederick Jackson Turner, “Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893) 

Read, American Yawp, “The West,” V, VI, VII, VIII

Primary Source: Turning Hawk and American Horse on the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890/1891)

Possible Movie to Review:

Hostiles (2017, Rent on Prime)

Blog Post #2 Due Friday, Sept. 2 at 11:59pm on D2L

Take a break!

Read, American Yawp, “Life in Industrial America,” I, II, III, IV, V, VI

Primary Source: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America,” (1900)

Primary Source: Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives (1890)

Blog Post #3 Due on Friday, Sept. 9 at 11:59pm on D2L

Read, American Yawp, “American Empire,” I, II, III, IV

 Primary Source: School Begins (1899) 

Read, American Yawp, “The Progressive Era,” I, II, III, IV 

Read, American Yawp, “The Progressive Era,” V, VI, VII

Primary Source: Theodore Roosevelt on “The New Nationalism” (1910)

Blog Post #5 Due Friday Sept. 23 at 11:59pm on D2L. 

Read, American Yawp, “World War I & Its Aftermath,” I, II, III, IV, V 

Read, American Yawp, “World War I & Its Aftermath,” VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

Primary Source: The Sedition Act of 1918 

Blog Post #6 Due Friday Sept. 30 at 11:59pm on D2L. 

Read, American Yawp, “The New Era,” I, II, III, IV, V 

Read, American Yawp, “The New Era,” VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

 Primary Source: Ellen Welles Page, “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents” (1922) 

Blog Post #7 Due Friday Oct. 7 at 11:59pm on D2L.

Read, American Yawp, “The Great Depression,” I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII

Primary Source: Bonus Army Routed (1932)

Possible Films to Review:

Lawless (2012, Rent on Prime)

O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000, Rent on Prime)

Capone (2020, On Kanopy) 

Read, American Yawp, “The Great Depression,” VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII

 Primary Source: Second Inaugural Address of FDR (1937) 

Blog Post #8 Due

Friday Oct. 14 at 11:59pm on D2L. 

Read, American Yawp, “World War II,” I, II, III, IV, V

Primary Source: A. Phillip Randolph and FDR on Racial Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941) 

Read, American Yawp, “World War II,” VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI

Primary Source: Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) 

Secondary Source Analysis, Due Friday October 21 on D2L. Read (on D2L) Richard Polenberg, “The Good War? A Reappraisal of how World War II Affected American Society,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 100, No. 3 (1992): 295-322. In 2-3 pages, answer the following prompt(s): What makes this a secondary source? What are Polenberg’s major takeaways? After reading and despite your own view of the conflict, should we consider World War II to be a “Good War”?

Read, American Yawp, “The Cold War,” I, II, III

Primary Source: Joseph McCarthy on Communism (1950) 

Read, American Yawp, “The Cold War,” VI, V, IV

Primary Source: “Duck and Cover” (1951)

Possible Film to review: October Sky (1999) 

Blog Post #9 Due

Friday Oct. 28 at 11:59pm on D2L. 

Read, American Yawp, “The Affluent Society,” I, II, III

Primary Source: Rosa Parks on Life in Montgomery, Alabama (1956-1958)

Possible Film to review:

A Good Day to Die (2011, Kanopy)

The Butler (2013, on Netflix)

42 (2013, on Netflix)

Mudbound (2017, on Netflix)

Read, American Yawp, “The Affluent Society,” IV, V, VI, VII

Primary Source: Congressman Arthur L. Miller Gives “the Putrid Facts” about Homosexuality” (1950)

Possible film to review:

Hidden Figures (2017, Rent on Prime)

Son of the South (2021, on Kanopy)

Blog Post #10 Due Friday Nov. 4 at 11:59pm on D2L 

Read, American Yawp, “The Sixties,” I, II, III, IV

 Primary Source: Women’s Liberation March 1970 

Read, American Yawp, “The Sixties,” V, VI, VII, VIII

Primary Source: Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony at the Democratic National Convention 1964

Possible film to review:

October Sky (1999, Rent on Prime)

Blog Post #11 Due

Friday Nov. 11 at 11:59pm on D2L.

Read, American Yawp, “The Unraveling,” I, II, III, IV, V

Primary Source: Native Americans Occupy Alcatraz (1969) 

Possible Film to review:

A Good Day to Die (2011, Kanopy)

Read, American Yawp, “The Unraveling,” VI, VII, VIII, IX 

Blog Post #12 “Historical Site Review” Due

Friday Nov. 18 at 11:59pm on D2L.

Read, American Yawp, “The Triumph of the Right,” VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI

 Primary Source: Statement from AIDS Patients (1983) 

Enjoy some food and take a break!

Read, American Yawp, “The Recent Past,” I, II, III, IV, V 

Read, American Yawp, “The Recent Past,” VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI

Primary Source: Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

Possible film to review:

Spotlight (2015, Rent on Prime)

More Than A Word (2017, on Kanopy)

Primary Source Analysis Paper Due Friday, December 2 at 11:59pm on D2L.

Film Review must be submitted on December 2 at 11:59pm on D2L.

Final Quiz: this will be a short multiple-choice quiz that addresses questions from the entire course. 

Take before Wednesday Dec. 7 on D2L