(27) Tues 4/27 World War II
Reading: GML 22 (796-807) “Fighting World War II”

(28) Thurs 4/29 The Home Front(s)
Reading: GML 22 (807-815) “The Home Front” and (818-832) “The American Dilemma”

(29) Tues 5/4 Toward Postwar America
Reading: GML 22 (815-818) “Visions of Postwar Freedom” and (832-837) “The End of the War”
Mini-Lab #5 is due in class (Oral History)
In-class link: Murrow at Buchenwald, “Duck and Cover” (1951)

Sites for MiniLab #5:
Private Art’s War
WW2 Narratives in the Rutgers Oral History Archive
JARDA – Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (Navigate to Personal Experiences –> Words and Writing)

Tues 5/11 Exam #3 (Ch 21-22) 12:30 pm – Study Guide here

(25) Tues 4/20 The New Deal(s) – class cancelled – we will discuss these readings on Thursday
Reading: GML 21 (756-775) “The First New Deal,” “The Grassroots Revolt” and “The Second New Deal”
In-class link: FDR’s Inaugural Address 1932, “If FDR Had Done Nothing” (NPR Planet Money podcast – 11 minutes long), Huey Long in the 1930s, Remembering the Kingfish

(26) Thurs 4/22 Limits of the New Deal + Tuesday’s bumped readings
Reading: GML 21 (776-795) “A Reckoning with Liberty,” “The Limits of Change” and “A New Conception of America”
Mini-Lab #4 is due in class (“Listening In”)

Links for the Mini-Lab #4:

Option 1: Jazz
http://www.redhotjazz.com

http://www.jazz-on-line.com

Option 2: Radio’s Golden Age

One day on radio (21 Sept 1939) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Radio/day/radio.html

Old Time Radio http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeradio

OTR(dot)net http://www.otr.net

Mercury Theater of the Air http://www.mercurytheatre.info/

(23) Tues 4/13 The Great Depression
Reading: GML 20 (748-755) “the Great Depression”
In-class link: “Great Depression“, Historic Downturns (Newsweek)

(24) Thurs 4/15 Exam #2 (Ch 18-20)
Study Guide Here (pdf)

(21) Tues 4/6 The Roaring Twenties
Reading: GML 20 (719-735) “The Business of America” and “Business and Government”

(22) Thurs 4/8 Civil Liberties, Culture Wars
Reading: GML 20 (735-748) “The Birth of Civil Liberties” and “The Culture Wars”

(19) Tues 3/30 Women Get the Vote, and Other Constitution-quakes
Reading: Kobach, “Woman Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment” and “Votes For Women” Broadside
In-class links: “March to the Mailbox” 2010 Census Ad; “Target Women: Suffrage”

(20)Thurs 4/1 Suffragists on Film – Research Paper Due in class
Reading: none

(17) Tues 3/23 World War I Homefront
Reading: GML 19 (690-700) “The War at Home”
In-class links: “Over There”

(18) Thurs 3/25 Americanism; 1919
Reading: GML 19 (700-718) “Who is an American?” and “1919”
Draft of Research Paper is due for Peer Review

(14) Thurs 3/4 The Progressive City
Reading: GML 18 (637-661) “Urban Age and Consumer Society” and “Varieties of Progressivism”
Digital Project Update – project progress is due, or make an appointment with me if you don’t have a project

(15) Tues 3/9 Progressive Politics
Reading: GML 18 (661-677) “The Politics of Progressivism” and “Progressive Presidents”
In-class link: TR and Muir in Yosemite (PBS)

(16) Thurs 3/11 The Great War
Reading: GML 19 (678-689) “An Era of Intervention” and “America and the Great War”
Digital Project Due in class
In-class link: Winsor McCay’s Lusitania (1918)

3/15 – 3/19 Spring Break

(11) Tues 2/23 Segregation and Racism
Reading: GML 17 (608-616) “The Segregated South”
In-class link: Wrong Side of History, Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

(12) Thurs 2/25 Nativism and Imperialism
Reading: GML 17 (617-636) “Redrawing the Boundaries” and “Becoming a World Power”
In-class link: “Great American Melting Pot,” Chinese in California 1850-1925 digital archive

(13) Tues 3/2 Exam #1 (Ch 15-17)
Study Guide here [PDF]

(9) Tues 2/16 The Gilded Age
Reading: GML 16 (579-596) “Politics in a Gilded Age” and “Freedom in the Gilded Age” and “Labor in the Republic”

(10) Thurs 2/18 Populism
Reading: GML 17 (597-608) “The Populist Challenge”
Mini-Lab #3 (Newspapers) is due in class
In-class links: Populism 1/21/10, Hardrock mining, Cross of Gold speech