US History II

This is the course website for Tona Hangen’s sections of US History II at Worcester State (HI 112-02 and HI 112-H2) meeting in Room S-105, MWF at 9:30 in the Spring 2011 semester.

I used this site for the Fall 2010 section also, and I plan to leave that work in place as a reference for those students. I’ve tagged all their posts with “Fall10.” Spring 2011 students can safely ignore anything that was written before this message (12/22/10), since I’ll re-post new information for your sections as we go along.

The required books for Spring 2011 are:

Shi and Mayer, For the Record: Documentary History of America, Volume 2. 4th ed (Norton, 2010) – ISBN 9780393934045

Davidson, Experience History, Volume 2. 7th ed (McGraw-Hill, 2011) – ISBN 9780077368326

In addition, I highly recommend that you own a copy of Diana Hacker, A Writer’s Reference (ISBN 978 0312450257). This should have been assigned in your English Comp class, and will be a handy reference book for the writing you will do in this class and throughout your college years. The section on Chicago Style (CMS) will help you with history-style footnotes and citation. In addition, I often find myself referring students back to her “Glossary of usage” and her advice on eliminating passive tense. While the Hacker is not a required text, I do assume that all my students have a copy and that they can make use of it. It is available in the university bookstore every semester.

Thanks for a great semester, everyone!

–Prof. Hangen

If you missed class, please drop by my office (S327-B) to pick up a packet ASAP

Project instructions (PDF)

NOTE: when you submit the project on Dec 8th, also return the packet folder. Don’t mark on the packet or its materials in any way, because these will be re-used from semester to semester. Treat them as valuable archival primary sources, and leave them pristine for the next group to look at.

Here’s the worksheet for your packet, in Word document form. Just open the document, type into it, and save it.

Stories on the WikiLeaks release of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables, what one journalist called “the 9/11 of diplomacy”

Peter Kornbluh reflects on what it all means, on PRI’s “The World” (11/30/10) 4:25

Monday 28th coverage on NPR All Things Considered “Damage Control by the State Department” 4:00

UK’s Guardian newspaper website on the US Embassy cables