US History II

Fri 11/1 The Civil Rights Movement from 1941-1957. Reading: ACH 27: 817-829. Quiz #3 opens up at 8:30 am, on Chapters 25 and 26 – it will be open until Friday November 8 at 8:30 am (as before – for up to 3 tries and highest score counts).

Mon 11/4 The Protest Phase. Reading: ACH 27: 829-838

Links:
Freedom Riders, “The Tactic” (PBS) – 1961
King, speaking at the March on Washington (1963)
Johnson, speaking to Congress after the Selma March (1965)

Wed 11/6 Multiple Civil Rights Movements: Are We There Yet? Reading: ACH 27: 838-846

Fri 11/8 Exam #3 in class (on Chapters 24 and 27). Quiz #3 closes at 8:30 am. You can bring, as before, 1 8.5×11″ sheet of paper with anything written or printed on either/both sides. Also, the slides from this unit are posted under the “Slideshows” tab in case you want to review them.

Mon 11/1 No School, Veteran’s Day

The voting was a little different for this unit – you voted to emphasize the first and last chapters in this unit, so we’ll be talking about World War II (Ch 24) and then taking a flying leap into the 1960s to focus on the (multiple) movements for American civil rights (Ch 27). The online quiz (opening Friday, Nov 1) will cover the material in between (Ch 25-26). Here’s the schedule for the first part of the unit, dealing with the Second World War and including the submission of your Primary Source-based paper.

For Mon 10/21, the “Road to War” read ACH 24: 724-732 (MDQ likely)

Great link for today: World War II in photographs, the Battle of Britain (The Atlantic online)

Wed 10/23, we’ll take a break from history content to focus on the history writing process. Bring the rough draft of your Primary Source paper to class with you as a printed paper – we will be having a peer writing workshop in class.

Update: we made this handout on proper footnote form using the Fernlund book. Email me or drop by office hours if you have questions. All footnotes from Fernlund’s book should have 2 parts: the original source, and its location within Fernlund’s volume. Click on the image to download a PDF of the handout.

Fri 10/25 – WW2 Mobilization and Life on the Homefront. Reading: ACH 24: 732-745

Mon 10/28 – WW2 Fighting and Postwar Plans. Reading: ACH 24: 754-755

Wed 10/30 – Primary Source paper due in class. Workshop Day on the 1940s and 1950s in film (no reading).

Links:
It’s Everybody’s War (1945)
Duck and Cover (1951)
THEM! (1954)
See the USA in Your Chevrolet (1953)
Two Ford Freedom (1956)

Reminder – Monday, Oct 14: No class, Columbus Day holiday

*Please note* – this unit’s classroom Powerpoint slides are available under the “Slideshows” tab above; they make great study aids!

Online quiz #2 is now open on Blackboard under “Quizzes.” You can take it up to three times before it closes on Friday, Oct 18th at 8:30 am, so please make sure you do that this week!

Wednesday, Oct 16: Workshop Day – New Deal Legacy. Reading: ACH 23: 711-722. Bring the ACH book to class with you for the workshop. Laptops will be helpful too, although everyone doesn’t have to bring their own.

Link for today: Google doc for group work

Friday, Oct 18: Exam #2 in class. As with last time, you may bring ONE 8.5×11″ sheet of paper, decorated on either/both sides with anything you choose.

Links for Class Discussion

“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (NPR)
“I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” (Bing Crosby)
“Pennies from Heaven” (Billie Holliday)
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (Wizard of Oz, 1939)

“Remember My Forgotten Man” from the film Gold Diggers of 1933

Links for Group Work

1) New Deal Network
2) Hoovervilles in Washington State
3) Hoovervilles: Primary Sources & Other Resources from Gilder Lehrman Institute
4) New Deal: Library of Congress Primary Source Set
5) Bonus Army: “Occupying” Washington, 1932
6) WPA Posters: Colorful Messages in Dark Economic Times (Library of Congress)
7) Voices from the Dust Bowl: Migrant Worker Collection (Library of Congress)
8) Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1937 (HistoricalVoices.org)
9) Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
10) My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt
11) Documents regarding migrant labor and “Okies”
12) Voices from the Thirties: Life Histories from the Federal Writers’ Project