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Unit 4: US since the 1950s

by Dr. H - April 13th, 2018

In our last unit, we explore the history of the United States since the 1950s. This unit includes a final Skillbuilder, Constitutions Module #3, and a project about American recent history, due on May 4.

Exam #4 (not a final, just the 4th unit exam) will take place on Monday May 14 at 8:30 in Eager Auditorium.

Link from Wednesday, April 11 – “Two Ford Family” commercial

Handout for Wednesday, April 11 – Questions for Chapter 25

Link from Friday, April 13 – Eyes on the Prize, Part I (it’s a 6-part series, highly recommended viewing)

Link for Wednesday, April 18 – Excerpt from JFK Inaugural speech and Sam Cooke, Change Gonna Come

Links for Wednesday, April 25 – All in the Family and Foner on Conservatism

Links for Monday, April 30 – George HW Bush Defines “New World Order” (Sept 1990) and Interactive Map of 200 Years of US Military Deployments (ABC News Australia)

Guidelines for History Now Project (topic due Mon 4/30, project due Fri 5/4)

Link for Wednesday, May 2 – “The World in a TShirt” project (NPR / Planet Money)

Link for Friday, May 4 – George W. Bush Addresses the Nation on 9/11/01 and Obama 2016 WHCD

Supplemental Reading for Monday May 7: The Culture Wars Are Dead and Bill Gates on How the World Will Change by 2030

Unit 3 – World War II, Cold War

by Dr. H - March 19th, 2018

Welcome back from Spring Break! This week we will study World War II (Chapter 23), and your Evidence-Based Paper is due on Friday, March 30. Next week we explore how the Cold War began (Chapter 24). The Unit 3 test is on Monday April 9 in Sullivan Room 320.

You don’t need to bring your book to class on our two Document Workshop days – I’ll have documents to hand out in class for us to work from.

Handout: Chapter 23 Questions (World War II)

Handout: Atlantic Charter / Everybody’s War (Mon, March 26) – Link to Film “Everybody’s War“. Link to “The Power of Art” about the Guernica painting

Handout: Executive Order 9066 (Wed, March 28)

Links: 99% Invisible Podcast “Manzanar” on Japanese internment camps; VE Day from BBC (1945, as read in 1995, 10 min); End of WW2 (AP Archive, 3 min); American Experience, “America and the Holocaust” (1.5 hours)

Handout: Chapter 24 Questions (Cold War)

Exam 3 Study Guide – Exam is on April 9 in Room S-320

Unit 2: 1870s-1920s (Chapters 17-21)

by Dr. H - February 14th, 2018

Note: Constitution Module #2 is now up, available until March 12 midnight.

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Unit 1: The World of Post-Civil War America, 1865-1900

by Dr. H - January 29th, 2018

Family of Nebraska “sodbusters” in 1886

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Seminar 3 – Depression, New Deal, WWII (2/23 – 3/13)

by Dr. H - March 3rd, 2017

In our last seminar, we explored cultural and intellectual tensions in the 1920s (“who belongs as an American?” “is modern life making society better or worse?” “what does ‘modernity’ mean?”). By the end of the 1920s, a deep economic depression had profoundly altered life for everyday Americans and led to permanent changes in the relationship of the government to the economy and to its citizens. In this unit, we examine the period from the Great Depression through the 1930s and ending with the Second World War. Continue reading →

Unit 4: History in Our Time

by Dr. H - November 14th, 2015

Our last course unit deals with recent American history; during this unit you will write one last SkillBuilder and you will have a chance to “make history” yourself in the History Now final project. Continue reading →

Unit 3: World War, Cold War and the Liberal Consensus

by Dr. H - October 23rd, 2015

world-war-ii-women-at-work-in-color-10In our third unit, US history collides with world history in a big way, and we seek to explain how the US became involved in the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War. We also explore the transition from the New Deal “welfare state” through the wartime homefront years to a multi-decade era of prosperity and political consensus. But were the postwar “good times” for everyone? Continue reading →

Unit 2: Progressivism, Imperialism and War: From the Gilded Age to the Great Depression

by Dr. H - September 25th, 2015

times-square-postcard3In the second unit of the course, we explore the U.S. at home and abroad in the early decades of the 20th century, with themes of modernization, imperialism, World War I, the Depression and New Deal, economic crisis, social change, popular culture and media, and the role of government. Continue reading →

Unit 1: Reconstruction, Frontier(s) and the “Age of Industry”

by Dr. H - September 6th, 2015

Our first unit on post-Civil War America begins with a look at Reconstruction’s mixed legacy and the multiple meanings of freedom in the postwar South (Chapter 14). We will then turn to other regions of the country, including the West (Chapter 15), North (Chapter 16) and MidWest (Chapter 17). Continue reading →

Unit 4: History in Our Time

by Dr. H - November 16th, 2014

Our last course unit deals with recent American history; during this unit you will write one last SkillBuilder and you will have a chance to “make history” yourself in the History Now final project. The 4th exam takes place during finals period but it is not a cumulative final. Continue reading →