Readings
Elliott West, “Reconstructing Race,” WHQ, Spring 2003, 34 (1) [ pdf ]
Tony Horowitz, “A Death for Dixie” [ pdf ]
Eric Foner, "The New View of Reconstruction," American Heritage [ html ]

Films
Race: The Power of an Illusion, Vol. 2 [ html ]

Websites
The Confederate Battle Flag [ html ]
Chinese in California: 1850-1925 [ html ]
Chinese Immigration, Origins and Opinions [ html ]
Immigration to Galveston [ pdf ]

Readings
Barbara Young Welke, “The Railway Journey: The Spatial Transformation” [ pdf ] [ optional ]
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, pages 11-118 [ pdf ]

Biographies
Ida B. Wells-Barnett [ pdf ]
Booker T. Washington [ pdf ] [ speech ] [ audio ] [ analysis1 ] [ analysis 2 ]
W.E.B. Du Bois [ pdf ] [ Souls of Black Folk ]

Films
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Vol. 1 [ html ]

Websites
Civil Rights Cases (1883) [ online 1 ] [ online 2 ]
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) [ online 1 ] [ online 2 ]
Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America [ online ]

Readings Topic I
Elliott West, The Last Indian War [ pdf ]
Gregory Michno, The Indian Trail of Broken Treaties (counter-narrative) [ pdf ]

Readings Topic II
Richard White, "Frederick Jackson Turner" from “Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill” [ pdf ]
Richard White, "Buffalo Bill" from “Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill” [ pdf ]
Walter Nugent, "Western History," OAH Magazine Fall 1994 [ pdf ]

Readings Topic III
Richard H. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans [ html ]
Sally Jenkins, The Team that Invented College Football [ pdf ]
Photographs from Carlisle Indian School [ html ]

Films
Last Stand at Little Big Horn, American Experience [ html ]

Websites
Eric Margolis, "Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labour" Visual Studies [ pdf ]

Readings Topic I
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, “The Rise of Big Business in America” [ pdf ]
Jackson Lears, Chapter Two, Rebirth of A Nation

Readings Topic II: Knights of Labor
Knights of Labor in Texas [ online ]
Drawing the Line on Black-White Equality at the annual meeting of the Knights of Labor [ online ]
Haymarket Square [ brief ] [ Chicago ] [ LOC ]

Readings Topic III: American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers and the AFL [ online ]
American Federation of Labor [ online ]
Samuel Gompers [ online ]
History of the American Steel Industry and Its People [ html ]
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era [ html ]
The Homestead Strike [ overview ] [ documents ]

Readings Topic IV: Eugene Debs, the American Railway Union, and the Pullman Strike
Eugene Debs [ online ]
Pullman Strike [ brief ] [ brief 2 ] [ online ]
re Debs [ online ]

Films
Corporation: What is a Corporation [ html ]
Corporation Video: Birth of the Corporation [ html ]
Corporation Video: A Legal Person [ html ]

Websites
The Corporation [ html ]
Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World [ html ]
The Rockefellers [ html ]

Key terms: laissez-faire, Horatio Alger, self-made man, Social Darwinism

Readings
T.J. Jackson Lears,“From salvation to self-realization: Advertising and the therapeutic roots of the consumer culture, 1880-1930.” Read only first 46 paragraphs. [ pdf ]

Films
Coney Island, American Experience [ html ]

Websites
Coney Island History [ html ]
Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 [ html ]
Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920 [ html ]
America at Work, America at Leisure, Motion Pictures, 1894-1915 [ html ]
The Chicago World's Fair [ html ]
The Great Chicago Fire [ html ]
Centennial Exhibition: 1876 [ html ]

Optional Materials
David Nasaw. Excerpts, Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements
M.M Manring, Excerpts, Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima

Exam I Review Sheet

No Class - Read ahead for the coming weeks

Readings
Excerpt from Alan Brinkley, "The Concept of New Deal Liberalism," from The End of Reform [ pdf ]
Elisabeth I. Perry, "The Changing Meanings of 'The Progressive Era'" [ pdf ]
Richard M. Abrams, from 'The Failure of Progressivism' in The Shaping of the Twentieth Century [ pdf]
Did the Progressives Fail? NO: Arthur S. Link and Richard L. McCormick [ pdf ]

Themes
Herbert Croly, from Promise of American Life (1909) [ html ]
Frederick W. Taylor, "Introduction" and "Fundamentals of Scientific Management" (1911) [ html ]
Ida Tarbell and the History of Standard Oil [ pdf ] [ guide ]
Upton Sinclair, Chapter 14 from The Jungle [ online ] [ html ]
Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” [ html ]

Biographies
Theodore Roosevelt [ online ]
Woodrow Wilson [ online ]
1912: Competing Visions for America [ html ]

Films
Woodrow Wilson: Amerian Experience [ html ]
Theodore Roosevelt: The Presidents [ html ]

Websites
The Triangle Factory Fire [ html ]
The Baseball Archive [ html ]
Emma Goldman: American Experience [ html ]
America at 1900: American Experience [ html ]
Ghosts of the Garden [ html ]
Turn of the Century Columbus, Ohio [ html ]
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era [ html ]
Immigration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century [ html ]
Child Labor and Child Labor Reform [ html ]
The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918 [ html ]

Readings Topic I -- Entering the War
Woodrow Wilson, Request for a Declaration of War, April 2, 1917 [ html ]
James Livingston "War and the Intellectuals: Bourne, Dewey, and the Fate of Pragmatism" [ pdf ]

Readings Topic II -- The War at Home
Christopher Capozzola, "The Only Badge Needed Is Your Patriotic Fervor" JAH [ pdf ]
Ronald Schaffer, “The Home Front,” OAH Magazine [ pdf ]
Materials to be added on women, voting rights, and the formation of the ACLU and NAACP

Readings Topic III -- Assessment
Arthur S. Link, “Wilson 's Higher Realism” [ pdf ]
Jan Schulte-Nordholt, “The Peace Advocate Out of Touch With Reality” [ pdf ]

Films
Influenza 1918: American Experience [ html ]
Woodrow Wilson: Amerian Experience [ html ]

Websites
First World War [ html ]
Randolph Bourne's America [ html ]
Longview, Texas Race Riot [ html ]

Reading
Donald McRae, The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow: The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet (New York: Harper, 2010).

Films
It staring Clara Bow [ html ]

Websites
Monkey Trial: American Experience [ html ]
The Sweet Trials [ html ]
Leopold and Loeb [ html ]

Reading
David Kennedy, Chapters 5 through 12, Freedom From Fear [ html ]

Films
The Crash of 1929 [ html ]
Franklin Roosevelt and Polio [ html ]
Franklin Roosevelt: The Presidents [ html ]

Websites
FDR and the Supreme Court [ html ]
New Deal Document Library [ html ]

Reading
Ronald Takaki, Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II (Back Bay Books, 2001).

Film
Prelude to War from Why We Fight [ html ]

Websites
The Good War at Home [ html ]
Japanese Internment Cases [ html ]

Reading
John Hersey, Hiroshima
The Enola Gay Controversy [ html ]

Film
Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan

Website
Hiroshima: Ground Zero, 1945 [ html ]

Exam II Review Sheet