United States History from 1865
Spring, 2011
Professor Hugh Carter Donahue
History Department
Robinson Hall
donahueh@rowan.edu
Thursday
Goals: An understanding of the development of the United States and of
historians’ methods. Freedom, equality, liberty and the individual receive
particular attention.
Grading: Midterm and Final, 20% each; two papers 15% each; participation 30%
Final grades available through the Registrar
Reading Alan Brinkley, American History, A Survey Volume II: Since 1865
Other readings as assigned.
Thursday, January 20 Introduction; discussion of course goals and obligations;
discussion of history; rules for papers and projects.
Thursday, January 28
Definitions of freedom, equality and liberty and the 13th, 14th and 15th
amendments, handout and Brinkley Appendix 1 and 2
Reconstruction and Redemption
Brinkley, Chapters 15
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, President Grant
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hadams/eha17.html
Thursday, February 3 Western expansion 1
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,”
handout of American Historical Association Report, 1893,
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/home.html
Brinkley, 16
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,”
handout of American Historical Association Report, 1893,
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/home.html
Brinkley 16
Thursday, February 10 Industrialization 1
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, Immigrants and Their Children,”
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse-11.html
Brinkley, Chapters 17-18
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, Immigrants and Their Children,”
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse-11.html
George Washington Plunkitt, “Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft,”
http://www.panarchy.org/plunkitt/graft.1905.html
Brinkley, Chapters 17-18
Thursday, February 17 Race
WEB DuBois, The Souls of Black Folks,
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DubSoul.html
Chapter 1, Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Thursday, February 24 Progressivism, Imperialism & the State
Brinkley, Chapters 19-20
James Bryce, “Why Great Men are Not Chosen President,”
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=809
&chapter=187909&layout=html&Itemid=27
Paper 1 due
Brinkley, Chapters 21-22
Thursday, March 3 Industrialization
Frederick W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management,
www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/taylor/sciman.htm and
http://melbecon.unimelb.edu.au/het/taylor/sciman.htm
chapters 1 and 2 as assigned
Thursday March 10 Exam Prep and Exam
Friday March 11 Exam 1
Spring Break
Thursday March 24
World War I
Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points
http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1918/14points.html
Brinkley, Chapter 23
Map: Europe in 1910
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/ward_1912/europe_1910.jpg
Map: Europe 1919-39
http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/map10eu.htm
http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/MAPS/map003.htm
The Twenties and Legacy of World War 1
Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion,
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/Lippman/contents.html
chapters 1, 6-10; chapters 23-24
Brinkley, Chapter 24
Thursday, March 31
The Depression and New Deal
Brinkley, Chapter 25-6
25 World War II and Definitions of Totalitarianism-1
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Atlantic Charter
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/53.htm
Four Freedoms
http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/diglibrary/prezspeeches/roosevelt/fdr_194
1_0106.html
Declaration of War
http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/diglibrary/prezspeeches/roosevelt/fdr_194
1_1208.html
Fourth Inaugural Address
http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/diglibrary/prezspeeches/roosevelt/fdr_194
5_0120.html
Robinson Jeffers, “Be Angry at the Sun”
http://www.igreens.org.uk/be_angry_at_the_sun.htm
Brinkley, Chapters 27-28
Thursday April 7 Cold War
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Industrial Complex Speech
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/speeches/eisenhower001.htm
Brinkley, Chapter 29
JFK & Sixties
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address,
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speech
es/JFK/Inaugural+Address+January+20+1961.htm
Amherst College Commencement Speech,
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speech
es/JFK/003POF03Amherst10261963.htm
Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken,”
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/robert-frost.html
Thursday, 14 Cold War, Race and Culture
Brown v. Board of Education,
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/search.html
Brinkley, Chapter 30
Race, Vietnam
Martin Luther King, “I Have A Dream”
http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html
Brinkley, Chapter 31
Wednesday, April 21 Seventies, Watergate, Carter; Eighties, Reagan
Brinkley, Chapter 32-33 Paper 2 due
Nineties, Clinton, 2000 Election,
Brinkley, Chapter 34
Bush v. Gore
Opinion http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/search.html
Stevens Dissent http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZD.html
Breyer Dissent http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZD3.html
Thursday, April 28
911 Commission Report, Executive Summary
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm
Brinkley, Chapter 34
Middle East Maps:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ers143/Resources/Pics/rels143a.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/maps/poltext.html
The Unit Decade: Gulf War/Terror/911
Brinkley, Chapter 34
Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm
Obama Election Obama Inaugural Address
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address/
Contemporaneous Communication Functionalities in U.S. History
Reed Hundt, “The End of Broadcasting,”
Columbia Institute for TeleInformation
http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/flash/CBSPlayappend.html?video1=centers/CITI/lunch-speaker_3-11-2010.flv
May 5