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United States History Since 1865 美國史（二）
Spring 2016
二 D56
季陶 340108
Joe Eaton, PhD
Office: 季陶 340527
wjeaton@nccu.edu.tw
Please, no food during class.
No cell phone use, laptop surfing during class.
Course description: This course is a survey of many of the most important ideas, persons and events
in the history of the United States since the Civil War. Particular emphasize will be given to the
1920s and 1960s as transitional decades.
Method of Evaluation:
30% mid-term (April 19)
30% writing assignment (Due June 7 in class)
- Late papers accepted June 14 (no emailed papers) – 10% reduction; June 21 – 20%
reduction
- Topic of your choice – with my consultation
- 4 to 6, double-spaced, typed pages, 12 point font
- You are required to use at least 2 primary source documents
- Paper must deal with some aspect of American history, post-Civil War
30% final (January 13)
10% participation, attendance, quizzes
Syllabus is subject to change
This online textbook is a good reference, should you need additional background information:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Please complete reading assignments by date indicated.
Course outline:
2-23: Introduction to the Course
3-1: Reconstruction
Film: (Birth of a Nation (1915) excepts)
3-8: West/Women’s Suffrage
3-15: Gilded Age, Industry, Progressives, Immigration
David Boroff, A Little Milk, A Little Honey – Jewish Immigrants in America
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/little-milk-little-honey
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3-22: Spanish-American War, Empire
Albert Beveridge, “March of the Flag” (1898)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1898beveridge.html
Samuel Gompers, “Imperialism – Its Dangers and Wrongs” (1898)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web09/features/source/docs/C14.pdf
3-29: War in Europe, Wilson and the League, Flu Everywhere
Fourteen Points http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/President_Wilson%27s_Fourteen_Points
Wilson defends the League https://www.msu.edu/~mageemal/hst201/Pueblo.html
1918 Flu Pandemic
https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
4-5 Holiday
4-12: Roaring 1920s: Popular Culture, American Industry, Hoover and the Depression
http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm Fashion of the 1920s
http://wikibenn.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/68341825/Nash%20%20Henry%20Ford%20Symbol%20of%20an%20Age.pdf
Roderick Nash, Henry Ford: Symbol of an Age
4-19: Mid-term examination
4-26: 1930s: A New Deal, For and Against
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/f_roosevelt_legacy.html FDR Legacy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013002760.html Amity Shales, “FDR Was
a Great Leader, But His Economic Plan Isn’t One to Follow” Washington Post,
February 1, 2009
William E. Leuchtenburg, “Why the Candidates still use FDR as their Measure”
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/why-candidates-still-use-fdr-theirmeasure?page=show
5-3: World War II
The Real Meaning of Pearl Harbor
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/real-meaning-pearl-harbor?page=show
Charles Cawthon, D-Day, “What it meant”
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/d-day-what-it-meant?page=show
5-10: Early Cold War and 1950s
Alexander Burns, The Horror of Sputnik – And the Real Good It Did
http://claver.gprep.org/fac/sjochs/Sputnik.htm
5-17: The 60s: Civil Rights, Great Society, Vietnam, Death of the 60s
Allen J. Matusow, Heyday of the Counterculture
http://journeytohistory.com/History102/Articles/Heyday%20of%20the%20Counterculture.pdf
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Walter Russell Mead, Shame of the Cities
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/07/04/the-shame-of-the-cities-and-the-shadeof-lbj/
5-24: Nixon and the 70s
Otto Friedrich, “I Have Never Been a Quitter”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,164282,00.html
Nicholas Lemann, How the Seventies Changed America
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/how-seventies-changed-america
5-31: Late Twentieth-Century Innovation
“Apple, Rising” 1976-1985
http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=apple-computer-ipo
Steve Jobs 2005 @ Stanford
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
BBC video “Birth of Hip-Hop”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8303430.stm
6-7: 80s and Reagan
Richard Brookhiser, Reagan: His Place in History
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/reagan-his-place-history?page=show
Paper Due in Class
6-14: Contemporary America
Readings: TBA
6-21: Final