United States History from 1865
Professor Hugh Carter Donahue
History Department
Robinson Hall
donahueh@rowan.edu
Tuesday-Thursday Spring 2009
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.
Tuesday, January 21 Inauguration 1 page essay “What does President Obama
say about liberty, equality and freedom?” due Thursday January 23rd.
Thursday January 23, Discussion of Inaugural Address, more on course goals
and obligations; discussion of history; rules for papers
Tuesday January 28 Discussion of Inaugural Address and definitions of freedom,
equality and liberty and the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, handout and
Brinkley Appendix I.
Thursday January 30 Tuesday February 3 Reconstruction and Redemption
Brinkley, Chapter 15
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, President Grant
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hadams/eha17.html
Tuesday February 3 Western expansion I
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 and handout
Brinkley, Chapter 16
Thursday February 5 Western Expansion II
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
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Brinkley, Chapter 16
Tuesday 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
Thursday February 12 Industrialization 2
Frederick W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management,
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/fwt/taylor.html
1 and 2 as assigned
Tuesday February 17, Industrialization 3
Frederick W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management,
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/fwt/taylor.html
chapters 1 and 2 as assigned
Thusday February 19 Race
WEB DuBois, The Souls of Black Folks,
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DubSoul.html
Chapter 1, Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Tuesday February 24
James Bryce, “Why Great Men are Not Chosen President,”
Thursday, February 26
Imperialism & the State
Brinkley, Chapters 19-20 Paper 1 due
Tuesday, March 3 Progressivism Progressivism
Brinkley, Chapters 21-22
Tuesday March 5 Progressivism Progressivism
Brinkley, Chapters 21-22
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Tuesday March 10 Exam Prep
Thursday, March 12 Exam 1
Spring Break
Tuesday March 24 World War I
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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
Thursday March 26 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
The Depression and New Deal
Lippmann continued
Brinkley, Chapter 25-6
Tuesday March 31 World War II and Definitions of Totalitarianism
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 2 Cold War
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Industrial Complex Speech
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/speeches/eisenhower001.htm
Brinkley, Chapter 29
Tuesday April 7 JFK & Sixties
John F. Kennedy
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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 April 9 Cold War, Race and Culture
Brown v. Board of Education,
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/search.html
Brinkley, Chapter 30
Tuesday April 14 Sixties: Race, Vietnam
Martin Luther King, “I Have A Dream”
http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html
Brinkley, Chapter 31
Thursday April 16 Seventies, Watergate, Carter; Eighties, Reagan
Brinkley, Chapter 32-33
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
Tuesday April 21 Gulf War/Terror/911
911 Commission Report, Executive Summary
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm
Brinkley, Chapter 34
Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm
Middle East Maps:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ers143/Resources/Pics/rels143a.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/maps/poltext.html
Thursday April 23 Paper 2
Globalization and Economic Stress
Brinkley, Chapter 34
Handout
Tuesday April 28 review/exam prep
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Tuesday May 5 exam
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