March 14, 2016
YIHS 20th Century American History
Frank Kroncke
fkroncke@earthfolk.net
608-606-9419
Overview of Course Curriculum and Schedule
All documents and links accessible at
http://www.earthfolk.net/YIHS.html
Contents
PART 1 ........................................................................................................................................ 2
CLASS MEETINGS AND ANTICIPATED ACTIVITIES & CONTENT ................................... 2
PART 2...................................................................................................................................... 10
RESEARCH PROJECT/PAPER PRESENTATIONS ................................................................. 10
A.
OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................................ 10
B.
TEAMS —tentative as of December 23, 2014 .............................................................. 10
C.
TOPICS—to be selected during first class session ........................................................ 10
D.
1)
Sexual culture and morality ........................................................................................ 10
2)
Sports .......................................................................................................................... 11
3)
Religion ...................................................................................................................... 12
4)
Technology/Robotics .................................................................................................. 13
WEBSITE RESOURCES [partial] ................................................................................ 14
Sexuality ................................................................................................................................... 14
Sports ........................................................................................................................................ 14
Religion ..................................................................................................................................... 15
Technology ............................................................................................................................... 15
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PART 1
CLASS MEETINGS AND ANTICIPATED ACTIVITIES &
CONTENT
M-T-W-Th-F 8:35 to 10:25 am
“20th Century American
History”
Monday
January 05
Introduction to the course
Theme: What is “history”?
 Personal introductions
 Review of Syllabus
 Team formations & rubric
o Debate topics
o Research
project/paper
 Class format and rubrics
 Class participation rubric
 Research project/paper rubric
 Grading scheme
In classroom
threads
Discussion: “Starting
Point: Millennial
“Global Citizens” in
Cyberspace in the Age
of Globalization”
Overviews of
“History” frames &
methodologies
Biblical/Christian,
Modern/Secular/
Scientific,
Post-modern,
Ecological, and
Digital.
Course texts
Document downloads and video
links at
http://www.earthfolk.net/YIHS.html
Watch: Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
p86BPM1GV8M
Watch: What is cyberspace?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
VfCkLLIkia0
Watch: Cyberspace (Air Force)
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=OL2IORXwg2E
Review: “Dominant Ideology
Wheel”
Listen: Lennon’s “Imagine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
XLgYAHHkPFs
Your historical Big
Story and “personal
Story”: What “Age of”
are we living in?
Read: Blanco’s “My tribe”
Presentation:
“Identity formation
and storytelling—Big
Story and personal
Story.”
Assignment: 900
words, “My historical
identify formation and
Big/personal story.”
Due Friday January 9.
Explore: History resource
website(s)
20 and 21st Century America
timeline
http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.
htm
Digital resources
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
20th Century America
http://www.factindex.com/2/20/20th_century.html
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Team formations &
assignments (30
minutes)
Tuesday
January 06
Themes:
Discussions:
1) “American Exceptionalism”
1) “American
exceptionalism:
people without a
history?”
2) “American Empire”

Roots of notions
2) American Empire:
“Slave America”?
Indian Removal Act
(1830s)
Religious and secular
roots
Cyberspace “I” and
“We”
Memoir: personal
history
Assignment: 300
word personal event.
Due Monday January
12.
Wednesday Theme: (continued)
January 07
Watch: American Exceptionalism
(conservative)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
nuv0K8H8ILM
Watch: Bill Maher on American
Exceptionalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
r5SE1BVcKVg
Watch: Howard Zinn on American
Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Arn3lF5XSUg
Read: Declaration of Independence
Read: Jefferson’s edited paragraph
on slavery in the Declaration
Maps of military bases and nuclear
silos
Team work (30
minutes)
Is either a vision for
Read: “Walker’s Appeal”
globalization? or
Demise of “America”? Read: Cobb on Scriptural basis for
slavery
Militarization of
police
Read: Black Panther Party
Manifesto (1966)
Ghetto as prison
Watch: Slavery
Team work (30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
minutes)
Ajn9g5Gsv98
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Watch: Slavery today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i
qEKrAkey3o
Watch: Human trafficking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
_tQDYvPrE6k
Watch: Free Market Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
VNRl4J-ndrY
Watch: Crony Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Hpe1_OtHtLY
Thursday
January 08
Theme: Challenges of writing
history in the age of multicultural globalization.
Challenges of writing
“history” in digital era.
Scientism and
Secularism as antihistorical movements
Watch: Militarization of Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
QZqlumo-1rE
Read: Jensen’s “20 Premises”
Watch: : Kurzweil,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j
OC0DBvhuaY
Read: Vatican II excerpts
Ethnic, liberation,
dystopian histories.
Discussion: “Big
Brother Robot” or
“Dawn of the (cyber)Apes”? or “Rise of the
People of God/dess”?
~Ending scene of
“Star Trek: the movie”
Read: UN Declaration of Human
Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/ud
hr/
Globalization images:
of good and evil
“Re-mythologize”
movement: feminist,
Greens, Goddess/Gaia
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Team work (30
minutes)
Friday
January 09
Theme: (continued)
Team work (30
minutes)
Read: “Living Earth.”
Watch: Star Trek merger of man
and machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Xla4BnppeUM
Monday
January 12
Theme: “History of
Consciousness” school of
thought and the “Living Earth”
(Gaia theory)
Timelines: the arrow
of time or the circle of
eternity?
Watch: James Lovelock on Gaia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
44yiTg7cOVI
Intro to History of
Consciousness school
of thought
Watch: Gaia Hypothesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
VjLC3GjFMv0
Intro to Gaia theory
Tuesday
January 13
Theme: “When did the 20th
century begin?”
Can there be “history” in the
Nuclear Age?
Team work (30
minutes)
Significance of
Atomic Bomb, Ethnic
cleansing, government
torture, and “citizen as
terrorist suspect”.
Discussion: Is it too
late? To avoid
apocalypse:
ecological, nuclear,
genetic, robotic,
and/or religious?
Watch: Overview 20th Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
CZ69LTlQkRk
Watch: Technology 20th Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
ZbfeO6XCbFM
Watch: Media 20th Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
rbdo2vbPYu0
Review: Images of Good and evil
Wednesday Theme: The 1960’s.
January 14
Team work (30
minutes)
“The times they are
a’changin’”
Black Power
Feminism
Peace Movement
God is Dead
Watch: “I have a dream” video
http://www.dump.com/dreamspeech/
2) text and voice only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
c6OhPpYqkBU
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Team work (30
minutes)
Assignment: 900
word Team historical
event. Due Monday
January 19.
Watch: Daniel Ellsberg, The most
dangerous man in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
w0bIOMQIAKs&list=PLheatLifcoUWsy6DJBUJzDom7k0i7kV
M&index=2
Watch: Pentagon Papers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
3yTIe-wiNXc
Watch: “Peace Crimes”
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/utheatre/tadn
ews/2008/03/watch_the_peace_crim
es_backsta.html
Thursday
January 15
Theme: (continued)
Discussion: Are
women useful?
(Handout of historical
sexist quotes.)
Read: “A call to resist illegitimate
authority” pdf document or
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst3
06/documents/resist.html
Read: SCUM manifesto
Read: Vatican II excerpts
Watch: Gloria Steinem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
8zl5qeF0aqs
Watch: 3 waves of feminism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
1dKOMq-ab7Q
Team work (30
minutes)
Watch: 3rd wave of feminism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
cCQI-ougLsg
No class.
No class.
No class.
Theme: History of Mother
Earth: an obituary?
Discussion: Is Derrick
Jensen truly (in)sane?
Review: Jensen, “20 Premises”
Friday
January 16
Monday
January 19
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Watch: “Fierce Green
Fire” DVD in
classroom
Discussion: database
for globalization
vision
Team presentations
“Sexual culture and
morality”
Tuesday
January 20
Theme: Alternative and esoteric
histories in the age of
globalization.
Mormon history of America.
The New World Order
The Federation of Light
Team work (30
minutes)
Aliens, Illuminati,
Freemasons,
elite conspiracies, and
New Age histories.
Trilateral commission
Davos Group
Nonviolent peace
force
Book of Mormon
(indigenous American
religious history)
“Federation of light”
http://thefederationofli
ght.ning.com/
Images of aliens on
Earth; crop circles
Watch: “Burning Rage” Earth
Liberation Front 60 Minutes show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
IVjQs4WWds8
Watch: Animal Liberation Front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
cHYOWBdDibQ
Watch: Cry of the Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
_gaoIuF-atI
Watch: Illuminati
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
FTzqg921RII&index=4&list=PLE68
5FB601E5A2DCC
Watch: Trilateral Commission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
B4GcuIhsShM
Watch: Mormons,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
7h09PA1AX9s (negative source)
Watch: Pleiadian Message to
Lightworkers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
So7KGdGZwDo
Review: Hidden Histories website
http://www.hiddenhistoryhumanity.c
om/
Discussion: database
for globalization
vision
Team presentations
“Religion”
Team work (30
minutes)
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Wednesday Theme: Hollywood as history’s
January 21 scribe: truth and lies.
Dystopian future:
1984, THX 1138,
Hunger Games,
Divergent ...
Black: The Butler
Native: Lone Ranger
Women: Thelma and
Louise.
Discussion: database
for globalization
vision
Team presentations
“Sports”
Theme: The Future of
“American history”.
Theme: “You” are a
globalization visionary.
Watch: The Butler (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
FuojHqfe4Vk
Watch: The Lone Ranger (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Mqe-Ye9z-KA
“Occupy” American
history!
Presentation: David
Noble, “Debating the
end of history”
Read: Noble, “Historians Against
History” and “Ecologist on why
history will never end.”
Discussion: database
for globalization
vision
Watch: Integral movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
1bqrwTjUxWU
Team presentations
“Technology/
Robotics”
Friday
January 23
Watch: THX 1138 (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
4hLXOVCZr-8
Watch: Thelma and Louise (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
PRr0HY9MPZ0
[Last scene]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
4z88U915uq8
Read: Bellah, 1) “Civil Religion,”
and 2) “Civil Religion notes.”
Team work (30
minutes)
Thursday
January 22
Watch: 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
h9JIKngJnCU
“Intimacy” and the
Atomic Bomb
Watch: Anonymous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
3DUL37QE474
Watch: Anonymous message to the
American People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
HrXyLrTRXso
Read: “Earthfolk imagery”
Discussion: Wrap-up!
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PART 2
RESEARCH PROJECT/PAPER PRESENTATIONS
A. OBJECTIVES
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form teams for enhancing shared intelligence and imagination
o teams meet in class and outside of class
select a topic—research theme for 20th Century History
compose an up to 15 minute presentation, using any and all forms of communication
media formats and channels
after presentation lead another 15 minute discussion with Q and A
o team presentation schedule is listed in “Class Meetings and Anticipated
Activities & Content” segment
B. TEAMS —tentative as of December 23, 2014
1.
2.
3.
4.
Justys Grenier, Seamus Riordan, Thea Stinson, Ray Danielson
Andrew Hysel, Jaali Parrish, Julius Parrish, Jack Corbin
Eva Rising, Leo Shonka, Izzi Xiques, Hannah Eddy
Cedar Kellum, Cecilia Kouba, Eleanore Staffanson, Charlie Townsley
C. TOPICS—to be selected during first class session
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Sexual culture and morality
Sports
Religion
Technology/Robotics
1) Sexual culture and morality
Identify dominant ideology
o hegemonic source
 Christian Church, Bible, Hugh Hefner
 Others:
Identify counterculture ideology
o impact of the Jazz Era; Beatniks; Hippies
o attitudes in Hollywood
o drugs, prostitution, and “hipster” culture (“Playboy Philosophy”)
o Others:
Focus on a theme
o How answers changed over the decades in answering the question, “Is
pornography good for you?”
 moral model
 health model
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 freedom model
 Others:
What caused shift?
o technologies, re: social media/ internet; world wars; global capitalism, etc.
o Church attitudes, re: “Liberal” Protestantism
o General secularization, re: impact of studies on sexuality (major reports)
o Single-parent homes; working “middle-class” women; feminism
o Others:
Global dynamic
o impact of shifts in global patterns of multi-cultural interchange based upon
globalization of consumer capitalism
o “multi-cultural relativism” ... Tantric Yoga; Swedish sexual habits
o Others:
Conclusions
o Strive to articulate 1) standards textbook conclusions so that you can 2) critique
them and 3) provide some imaginative insights.
Presentation
o All media formats acceptable.
 You can dance your presentation! or
 Make it a stand-up comedy routine.
 Objectives: Be curious ... Imagine!
2) Sports
Identify dominant ideology
o hegemonic source
 Greek “sound body/sound mind”?
 Olympic ideal
 Notion of the “amateur”
 President Teddy Roosevelt
 “muscular Christianity”
 Others:
Identify counterculture ideology
o sports is child’s play in industrial society
o glorification via attitudes in Hollywood, e.g., Lou Gehrig
o NCAA and rise of college athletics ... “Jock culture”
o sports as “war games” in warrior culture
o Others:
Focus on a theme
o How answers changed over the decades in answering the question, “Should sports
be a spectator culture?”
 moral model
 health model
 freedom model
 economic model
 Others:
What caused shift?
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o technologies, re: early radio and TV
o financial attitudes, re: Big Bucks entertainment
o women and Title IX
o “Bread and circuses” for the working class? Re: stop the worker revolution!
o Others:
Global dynamic
o impact of shifts in global patterns of multi-cultural interchange based upon
globalization of consumer capitalism
 Make the world free for American {Baseball, Football, Tennis...}.
o Others:
Conclusions
o Strive to articulate 1) standards textbook conclusions so that you can 2) critique
them and 3) provide some imaginative insights.
Presentation
o All media formats acceptable.
 You can dance your presentation! or
 Make it a stand-up comedy routine.
 Objectives: Be curious ... Imagine!
3) Religion
Identify dominant ideology
o hegemonic source
 Christian, Biblical ... “New” World
 New England Puritan’s “Errand into the Wilderness”
 American exceptionalism, re: all the “New” area, e.g., New Jersey, New
York, New Haven, etc.
 Religious roots of “democracy” (Deism and Natural Theology)
 Others:
Identify counterculture ideology
o outsiders, re: Jews, Catholics and “heathens”
o Rise of revivalism (re: no dominant state religion)
o Impact of “The Frontier,” re: Christian culture if not state religion
o 1960s ... the heathens arrive, re: Zen, Yoga, etc.
o Others:
Focus on a theme
o How answers changed over the decades in answering the question, “Is America a
Christian Nation?”
 social gospel movement
 nonviolent protests, re: ML King, Cesar Chavez, Roman Catholic anti-war
 how religious is secularization? Re: readings on “Civil Religion.”
 Others:
What caused shift?
o technologies, re: impact of Cable TV’s interfaith shows and internet access to all
world religions at a “click”
o “self-help” and “self-realization” movements, re: psycho-babble
o women, Wicca, and the Goddess movement
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o Endless war and ceaseless ecological destruction, re: Resist!
o Others:
Global dynamic
o impact of shifts in global patterns of multi-cultural interchange based upon
globalization of consumer capitalism
 Pax Americana is Christian Pax!
o Others:
Conclusions
o Strive to articulate 1) standards textbook conclusions so that you can 2) critique
them and 3) provide some imaginative insights.
Presentation
o All media formats acceptable.
 You can dance your presentation! or
 Make it a stand-up comedy routine.
 Objectives: Be curious ... Imagine!
4) Technology/Robotics
Identify dominant ideology
o hegemonic source
 Christian, Biblical ... Nature vs. Supernatural
 Garden of Eden and “Dominion”
 Inquisition and scientists as faggots! (Burned at the stake!)
 Rise of Scientism, re: “evolution”
 Science as Big Business/Global Empire
 Others:
Identify counterculture ideology
o Luddites ... early machine destroyers
o 1960s ... Turn on. Tune In. Drop out. “Turn the TV off!”
o Impact of arrival of Buddhism, Native Religions, and certain New Age
movements against materialism
o Others:
Focus on a theme
o How answers changed over the decades in answering the question, “Are we
humans merely proto-robots?”
 Kurzweil’s “Singularity” vision
 Is the brain just a computer?
 Clones not robots?
 Terminator vision: rise of the machines!
 Others:
What caused shift?
o technologies, re: creation of the transistor started it all!”
o “self-help” and “self-realization” movements, re: search for ultimate fulfilment in
the now!
o Cryogenics: possibility of eternal life!
o Vatican II’s openness to science? (Scientists praised not burned!)
o Others:
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Global dynamic
o impact of shifts in global patterns of multi-cultural interchange based upon
globalization of consumer capitalism
o Others:
Conclusions
o Strive to articulate 1) standards textbook conclusions so that you can 2) critique
them and 3) provide some imaginative insights.
Presentation
o All media formats acceptable.
 You can dance your presentation! or
 Make it a stand-up comedy routine.
 Objectives: Be curious ... Imagine!
D. WEBSITE RESOURCES [partial]
Sexuality
1. History of Human Sexuality in Western Culture
A blog by Gabriella Pastor, Chelsea Mageland, & Sarah Findley
http://historyofsexuality.umwblogs.org/mid-to-late-20th-century/
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3.
4.
5.
6.
The Straight State (book review) http://www.essaysinhistory.com/review/2011/9
History of Sex (youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AkIESal13s
“Sex: Unfinished revolution” pdf file
“Playboy Philosophy” pdf file
“A Bunny thing” (Playboy clubs)
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/05/playboy-clubs-201105
7. 20th Century history http://history1900s.about.com/
8. Digital resources http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Sports
1. Sports History http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/sports.html
2. History of Sports http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/the-history-of-sports-in-the-20thcentury-1920-40.aspx?pageID=438&n=the-history-of-sports-in-the-20th-century-192040-1999-12-31
3. “Themes in the history of sports” ... pdf file
4. Images for sports history...best to google “images for sports history”
5. Irish Americans and the 1908 Olympics ... pdf file
6. Black power and Olympics http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/30/blackpower-salute-1968-olympics
7. America and Olympics http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1931
8. 20th Century history http://history1900s.about.com/
9. Digital resources http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
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Religion
1.
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3.
4.
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7.
8.
20th Century history http://history1900s.about.com/
20th Century http://www.fact-index.com/2/20/20th_century.html
Digital resources http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Go here and Search on “Christian America” and other words/phrases
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/search.htm
PBS programs http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/
Americans for Separation of Church and State
https://www.au.org/resources/publications/is-america-a-christian-nation
Salon “America is not a Christian Nation”
http://www.salon.com/2009/04/14/christian_nation/
Gregory Boyd (youtube) “Myth of Christian America”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWs_G4oJaA
Technology
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
20th Century history http://history1900s.about.com/
Digital resources http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Smithsonian encyclopedia http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia
20th Century http://www.fact-index.com/2/20/20th_century.html
History channel “Inventions” http://www.history.com/topics/inventions
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