Schedule

Week 1 | January 4-9

M – Introductions and Three Concepts

W – What do we know about the 18^th and 19^th Centuries / Reconstruction

Read: Douglass, “Composite Nation” and "First Vote"

Week 2 | January 12-16

M – Reconstructing the Nation

W – Watch Banished (87 Minutes)

Read: Plessy v.Ferguson Documents; “This is a White Man’s Government”; Dunbar, We Wear the Mask 

Lab – Political Cartoons

Week 3 | January 19-23

M – No Class

W – Western Borderlands

Read: White, "Origins of the West"; Turner,“On the Significance of the Frontier”; and view Before and After Photographs from the Oregon Indian Institute

Lab – Documenting the West

Week 4 | January 26-30

M – Cities

W – Labor and Wealth

Read: Whitman,“Mannahatta”; Edison Advertisement; Sone, Nisei Daughter, Preface-109

Lab – Advertising

Week 5 | February 2-6

M – Foreigners and Foreign Places

W – Establishing Order

Read: Ngai,“Race in Immigration Law” and Ozawa v. United States; Thind v. United States

Lab – Immigration by the Numbers

Week 6 | February 9-13

M – The Great Depression
Read (or watch): Dorothea Lange,“Migrant Mother” and listen to this short video interview with the Florence Thompson; Roosevelt at the Bonneville Dam; Hughes, "Let America Be America Again"; Stiglitz, "The Book of Jobs";

W – Modern Times and Quiz

Lab – FSA Photographs

Week 7 | February 16-20

M – No Class

W – The New Deal

Read: Sone, Nisei Daughter, 109-End; Korematsu Supreme Court Excerpts; Bainbridge Island Order

Lab – Historic Headlines

Week 8 | February 23-27

M – WW II

W – Cold War

Lab – Bracero Program

Week 9 | March 2-6

M – Civil Rights
Read: Kohl,She Would Not Be Moved"

W – Radicals and The Silent Majority

Lab – Presidential Campaigns 

Week 10 | March 9-13

M – America in the World

W – Living with the 20^th Century

Read:  Johnson, “Blowback”; Rodriguez, “Forging a NewVision”; Krugman, "How Did the Economists Get it So Wrong?"

Submit your exams and lab assignments no later than March 18 at 3pm by email