Schedule

UNIT ONE: The U.S. from Reconstruction to the 20th Century WEEK 1 Critical Questions and Background Discussion One - Chapter 15 (entire); (Podcast) Throughline–The Most Sacred Right WEEK 2 Reconstruction Discussion Two - Chapter 16 (entire); Supreme Court Primary Source 1883 Civil Rights; Supreme Court Primary Source Plessy v. Ferguson Suprem Court Decision (Primary Source) WEEK 3 Continental Expansion Discussion Three - Chapter 17 (entire); “Origin and Development of American Boarding School System” WEEK 4 The United States between Isolation and Empire Discussion Four - First Supreme Court Videocast Due UNIT TWO: The US Through the Early Twentieth Century WEEK 5 Labor and Technology at the Turn of the Century Discussion Four - Chapter 18 (entire); (Podcast) Throughline: Eugene Debs–or–The New Gilded Age WEEK 6 Woodrow Wilson and World War I Discussion Five - Chapter 23 (entire); Supreme Court Primary Source Debs v United States WEEK 7 The “Roaring” Twenties Discussion Six - Chapter 24 (entire); NY Times, “The Tulsa Race Massacre”; Throughline: “Aftermath” WEEK 8 The Great Depression Signature Assignment - “The Deportation–Repatriation Campaign” Supreme Court Essay Two Due UNIT THREE: The Cold War and Social Change WEEK 9 World War II Discussion Seven - Chapter 27; Pasternak, “The Peril that Dwelt among the Navajo” Signature Assignment Due WEEK 10 National Anxiety and Moral Panic in the Early Cold War Discussion - Chapter 28; (Primary Source) Supreme Court Decision Brown v. Board of Education WEEK 11 The Global Cold War Discussion Eight - Excerpt from Herring, “A Dead End Alley”; (Primary Sources) “Technologies, Weapons, and the Arms Race.”; Throughline: The Lavendar Scare; Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son” Second Supreme Court Blog Due WEEK 12 Civil Rights and Social Movements Discussion Nine - Chapter 29; (Primary Source) Supreme Court Decision Loving v. Virginia -or- (Primary Source) Supreme Court Decision Griswald v. Conneticut WEEK 13 Vietnam and Cold War Imperialism Discussion Ten - Read Herring, Excerpt from “A Dead-end Alley”; Herring, “Enough, but Not Too Much UNIT FOUR: Questioning Modernity WEEK 14 Nixon in National Politics and World Affairs No Discussion - Chapter 30; Third Supreme Court Blog Due WEEK 15 Peanut Farms and Movie Studies–US Politics in the 1970s and 80s Discussion Eleven - Excerpt from Greg Grandin, Empire’s Workshop; “Why Facts Don’t Change our Minds"