“What is History?”
The North Won the Civil War—What did it win? Henkin & McLennan Ch. 16 “Southern Reconstruction”
For discussion sections:
Introduction to using Connect Assignments
Recitation:
Reconstruction
Reading for paper: W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, The Forethought, chs. 1-6.
Recitation:
Discussion of paper assignment; DuBois reading. Preview of western history.
• The Extermination of the Buffalo http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/riseind/west/bison.html
• The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak, 1863. Albert Bierstadt (American, born Germany, 1830–1902). Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Week 3 How was the West “Won?”: By the Pioneers and Buffalo Bill or Corporate Capital? Henkin & McLennan, Ch. 17 “Remaking the West”
The Second Industrial Revolution, Tues: Was there a “Gilded Age”? Henkin & McLennan, ch. 18 “Industrializing America”
Reading for paper assignment: DuBois, Chs. 7-10.
Recitation:
• Assignments Frederick Winslow Taylor, excerpt from Principles of Scientific Management (1911) http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/taylor/principles/ch02.htm
• Thomas Nast Cartoons
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Week 4 Urbanization; Henkin & McLennan ch. 19
Reading for paper assignment: DuBois 10-The Afterthought
Laissez Faire and its Challengers Recitation:
• William Graham Sumner, The absurd effort to make the world over (March 1894) http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1876-1900/excerpt-from-william-graham-sumner-the-absurd-effort-to-make-the-world-over-march-1894.php
• Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, excerpts http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61/pg61.html
• Henry George, Excerpt from Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy (1879) http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1876-1900/excerpt-from-henry-george-progress-and-poverty-1879.php
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