September/October 2012

Monday 24 Intro: The State and the Individual: The Changing Meaning of Freedom Map: From Sea to Shining Sea 1 Progressivism: National Politics for a National Economy Oligopoly: The Card Game 8 Keynesian Economics and the Growth of the Federal Government Film: The Civilian Conservation Corps Tuesday 25 The Birth of a Nation: Communication and Transportation Revolutions Map Work 2 American Imperialism & The Great War Paper Outlines Due Corporate Flow Chart Work 9 War at Home: The Home Front During WWII Propaganda Slide Show Wednesday 26 Cornering the Market: The Rise of the Corporation Map Work Thursday 27 From Many, One: The Growth of Labor Unions Map Work Friday 28 Film: The Corporation

3 The End of the Fun: The Factors that Caused the Great Depression Map Work 10 Civil Rights Part One: Christianity and NonViolence Map Work

4 The Failure of Hoover and the Depths of Despair: Corporate Flow Charts Due 11 Civil Rights Part Two: Black Nationalism Civil Rights Trading Cards

5 Hero in a Wheelchair: The Election of FDR and the New Deal Map Work 12 The MilitaryIndustrial Complex, The Red Scare, and the Vietnam War

Monday 15 Tune In or The Music of Protest

Tuesday 16 Drop Out Film: The Weather Underground

Wednesday 17 Birth Control & The Sexual Revolution Paper Workshop

Thursday 18 The Legacy: Social Security, Super PACs, and the Meaning of Citizenship Papers Due Study Sesh

Friday 19 Grueling 2 hour Final Exam

This class focuses on the social and economic history of Post-Reconstruction America. The great wars that America was involved in during this period are deliberately overlooked, to be dealt with in the 20th Century world history block later this year. Instead, this class is about the evolving relationship between American individuals and American collectives; racial groups, trade unions, corporations, farmers collectives, genders, governments. We will ask: What role does the individual play in the American idea and how do the groups we belong to come to define us as individuals? Evaluative Tasks: Attendance and Punctuality (10%) Participation in Class Discussion and Activities (10%) Topographical Economic and Demographic Map of America (20%) o Mapping Elements Natural Features Appalachian Mountains Rocky Mountains Mississippi Watershed Great Lakes Basin

 Demographic Elements Population Density Presidential Election of 1912 Lynchings and Race Riots Economic Elements Canal Density Railroad Density Dust Bowl Coal Deposits Oil Deposits Iron Deposits Flow Chart of a Corporate Economy (20%) o Elements Government 14th Amendment 16th Amendment Interstate Commerce Clause Sherman Anti-Trust Act Corporations Joint-Stock Structure Cartels Vertical/Horizontal Integration

 Civic Organizations The Grange Labor Unions Progressive Movement 1500 word paper on the The Life and Times of (20%) o Andrew Carnegie and the Cult of Success o J.P. Morgan and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act o John D. Rockefeller and the Interstate Commerce Clause o Theodore Roosevelt and American Imperialism o Susan B. Anthony and the Womens Suffrage o Herbert Hoover and the Welfare State o Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal o John Maynard Keynes and Liquidity Traps o Malcolm X and Black Nationalism o Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Disobedience o Bob Dylan and the Weather Underground o Margaret Sanger and the Sexual Revolution Grueling, 2-hour multiple choice examination (20%)