U.S. History II

COURSE INTRODUCTION
 

X Syllabus
X How Would You Do?
X Guidelines for Source Analysis
X Transformational Learning Experiences
X How to Recognize a Culture of Peace
X Skills Analysis Worksheet
X History as an Academic Discipline
X Personal Course Objectives
X A Crossroads in History

RESEARCH PROJECT
X Research Guidelines
X Research Proposal
X Research Report

THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICA
 

X Web Activity One
X "The Gospel of Wealth" (1889)
X Looking Backward (1888)
X Address by George Engel (1886)
X Proceedings - Grange  (1879)
X Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912)
X The Immigrant Woman and Her Job (1930)
X Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1905)
X Workingman's Amalgamated Council
X Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
X The People’s Party Platform (1892)
X Cross of Gold Speech (1896)
X Theodore Roosevelt, Message to Congress
X “The Business World vs. the Politicians”
X Josiah Strong, Our Country (1885)
X First Open Door Note
X "The White Man's Burden"
X Uncle Sam Plants the Flag
X PPT: The Emergence of Modern America
X PPT: The Rise of Big Business
X PPT: Child Labor in America
X PPT: The Organization of Labor
 

THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
 

X Web Activity Two
X PPT: The Progressive Era
X “Birmingham under the Commission Plan”
X Herbert Croly, Progressive Democracy
X Eugene V. Debs, “The Outlook for Socialism”
X Woodrow Wilson, from The New Freedom
X TR, from The New Nationalism
X The Covenant of the League of Nations
X The Senate and the League of Nations
X The Palmer Raids
X The Immigration Act of 1924
X Only Yesterday Excerpt on the Ku Klux Klan
X H.L. Mencken, "The Monkey Trial"
X Herbert Hoover, Speech at New York City
X FDR, Speech at San Francisco (1932)
X Father Charles E. Coughlin, "A Third Party"
X Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth" (1935)
X The Atlantic Charter (1941)
X Charles Lindbergh, Radio Address (1941)
X FDR, Message to Congress (1941)
X ...Holocaust the Responsibility of the Nazis?

CONTEMPORARY AMERICA
 

X National Security Council Memorandum
X George F. Kennan, “Long Telegram” (1946)
X Kenneth MacFarland, “The Unfinished Work”
X McCarthy, Speech, Wheeling, West Virginia
X “Joseph McCarthy: A Modern Tragedy”
X “The New McCarthyism: Repeating History”
X “Remembering the G.I. Bill”
X “See the USA in Your Chevrolet”–Dinah Shore
X Levittown: Ideal American Suburb
X Betty Friedan, “The Feminine Mystique”
X The 1950's: Decade of Prosperity or Hardship
X Cuban Missile Crisis Essay
X Cuban Missile Crisis Documents
X Operation Northwoods
X "The Civil Rights Era”
X “Primary Sources Relating to Vietnam”
X "40th Anniversary: Gulf of Tonkin Incident"
X "The Price of Empire
X Mario Savio, Free Speech Protest (1964)
X SDS Vietnam Anti-War Speech (1965)
X NOW, Statement of Purpose (1966)
X The Gay Liberation Front, Come Out (1970)
X Ione Malloy, Southie Won’t Go (1975)
X The Watergate Story
X Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1981)
X Ronald Reagan, Evil Empire Speech (1983)  
X The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall 
X George H. W. Bush, New World Order Speech  
X Gordon Brown, New World Order Speech 
X Globalization
X The Wolfowitz Doctrine (1992) 
X What is Fundamentalism? 
X The US Role in the World 

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