History 110 Lecture Schedule & Outlines




Week 1 (January 19):

- Lecture: Introduction and Review of Syllabus


Week 2 (January 24 and 26):

- Lecture #1 (January 24): The American Century - What is History?
Read: None

- (January 26): Required (Extra Credit) Pretest
Read: None


Week 3 (January 31 and February 2):

- Lecture #2 (January 31): 1893 - Window on the Past and Future
Read: Prologue 1-7
Links:World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath

- Lecture #3 (February 2): Industrialization, Urbanization, and Immigration
Read:14-18, 22-28
Links:Ellis Island


Week 4 (February 7 and 9):

- Lecture #4 (February 7): Business and Labor
Read:10-14, 31-37, 67-72, 125-134
Links:Samuel Gompers Papers: A Documentary History of the American Working Class

- Lecture #5 (February 9): Progressivism and Social Reform
Read:57-83
Links:Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)


Week 5 (February 14 and 16):

- Lecture #6 (February 14): Creating a Global America
Read:73-76, 92-95, 114-120
Links:The Sedition Act of 1918

- Lecture #7 (February 16): Popular Culture and Religion/ Gender and Race
Read:18-31, 41-49, 110-114, 134-148, 151-163
Links:The Harlem Renaissance
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment


Week 6 (February 21 and 23):

- Lecture #8 (February 21): The American Dream?
Read:180-183, 191-202
Links:Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

- Lecture #9 (February 23): Building a New American State
Read:206-241
Links:New Deal Network
Surviving the Dustbowl


Week 7 (February 28 and March 1):

- Unit I Exam (February 28)

- Research Day (March 1): No lecture


Week 8 (March 6 and 8):

- Lecture #10 (March 6): Creating a Global America
Read:247-261
Links:World War II

- Lecture #11 (March 8): The Way We Never Were
Read:268-286
Links:Rosie the Riveter and other Women World War II Heroes


Week 9 (March 13 and 15): SPRING BREAK


Week 10 (March 20 and 22):

- Lecture #12 (March 20): Politics and Society in the Atomic Age
Read:294-311, 318-326, 330-336
Links:Cold War Homepage

- Lecture #13 (March 22): Popular Culture and Consumerism
Read:336-358, 423-428
Links:Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb


Week 11 (March 27 and 29):

- Lecture #14 (March 27): Takin' it to the Streets
Read:387-396, 410-415, 434-440
Links:Brown vs. Board of Education

- Lecture #15 (March 29): Liberalism
Read:428-434
Links:Kennedy-Nixon Debates - 1960 Election


Week 12 (April 3 and 5):

- Lecture #16 (April 3): America as a Global Superpower: Korea and Vietnam
Read:362-383, 420-422, 441-445
Links:The Wars for Vietnam, 1945 to 1975

- Lecture #17 (April 5): 1968
Read:445-455
Links:1968: The Whole World Was Watching


Week 13 (April 10 and 12):

- Unit II Exam (April 14)

- Research Day (April 14): No lecture


Week 14 (April 17 and 19):

- Lecture #18 (April 17): Political Disillusionment
Read:469-498, 547-553
Links:Illusion and Delusion: The Watergate Decade

- Lecture #19 (April 19): Politics and Society
Read:502-512, 528-530
Links:American Indian Movement
EPA's Formative Years, 1970-1973


Week 15 (April 24 and 26):

- Lecture #20 (April 24): Politics and Values
Read:530-536
Links:First Inaugural Address of President Ronald Reagan (1981)
First Inaugural Address of President Bill Clinton (1993)

- Lecture #21 (April 26): Race and Gender
Read:516-524
Links:Building Equality


Week 16 (May 1 and 3):

- Lecture #22 (May 1): Politics and the Global America
Read:525-528, 560-563, 567-575, 578-582
Links:The Gulf War

- Lecture #23 (May 3): America and the Millennium
Read:588-591
Links:Deep Conspiracies


Week 17 (May 9):

- Unit III Exam: Tuesday, 12.50-2.50pm.



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