Lecture Topics:

        The following titles are intended only to provide a focus for the day's lecture. In practice it may take more or less than one class period to complete the topic. The lectures will not necessarily coincide with the textbook assignments, nor are they meant to. It is the responsibility of each student to make sure that s/he is informed as to the date of book quizzes and other exams and to bring appropriate test materials to class.

Course Calendar

Date           Weekly Lecture Topics                                    Weekly Reading Assignments

                                                                                                  Text = The American Story, Vol. II

                                                                                                  Reader = Voices of America Past and Present, Vol. II

First Day of Class: Tuesday, August 22nd.

Week 1:

                   Course Introduction                                            Text, Ch. 16. & Reader Ch. 16

                   Reconstruction, 1863 - 1877

Week 2:

                    Frontiers of Change, 1865 - 1890                         Text, Ch. 17 & Reader Ch. 17

Week 3:

                    Economic Change & Crisis of the 1890s             Text, Ch. 18 & Reader Ch. 18

Week 4:

                     An Industrial Society, 1890 -  1920                      Text, Ch. 19 & Reader Ch. 19

Week 5:

                     Progressivism                                                         Text, Ch. 20 & Reader Ch. 20

Week 6:

                     Becoming a World Power, 1898 - 1917                Text, Ch. 21 & Reader Ch. 21

                       STUDY GUIDE FOR MID-TERM EXAM POSTED - THURSDAY, SEPT. 29th

Week 7:

                      War & Society, 1914 - 1920                                    Text, Ch. 22 & Reader Ch. 22        

                       MID-TERM EXAMINATION - Bring Green Scantron - THURSDAY, OCT. 6th

Week 8:

                      The "Roaring 20s"                                                   Text, Ch. 23 & Reader Ch. 23                      

Week 9:        

                         The Great Depression and the New Deal          Text, Ch. 24 & Reader Ch. 24            

Week 10:

                        America During the Second World War             Text, Ch. 25 & Reader Ch. 25    

                        STUDENT INITIATED DROP DEADLINE (WITH AUTOMATIC "W") - OCT. 28th

Week 11:

                        The Age of Containment, 1946 - 1954                   Text, Ch. 26 & Reader Ch. 26            

Week 12:

                       Affluence and Its Discontents, 1954 - 1963            Text, Ch. 27 & Reader Ch. 27

Week 13:

                        America During the Vietnam War                         Text, Ch. 28 & Reader Ch. 28                

Week 14:

                        Economic &Social Change in Late 20th Cent.       Text, Ch. 29 & Reader Ch. 29

                           STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM POSTED - TUESDAY, NOV. 22nd

                            THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY: NOV. 24TH AND 25TH

Week 15: 

                        Power & Politics Since 1974                                    Text, Ch. 30 & Reader Ch. 30

EXTRA CREDIT PAPERS DUE THURSDAY, DEC. 1st - Last Day of Class

Final Examination:  

9:00 - 10:20 Class - TUESDAY, DEC. 6th 10:00 am - 12:45 pm PhSy 115

12:00 -  1:20 Class -  TUESDAY, DEC. 6th...1:00 - 3:45 pm PhSy 115

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