American Civilization III
About
In this course, we will explore the struggles and triumph “inbetween peoples” after Reconstruction and before WWII.
Schedule
September 04, 2007 4:15 pm – 6:35 pm
Week 1
Introductions
Week 2
Reading
Roediger, David and James Barrett. “Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and “New-Immigrant” Working Class.” Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past (2002): 138-168.
Ngai, Mae. “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: a Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924.” Journal of American History 86, no. 1 .
Writing
This is your first course blog posting. Take 500 words to critically engage with the reading for this week. What does Bederman have to say about the ways that power are being negotiated in this time period? Review the Blog Postings section on the Projects page for more possible topics.
Discussion
Bring a primary source to class that in some way extends and compliments your blog posting on the week’s readings.
Week 3
Reading
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civiliation: a Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1914. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
, Intro through Chapter 3
Writing
Group 1: Kelly, OBrien, Zelt, Levy
The rest of class should respond
Week 4
Reading
Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
, Intro through Chapter 3
Writing
3-4 page essay using a primary source to illuminate a critical theme in our consideration of the course material thus far. Here are some places you might want to start looking for primary sources: American Memory from the Library of Congress (try a collection that you’ve never explored before; History Matters (explore the “Many Pasts” collection or any of the sites reviewed in “WWW.History”); Chicago Historical Society Online Projects; The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco; or Douglass: Archive of American Public Address.
Week 5
Reading
Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
, Intro through Chapter 4
Writing
Group 2: Conahan, Bronner, Churchill, Kentz
The rest of the class should respond.
Week 6
Reading
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civiliation: a Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1914. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
, Chapter 4 through Conclusion
Writing
Group 3: Thompson, Preveti, Schultheis, Gray
The rest of the class should respond.
Research
2-3 paragraphs introducing your topic for your edited collection. This topic will guide your selection of sources for your primary source essays, and the additional sources for your collection.
Week 7
Reading
Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
, Chapter 4 through Conclusion
Writing
Group 4: Rafferty, Aldemeyer, Haines, Bajet
The rest of the class should respond.
Week 8
Reading
Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
, Chapter 5 through Conclusion
Writing
3-4 page essay using a primary source to illuminate a critical theme in our consideration of the course material thus far.
Week 9
Reading
Larson, Edward. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuting Debate over Science and Religion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Writing
Week 10
Reading
Faulkner, William. Light in August. New York: Vintage International , 1990.
, Chapter 1 – Chapter 11
Writing
Research
A selection of possible sources and secondary material that you will use to create your edited collection. 1) You should gather at least five secondary sources that will help you construct your introductory essay and your source annotations. 2) You should annotate those five secondary sources with a brief paragraph that does two thing. First, you should summarize the source (content, argument). Second, you should explain how this material is relevant to your topic. How will this material be useful to you in your work? 3) You should locate at least five primary sources that you believe are good candidates for your collection. 4) You should annotate those five primary sources, explaining why you think that you might include them in the final project.
Week 11
Reading
Faulkner, William. Light in August. New York: Vintage International , 1990.
, Chapter 12 through end
Writing
Research
After having completed a primary source essay and an initial bibliography, you are now in a position to revise and refine your project proposal. Please compose a new 2-3 paragraph proposal that presents your slightly more developed approach to your edited collection. (By this point in the process, you would do well to have at least 3 or 4 primary sources that you plan to include in your collection.)
Week 12
Reading
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
, Intro through Chapter 3
Writing
3-4 page essay using a primary source to illuminate a critical theme in our consideration of the course material thus far.
Week 13
Reading
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
, Chapter 4 – Chapter 6
Writing
Week 14
Reading
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
, Chapter 7 through Conclusion
Week 15
Research
Due.