Assignments

John Mix Stanley, Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Plain

Assignment Due Monday Jan 14

  Read Davidson & Lytle, After the Fact, read Chapter 8, The View from the Bottom Rail,  pp. 177-206.

Open Primary Source Investigator to Chapters. Select from the documents for Chapter 8, the Civil War map (Source 3);, the mini-documentary Free at Last (Source 7); and Chestnut on War's End (Source 11). Answer question 4 for the Civil War map, questions 1 & 4 for the mini-documentary and questions 2& 4 for Chestnut. I will explain in class how we will use the documentary evidence provided by the PSI.

Assignment Due Wednesday Jan 23

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

Using these documents analyze race relations in the New South (Focus on the 1890s) in a 1-2 page essay.

            Plessy vs Ferguson, pp. 34-36.
Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise Speech, pp. 36-39.
Ida B. Wells, Lynch Law in America, pp. 141-142.
Benjamin R. Tillman, The Use of Violence against Southern Blacks, pp. 143-144.
Online
            1898 Wilmington Race Riot (Findings of NC Commission on the Wilmington Race Riot.)

Assignment Due Friday Feb 1
      Shi & Mayer, For the Record

  Using these documents compare and contrast the narratives of what the West was really like in a 1-2 page    

essay.
          Chief Joseph, An Indian's Perspective, pp. 47-49.
          Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History, pp. 53-55.

   E-Reserves, D. H.  Hill Library (Go to website of D. H. Hill Library, open Reserves, type

in my name Louisa Kilgroe, then H252, the White article is # 10) Richard White, When Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill Cody Both Played Chicago in 1893.

Assignment Due Wednesday Feb 6

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

  Read and be prepared to discuss Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, pp. 58-60. Answer question 1;

Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of  Labor, pp. 56-57. Answer question 3. Samuel Gompers,      

American Federation of Labor, pp. 65-66. Answer question 1.

Assignment Due Monday Feb 11
     Shi & Mayer, For the Record

             Read and be prepared to discuss Josiah Strong, Our Country, pp. 75-77. Answer questions 1 & 2.

            Examine and be prepared to discuss Interpreting Visual Sources: Photography and Progressive Reform,

            pp. 157166.     Answer questions 1 & 3.

Assignment Due Friday Feb 15

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

               Read and be prepared to discuss Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements,

               pp. 131-134. Answer question 2. Rose Schneiderman, Working Womena and the Vote, pp. 138-141.

               Answer question 3.

Assignment Due Monday Feb 18

    Davidson & Lytle, After the Fact, read Chapter 10, USDA Inspected, pp. 234-59.

            (1)  Select six documents from the Primary Source Investigator for Chapter 10.

You must include

1) Problem Defined: Mrs's Bloor's Expose (Doc 12 and The Jungle (Doc13)

2) TR as Trustbuster: TR Speaks (Source 8;Transcript available) & TR's letter to Congress accompanying the Neill-Reynolds Report (Source 10).

 3) Resolution: you may select two other documents, cartoons included, discussing the outcome.  

Focus on government regulation of monopolies and trusts, in this case the Meat Industry, issues of public    health, progressive reform. What or who played the most significant part in the outcome--the public, the president, Congress, or the press (Muckrakers like Sinclair)? In what way did the passsage of the Meat Inspection Act issue in a new era of government-business relations?

(2) Using the documents tell the story of the Meat Inspection Act in 1-2 pages.

Assignment Due Friday Feb 22

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

Read Albert Beveridge, The March of the Flag, pp. 121-123. Answer questions 1 & 4.

Assignment Due Monday Mar 10

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

   Read and be prepared to discuss A. Mitchell Palmer, The Case Against the Reds, pp. 190-191.

   Answer question 2. William Allen White, The Red Scaare is Un-American, pp. 191-192.

   Answer question 2.

Assignment Due Friday March 14

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

Hiram W. Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism, pp. 195-196. Answer question 1.

              Robert H. Clancy, The Immigration Act of 1924,  pp 199-201. Answer question 1.

The Scopes Trial, pp. 206-207. Answer question 1.

Assignment Due Monday Mar 17

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

                Read and be prepared to discuss Huey Long, Share Our Wealth, pp. 249-250. Answer question 2.

Assignment Due Monday Mar 24

Davidson and Lytle, After the Fact

Read Chapter 13 The Decision to Drop the Bomb, pp. 317-345. Using Chapter 13 and

Einstein to FDR (Source 1); FDR to Oppenheimer (Source 3); Fermi’s Manhattan

Project Notebook (Source 6); 12 Dawn of the Nuclear Age -mini-documentary (Source 12), answer the following questions in a 1-2 page essay.

1. Had he lived would FDR have used atomic weapons against Japan?

2. Why did Truman decide to drop the bomb on Hiroshima? Why was the second

bomb dropped on Nagasaki? Why were alternatives to using the atomic weapons

dismissed?

3. What was the impact of the August 8 Soviet entry into the war?

4. Given the events of August 6 and August 8, did the US give the Japanese adequate

time to surrender?  In what way, if any, did Japanese resistance on Iwo Jima and

Okinawa influence the decision to use America’s second atomic bomb?

5. One British historian argues that Truman’s primary concern was the deepening

tensions between the US and USSR rather than ending the war quickly and saving

American lives. What do you think?

6. In your view, did nuclear weapons prolong or act as a deterrent in the Cold War?

Assignment Due Monday Mar 31

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

             Read and be prepared to discuss Mr. X (George Kennan , The Sources of Soviet Conduct,  pp. 298-300

             Answer question 2; Walter Lippmann, A Critizue of Containment,  pp. 300-301. Answer

              question 3.

Assignment Due Monday Apr 7

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

               Read and be prepared to discuss Joseph McCarthy, Democrats and Communists, pp. 308-309.

     Answer question 1. William O. Douglas, The Black Silence of Fear, pp. 309-311. Answer

               question 3.

Assignment Due Friday Apr 11

After the Fact Chapter 16: Where Trouble Comes

This chapter deals with America’s war in Vietnam, in particular why 1968 was a critical turning point. In late January 1968 communist forces attacked all over South Vietnam. In March of 1968 American soldiers massacred an estimated 500 Vietnamese citizens at a village called Songmy or sometimes My Lai. Your assignment is to analyze several aspects of the Vietnam War: why the United States was in Vietnam, what happened at Songmy, who was held responsible for the massacre, and how the American public responded once they learned of the massacre. As usual, your 1-2  page essay will be based on a reading of the chapter and an examination of the following documents found on the Primary Source Investigator.

• Interactive Map of the War in Vietnam (Source 1)
• American Opinion on the War, 10 Sep 1963 (Source 2)
• Ridenhour Letter, 16 March 1968 (Source 5)
• Articles from New York Times: Songmy in the News (Source 8)
  • Captain Denies Seeing Massacre, NYT, 5 Dec 1969
  • Songmy 1:  Will a “Lynching Follow a Massacre? NYT 7 Dec 1969
  • Songmy 1: Questions for the Conscience of a Nation, NYT 30 Nov 1969
• My Lai Poll 1971 (Source 9)

Assignment Due Monday Apr 14

     Shi & Mayer, For the Record

Read and prepare to discuss Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail,  pp. 359-363.

Answer question 1. Malcolm X, from Black Revolution Speeches, ppp. 372-373. Answer question 3. Examine and be prepared to discuss Interpreting Visual Sources: The Civil Rights Movement, pp. 404-411. Answer

question 4.

Assignment Due Friday Apr 18

   Shi & Mayer, For the Record

            Read  Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, pp. 324-326. Answer question 2. Read Gloria Steinam

  Women's Liberation, pp. 419-421. Answer question 1.

Assignment Due Wednesday Apr 23

   Shi & Mayer, For the Record

           Read & be prepared to discuss John Lewis Gaddis, Setting Right a Dangerous World, pp. 470-474. Answer

            question 1 & 2.

History 252/Kilgroe

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