Assignments

John Mix Stanley, Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Plain

Assignment Due Monday Aug 27

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 Chapter  8, and then open the

mini-documentary Free at Last and Chestnut on War's End. Answer questions 1 & 4 for the mini-documentary and questions 1 & 2 for Chestnut. I will explain in class how we will use the documentary evidence provided by the PSI.

Assignment Due Friday Aug 31

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

Using these documents analyze race relations in the New South (Focus on the 1890s) 1-2 pages

            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 Wednesday Sept 5
      Shi & Mayer, For the Record

  Using these documents compare and contrast the narratives of what the West was really like. 1-2 Pages.
          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 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 Monday Monday Sept 10

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

Assignment Due Monday Sept 17
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. 157-166. Answer questions 1 & 3.

Assignment Due Friday Sept 21

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 Sept 24

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

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

You must include

1) Problem Defined: Source 12 (Mrs's Bloor's Expose) and Source 13, The Jungle

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

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

Assignment Due Friday Sept 28

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

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

Assignment Due Friday Oct 8

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 Monday Oct 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.

Read Huey Long, Share Our Wealth, pp. 249-250. Answer question 2.

Assignment Due Friday Oct 19

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 Oct 29

      Davidson and Lytle, After the Fact

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

Documents 1 (Einstein to FDR); 3 (FDR to Oppenheimer); 6 (Fermi’s Manhattan

Project Notebook); 12 (Dawn of the Nuclear Age), answer the following questions in

an essay approximately 1-2 pages long.

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 Nov 5

    Shi & Mayer, For the Record

               Read and be prepared to discuss Mr. X, 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 Nov 12

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 Monday Nov 19

Shi & Mayer, For the Record

  Lyndon Baines Johnson, Peace without Conquest, pp. 387-388. Answer question 1.

               Le Duan, A North Vietnamese View of American Intervention, pp. 390-392. Answer

               question 3. Tom Grace, The Shooting at Kent State, pp. 423-426. Answer question 1.

Assignment Due Monday Nov 26

     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 Wednesday Nov 28

   Shi & Mayer, For the Record

            Read  Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, pp. 309-311. Answer question 2. Read Gloria Steinam

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

Assignment Due Monday Dec 3

   Shi & Mayer, For the Record

           Read & be prepared to discuss Wade Huntley, Who Won the Cold War?, pp. 446-448. Answer

            question 1 & 2.

Assignment Due Friday Dec 7

      Shi & Mayer, For the Record

              Read and be prepared to discuss George W. Bush, The Terrorist Attacks, pp. 466-470.

History 252/Kilgroe

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