January 26 –– What Is American History?: An Introduction
- No reading assigned.
February 2 –– "How Free Is Free?": Emancipation and Reconstruction
- R: Voices, The Mississippi Black Code, pp. 7-11
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 15
February 9 –– The Gilded Age: The West, Industrialization, Labor, and Immigration
- R: Voices, Chief Joseph's "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs," pp. 28-32
- R: Voices, Manuel Gamio on a Mexican-American Family and American Freedom, pp. 73-76
- R: Farewell, chaps. 1, 2, 3
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 16
February 16 –– Democracy Tested: Imperialism and Jim Crow
- R: Handout -- A sampling of Jim Crow laws
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 17
February 23 –– Transforming America: Progressivism and Socialism
- R: Farewell, chaps. 7, 8, 9
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 18
- A: SOCIAL GOSPEL ASSIGNMENT due in class
March 2 –– Making the World Safe for Democracy: World War I
- R: Voices, Eugene V. Debs's Speech to the Jury, pp. 117-121
- R: Farewell, chaps. 10, 11, 12
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 19
March 9 –– Excess to Crisis: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
- R: Voices, Alain Locke's "The New Negro," pp. 156-160
- R: Farewell, chaps. 13, 14, 15
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 20
March 16 –– The Grand Experiment: The New Deal; Midterm Review
- R: Handout -- Letters to President Roosevelt
- R: Farewell, chaps. 16, 17, 18
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 21
- A: GLOSSARY 1 due in class
March 23 –– MIDTERM
March 30 –– "The Good War": World War II
- R: Handout -- Excerpts from Studs Terkel, The Good War
- R: Farewell, chaps. 19, 20
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 22
- F: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
April 6 –– Age of Conformity and Unrest: The Cold War, McCarthyism, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
- R: Voices, The Southern Manifesto, pp. 253-255
- R: Farewell, chaps. 21, 22, and afterward
- R: Give Me Liberty, chaps. 23 & 24
April 13 –– The Turbulent 1960s: Black Power, Free Speech Movement, Feminism, and the Counterculture
- R: Handout -- Excerpt from Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 25
- F: Berkeley in the Sixties
- A: OUTLINE WORKSHEET FOR FINAL PAPER due in class
April 20 –– SPRING BREAK
April 27 –– The Unwinnable War: Vietnam
- R: Handout -- American G.I. Ron Ridenhour's biography and letter to Congress
May 4 –– The Rise of Conservatism: Nixon to Reagan
- R: Handout -- Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address
- R: Give Me Liberty, chap. 26
- F: "The Keys to the Kingdom," an episode from Eyes on the Prize
- A: FINAL PAPER due in class
May 11 –– The End of the American Century: the Global Economy and the War on Terror
- R: Handout -- Barack Obama, Speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
- R: Give Me Liberty, chaps. 27 & 28
- A: GLOSSARY 2 due in class
