History 441/641
April-May 2009
Jan-Feb Schedule | March Schedule |
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Lecture Topics and Reading
Assignments |
| 4/1 |
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| 4/8 |
Theodore Roosevelt: The Man and His Times
McGerr, A Fierce Discontent, pp.147-218
The Library of
Congress American Memory project includes an interesting website
collection on Theodore Roosevelt and film. It is not required,
but I encourage you to take a look.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/
Due Tuesday:
HIST 441 Students:
Posting to your assigned Group Discussion Board by noon on 4
Due Wednesday:
HIST 641 Students: Response to your assigned group's postings by 6:00 pm on 4/8
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| 4/15 |
Consumerism and Leisure in
the Modern Age
McGerr, A Fierce Discontent, pp.221-278
Coney
Island
Due Tuesday:
HIST 441 Students:
Posting to your assigned Group Discussion Board by noon on 4/14
Due Wednesday:
HIST 641 Students: Response to your assigned group's postings by 6:00 pm on 4/15 |
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| 4/22 |
The Great War
McGerr, A Fierce Discontent, pp.279-313
"World War I in Sound and Pictures"
U.S. Soldiers in Iraq
UCORS: Keith, Jeanette, The Politics of Southern Draft Resistance, 1917–1918: Class, Race, and Conscription in the Rural South. The Journal of American History 87.4 (2001): 67 pars. 28 Jan. 2009.
Due Today: Undergraduate Formal Papers
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| 4/29 |
Judging Progressivism
McGerr, A Fierce Discontent, pp.xiii-39
UCORS: Gordon, Linda. "If the
Progressives Were Advising Us Today, Should We Listen?" Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. vol. 1. no.
2. p. 109-121. April 2002.
Poverty,
Katrina, and American Policy
Due Tuesday:
HIST 441 Students:
Posting to your assigned Group Discussion Board by noon on 4/28
Due Wednesday:
HIST 641 Students: Response to your assigned group's postings by 6:00 pm on 4/29 |
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| 5/6 |
Final Exam
the final examination for Uundergraduate students will focus on Michael McGerr's A Fierce Discontent and the other weekly assignments. Study Guide
Graduate Students: REVISED 4/22---There is no final written examination for graduate students. Instead, come to Admin 711 on 5/6. We will have the final graduate student presentations and have a discussion of Altina Waller's book Feud in the context of the major themes in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. This class discussion will constitute your final examination so participation is important. I will send you a list of questions on 4/29 that designed to stimulate the class discussion (100 points).
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| 5/20 |
Graduate Student Research Papers are due by May 20th
You will post your papers on the Graduate Discussion Board. Please also send me a copy as an email attachment. lindenme@umbc.edu
You do not need to send print copies. I will confirm via email receipt of your digital paper. |