History 441/641
January and February

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Date Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments
1/28

Building a "Modern" America
The Super Rich

[interactive map for all U.S. presidential elections]

   
2/4

Economic "Progress" and "Wedges" in the Late-nineteenth Century United States
Read for today's class:
Edwards, New Spirits, pp.1-103
Henry George "Progress and Politics" (1879)
William G. Sumner, "The Concentration of Wealth" (1902)
Andrew Carnegie,
The Gospel of Wealth
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Collection of statements from African Americans on civil rights during the early Jim Crow years.

Additional website of interest? American Heritage Magazine October, 1998

Due Tuesday:
HIST 441 Students: Posting to your assigned Group Discussion Board by noon on 2/3
Due Wednesday:
HIST 641 Students: Response to your assigned group's postings by 6:00 pm on 2/4

   
2/11

Innovation, Science, and Faith
Read for today's class:
Edwards, New Spirits, pp. 151-195

epilogue: The Scopes Trial, 1925

Due Tuesday:
HIST 441 Students: Posting to your assigned Group Discussion Board by noon on 2/10
Due Wednesday:
HIST 641 Students: Response to your assigned group's postings by 6:00 pm on 2/11


   
2/18

Childhood, Youth, Family, and Shifting Demographics
Read for today's class:
Edwards, New Spirits, pp. 105-150
Alger, Ragged Dick (entire book)

For HIST 641 Students: In addition, in UCORS read:
Timothy Gilfoyle. "Street-rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900." Journal of Social History. vol. summer. no. 2004. p. 853-882. 2004.

Due Tuesday:
no posting due this week, but be prepared to discuss the assigned readings. I will pick on you!



   
2/25

A State of War or Cooperative Dreams?
Read for today's class:
Edwards, New Spirits, pp. 197-253

Carlisle Indian School
The Dawes Act

Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
The Wild West

Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil

Due Tuesday:
HIST 441 Students: Posting to your assigned Group Discussion Board by noon on 2/24
Due Wednesday:

HIST 641 Students: Response to your assigned group's postings by 6:00 pm on 2/25