• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Preface

• Foner, Give Me Liberty! Ch. 15
• U. S. Constitution, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Foner, Give Me Liberty!, pp. A10-A11.
• W. E. B. DuBois, "The Freedmen's Bureau," The Atlantic Monthly (March 1901)(CP Doc 1)
• "Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner, Harper's Weekly, Nov. 20, 1869

• Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New York: Harper and Row, 1988).
• Eric Foner, Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996).
• Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South, From Slavery to the Great Migration (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003).
• Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (New York: Knopf, 1979).
• Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 16 pp. 591-619
• "Kill the Indian, and Save the Man," Capt. Richard C. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans (CP Doc 2)
• Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)(CP Doc 3)

• The Ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments (Table)

• Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
• Frank Tobias Higbie, "Indispensable Outcasts: Harvest Laborers in the Wheat Belt of the Middle West, 1890-1925," Labor History 38 (Fall 1997): 393-412.
• Frank Tobias Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003).
• Frederick E. Hoxie, A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001).
• Jeffrey Ostler, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism From Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

• Frank Norris, The Octopus: A Story of California (Garden City, New York: Double Day, Doran, and Comp., 1928).
• Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (New York: Trident Press, 1964).

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 16 pp. 619-633, Ch. 17 pp. 634-647
• Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," North American Review (1889)(CP Doc 4)
• Populist Platform of 1892, Foner, Give Me Liberty!, pp. A25-A27

• Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977).
• William Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991).
• Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Movement: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).
• Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983).
• David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 17 pp. 647-655
• "Of Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket: How the Mississippi Plan Worked," Harper's Weekly, October 21, 1876
  Text for Cartoon: "HOW THE MISSISSIPPI PLAN WORKED: This cartoon shows how black counties could report large Democratic majorities in the Mississippi state elections of 1875. The black voter holds a Democratic ticket while one of the men, described in the caption as a 'Democratic reformer,' holds a revolver to his head and says: 'You're as free as air, ain't you? Say you are, or I'll blow your black head off!'"

• Lynching of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, June 15, 1920, Duluth Minnesota
• For lynching images seen in class, see James Allen, Halton Als, Congressman John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (Twin Palms Publisher 2000).

• Edward Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
• Eric Foner, Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984).
• Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow:  Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina , 1896-1920 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
• Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998).
• Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).
• Tera Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
• Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990).
• Michael Perman, Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the New South, 1888-1908 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
• Barbara Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920, Part III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
• C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3rd Revised Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 17 pp. 655-673
• Theodore Roosevelt, "The Strenuous Life" (Chicago, 1899)(CP Doc 5)
• Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," McClure's Magazine (Feb 1899)(CP Doc 6)
• "Every Dog (No Distinction of Color) Has His Day," Harper's Weekly, February 8, 1879
• "Political Assassinations 'Taking the Consequences'," Harper's Weekly, September 13, 1879

• Map of American Holdings in the Caribbean and Pacific (1900)
• Map of Cuba
• Fop Roosevelt
• Frontier Roosevelt
• G. Stanley Hall
• Image of a Fine Nautilus

• Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995).
• Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
• Kristin L. Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
• Erika Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
• Louis A. Perez, The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 18 pp. 674-700
• Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (chapters 1 and 2)(CP Doc 7)
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives? (1890), ch. 3 (CP Doc 8)

• Lary May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
• Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986).

• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988).
• Henry James, The American Scene (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987).
• E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime (New York: Random House, 1975).

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 18 pp. 701-717
• Photographs by Lewis Hine, Child Labor in America, 1908-1912
• "New York Fire Kills 148: Girl Victims Leap to Death from Factory, Chicago Sunday Tribune, March 26, 1911, p. 1 (CP Doc 9)
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)

• Robert M. Crunden, Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920 (New York: Basic Books, 1982).
• Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991).
• Ellen Fitzpatrick, Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).
• Linda Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 (New York: Free Press, 1994).
• Robert Johnston, The Radical Middle Class : Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (Princeton University Press, 2003).
• Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001).
• Daniel Rogers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998).
• Kathryn Kish Sklar, "Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers," Signs 10 (1985): 658-677.
• Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
• Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
• David P. Thelen, The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972).

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 19
• Ngai, Impossible Subjects, Introduction to Part I (pp. 1-14)

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 20 pp. 768-798
• Ngai, Impossible Subjects, Chs. 1 and 2 (pp. 17-90)

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, ch. 20, pp. 799-807
• Ngai, Impossible Subjects, Intro to Part II, ch. 3 and 4 (pp. 93-166)

Lecture Links:

Every Picture Tells a Story: FSA Photographs

Lecture Links:

Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch 22 pp. 848-861, 885-891

Lecture Links:

Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 24 pp. 929-963
Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate" (CP Doc 13)
Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Parts I and II (Childhood and High School) pp. 11-214

Recommended Readings:

• Margot Canaday, "Building a Straight State: Sexuality and Social Citizenship Under the 1944 G.I. Bill" Journal of American History 90, 3 (2003): 935-957.
• Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).
• Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
• Elayne Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1999).
• Joanne Meyerwitz, Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).
• Amy Swerdlow, Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).

Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Parts III and IV (College and the Movement) pp.216-384
Gosse, The Movements of the New Left, (TBA in Section)

• Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988).
• Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999).
• Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981).
• Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
• Morton Sosna, In Search of the Silent South: Southern Liberals and the Race Issue (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977).
• Elizabeth Sutherland, ed., Letters From Mississippi (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965).

M. 4/4 The Civil Rights Era II: From Beloved Community to Black Power

Discussion Readings:

Lecture Links:

• Christine Acham, Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
• Cathleen Cleaver and George Katsiaficas, eds., Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy (New York: Routledge, 2001).
• Alex Haley and Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1996).
• Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).

W. 4/6 LBJ's Great Society

Due: "Best Draft" Thinking through History Research Paper (due in discussion section W/Th depending on when your section meets)

Discussion Readings:

Recommended Readings:

• James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1994 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994).

M. 4/11 The War in Southeast Asia

Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 25 pp. 998-1009
Gosse, The Movements of the New Left (TBA in Section)

Recommended Readings:

• Christian G. Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers in Vietnam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
• David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, 1972).
• Neil Sheehan, A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Vintage Books, 1988).
  

W. 4/13 The Rights Revolution

Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 25, pp. 1009-1017
Gosse, The Movements of the New Left, (TBA in Section)

M. 4/18 1968 and "the Silent Majority"

Discussion Readings:

Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 25 pp. 1017-1021, Ch. 26 pp. 1021-1041
Gosse, The Movements of the New Left, (TBA in Section)

Recommended Readings:

• John A. Andrew, The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997).
• Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995).
• David Greenberg, Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003).
• Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
• David Farber, Chicago '68 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
• David Farber & Jeff Roche, eds., The Conservative Sixties (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003).
• Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).

W. 4/20 Facing New Realities: Carter, the Energy Crisis, and De-Industrialization

Discussion Readings:

President Jimmy Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" Speech, July 15, 1979 (CP Doc 14)

Lecture Links:

M. 4/25 The Reagan Years: Consolidation of the New Right and the "End" of the Cold War

Discussion Readings:

Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 26 pp. 1049-1067

Excerpts from 3 Speeches by President Ronald Reagan (CP Doc 16)

Lecture Links:

Recommended Readings:

 

W. 4/27 The "Consumers Republic"

Discussion Readings:

Recommended Readings:

• Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Post-War America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).
  

M. 5/2 Globalization and the New Economy

Discussion Readings:

Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 27 pp. 1068-1104

Due: Final Version "Thinking Through History" Research Paper (due M/T depending on which day your section meets)

W. 5/4 September 11th in History

Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 27 pp. 1104-1111, Epilogue pp. 1112-1131
William Langeweische, American Ground: The Unmaking of the World Trade Center (excerpt) To download this excerpt, go to http://eres.lib.umn.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=164
and enter the password provided by Professor Welke or your section instructor.

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