HIST
3821
3 credits/Fall 2001
T/Th 11:15AM-12:30 PM
Anderson 270
Professor
Barbara Welke
752 Social Sciences Tower
Office Hours:
T/Th. 3:00-4:30 p.m.
tel: (612) 624-7017
welke004@tc.umn.edu
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Lectures
INTRODUCTION TO COURSE AND THEMES
T. 9/4 COURSE OVERVIEW
Th. 9/6 THE GREAT ARIZONA ORPHAN ABDUCTION: A TELLING STORY
T. 9/11 GENDER, RACE, & THE INDUSTRIAL FRONTIER: DOING HISTORY
Recommended Reading:
David G. Gutierrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
Vicki Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
Th. 9/13 LAW, LABOR, FAMILY, AND RACE: REFLECTING ON AMERICA
Recommended Reading:
Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (New York: Pantheon Books, 2001).
PART I:
PROGRESSIVE STATECRAFT, 1896 - 1919
RECONSTRUCTING A WHITE NATION: RACE, NATION, AND EMPIRE
(Who Built America?, ch. 3, pp. 120-165)
T. 9/18 LESSONS IN CITIZENSHIP IN BLACK AND WHITE: "JIM CROW," DISFRANCHISEMENT, LYNCHING AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESPONSE
Web-Links:
Images of Jim Crow: OWI/FSA Photographs
- Cafe near tobacco market, Durham, NC (1940)
- Sign at bus station, Rome, GA (1943)
- Drinking fountain on county courthouse lawn, Halifax, NC (1938)
Images of Lynching: Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
- Charred corpse of Jesse Washington suspended from utility pole, May 16, 1916, Waco, TX (#22)
- Spectators at the Lynching of Jesse Washington, May 16, 1916, Waco, TX (#9)
- Lynching of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, June 15, 1920, Duluth, MN (#24)
Recommended Reading:
Glenda E. Gilmore, 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 Press, 1998).
Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989).
John David Smith, When Did Southern Segregation Begin? (Historians at Work Series)(Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001).
Barbara Y. Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Th. 9/20 "GATEKEEPING" AND AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
T. 9/25 SHOULDERING THE "WHITE MAN'S BURDEN": THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND THE ROAD TO EMPIRE
- Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," McClure's Magazine 12 (Feb. 1899)
- Lightening the White Man's Burden, Pears' Soap Advertisement, McClure's Magazine, Oct. 1899
- "Take Up the White Man's Burden, and Reap His Old Reward," by William H. Walker, Life, March 16, 1899 (cartoon)
- "The Poor Man's Burden," by Paul P. Randall, The Broad Axe (St. Paul, Minn.), March 2, 1899 (poem)
- "The Black Man's Burden," by H. T. Johnson, The Christian Recorder, March 1899 (poem)
(Who Built America?, ch. 4, pp. 166-205)
Th. 9/27 CORPORATE CONSOLIDATION AND MASS PRODUCTION
Recommended Reading:
Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 (1990).
T. 10/2 THE IDEAL OF "SELF-OWNERSHIP" AND THE REALITIES OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKPLACE
Recommended Reading:
Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Th. 10/4 THE URBAN/SUBURBAN LANDSCAPE
Recommended Reading:
Perry R. Duis, Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998).
Jon C. Teaford, City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850-1970 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979).
Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978).
T. 10/9 THE CHALLENGE TO VICTORIAN CULTURE: LEISURE AND THE BIRTH OF MASS CULTURE
Recommended Reading:
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994).
Lary May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (1980).
REGULATING THE NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDER
(Who Built America?, ch. 5, pp. 206-253)
Th. 10/11 THE "PROGRESSIVE" IMPULSE AND THE MOVEMENT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Recommended Reading:
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995).
David Thelan, The New Citizenship: The Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972).
T. 10/16 FACTORY REFORM, ANTITRUST, AND AMERICAN LABOR
Th. 10/18 REFORM POLITICS
Recommended Reading:
John Milton Cooper, Jr., The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1983).
Jon C. Teaford, The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984).
OVER HERE & OVER THERE: THE U. S. & THE "GREAT WAR"
(Who Built America?, ch. 6, pp. 254-313)
T. 10/23 DEMOCRATIC VALUES IN A NATION AT WAR
- Wilson Declaring War on Germany, 1917
- Eugene Debs, "The Canton, Ohio Speech," 16 June 1918
- George Creel on the Selling of the War, 1920
Th. 10/25 VERSAILLES AND AFTER: RETREAT TO ISOLATIONISM AND REPRESSION AT HOME
T. 10/30 MIDTERM EXAM
PART II:
1920-1945
THE 1920s
(Who Built America?, ch. 7, pp. 314-365)
Th. 11/1 THE CONSUMER REVOLUTION
Advertising
Beauty and Personal Hygiene
- Boncilla, "A Woman is Only as Old as Her Complexion" (1923)
- Pepsodent, "Yes, Mother, It firms those tender gums" (1925)
- Kotex, "Active Women of Today Are Free" (1927)
- Kotex, "4 Reasons the Doctor Says 'Use Kotex'" (1928)
- Colgate, "Colgate's Rapid-Shave Cream" (1923)
- Colgate, "The Refill Shaving Stick, Like Re-Charging a Gun" (1921)
- Ivory Soap, ". . .silent, speaking hands. . .be sure they say nice things about you ~always" (1928)
- Lever Brothers Limited, "A Man's Man! But they both need mother's care -- and Lifebuoy" (1927)
- Lever Brothers Limited, "Crowds Breed Contagion" (Lifebuoy Soap)(1923)
- Lever Brothers Limited, "If You Handle Money, Use Lifebuoy Regularly" (1923)
- Burma Shave Slogans
Radio
- WorkRite Manufacturing Company, "'Daddy, let's get Los Angeles" (1924)
- RCA, "Will your Radio eye see Thursday's bout?" (1927)
T. 11/6 THE BOUNDARIES OF BELONGING
THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL
(Who Built America?, ch. 8, pp. 366-423)
Th. 11/8 THE ONSET OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
T. 11/13 HARD TIMES: DAILY LIFE IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION I
Th. 11/15 HARD TIMES: DAILY LIFE IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION II
New Deal Faces
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Harry Hopkins
- Lorena Hickok
- Dorothea Lange
- Walker Evans
- Charles L. Todd
- Robert Sonkin
Photographs taken under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration, Department of Agriculture
On the Road
- Dorothea Lange, "Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway" (Mar. 1937)
- "Dorothea Lange, "Children of migrant agricultural workers in California" (Mar. 1937)
- Dorothea Lange, "Oklahoma refugees, California" (Feb. 1936)
- Dorothea Lange, "Untitled" (migrant family fixing flat tire)(betw. 1935-1942)
- Marion Post Wolcott, "Migrant laborer's children. . . . Belle Grade, Florida" (Feb. 1939)
Living Conditions
- Dorothea Lange, "Squatter camp, California" (Nov. 1936)
- Dorothea Lange, "Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (Mar. 1936)
- Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother": Story of a Photographic Session
- Walker Evans, "Home of Bud Fields, Alabama sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama" (1935 or 1936)
- Walker Evans, "Corner of kitchen in Bud Field's home. Hale County, Alabama" (1935-36)
- Walker Evans, "Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at home. Hale County, Alabama" (1935-36)
Daily Life
- Dorothea Lange, "Negro children in the Mississippi Delta" (1936)
- Dorothea Lange, "Eighteen year old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant" (Mar. 1937)
- Dorothea Lange, "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32. Nipomo, California" (Feb. 1936)
- Dorothea Lange, "Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton" (Nov. 1936)
- Dorothea Lange, "Children of migrant workers, hauling water, American River camp, San Joaquin Valley, California" (Nov. 1936)
- Dorothea Lange, "Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico" (Dec. 1935)
What of the Family?
- Dorothea Lange, "Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton" (June 1935)
- Dorothea Lange, "Motherless migrant child. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley" (Aug. 1939)
Politics
(Who Built America?, ch. 9, pp. 424-481)
T. 11/20 THE NEW DEAL AND AMERICAN LABOR
Th. 11/22 NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
T. 11/27 THE NEW DEAL AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN FEDERALISM
A NATION TRANSFORMED: THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR II
(Who Built America?, ch. 10, pp. 482-539)
Th. 11/29 A WORLD AT WAR AND "THE WAR OF THE WORLDS"
T. 12/4 THE "ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY": WORLD WAR II, AMERICAN INDUSTRY, AND DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATION
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address before Congress (December 8, 1941)
- Ships burning at Pearl Harbor
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A date which will live in infamy" Speech (Dec. 8, 1941)
- FDR, Fireside Chat, On the Declaration of War with Japan, (Tues., Dec. 9, 1941)
Th. 12/6 (RE)DRAFTING GENDER: FIGHTING MEN AND ROSIE THE RIVETER
World War II Posters
- "Man the Guns, Join the U. S. Navy"
- "Battle Stations! Keep 'Em Fighting"
- "It's a Two-Fisted Fight"
- "Killing Time is Killing Men"
- Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It"
- "Longing Won't Get Him Back Sooner. . . .Get a War Job"
T. 12/11 RACE & WAR: ON THE HOMEFRONT AND ON THE BATTLEFIELD
Photographs:
- Japanese-American store closed, Oakland, CA (April 1942)
- Children of Japanese ancestry awaiting baggage inspection at Assembly Center, Turlock, CA (May 1942)
- Family apartment (converted horse stall) at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, CA (June 1942)
- Internment Camp, Manzanar, CA (July 1942)
Documents:
Th. 12/13 THE ATOMIC BOMB, DEMOBILIZATION, AND THE ROAD TO THE COLD WAR
Photographs:
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugural Address (March 4, 1943)
- Conference of the "Big Three" at Yalta (February 1945): Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Premier Josef Stalin
- Flag Raising on Iwo Jima (February 23, 1945)
- President Harry Truman during 1948 Presidential campaign
- Mushroom cloud from atomic bomb U. S. dropped on Nagasaki (August 8, 1945)
- Nuremberg Trials, defendants in the dock: Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, and Keitel in front row (ca. 1945-46)
Documents:
Th. 12/21 FINAL EXAM DUE (no later than 5:00 p.m., 752 SST)
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