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Week 1

A Troubled Reunion

Reading:
Give Me Liberty, chp. 15

Week 2

Rags and Riches: Capital and Labor in Gilded Age America

Reading:
Give Me Liberty, chp. 16

Week 3

Metropolis: Urbanization and City Life in Gilded Age America

Viewing: New York (film shown in class)

week 4

Gold, Silver and Corn: Politics in the Gilded Age

Reading
Give Me Liberty, Chp. 17

week 5

Raking Muck: American Progressivism

reading: Give Me Liberty, chp. 18

week 6

Over There: America on the World Stage

reading: Give Me Liberty, chp. 19

Week 7

The Jazz Age: The Culture of Modernism in America

Reading:
America's History, chp. 20

MIDTERM EXAM:
February 24-27

Week 8

Depression = Great; Deal = New

Reading:
Give Me Liberty, chp. 21

Week 9

The Good War?: America in World War II

Reading:
Give Me Liberty, chp. 22

Week 10

SPRING BREAK

Week 11

War without Mercy

Reading:
War without Mercy, by John Dower

Week 12

Duck and Cover: America in the Cold War

Reading:
Give Me Liberty, chp. 23

Week 13

Pretty in Pink: Affluence and Anxiety
in the 1950s

Reading:
Give Me Liberty, chp. 24

Viewing:
"The Best Years of Our Lives"
"Rebel Without a Cause"
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

Week 14

Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement

Reading:
Give Me Liberty, chp. 25

Week 15

Quagmire: The Turbulent Sixties

Reading:
Give Me Liberty, chp. 26

Week 16

The Disco Decade:
The Turbulent Seventies

Viewing:
Nixon (film) shown in class

BOOK REVIEW =
Friday, April 27

FINAL EXAM =
April 30 - May 3