SSH+102+Themes+in+American+History+Since+1865

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__//** Assignment Schedule **//__ === **__ “What is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865-1877: __** ===
 * // Give Me Liberty! // , chapter 15.
 * Primary Documents:
 * “Machinery Hall: Pre-Eminence of the Display of the United States . . .,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/15May1876.pdf|15May1876.pdf]].
 * “Columbia Welcoming the Nations,” //Harper’s Weekly//, [|29 May 1876].

**__America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890:__**

 * // Give Me Liberty! // , chapter 16.
 * Primary Documents:
 * Father Edward McGlynn:
 * “Accepted by Mr. George,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/6October1886.pdf|6October1886.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“A Summons from Rome,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/10December1886.pdf|10December1886.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Dr. McGlynn’s Lost Charge,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/27December1886.pdf|27December1886.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“He Will Not Go to Rome,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/9January1887.pdf|9January1887.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Rome’s Second Summons,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/16January1887.pdf|16January1887.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Catholics Up in Arms,” //The New York Times,// [[file:lehman-classes-space/18January1887.pdf|18January1887.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Doctor McGlynn Is Defiant,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/4February1887.pdf|4February1887.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“McGlynn’s New Crusade,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/30March1887.pdf|30March1887.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Cast Out of the Church,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/10July1887.pdf|10July1887.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">The 1889 New York City Streetcar Workers Strike:
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Going the Wrong Way to Work,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/3February1889.pdf|3February1889.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Quiet Along the Lines,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/4February1889.pdf|4February1889.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Barbed Wire, Corporate Concentration & Conspicuous Consumption: [[file:lehman-classes-space/Newspaper Reports of Isaac Ellwood.pdf|Newspaper Reports of Isaac Ellwood.pdf]].


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Websites:
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">A Narrative History of Sears (1886 to Early 1900s), [|Sears Archives].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ellwood House Museum, DeKalb, Illinois, [|Ellwood House Museum].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Video: “Working at the Bonanza Farms,” [|North Dakota Studies].

=== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__Freedom’s Boundaries at Home & Abroad, 1890-1900.__** ===
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Give Me Liberty! // <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, chapter 17.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Primary Documents:
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Jacob S. Coxey's Planned Speech, Washington, D.C., [|1 May 1894].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Song Lyrics: "Coxey's Army"]
 * [|Keep Off the Grass!: Coxey's Army Invades the Nation's Capitol]
 * [|Sheet Music: "Go Join Coxey's Army," Library of Congress]
 * [|Photograph #1: Coxey's Army]
 * [|Photograph #2: Coxey's Army]
 * [|Photograph #3: Coxey's Army, Library of Congress]
 * [|Ribbon: Keep Off the Grass]
 * [|Documentary: "Coxey's Army"]
 * [|"How a Ragtag Band of Reformers Organized the First Protest March on Washington, D.C.," Smithsonian.com]
 * [|Cartoon: "In Battle Array . . .," Puck Magazine]
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Booker T. Washington, "Atlanta Compromise Speech," [|18 September 1895].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The Undesirable Immigrant as Defined by an Expert,” //New York Daily Tribune//, [|30 October 1909].


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Website:
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Topics in Chronicling America – The Annexation of Hawaii. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">"Revolution in Hawaii," //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">New York Sun //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, [|10 July 1887].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">"The Queen of Hawaii," //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">New York Tribune //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, [|24 January 1891].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">"Hawaii's Queen Dethroned," //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">New York Tribune //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, [|29 January 1893].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">The American Experience, [|"Hawaii's Last Queen"], 2006.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">The American Experience. [|"Hawaii's Last Queen''] (Better Resolution)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Public Broadcasting Service, //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> [|The Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War], //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">1999 //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// The Philippines-American War // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, (ALL sections), [|University of Hawaii].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">//Prohibition//, Episode One, [|"A Nation of Drunkards,"] Ken Burns, 2011.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__The Progressive Era, 1900-1916.__**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Give Me Liberty! // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, chapter 18.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Primary Documents:
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kodak Camera Advertisements,1893-1915, Image [|#1], [|#2], [|#3], [|#4], [|#5], [|#6], [|#7], [|#8].
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">"Polak Joe's Finish," //Harper's Weekly//, 12 June 1909, [[file:lehman-classes-space/Page 1.pdf|Page 1.pdf]], [[file:lehman-classes-space/Page 2.pdf|Page 2.pdf]], [[file:lehman-classes-space/Page 3.pdf|Page 3.pdf]], [[file:lehman-classes-space/Page 4.pdf|Page 4.pdf]], [[file:lehman-classes-space/Page 5.pdf|Page 5.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">William Williams, Ellis Island Immigration Commissioner on the Corruption of Immigrant Boarding Houses in Manhattan (1903-1910).
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World,” Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, [|8 November 1962].


 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Website:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Image Archive of the American Eugenics Movement ////, // <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">(Social Origins, Scientific Origins, Eugenics Popularization, Immigration Restriction) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// , // <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// . //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Remembering the Triangle Factory Fire 100 Years Later // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, [|Kheel Center at Cornell University].


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Video:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// New York: A Documentary Film // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire," Ric Burns, 1999, [|Part One], [|Part Two].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// [|Birth of a Nation] // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, D. W. Griffith, 1915.

=== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__Safe for Democracy: The United States & World War I, 1916-1920.__** ===
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Give Me Liberty! // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, chapter 19.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Primary Documents:
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">New York City Food Riots, February 1917:
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Pushcarts Burned in Riots Over Food,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/20 February 1917.pdf|20 February 1917.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The Food Demonstrations,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/22February1917a.pdf|22February1917a.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“House & Senate Debate Food Riots,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/22February1917b.pdf|22February1917b.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Mitchel Orders Survey of Food,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/22February1917c.pdf|22February1917c.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The Clamor for Food,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/23February1917a.pdf|23February1917a.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Market Tour Shows East Side in Pinch,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/23February1917b.pdf|23February1917b.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“City Seeks Power to Deal in Food,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/24February1917.pdf|24February1917.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“City Officials Expect a Drop in Food Prices,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/25February1917.pdf|25February1917.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Emerson Attributes Food Rise to Exports,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/26February1917.pdf|26February1917.pdf]].


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Video:
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|“Influenza 1918,”] //American Experience//, Robert Kenner, 1998.

=== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932.__** ===
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Give Me Liberty! // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, chapter 20.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Primary Documents:
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|“The Tropics of New York,”] Claude McKay, 1920.
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|“America,”] Claude McKay, 1922.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// [|A Man Nobody Knows] // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, Bruce Barton, 1925.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Website:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Catholic Patriotism on Trial: The Oregon School Case // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, American Catholic History Research Center & University Archives:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14px;">"The Ku Klux Klan & the Public Schools," from //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14px;">[|The Old Cedar School] //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14px;">, 1922.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14px;">"The School Monopoly Bill," [|pamphlet], 1921-1922.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14px;">Pierce v. Society of Sisters, [|U.S. Supreme Court Case], 1925.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Gladys Bentley // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, (Biography, Harlem—Early Years, Queers in Jazz), [|Queer Cultural Center].

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__The New Deal, 1932-1940.__**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Give Me Liberty! // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, chapter 21.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Primary Documents:
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Responses to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Open Letter to American Clergymen.
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Roosevelt Forms 3 Work Divisions,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/7May1935.pdf|7May1935.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The New Works Program,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/19May1935.pdf|19May1935.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“President Replies to Critics, Citing Works Projects, //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/4July1935.pdf|4July1935.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Allots $77,689,296 for Projects Here,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/6July1935.pdf|6July1935.pdf]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">“8-Hour Days, 140-Hour Month Set for WPA, Order Gives Virtual Effect of 30-Hour Week,” //The New York Times//, [[file:lehman-classes-space/6July1935a.pdf|6July1935a.pdf]].


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Video:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// [|Our Daily Bread] // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, King Vidor, 1934.
 * <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|“Surviving the Dust Bowl,”] //American Experience//, 2009.

=== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__Fighting for the Four Freedoms, World War II, 1941-1945.__** ===
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// Give Me Liberty!, // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> chapter 22.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Primary Documents:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">World War II Advertisements. [|www.oddee.com].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">World War II Propaganda Posters, Japanese American Internment Curriculum, [|San Francisco State University].


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Website:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// A More Perfect Union // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, (Immigration, Removal, Internment, Loyalty, and Service), [|Smithsonian Institution].


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Videos:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// [|Why We Fight: Prelude to War] // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, Frank Capra, 1942.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// [|Guadalcanal Diary] // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, Lewis Seiler, 1943.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// [|Der Feuhrer’s Face] // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, Walt Disney, 1943.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// [|Education for Death] // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, Walt Disney, 1943.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">// [|Commando Duck] // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">, Walt Disney, 1944.