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January 23, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Introduction and Housekeeping
January 25, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Technology Orientation

We will meet in Innovation 223

January 30, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Colonial America

Reading

Early Colonial Period.
English Colonies.
Pre-Columbian America.
February 01, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Slavery

Reading

Plantation Economy.
Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Writing

Post #1: Reading the Runaways (Group #1 - Due February 6)
February 06, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
American Revolution

Reading

American Revolution.
Declaration of Independence.

Writing

Post #2 Boston Massacre (Group #2 - Due February 13)
February 08, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
U.S. Constitution

Reading

U.S. Constitution Annotated.
U.S. Constitution (Wikipedia).
A New Nation is Formed.
February 13, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Revolution of 1800

Reading

Revolution of 1800.
Jeffersonian Democracy.
February 15, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Westward Expansion

Reading

Manifest Destiny.
Origins of the American Civil War.
February 20, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Politics in Jacksonian America

Reading

Jacksonian Democracy.
Nullification Crisis.
Andrew Jackson.
First Industrial Revolution.
February 22, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Culture in Jacksonian America

Reading

Blackface.
Minstrel Show.
P.T. Barnum.
Second Great Awakening.

Writing

Post #3: Simutopia (Group #3 - Due February 27)
February 27, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Civil War

Reading

American Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln.
Confederate States of America.
Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
March 01, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Reconstruction

Reading

Reconstruction.

Writing

Post #4: Civil War in Living Memory (Group #4 - Due March 6)
March 06, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Segregation

Reading

Jim Crow Laws.
Racial Segregation.
March 08, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
No Class (National Mall Photo Essay)

Writing

Movie Review: Due by 5:00PM
March 13, 2007 12:00 am - 12:00 am
No Class (Spring Break)
March 15, 2007 12:00 am - 12:00 am
No Class (Spring Break)
March 20, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Immigraton and Imperialism

Reading

History of Nativism.
Spanish-American War.
Imperialism.
Yellow Journalism.

Writing

Post #5: Alien Menace (Group #5 - Due March 27)
March 22, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Technological Considerations

Reading

Gilded Age.
Second Industrial Revolution.
March 27, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Consumerism

Writing

Post #6: Understanding Advertising (Group #6 - Due April 3)
March 29, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
WWI, the 1920s, and the Great Depression

Reading

World War I.
Roaring Twenties.
Great Depressions.
April 03, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Politics of the New Deal

Reading

New Deal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
April 05, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Culture of the New Deal

Reading

Works Progress Adminstration.
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943.
New Deal Stage (American Memory).
American Life Histories (American Memory).
April 10, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Second World War

Reading

Second World War.
American Homefront During World War II.
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
April 12, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Cold War

Reading

Cold War.
Communism.
McCarthyism.
Cuban Missile Crisis.

Writing

Post #7: Women and Television in the Fifties (Group #7 - Due April 17)
April 17, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Civil Rights Movements

Reading

American Civil Rights Movement, 1896-1954.
American Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968.
April 19, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Vietnam War in American Culture

Reading

Vietnam War.
United States and the Vietnam War.
April 24, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Music as Historical Sources

Reading

African-American Spirituals.
Protest Music.
April 26, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
History Controversies

Reading

Confederate Flag: Controversy.
Reparations for Slavery.

Writing

Post #8: Controversial History (Group #8 - Due May 1)
May 01, 2007 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
History as Memory

Reading

September 11, 2001 Attacks.
Bush, September 11, 2nd Gulf War.
Bush, Clinton.
May 03, 2007 12:00 am - 12:00 am
No Class (National Mall Photo Essay)
May 08, 2007 12:00 am - 12:00 am
National Mall Photo Essay Due

You photo essay, with a link to your Flickr album, is due by 5PM.