Hist 221 Lecture Schedule — 2010

LECTURE SCHEDULE

Week 1: Wed. Sept. 1: Introduction: The Stillness of Appomattox, the Revolution of Reconstruction?

Fri., Sept. 3: 1876: Consensus and Conflict

READING: RECONSTRUCTION (NO CONFERENCE THIS WEEK).

Week 2: Mon. Sept. 6: LABOR DAY NO CLASSES

Wed. Sept. 8: Seeing Obama through the eyes of history

CONFERENCE I: A GILDED AGE?

Week 3: Mon., Sept. 13: The Changing Face of America: The Boat

Wed. Sept. 15: Populism

CONFERENCE II: POPULISM

Week 4: Mon., Sept. 20: The Managerial Revolution

Wed., Sept. 22: VIDEO: The Sixties

CONFERENCE III: PROGRESSIVISM: LEISURELY REVOLT?

Week 5: Mon. Sept. 27: The Rise of the Leisure Class

Wed. Sept. 29: The Middle Class Revolt

CONFERENCE IV: WOODROW WILSON: PROGRESSIVE WARRIOR

Week 6: Mon., Oct. 4: Presidents as Supermen

Wed. Oct. 6: Frontiers West and East

CONFERENCE V: THE TWENTIES:

Week 7: Mon., Oct. 11: THANKSGIVING

Wed. Oct. 13: From Splendid Wars to World Wars

TAKE HOME MIDTERM DUE Monday Oct 18. NO CONFERENCES THIS WEEK

Week 8: Mon. Oct. 18: The New World — Flappers, Cynics, Exiles and Those Left Behind — Blacks, Farmers, and Workers

Wed. Oct. 20: The Great Crash and the Revolution that Wasn’t

CONFERENCE VI: THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Week 9: Mon. Oct. 25: VIDEO: Clinton Era

Wed. Oct 27: Dr. New Deal

CONFERENCE VII: FDR IN PEACE AND WAR

Week 10: Mon. Nov. 1: Dr. Win the War

Wed. Nov. 3: Truman, Eisenhower and the American Century

CONFERENCE VIII: THE COLD WAR

Week 11: Mon. Nov. 8: The Cold War

Wed. Nov. 10: From Civil Rights to Black Power

CONFERENCE IX: CIVIL RIGHTS

Week 12: Nov. 15: The Supreme Court and the Conservative Revolt

Wed. Nov. 17: Cracks in the Consensus

CONFERENCE X: THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NEW LEFT: THEN AND NOW

PAPER DUE

Week 13: Mon. Nov. 22: From Women’s Liberation to Feminism

Wed. Nov. 24: Paradise Lost: Richard Nixon, Vietnam and Jimmy Carter’s Malaise

CONFERENCE XI: WAS THERE A REAGAN REVOLUTION?

Week 14: Nov. 29: The Conservative Era/Error? From Reagan’s Morning in America to Clinton’s Triangulation

Dec. 1: FINALE: From Bush to Obama, from Civil War to Uncivil Wars, from Reconstruction to Globalization NO CONFERENCES THIS WEEK