Fall 2002

Required Texts
There is only one book required, Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States. However, the course will require extensive use of online assignments and internet source material

Grading
Short Paper %25
Final Exam %25
Web Journal %40
Class Participation 10%

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Syllabus

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 1-38
Monday, Aug. 26 Introduction
Wednesday, Aug. 28 First Contact
Friday, Aug. 30 Puritanism

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 39-102
Monday, Sept. 2 No Class
Wednesday, Sept. 4 Tobacco and Slaves
Friday, Sept. 6 No Class Meeting: Online exercise Runaway from Freedom (papers due in class Wednesday, Sept. 11)

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 103-148
Monday, Sept. 9 Political Revolution
Wednesday, Sept. 11 Market Revolution (paper due in class)
Friday, Sept. 13 Sim-utopia

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 150-210
Monday, Sept. 16 Jackson's rise
Wednesday, Sept. 18 Nativism
Friday, Sept. 20 Married with Property

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 211-252
Monday, Sept. 23 Slavery
Wednesday, Sept. 25 Abolition
Friday, Sept. 27 Freedom's Terrorist

Monday, Sept. 30 Inevitable Conflict
Wednesday, Oct. 2 Civil War
Friday, Oct. 4 Who Owns This Land?

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 253-296
Monday, Oct. 7 The Gilded Age
Wednesday, Oct. 9 Racial Radicalism
Friday, Oct. 11 A Bad Rap?

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 297-358
Monday, Oct. 14 NO CLASS
Wednesday, Oct. 16 The New leisure
Friday, Oct. 18 Narrative Film

Monday, Oct. 21 Progressivism
Wednesday, Oct. 23 WWI
Friday, Oct. 25 Decoding Advertising

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 377-442
Monday, Oct. 28 The 1920s
Wednesday, Oct. 30 The Great depression
Friday, Nov. 1 Life Histories

Monday, Nov. 4 A New Deal?
Wednesday, Nov. 6 WWII
Friday, Nov. 8 Domesticating Television

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 443-468
Monday, Nov. 11 The Cold War
Wednesday, Nov. 13 Civil Rights
Friday, Nov. 15 Music and the Sixties

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 496-540
Monday, Nov. 18 Counterculture
Wednesday, Nov. 20 Feminist Revolution
Friday, Nov. 22 Vietnam

Read Zinn, People's History pp. 541-600
Monday, Nov. 25 70s
Wednesday, Nov. 27 Watergate
Over break: Consumption and the Self

Monday, Dec. 2 The New Conservatism
Wednesday, Dec. 4 review