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This schedule is subject to alteration at my discretion, but I will be sure to inform you of any changes. Always bring the assigned readings to class on workshop days. |
| Introduction:
America According to Marvin Gaye, Merle Haggard, and Bruce Springsteen
- Th: June 5 - Lecture |
| Strange
Fruit: The New South - F: June 6 - Lecture - Course Contracts due (from pg. 7 of the syllabus) - M: June 9 - Lecture - Course Contracts due (from pg. 7 of the syllabus) - T: June 10 - Lecture and Workshop #1: Going to the Source, ch. 1 - Source Analysis #1 due |
| How
the West Was Won, How the West Was Lost: The New West - W: June 11 - Lecture - Th: June 12 - Lecture and Workshop #2: Going to the Source, ch. 2 - Source Analysis #2 due |
| Welcome
to The Jungle: The New North - F: June 13 - Lecture - M: June 16 - Lecture and Workshop #3: Going to the Source, ch. 3 - Source Analysis #3 due - T: June 17 - Lecture - W: June 18 - Lecture and Workshop #4: Going to the Source, ch. 4 - Source Analysis #4 due |
| Revolts
and Reforms: Workers, Farmers, Progressives, and the New American State - Th: June 19 - Lecture - F: June 20 - Lecture - M: June 23 - EXAM #1 |
| Into
the World: American Imperialism and the First World War - T: June 24 - Lecture - W: June 25 - Lecture and Workshop #5: Going to the Source, ch. 6 - Source Analysis #5 due |
| Wrestling
With Modernity: American Fundamentalisms in the 1920s - Th: June 26 - Lecture - F: June 27 - Lecture |
| Woody
Guthrie's America: The Great Depression and the New Deal - M: June 30 - Lecture - T: July 1 - Lecture - W: July 2 - Lecture and Workshop #6: Going to the Source, ch. 8 - Source Analysis #6 due |
| "The
Best War Ever": World War II in Europe, in the Pacific, and at Home
- Th: July 3 - Lecture - F: July 4 - NO CLASS - UGA CLOSED - M: July 7 - Lecture - T: July 8 - Lecture and Workshop #7: Going to the Source, ch. 9 - Source Analysis #7 due |
| The
Scorpion and the Tarantula: The Making of a Cold War World - W: July 9 - Lecture - Th: July 10 - Lecture - F: July 11 - EXAM #2 |
| Civil
Rights and White Flights: The Black Freedom Struggle and American Suburbia - M: July 14 - Lecture - T: July 15 - Lecture - W: July 16 - Lecture - Th: July 17 - Lecture and Workshop #8: Going to the Source, ch. 11 - Source Analysis #8 due |
| The
Things We Carry: Vietnam - F: July 18 - Lecture - M: July 21 - Lecture |
| To
the Left, To the Right: New Liberalism and New Conservatism - T: July 22 - Lecture and Workshop #9: Going to the Source, ch. 13 - Source Analysis #9 due - W: July 23 - Lecture - Th: July 24 - Lecture |
| Morning
in America?: Reagans and Anti-Reagans - F: July 25 - Lecture - M: July 28 - Lecture and Workshop #10: Going to the Source, ch. 14 - Source Analysis #10 due |
| Searching
for Purpose: America Before and After 9/11 - T: July 29 - Lecture - W:July 30 - Lecture - Final Exam - 3:30pm - EXAM #3 and EXTRA CREDIT (optional) |