Course Documents

Read these documents as indicated for each week’s lecture. This section will be updated weekly, and may contain material relevant for a quiz, a quiz itself, maps, charts, interactive assignments, exam questions, or study guides. All of these articles will need to be read by the end of week indicated in the syllabus.

Week One: African American Odyssey: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath (Part 1) and African American Odyssey: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath (Part 2)

Week Two: Jane Addams and Biography of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt Association

Week Three: A Labor Newspaper Derides the Myth of the Self-Made Man and Progressive Movement 1901-1918

Week Four: A Death at the Battle of the Somme, 1916

Week Five: SnapShots - America in the 1920s (use the arrows in the middle of the page to go to the next photo)

Week Six: The Depression in the U.S.--An Overview

Week Seven: World War Two (the links in the box on the right hand side will take you to documents related to several subjects about the war)

Week Eight: The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color | PBS (you do not need to read the entire site, but simply peruse this to become more familiar with the subject)

Week Nine: Cold War

Week Ten: NARA - JFK Assassination Records - Main Page (a large database of material related to the Kennedy administration. Again, you do not need to read the entire site, but use it to research the subject)

Week Eleven: The Scandal That Destroyed President Richard Nixon (a large database of material related to the Watergate scandal. Again, you do not need to read the entire site, but use it to research the subject)

Week Twelve: American Cultural History - 1980-1989

Week Thirteen: American Cultural History - Decade 1991-1999

Week Fourteen: The September 11 Digital Archive