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Module One |
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For this module you will want to read chapters sixteen through nineteen of American Promise. At the Blackboard site there are corresponding objective quizzes for the readings. Make sure you take them by the end of the module. Each student must take the first module exam. There are study guides for each exam. Since this is the first module let me explain what you have below, and what I expect you to do with it. Each module will have the readings assigned from the texts delineated in this opening paragraph. After the first paragraph on each module page will be a series of links to appropriate websites that will provide you with more information. It is expected that students will visit all of these sites and use them as a springboard to explore more areas of the Internet. I expect that students will use these sites, along with the readings, to write the essays due for this course. |
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· The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands had a limited impact. · Watch: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War—Episode 2 (55:28); · Episode 3 Segment 7: Scientific Racism (03:41); Segment 8: National Lynching Memorial (03:40); Segment 9: People's Grocery Lynchings (06:59); Segment 12: Plessy v. Ferguson (03:46). · A site on Reconstruction by Eric Foner, a preeminent historian on the subject. |
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· The completion of the transcontinental railroad was both a significant and transformative accomplishment. · Watch: The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1:25:08); · The American Industrial Revolution (27:01); · Andrew Carnegie: Prince of Steel (episodes 9-11, 19:22); · Instituted in the late nineteenth century, Jim Crow would endure into the 1960s. |
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· Chicago was a labor hotbed, with both Haymarket and Pullman taking center stage. · Cripple Creek and Wallace showed the West was not immune to labor unrest. · Ken Burns, The Brooklyn Bridge (episodes 1-10 (37:05); · Ric Burns, New York: A Documentary Film: o “New York, 1865-1898: Sunshine and Shadow” (episodes 13-18 (13:19) 39-44 (10:48) o “New York, 1898-1918: The Power and the People” (episodes 12-15 (8:06), 23-28 (14:14), 37-44 (17:31)); · Connecticut’s demographic changes during this period |
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Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, examines the "Creation of the Modern City," presented by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. |
