Module Five

 

For this module you will want to read chapters twenty-nine through thirty-one of The American Promise. At the Blackboard site there are corresponding objective quizzes for the readings. Make sure you take them and participate in discussion by the end of the module. Your term paper due date is listed on the “Reading List” page. Make sure you email it to me in Blackboard by the end of the day it is due.

 

 

 

 

·         Tonkin Gulf, from the Navy’s perspective and from an historian’s perspective

·         “Trouble Every Day”

·         “Ballad of the Green Berets”

·         “For What It’s Worth”

·         “Fortunate Son”

·         “Okie from Muskogee”

·         “Ohio”

·         LBJ and Vietnam: In the Eye of the Storm (watch the first seven segments, 20:05)

·         Things Fall Apart (January 1968-July 1968) (episodes 6-8, 17:24)

·         The Day the '60s Died (56:50)

 

 

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·         “one of the most appalling environmental tragedies in American history”

·         When Our Rivers Caught Fire

·         A first in American history

·         ABC News: “Truth and Lies: Watergate” (1:21:35)

·         Declassified: Ayatollah Khomeini (45:06)

·         Camp David Accords

·         Clean Air Act (1990)

·         BBC: 9/11: Truth, Lies, and Conspiracies (46:51)

·        USA Today: "Pumped Dry: The Central Valley" (42:50 - 59.15)

·     "Running Dry: How LA's thirst for water is Draining a California valley" (16:08)

 

 

James Engell

James Engell, Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, explores Environmental Health and Sustainability.  Presented by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

 

 

Term paper assignment: At the beginning of the twentieth century, it became apparent to many that the way Americans viewed the environment needed to change. From Gifford Pinchot and John Muir to Cuyahoga and Love Canal, the need for change became clearer.  Change, however, was not always welcomed. Look at this struggle between ecology and economics, explaining the important aspects of it. You will want to look at specific events across the century, explaining the factors involved in change, from grassroots to government.  Your essay should have a specific thesis that unites your paper into a single presentation.  Your paper will be submitted by attaching it to an email to me in Blackboard, where I will retrieve it. The college may also use it for assessment during a future accreditation visit.

 

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