Syllabus

Handouts
Paper Writing Guidelines
1st Writing Assignment
2nd Writing Assignment
3rd Writing Assignment

Lectures
1. Lecture #1: The Civil War and What it Means to be an American
2. Lecture #2: Inheritance and Reconstruction
3. Lecture #3: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
4. Lecture #4: Economy and Society
5. Lecture #5: Race, Equality, and Identity
6. Lecture #6: The Progressive Spirit
7. Lecture #7: Radicalism and the Limits of Democracy

Readings
1. Frederick Douglass – “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
2. Abraham Lincoln – “The Gettysburg Address”
3. William Graham Sumner – “What the Social Classes Owe to each Other”
4. Lochner v. New York
5. Thorsten Veblen – “The Theory of the Leisure Class”
6. Charlotte Perkins Gilman – “The Yellow Wallpaper”
7. Plessy v. Ferguson
8. Booker T. Washington – “The Atlanta Exposition Address”
9. Jane Addams – “Twenty Years at Hull House”
10. John Dewey – “Democracy and Education”
11. Schenk v. United States
12. Debs v. United States
13. Abrams v. United States
14. Walter Lippman – “Public Opinion” Part 1
15. Walter Lippman – “Public Opinion” Part 2
16. Brown v. Board of Education I & II