Reading Assignments:   Specific assignments for discussion sections are noted in the schedule below.  All readings are available for purchase at Labyrinth Books (536 West 112th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam) and on reserve at Butler.  

The following assignments should be completed before the hourly examination October 20:

• William E. Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity: 1914-1932, chapters 3-5,  10

• Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in  Chicago, 1919-1939,    chapters 1-4

• Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism, chapters 5-8, conclusion

• John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925, chapters 8-11

• Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

• William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, chapters 1-2

The following assignments should be completed before the final examination:

• William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, chapters  3-14

• Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal, chapters 5-8, conclusion

• Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, chapters 1,  6-10

• Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, chapters 1-7, 11, epilogue

• Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War, chapters 7-10

• John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, chapters 1-7, 11  

Course Schedule:

Week of September 6:

W:  The Postwar Crisis

Internet: Red Scare: An Image Database

Week of September 13:

M:  New Era Abundance

W:  New Era Inequality

SECTION: Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, chapters 1-4; William E. Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, chapters 3-5, 10

Internet: Emma Goldman Papers

Week of September 20:

M:  Shaping a New Culture

W:  Consumerism, Gender, and the Middle Class

SECTION: Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism, chapters 5-8, conclusion

Internet: 1920s Flapper Culture and Style | Living The Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement

Week of September 27:

M:  The Politics of Prosperity

W:  The Politics of Race

SECTION:  John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925, chapters 8-11

Internet: Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro | Marcus Garvey Papers Project

Week of October 4:

M:  Cultures in Conflict:  Fundamentalism

W:  Cultures in Conflict:  Prohibition and the Klan

SECTION:  Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods

Internet: Famous American Trials (Scopes)

Week of October 11:

M:  Intellectuals and the New Era

W:  Causes of the Great Depression

SECTION:  William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, chapters 1-2 

Internet: Surviving the Dustbowl

 Week of October 18:

M:  Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression

W: MIDTERM EXAMINATION

NO SECTIONS

Week of October 25:

M:  Launching the New Deal

Th: The New Deal and Reform

SECTION: Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal,   chapters 3-8,  10-11, 14 

Internet: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library | The New Deal Network

Week of November 1:

M:  ELECTION DAY HOLIDAY

W:  The New Deal Welfare State

SECTION:  Linda Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled, chapters 5-10 

Internet: American Life Histories | FSA/OWI Photos: America From the Great Depression Through World War II

Week of November 8: