Unit 6: Progressive Promise and Disillusion (1890s-1939)
#601: Progressivism: What is Progressivism?
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#602 Progressivism: The Jungle
Read:
- Selection from Upton Sinclair, The Jungle in the Course Reader (pages 85-86).
- Please bring your Course Reader and a charged laptop to class.
#603 Progressivism: Women's Suffrage and its Opponents
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#604 Bridge: U.S. Interventions in Latin America
Read:
- Foner 575-580 (The chapter introduction and "An Era of Intervention").
- Read one of the following:
- Haiti (PDF)
- Panama (1903) (PDF)
- Nicaragua (1909-12) (PDF)
- Mexico (1914-16) (PDF)
- A charged laptop.
#605 WWI: Entering the Great War
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#606 WWI: War at Home
Read:
- Randolph Bourne, “The State,” 1918 (Google Doc)
- Eugene V. Debs, "Speech to the Jury before Sentencing under the Espionage Act" (1918) in Foner, 588.
- “War is the health of the State.” This refrain appears several times in Bourne’s essay. What does he mean by this statement?
- According to Bourne, how do conditions of war alter the behavior of citizens within a democratic society?
- Why does Debs relate the history of wartime dissent?
- Foner.
- Charged laptop.
- Optional: You may also consider printing out a copy of Bourne for easier annotation.
#607 WWI: The Wilsonian Moment
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#608 Great Depression: From Prosperity to Ruin
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#609 Great Depression: The New Deal
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#610 The Authoritarian Alternative: Communism
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#611 The Authoritarian Alternative: Fascism
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