• Mondays 2:00 PM, SS 201
• Wednesdays 2:00 PM, SS 201
• Thursdays 12:30 PM, SS 231

New York Times

Readings:

• "Do Consumers Make Bad Voters?" (12-2007)

• Career U.: Making College 'Relevant'  (1-2010)

Reading scholarly texts

NYTimes Reading Quiz: August 26

New York Times

Readings:

• 1491

• Portrait of America: Vol. 1, essays 1, 2, 3, 19, 20, 23

• English Colonies in North America

• economics of slavery

•  Alexander Hamilton's Financial Program

• Does the American family have a history? 

• Definition of the Cult of Domesticity

• Godey's Lady's Book.

• Sylvester Graham

• "Utopias in America"

 NYT Reading Quizzes: Sept. 9, 21

 Geography Quiz: Sept.. 2, 3, 6,7
You must take this Quiz in the SBS Testing Center. There are several versions of the quiz -- given out randomly.

Exam 1: September 24, 25, 27, 28

MacKay's study sessions: Sept. 25 and 26 at  7 AM, Grounds for Coffee--30th and Harrison

 New York Times

Readings

• Portrait of America: Vol. II: essays #5, 7, 8, 14, 16, 17, 31

• How the Other Half Lives  and "The Public Be Damned" from the OAH

• Working Class Protest

• The Farmer's Protest

• Progressive Reform

• Understanding Advertising

• film: "A Job at Ford's"

• Photographs of the Great Depression

• Statistics on the Great Depression

• Summary of New Deal legislation

•  Key Legislation of  the Great Society

 NYT Reading quizzes: Sept. 30, Oct. 14

Extra points (up to 5) Summarize in 1 paragraph and comment/react in 1 additional paragraph on one of the short essays linked from  consumer capitalism. This short paper must be submitted by October 21

Exam 2: Oct. 22, 23, 25, 26

 MacKay's study session:  October 23, 7 AM, Grounds for Coffee--30th and Harrison

Notes for weeks Ten -Eleven

10/26  "Responding to the Democracy Promotion Backlash,"	10/28 A description of colonial governments Slave Petition to Governor of Massachusetts, 1774  Portrait: Vol. 1, # 7 Declaration of Independence    Pennsylvania 1776 Constitution Declaration of Rights
11/2  Portrait: Vol 1, #9; The U.S. Constitution	11/4 The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania to Their Constituents Letter from E. Gerry to S. Adams

Creating the United States of America

Readings:

• Portrait of America, Vol. I essays: # 7,  9   
• A description of colonial governments from the U.S. State Department
• Slave Petition to Governor of Massachusetts, 1774   
• Declaration of Independence   
• Pennsylvania 1776 Constitution Declaration of Rights               
• A Chronology of the American Revolution
• The United States Constitution
• The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania
  to Their Constituents
• Letter from E. Gerry to S. Adams opposing the Constitution

Exam 3: Nov. 5, 6, 8, 9

MacKay's study session:  November 6 and 7 at 7 AM, Grounds for Coffee--30th and Harrison.

Notes for weeks Twelve-Thirteen

11/9 Portrait, Vol 1: #14 John Marshall's cases: Marbury v. Madison McCulloch v. Maryland Gibbons v. Ogden Worcester v. Georgia	11/11 The Bill of Rights  Statistics on Slavery Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Portrait: Vol. 1,  #26
11/16 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Portrait: Vol . 1, #30 13, 14, 15 Amendments to the Constitution Nast's cartoon, This is a White Man's Government? Plessy v. Ferguson (1893)	11/18 no class

Rights, Interpretations, Divisions

• Portrait of America, Vol. I: essays #14, #26, #30
• The Bill of Rights
• John Marshall's cases: a synopsis of
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • McCulloch v. Maryland
  • Gibbons v. Ogden
  • Worcester v. Georgia
• Statistics on Slavery
• Dred Scott v. Sanford
  • Complete text: Dred Scott v. Sanford
• 13, 14, 15 Amendments to the Constitution
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
• Also work through the discussion of Nast's cartoon, This is a White Man's Government?
• Plessy v. Ferguson

Exam 4: Nov. 19, 20, 22, 23, 24

MacKay's Study session: November 22 at 7 AM, Grounds for Coffee -- 30th and Harrison

Notes for weeks Fourteen-Fifteen

11/23Chronology of Expansion and Oates Part 2: 9	11/25 Thanksgiving
11/30 Portrait: Vol.  2, #13; WWI posters; WWI casualties Portrait: Vol. 2, #19; causes of WWII, Chronology of World War II Diplomacy	12/2 From the Barrel of a Gun; maps of Cold War

• Chronological list of U.S. Expansion
• Oates Part  2: # 9, 13, 19
• Review some of the U.S. posters created by the U.S. government to promote public support for World War One.
• Casualties World War I
• Causes of World War I
• Chronology of World War II Diplomacy
• film From the Barrel of a Gun
• maps of Cold War

Democracy Paper due: Nov. 23

Participation Statement due: Dec. 2

Exam 5: Dec. 3, 4, 6, 7

 MacKay's study session:  Dec. 4 at 7 AM, Grounds for Coffee--30th and Harrison.