New York Times

Readings:

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

• Misinformation Study

• Peruse:

  • Census finds record gap between rich and poor

  • Wealth gap Widens between whites and blacks

  • Information from the Poverty Center, University of Michigan

  • Population below the poverty line, by nation

  • Shortage of Educated Workers Boosts US Joblessness

Discussion of texts

Civics Quiz

NYTimes Reading Quiz:

January 9

New York Times

Readings:

• 1491

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

• English Colonies in North America

• Indentured Servants

• Colonial population statistics

• 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 Quiz:

January 23

Discussion of texts

Exam 1:

January 31-February 4

MacKay's study sessions: February 1 at  7 AM, Grounds for Coffee--30th and Harrison

 New York Times

Readings:

• Portrait of America: Vol. II: essays #5,  7, 15

• How the Other Half Lives

• Digital History's information aboutlabor and  farmers. 

• Working Class Protest

• The Farmer's Protest

• Progressive Reform

• political cartoons

• 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

• Expenditures for families in poverty (United Conference of Catholic Bishops)

• Gap Between Rich and Poor

• Information from the National  Poverty Center, University of Michigan

• Poverty in US comparison, from Economic Policy Institute

NYT Reading quiz:

February 20

Discussion of texts

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

February 27

Exam 2: February 28 - March 4

 MacKay's study sessions:  March 1 at 7 AM, Grounds for Coffee--30th and Harrison  

Notes for weeks Nine - Ten

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   
• Events leading to the American Revolution
• 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

New York Times quiz: March 6

Discussion of texts

Exam 3: March 21-25

MacKay's study session:

March 24. 4:00 PM, SS119

Notes for weeks Eleven-Twelfth

Rights, Interpretations, Divisions

Readings:

• 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
• Timeline of events leading to Civil War
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
• 13, 14, 15 Amendments to the Constitution
• Also work through the discussion of Nast's cartoon, This is a White Man's Government?
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Judge Harlan's dissent

New York Times  Reading Quiz: March 27

Democracy Paper due: April 3

Exam 4: April 4-8

MacKay's Study session:April 5, 7 AM at Grounds for Coffee

Notes for weeks Thirteen- Fourteen

Readings:

• Chronological list of U.S. Expansion
• Imperialism cartoons
• Oates Part  2: # 8, 12, 18
• Review some of the U.S. posters created by the U.S. government to promote public support for World War One.
• Causes of World War I
• Casualties World War I
• The 14 Points
• Chronology of World War II Diplomacy
• film From the Barrel of a Gun
• maps of Cold War

Discussion of texts

NYTimes Quiz for extra points: April 15

Participation Statement due: April 17

Civics quiz: April 15

Exam 5: April 22-24

 MacKay's study session:  

April 21