Course Schedule:
Weekly Model: Generally, Tuesdays are days for lectures and discussions. Short lectures will be interspersed with in-class activities and a discussion of the week's reading. Thursdays will be a mix. Every other week we will play "Time-Machine Millionaire" which will last 45 minutes. Thursdays also include "Concept Lab," where I teach strategies to make you a better scholar and help you prepare for your academic and professional careers.
Key:
Text = assigned text (to be discussed in class on that given day)
PS = assigned primary source (you still need to read it; this just means it is a historic document)
Key:
Text = assigned text (to be discussed in class on that given day)
PS = assigned primary source (you still need to read it; this just means it is a historic document)
Unit 1: Politics of People (1890-1917)
Week 1: “Introduction Week,” Jan 8 & 10
Tuesday: “Introduction to AMH 2042” and "How the Course Works"
Thursday:
Concept Labs: "Time-Machine Millionaire" and "Slack"
Discussion of:
Text: Bartholomae and Petrosky “Ways of Reading”
Week 2: “History at the College Level” Jan 15 & 17
Tuesday: "Frontier Wars" Lecture
Discussion of:
Text: Loewen_lies___realpolitik.pdf
Thursday:
Time-Machine Millionaire: "The Frontier Thesis and the AHA Conference"
Concept Lab: "Anchor your Thinking" (& heads up on the final exam)
Week 3: "The Birth of Predatory Capitalism?" Jan 22 & 24
Tuesday: Lecture "19th Century Industry and Why You Should Care (Rockefeller and Standard Oil) "
Text: McGerr "Controlling Big Business"
Thursday: Lecture: "#alienation and #antitrust (Homestead Massacre and Andrew Carnegie & JP Morgan)"
Concept Lab: "Histagram: What it's all About?"
**Assignment Due Date:
If you want to do the reflection paper for the documentary Slavery by Another Name (click HERE to watch it free), turn it in by Sunday, Feb 3, at midnight. Instructions on the SYLLABUS.
Week 4: "Banks, Transit, and Law" Jan 29 & 31
Tuesday discussion: (9/18):
Text 1: Strum "On Brandeis" and Text 2: "the Boston Elevated Railway Corruption Scheme"
Thursday: Time Machine Millionaire: "Brandeis and Elon Musk's Hyperloop"
Concept Lab: "Visiting the Tutors" and "Documentary Rvw"
Week 5: "Essay Prep Week" Feb 5 & 7
Tuesday: Group Activity and "Brainstorming an Essay"
Text: Louis Brandeis "The Curse of Bigness" (1913). Take a look at why he is angry at JP Morgan's New Haven Railroad Trust and what he thinks the government should do.
Thursday: Time-Machine Millionaire: "Jeff Bezos, Rockefeller, and the Angry Kansans"
Concept Lab: "Revising your writing" and "What's in a thesis?"