Readings and Discussions
Please note: Some changes in the assigned reading
list may occur up one week before the scheduled class. Changes will
normally be of a minor nature, but it is important that you update your reading
list regularly. There will also normally be some questions for discussion
for each class but these are usually not online until a few days before
class. When questions are listed they should be prepared for class.
January
4: Introduction
and Computer Lab
January 11:
The Spanish-American
War
Discussion
questions for January 11
January 18:
World War One
January 25:
World War Two
- Internet
assessment exercise (part one)
- America
First and FDR
- Robert
Divine, "The Internationalist Argument"
- Charles Tansill,
"The Isolationist Argument"
- FDR, "Arsenal
of Democracy" Speech, 1940
- FDR, Annual
Message to Congress, January 1942
- Home Front USA, chapter 1
- optional reading: FDR's
"I Hate War" speech, August 1936
- optional reading: FDR's
July 4, 1941 speech
- optional reading: FDR
on the Neutrality Act, 1935
- optional reading: FDR
Neutrality Act Revision, 1939
- optional reading: Munich
Agreement, 1938
- Discussion
questions for January 25
February 1:
Vietnam
February 8:
Propaganda and Image
February 22:
The Soldiers' Experience
- The
New Weapons of Terror
- Colonel Roosevelt's
Letter to the Secretary of War (1898)
- Letter, Lloyd
Staley to Mary Gray, July 1918
- Dan Mouer, "What
is a Vietnam Veteran?"
- Dan Mouer, Comments on "What is a Vietnam
Veteran?"
- American
Soldiers in the Philippines Write Home
- Letter, Alan
Seeger, May 22, 1915
- Personal
Letters of a Driver at the Front (June 20, 1915)
- Letters of
Paul O'Connell
- optional reading: Jeff Drake, "Friendly
Fire"
- Rivers, "Repression
of the War Experience" (excerpts, 1917)
- optional reading:
Letter, Alan Seeger, April 28, 1915
- Discussion
questions for February 22
February 29:
Men and Women at the Front
March 7:
War: The Domestic Side
March 14:
The Homefront: Intrusion and Control
- The Wartime
Consumer's Duty (1942)
- FDR,
Message to Congress, January 6, 1942
- FDR,
Broadcast to the Nation, September 7, 1942
- The Sedition Act
(1918)
- "Japanese
on Coast Face Wholesale Uprooting"
- "Their
Best Way To Show Loyalty"
- "...Its
Better Than Hollywood"
- optional reading: "Plea
Made for Loyal Aliens"
- optional reading: Wages,
Pay and Maintenance of Japanese Evacuees
- optional reading: Ida Clarke, "Food
Conservation" (1919)
- Posters
- Home Front U.S.A., chapter 2, "American
Society at War"
- Discussion
questions for March 14
March 21:
Race, Ethnicity, and
War
March 28:
Student Presentations
April 4:
Student Presentations
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