ࡱ> <>;M bjbj== 0WWl```````4PPPhi^     !     -B  $ \`) ) )  ``  # ) X` `  )  @  ``  ,L)XP X  90i C C .6```` HISTORY 435 (70, 72, 01) The U.S. in the Age of the World Wars Instructor: Ken Rose Tues.-Thurs., 9:30-10:45, MLIB 027B The historian John Lukacs has recently argued that, "The twentieth century was a short century. It lasted seventy-five years--from 1914 to 1989. Its two main events were the two world wars. They were the enormous mountain ranges that dominated its entire landscape. The Russian Revolution, the atomic bomb, the end of the colonial empires, the establishment of Communist states, the dominion of the two world superpowers--the United States and the Soviet Union--the division of Europe and of Germany: all of these were the consequences of the two world wars, in the shadow of which we have been living. Until now." Using these two "mountain ranges" of the world wars to mark the beginning and the end of our course, we will examine the most dynamic period of what has been called the "American Century." We will watch America rise to become the mightiest industrial nation on earth, and we will examine the problems that came with this rapid transformation. We will see periods of American isolationism, and we will follow the progress of America through two global conflicts. We will witness the boom period of the "Roaring Twenties," and see America in the grip of its worst economic depression in history. We will become acquainted with laissez-faire Republicans, and interventionist Democrats. We will follow immigrants to the American shore, and we will analyze nativist fears. We will examine the American business culture, as well as the "Lost Generation" and the most fertile period in American literary history. It is a period of miniature golf and Nobel prize winners, gangster nightclubs and tent revivals, Al Capone and Herbert Hoover, urbanization and rural fundamentalism, Franklin Roosevelt and Huey Long, suffragists and flappers, the Ku Klux Klan and Duke Ellington. We will meet Dough Boys and Rosie the Riveter, attend a "Monkey" trial and experience a Red Scare, stay in a Hooverville, and watch an atomic mushroom cloud rise over Japan. The following is a rough approximation of the topics that will be addressed and when. It is an ambitious schedule, and inevitably, we will not be able to do everything we want. It should also be emphasized that while we will be looking at the impact of the two world wars, this is not a military history course. Our main concern will be the social consequences of these wars on American society. Weeks One and Two: The Making of Modern America: Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization; The Progressive Response Weeks Three through Six*: World War I and the Twenties: Versailles; The Flu Pandemic; The Lost Generation; The Business of America; Urban and Rural Culture Film: The Great War: Collapse; The Great War: War Without End, Influenza 1918 Film Clips: Our Dancing Daughters; Inherit the Wind *No Class on September 8 (Mandatory Unpaid Furlough Day) First Paper Due September 17 At 9:30 AM PST Weeks Seven and Eight*: The Stock Market Crash; The Great Depression Film Clips: 42nd Street, By A Waterfall Audio Clip: The War of the Worlds *No Class on October 15 (Mandatory Unpaid Furlough Day) Weeks Nine and Ten: The Farm Depression and the Okie Migration Films: The Great Dustbowl ; The Grapes of Wrath Second Paper Due October 22 at 9:30 AM PST Weeks Eleven through Fourteen*: World War II; Why We Fight; How We Fight; The Home Front; Social and Marital Disarray Film Clips: The Propaganda Battle; The Memphis Belle; World War II: The Lost Color Archives *No Class on November 5 (Mandatory Unpaid Furlough Day) Weeks Fifteen and Sixteen: The Impact of the War on American Society. Film: The Best Years of Our Lives (168 min.) Third Paper Due December 3 At 9:30 AM PST Required Books: Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (New York: Scribner, 2003); William March, Company K (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985); John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1988); Kenneth D. Rose, Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans and World War II (New York: Routledge, 2007), ; Major Problems in the History of World War II, ed. by Mark A. Stoler and Melanie S. Gustafson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003). Course Requirements: Each student will write three papers. Paper no.1 will be a discussion of Hemingway(s A Farewell to Arms or of William Marchs Company K, of a length no more than five pages. Paper no. 2 will be a discussion of Steinbeck(s The Harvest Gypsies of a length no more than five pages. Paper number 3 will be a discussion of one of the chapters from Major Problems in the History of World War II, plus two outside books, of a length no more than ten pages. Papers no. 1 and no. 2 will each count as 30 percent of your grade. Paper no. 3 will count as 40 percent of your grade. Requirements and potential approaches for each of the papers will be posted. Experience has shown that its probably easier for web students to send their papers to me via my regular email address  HYPERLINK "mailto:kdrose@csuchico.edu" kdrose@csuchico.edu rather than through the CSU Portal (Vista). Sometimes attachments dont open, so I would encourage students to email their papers to me both with an attachment of the paper and with the paper in the main body of the email. My office is in Trinity 211 and my phone number is (530) 898-5386. Office hours are MWF, 9:00-10:00 AM, and Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00 AM 12:00 PM. Each paper will be due at the beginning of class (not in the middle or end of class) on the dates posted. Papers submitted after the date and time posted will receive a one grade penalty and a further one grade penalty for each subsequent day that it is late. You do not want your (A( paper to become a (B( or a (C,( so submit these papers on time. To Plagiarize: (To steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one(s own; to use a created production without crediting the source; to commit literary theft; to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.( Each paper written by the student will be original writing, not recycled or (borrowed( (i.e. stolen) from another source. To try to pass something off as original that has wholly or in part been created by someone else is no better than thievery. While computer data bases have made it easier to access papers that have already been written, they have also made it easier to track down the sources of fraudulent papers. The university subscribes to a number of services that specialize in this service, and your professor will make full use of them if I suspect that a paper has been pilfered. Any student who plagiarizes will receive an automatic (F( for this course, and will then be turned over to the tender mercies of Student Affairs for further disciplinary action. Such action could include dismissal from the university. If any questions arise during the course on what does or does not involve plagiarism, contact your professor.     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