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History 389: The Roaring Twenties
SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Unit I: War, Politics, & Progressivism - The Birth of the 1920s Mon. 8/25 Course Overview: A Decade that Changed America
~ Course Introduction
~ Video: The Age of Ballyhoo
● 1920s Slang: Essay Contest
● Pop Quiz: 1920s Rogue GalleryWed. 8/27 Echoes of the Jazz Age
~ Video Excerpts: Ken Burns
~ Video Excerpts: Job at Ford
● DUE: 1920s Slang EssayMon. 9/1 Labor Day: No Class Wed. 9/3 World War I and the Indian Summer of Progressivism
~ Goldberg, 1-26, 37-39, 57-65
~ Dumenil, 15-26
~ Thorstein Veblen, "The Legacy of Intervention," 28-40 CP
● DUE: Answers to Dumenil Study Questions for Homework
● DUE: Answers to Goldberg Study Questions for HomeworkMon. 9/8 Prelude to the Twenties: Red (& Black) Summer
~ Herbert Shapiro, CH6, “Confrontation,” 145-157 CP
~ Dumenil, 218-226 (Red Scare)
● Study Questions: Shapiro, CH6 "Confrontation"
● Study Questions: Dumenil, pp. 218-226
~ QUIZ over readingWed. 9/10 Cultures of Rebellion and Cultures of Change: The Roaring Twenties
~ Lecture: Rebellion, Change, & Mass Consumption in the 1920s
~ Dumenil, 56-97 (CH2 "Work and Consumption")
~ Lecture Outline
● Study Questions: Dumenil, pp 56-97Mon. 9/15 Conservatism Triumphant: Responding to Cultures of Rebellion
~ Lecture: The Political Glorification of Business and Responding to Threats against Traditional Morality
~ Lecture Outline
~ Dumenil, 16-25Wed. 9/17 Labor and Corporate Welfare
~ Lizabeth Cohen, CH4 “Contested Loyalty in the Workplace,” 159-211 CP
~ Rich Halpren, "Welfare Capitalism in the Packinghouses," 72-80 CP
~ Goldberg, 66-88
~ Dumenil, (review 16-25) 56-76
● Study Questions: Cohen, CH4, "Contested Loyalty"
● Study Questions: Halpren, "Welfare Capitalism"
The Business of America: Harding & Coolidge
~ Goldberg, 49-65
~ Review Dumenil, 49-65
Unit II: Literary Alienation, Renaissance, and Resistance Mon. 9/22 Understanding The Jazz Age and the Flapper
~ Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (entire)
~ Dumenil, 145-159
● Gatsby Quotes
● Study Questions: The Great Gatsby
~ QUIZ over readingWed. 9/24 The Disillusionment of the Lost Generation
~ Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby – continue discussion
Other Voices from the Lost Generation (SKIP)
~ John Dos Passos, “The Body of an American,” 5-11 ®
~ Thorsten Veblen, “Dementia Praecox,” 29-40 ®
~ Ernest Hemingway, “American Bohemians in Paris,” 297-300 ®Mon. 9/29 Harlem Renaissance I: "The New Negro" - Origins and Great Migration
~ Lewis,
▪ Lewis, "Introduction," xiii-xli (29 pages)
▪ W.E.B. DuBois, "Returning Soldiers" 3-5
▪ Alain Locke, "The New Negro" 46-51
▪ Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" 91-95
▪ George S. Schuyler, "The Negro-Art Hokum" 96-99
▪ W.E.B. DuBois, "Criteria of Negro Art" 100-105
~ Dumenil, 160-165, 288-302
~ Goldberg, 89-108 (African Americans in 1920s)
~ Ken Burns' Jazz: "Episode 2: The Gift" (excerpts)
~ Study Questions: DuBois, Hughes, SchuylerWed. 10/1 Harlem Renaissance II: Who put the Syn in Syncopation? - Music & Literature
~ Lewis,
▪ Huges Poems: The Negro Speaks of Rivers, I, Too, America, Jazzonia, Negro, Elevator Boy
▪ Helene Johnson Poems: My Race, Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
▪ Claude McKay Poems: : If We Must Die
▪ Sterling Brown Poems: Southern Road, Remembering Nat Turner
~ Lawrence W. Levine, "Jazz and American Culture," 172-188 CP
~ Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., "Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago Flowerings," 100-135 CP
~ Dumenil,
~ Study Questions: Harlem Renaissance Poets
~ Study Questions: Levine, "Jazz"
The Jazz of the Jazz Age (SKIP)
In-Class listening to Jazz Music from the 1920s
~ Anne Shaw Faulkner, "Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation" ®
~ Henry O. Osgood, "Jazz, That Peculiar Word!" ®
~ Langston Hughes, “Jazzonia” ®Mon. 10/6 Harlem Renaissance III: Jazzonia - The Fine Arts
~ Video – Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
~ Goldberg, 88-116
~ Dumenil, 160-165, 283-302
(Dan & Lynn's Wedding)Wed. 10/8 Harlem Renaissance IV: The Politics of Pan-Africanism - Garvey
~ Lewis,
▪ Marcus Garvey, "Africa for the Africans" 17-25, "Liberty Hall Emancipation Day Speech" 26-28
▪ Mary White Ovington, "On Marcus Garvey" 29-33
~ Lawrence W. Levine, "Marcus Garvey and the Politics of Revitalization," 107-136 CP
~ Goldberg, 88-116
~ Dumenil, 294-302
~ Study Questions: Levine: "Garvey"Mon. 10/13 I’ll Take My Stand: The Southern Agrarians
~ Dumenil, 159-160
~ Louis Rubin, “Introduction,” xi-xxii CP
~ “A Statement of Principles,” xxxvii-xlviii CP
~ John C. Ransom, “Reconstructed but Unregenerate,” 1-27 CP
~ Robert Penn Warren, “The Briar Patch,” 246-164 CPWed. 10/15 In-Class Midterm Examination
~ Paired Identification GuidelinesFri 10/17 Fall Holiday: No class
Unit III: The New Women of the 1920s Mon. 10/20 The Arrival of Suffrage for Women
~ Video: One Woman, One Vote
~ Dumenil, 98-144Wed. 10/22 Assessing the Impact of Suffrage: Women in Politics in the 1920s
~ Joanne Meyerowitz, “The Roaring Teens and Twenties Reexamined: Sexuality in the Furnished Room Districts of Chicago,” 137-153 CP
~ Dumenil, 98-144
~ Goldberg, 51-54
~ Study Questions: Meyerowitz, "Furnished Room District"
SKIP:
~ Dorothy Brown, “Beyond Suffrage,” 49-76 ®
~Ellen Welles Page, “A Flapper's Appeal to Parents,” ®
~ Bruce Bliven, “Flapper Jane,” ®
~Editorial, “Is the Younger Generation in Peril?” 251-267 ®
~ John F. Carter, “These Wild Young People, By One of Them,” 267-275 ®Mon. 10/27 Gender, Image, and Popular Culture in the 1920s
~ Wheeler and Becker, “The ‘New’ Woman of the 1920s: Image and Reality,” 164-190” ®
~ Nancy F. Cott, "Across the Great Divide: Women in Politics Before and After 1920" 333-340 CP
~ Study Questions: W&B, "New Woman of 1920s"
~ Study Questions: Cott, "Across the Great Divide"
SKIP:
~ Beatrice M. Hinkle, “Women and the New Morality,” 280-288 ®Wed. 10/29 Was the Flapper a Feminist?
~ In Class DEBATE: Was the flapper was a feminist?
● DUE: Paper, Was the Flapper a Feminist?
FYI: Writing Style Cheat Sheet
Unit IV: The Revolt Against Modernity & the Battle for Cultural Dominance Mon. 11/3 The Dry Crusade: Prohibition
~ Video – The Prohibition Era: The Roaring Twenties
~ Goldberg, 54-57, 173-183
~ Dumenil, 201-203, 211-217, 226-235, 245-249Wed. 11/5 Acids of Moderninty: Immigration Restriction adn the Rise of the Klan
Immigration Restriction
~ Davidson & Lytle, “Sacco & Vanzetti,” 228-253 ®
~ Goldberg, 140-166
~ Dumenil, 201-207Reemergence of the Klan
~ Nancy MacLean, "Class Anxieties of the Ku Klux Klan," 165-172 CP
~ Goldberg, 117-139
~ Dumenil, 211-217, 235-249
~ Study Questions for MacLean readingMon. 11/10 Scopes I: Trial of the Century and the Revolt of the Traditionalists
~ Moran, "Introduction," 1-72
~ Dumenil, 169-190
● Study Questions: Moran Introduction
● DUE: Homework over Moran ReadingWed. 11/12 Scopes II: Culture Wars and the Monkey Trial
~ Moran,
▪ Chicago Defender, "If Monkeys Could Speak" 180-81
▪ DuBois, "Dayton is America" 182-83
▪ PW Chamberlain, "Racial Hierarchy Proves Evolution"
▪ Hunter, "Race & Eugenics in Civic Biology" 186-188
▪ Bryan, "Who Shall Control Our Schools" 189-192
▪ ACLU, "Postwar Threats to Academic Freedom" 192-93
▪ AAUP, "University Faculty Define Academic Freedom" 195-97
▪ Woodworth, "Dictate Curriculum, Not Answers" 197-198
~ DUE: Contemporary Culture Wars
● Overview Study Questions for Scopes Trial & TodayMon. 11/17 Why These Heroes? The Twenties and the Cult of Personality
~ Warren I. Susman, “Culture Heroes: Ford, Barton, Ruth,” 122-149 ®
~ Roland Marchand, "The Culture of Advertising" 99-107 CP
~ Dumenil, 76-78, 85-97
~ Study Questions for Susman reading
~ Study Questions for Marchand readingWed. 11/19 Screen Heroes: The Silent Screen and the Making of Hollywood
~ Robert Sklar, "Silent Film and the Passionate Life," 86-103 CP
~ Robert Sklar, "Chaos, Magic, Physical Genius, and the Art of the Silent Film," 104-121 CP
~ Study Questions for Sklar, "Silent Film"
● Film Clips: Chaplain, "Gold Rush," Keaton, "The General"11/24 - 11/28: Thanksgiving Break
Unit V: Was It Not Real? The Jazz Age Reconsidered Mon. 12/1 Crashing to a Halt: The Great Depression & the End of the Twenties
~ Theodore Rosenof, "Understanding the Crash," 193-200 CP
~ Goldberg, 167-183
~ Dumenil, 302-312
~ Herbert Hoover, “Rugged Individualism”
~ Study Questions for Rosenof Reading
~ Study Questions for Hoover speechWed. 12/3 Were the 1920s More Liberal-Modern or Conservative-Traditional?
~ In-Class debate on 1920s
~ Madaras & SoRelle, “Were the 1920s and Era of Social and Cultural Rebellion,” 195-217 ®
~ Lawrence W. Levine, "Progress and Nostalgia" 189-205 CP
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” 13-22 ®
~ Study Questions for Levine, "Progress & Nostalgia"
● Final Overview Study Questions for 1920s
● DUE: Short Debate Essay: Were the Twenties more profoundly conservative or liberal?Mon. 12/8 Last Day of Class: Wrap up and Class Party Wed. 12/10 Reading Day 12/11-12/17 Exam Week
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