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The Reconstruction Era And
Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives. For more information about Facing History and Ourselves, please visit our website at www.facinghistory.org. Copyright © 2015 by Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Facing History and Ourselves® is a trademark registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. The photograph used in the background of our front cover depicts the African American and Radical Republican members of the South Carolina legislature in the 1870s. South Carolina had the first state legislature with a black majority. This photo was created by opponents of Radical Reconstruction, and intended to scare the white population. See Lesson 8, “Interracial Democracy” for suggestions about how to use this image in the classroom. Photo credit: Library of Congress (1876). ISBN: 978-1-940457-10-9 Acknowledgments Primary writer: Daniel Sigward This publication was made possible by the support of the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation. Developing this guide was a collaborative effort that required the input and expertise of a variety of people. Many Facing History and Ourselves staff members made invaluable contributions. The guidance of Adam Strom was essential from start to finish. Jeremy Nesoff played a critical role through his partnership with Dan Sigward and, along with Denny Conklin and Jocelyn Stanton, helped to shape the curriculum by providing feedback on numerous drafts. -
The Ideal America(N): Dwight Eisenhower's Elusive Search
The Ideal America(n): Dwight Eisenhower’s Elusive Search by Lisa Couacaud BA (Hons.) Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Deakin University March 2018 Acknowledgements It is merely to state the facts as they are when I write that without the financial support of the Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship these acknowledgements would have gone unwritten, for this thesis would simply not exist. I remain indebted to Deakin University for seeing the value in this work of American history. I am grateful also for the research and conference grants Deakin makes available to their postgraduate students. The funds provided enabled me to travel to Abilene, Kansas, and conduct invaluable archival research in the Eisenhower Presidential Library. I admit to feeling like a “proper” historian only after I had sifted through scores of original documents from Eisenhower’s presidential years. I was fortunate also to visit the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and the Columbia University Oral History Archives in New York. Today, a little more than three years after embarking upon this project, my commitment to this thesis and my belief that this work is worthy of the investment Deakin has made, persists. This has been an exciting, terrifying, challenging, anxiety-ridden and nerve-wracking process. Yet, had I the opportunity to reset the clock, I would make always the same decision. It has been nothing short of a luxury to be able to devote myself to the task of unravelling Dwight Eisenhower’s idealist imaginings of the United States for these past three years. -
Lincoln Studies at the Bicentennial: a Round Table
Lincoln Studies at the Bicentennial: A Round Table Lincoln Theme 2.0 Matthew Pinsker Early during the 1989 spring semester at Harvard University, members of Professor Da- vid Herbert Donald’s graduate seminar on Abraham Lincoln received diskettes that of- fered a glimpse of their future as historians. The 3.5 inch floppy disks with neatly typed labels held about a dozen word-processing files representing the whole of Don E. Feh- renbacher’s Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait through His Speeches and Writings (1964). Donald had asked his secretary, Laura Nakatsuka, to enter this well-known col- lection of Lincoln writings into a computer and make copies for his students. He also showed off a database containing thousands of digital note cards that he and his research assistants had developed in preparation for his forthcoming biography of Lincoln.1 There were certainly bigger revolutions that year. The Berlin Wall fell. A motley coalition of Afghan tribes, international jihadists, and Central Intelligence Agency (cia) operatives drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Virginia voters chose the nation’s first elected black governor, and within a few more months, the Harvard Law Review selected a popular student named Barack Obama as its first African American president. Yet Donald’s ven- ture into digital history marked a notable shift. The nearly seventy-year-old Mississippi native was about to become the first major Lincoln biographer to add full-text searching and database management to his research arsenal. More than fifty years earlier, the revisionist historian James G. Randall had posed a question that helps explain why one of his favorite graduate students would later show such a surprising interest in digital technology as an aging Harvard professor. -
"Citizens in the Making": Black Philadelphians, the Republican Party and Urban Reform, 1885-1913
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2017 "Citizens In The Making": Black Philadelphians, The Republican Party And Urban Reform, 1885-1913 Julie Davidow University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Davidow, Julie, ""Citizens In The Making": Black Philadelphians, The Republican Party And Urban Reform, 1885-1913" (2017). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 2247. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2247 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2247 For more information, please contact [email protected]. "Citizens In The Making": Black Philadelphians, The Republican Party And Urban Reform, 1885-1913 Abstract “Citizens in the Making” broadens the scope of historical treatments of black politics at the end of the nineteenth century by shifting the focus of electoral battles away from the South, where states wrote disfranchisement into their constitutions. Philadelphia offers a municipal-level perspective on the relationship between African Americans, the Republican Party, and political and social reformers, but the implications of this study reach beyond one city to shed light on a nationwide effort to degrade and diminish black citizenship. I argue that black citizenship was constructed as alien and foreign in the urban North in the last decades of the nineteenth century and that this process operated in tension with and undermined the efforts of black Philadelphians to gain traction on their exercise of the franchise. For black Philadelphians at the end of the nineteenth century, the franchise did not seem doomed or secure anywhere in the nation. -
Antinuclear Politics, Atomic Culture, and Reagan Era Foreign Policy
Selling the Second Cold War: Antinuclear Cultural Activism and Reagan Era Foreign Policy A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy William M. Knoblauch March 2012 © 2012 William M. Knoblauch. All Rights Reserved. 2 This dissertation titled Selling the Second Cold War: Antinuclear Cultural Activism and Reagan Era Foreign Policy by WILLIAM M. KNOBLAUCH has been approved for the Department of History and the College of Arts and Sciences by __________________________________ Chester J. Pach Associate Professor of History __________________________________ Howard Dewald Dean, College of Arts and Sciences 3 ABSTRACT KNOBLAUCH, WILLIAM M., Ph.D., March 2012, History Selling the Second Cold War: Antinuclear Cultural Activism and Reagan Era Foreign Policy Director of Dissertation: Chester J. Pach This dissertation examines how 1980s antinuclear activists utilized popular culture to criticize the Reagan administration’s arms buildup. The 1970s and the era of détente marked a decade-long nadir for American antinuclear activism. Ronald Reagan’s rise to the presidency in 1981 helped to usher in the “Second Cold War,” a period of reignited Cold War animosities that rekindled atomic anxiety. As the arms race escalated, antinuclear activism surged. Alongside grassroots movements, such as the nuclear freeze campaign, a unique group of antinuclear activists—including publishers, authors, directors, musicians, scientists, and celebrities—challenged Reagan’s military buildup in American mass media and popular culture. These activists included Fate of the Earth author Jonathan Schell, Day After director Nicholas Meyer, and “nuclear winter” scientific-spokesperson Carl Sagan. -
Swiss and American Republicanism in the 'Age of Revolution' and Beyond
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Dissertations and Theses City College of New York 2014 A Practical Alternative; Swiss and American Republicanism in the 'Age of Revolution' and Beyond Alexander Gambaccini CUNY City College How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cc_etds_theses/302 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] A Practical Alternative: Swiss and American Republicanism in the 'Age of Revolution' and Beyond By Alexander Gambaccini Adviser: Professor Gregory Downs Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts of the City College of the City University of New York 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Section 1. Introduction ............................................................................................3 1.1 Background ...........................................................................................3 1.2 Historiographical Overview ................................................................11 1.3 Objectives, Methodology and Presentation ........................................12 Section 2. Daniel-Henri Druey and American Democracy: Lessons in Republican Government ...............................................................................................15 2.1 Introduction .........................................................................................15 -
Delay, Cal CV
Brian DeLay University of California 3229 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2550 http://history.berkeley.edu/people/brian-delay [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS - Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: Fall 2010 - Present - Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: Fall 2009 – Spring 2010 - Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder: Fall 2004 – Spring 2009 - Lecturer in History, Harvard University: Spring 2004 EDUCATION -Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: March, 2004 -MA, Harvard University: June, 1998 -B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, summa cum laude: December, 1994 PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH Refereed Publications • “Indian Polities, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations” Diplomatic History 39:5 (December 2015), 927-42. • “Watson and the Shark,” chapter in Brooke Blower and Mark Philip Bradley, eds., The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 2015). • “Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo-New Mexican Borderland,” in Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman, eds., Contested Spaces of Early America, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, pp. 229-256. • Editor, North American Borderlands. Routledge, 2012. • War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008 [paperback, 2009]. • “The Wider World of the Handsome Man: Southern Plains Indians Invade Mexico, 1830-1846,” Journal of the Early Republic 27 (March, 2007), 83-113 • “Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War,” American Historical Review 112 (Feb., 2007), 35-68. Other Publications: • “How the U.S. Government Created and Coddled the Arms Industry,” The Conversation, October 2017 • “How Not to Arm a State: American Guns and the Crisis Of Governance In Mexico, Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries” [24th Annual W.P. -
Lindsay—Spring 2015 (Initial Syllabus)
American Legal History Seminar—Lindsay—Spring 2015 (initial syllabus) LIBERTY, EQUALITY & CITIZENSHIP IN UNITED STATES HISTORY (American Legal History Seminar: Law 864—512) Professor Lindsay Course Overview In a formal, legal sense, “citizenship” refers to the set of rights and obligations that a person acquires by virtue of his or her membership in a political community. As an object of political and cultural discourse, however, the concept of citizenship is often freighted with a much broader set of questions: What does it mean to be American? What are the indices of full membership in the American polity? Who can satisfy the conditions of full membership at a given moment in history, and who cannot? To what kinds of rights and opportunities is a citizen entitled? In this Seminar, we will examine how the meaning of American citizenship has been transformed between the nation’s founding and the middle of the twentieth century. We will consider how both the content of, and criteria for admission to, full citizenship have evolved in relation to profound upheavals in American life and labor, and the gradual, if halting, ascendency of racial and gender egalitarianism. In doing so, we will place particular emphasis on two foundational, yet perpetually contested and remarkably protean, elements of American civic identity: “liberty” and “equality.” Class Meetings: Wednesday, 6:15-9:00 p.m., in AL 109 Office Hours: Tuesday, 2:00-4:00, and by appointment, in AL 513 Course Materials Required Text: ERIC FONER, THE STORY OF AMERICAN FREEDOM (1998) [available at the UB Bookstore] Additional required readings will be posted on TWEN. -
APUSH (2016-17) APUSH: Summer Reading Assignment Mr
Name APUSH (2016-17) APUSH: Summer Reading Assignment Mr. Hess ± [email protected] Reading is fundamental for passing this course. Read everything including charts, maps, picture captions, etc. Following directions is just as important. As there are many aspects to this summer assignment, please read these directions carefully and contact me with questions. You can never ask too many questions! Please feel free to contact me via email over the summer. I will always try to respond within 24 hours. Part 1 ± Chapter Outlines & Identifications Read chapters 1-3 of the American Pageant, 16th edition. Outline the chapters while you read. Highlight each of the attached identifications in your outline. Focusing on IDs is vital for doing well in this course. Learning what to include in an outline and what to leave out is also a vital skill. The list of the IDs can be found at the end of this packet. When outlining, you should consider the following: 1. Read for true understanding. Do NOT just copy lines from the textbook. Do NOT copy the entire chapter in outline form. Put the textbook into your own words to show true understanding of and engagement with the text. An example of writing in your own voice might be making fun of someone you find to be ridiculous or giving a heroic nickname to someone you find to be heroic. Make sure your voice is clear in your outline 2. Read and outline for true significance. Consider and explain the significance of each ID. Consider: why did the authors include this information? As you outline, consider whether each ID is important or extremely important. -
Reviewing the Oxford History of the United States
Journal of American Studies, 45 (2011), 3, 407–441 f Cambridge University Press 2011 doi:10.1017/S0021875811000508 America the Good, America the Brave, America the Free: Reviewing the Oxford History of the United States TREVOR BURNARD Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (rev. ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). INTRODUCTION With the publication of Gordon S. Wood’s Empire of Liberty, the Oxford History of the United States, first envisioned nearly fifty years ago, has finally reached the two-thirds mark. Seven of its eleven chronological volumes and one thematic volume are now published. This essay reviews these eight works. It would be best to wait until all twelve volumes are published but, given the glacial progress of the series, who can wait that long? The first volume, Middlekauff’s narrative of the American Revolution, was published in my final year as an undergraduate. -
2013 OAH Annual Meeting ◆ San Francisco, California | 1 T Attractions in Attractions in San Francisco San Francisco
welcome here are few cities in the United States where members of the OAH prefer to meet more than the City by the Bay. San Francisco as a conference Tcity or as a tourist destination is hard to beat—it has something for every visitor. Our 2013 program, likewise, has something for every OAH conferee. The program committee, so ably cochaired by Tom Guglielmo and Erika Lee, assembled sessions, panels, workshops, and plenaries that link to nearly every subfield of American history. A large number link directly to the conference theme of “Entangled Histories,” which explores the complexities, intersections, and tensions that characterize so much of US history. Although we cannot promise ideal California weather in April, we can promise an engaging and rich intellectual experience. Plenary sessions, featuring an outstanding cast of colleagues, will consider two different topics. The first, titled “Freedom Struggles”—in commemoration of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago—will address benchmark Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service developments in the long history of Americans’ pursuit of equality. A second plenary will focus on the topic of “corporations in American life,” a subject of enormous importance to the history of industrial capitalism in the United States. It is a topic with a contemporary resonance that matches its historical significance. Both plenary sessions reflect “entangled histories,” the first about race, in knowledge about the area; a bus tour of the Mission ideologies of difference, and power, and the other about District’s world-famous murals; or a must-see tour of the wealth, class, and power. -
Brian Delay University of California 3229 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2550 [email protected]
Brian DeLay University of California 3229 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2550 http://history.berkeley.edu/people/brian-delay [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS - Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: Fall 2010 - Present - Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: Fall 2009 – Spring 2010 - Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder: Fall 2004 – Spring 2009 - Lecturer in History, Harvard University: Spring 2004 EDUCATION -Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: March, 2004 -MA, Harvard University: June, 1998 -B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, summa cum laude: December, 1994 PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH Refereed Publications • “Indian Polities, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations” Diplomatic History 39:5 (December 2015), 927-42. • “Watson and the Shark,” chapter in Brooke Blower and Mark Philip Bradley, eds., The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 2015). • “Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo-New Mexican Borderland,” in Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman, eds., Contested Spaces of Early America, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, pp. 229-256. • Editor, North American Borderlands. Routledge, 2012. • War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008 [paperback, 2009]. • “The Wider World of the Handsome Man: Southern Plains Indians Invade Mexico, 1830-1846,” Journal of the Early Republic 27 (March, 2007), 83-113 • “Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War,” American Historical Review 112 (Feb., 2007), 35-68. Other Publications: • “How the U.S. Government Created and Coddled the Arms Industry,” The Conversation, October 2017 • “How Not to Arm a State: American Guns and the Crisis Of Governance In Mexico, Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries” [24th Annual W.P.