HISTORY 101

Course Organizer and Lecturer: Dr. Robert R. Dykstra Web Resource Organizer: Dr. Gerald Zahavi Discussion Leader: Chris Cyphers

Instructors Dr. Robert Dykstra TB 302-2, Office Hours: Tues.,Wed. 4-5 Dr. Gerald Zahavi TB 202-2, Office Hours: Wed. 9-12 and 2-4; Th. 2:30-5 Chris Cyphers (TA) TB 308-1, Office Hours: Monday 1-2:30			Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!				Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!

Students will be expected to acquire a minimal level of computing literacy in the course. Toward that end, instructors will spend some time early in the semester introducing students to the Internet and to the use of WWW browsers. There are presently millions of pages of primary historical sources (texts, videos/films, oral "testimony," and graphical images) on the Web. Each day, thousands more appear. Learning how to access and use these electronic documents is an important skill -- one that all educated people should acquire.

Computers with Web browsers (specifically Netscape) will be available to History 101 students in LC-15; we will announce the schedule to the room in class. There are other sites around campus with Netscape-loaded computers and we will let you know where and when you can use them when we meet. Those of you who already have a computer and modem will be able to access the WWW on your own schedules.

Three "period" novels:

• Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893).
  
• Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead (1948).
  
• Marilyn French, The Women's Room (1977).
  

• Thomas A. Bailey and David M. Kennedy, The American Pageant (1994), vol. II

Part 1: Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, World War I (1865-1920)

Disc/ Jan. 24/27 Computer lab: how to use the Worldwide Web

Assignments: none

LC/ Jan. 30 Video (Lecture 2): Ethnic Notions

Disc/ Jan. 31/Feb. 3

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 487-91, 493-94, 497-503, 505-06, 518-19, 579-80, A1, A17-18

Web links:

• Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868
  
• Booker T. Washington's Views on Race, Economics, and Social Progress
  B. T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) and selections from Up from Slavery (1901)
• Up From Slavery
  The complete text of Booker T. Washington's autobiography.
  
• Mary Church Terrell on African-American Women in the Post-Reconstruction Era (1898)
  "The Progress of Colored Women," by Mary Church Terrell, President, National Association of Colored Women. An address delivered before the National American Women's Suffrage Association at the Columbia Theater, Washington, D.C., February 18, 1898.
  
• Selections from W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folks, 1903
  
• Voices from the 1930s (The WPA Life Histories Collection) The Life Histories Collection is part of the U.S. Work Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project and Historical Records Survey.
  
• "Reminiscence of a Negro Preacher" (1939). One item from the above collection.
  
• Rural Blacks in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina: Mattie Hammond Harrell's Story (1938). Another selection from the Life Histories Collection.
• A Black North Carolina Tenant Farmer's Life (1938). Yet another selection from the WPA Life Histories Collection.

LC/ Feb. 6 Lecture 4: "Imperialism"

Disc/ Feb. 7/10

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 568-76, 641-55, 662-65, 668, 671-76, 710-14

Web links:

• Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives
• Mark Twain as Critic of the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902
• Kipling's The White Man's Burden and its critics
• The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair

LC/ Feb. 13 Lecture 6: "Progressivism"

Disc/ Feb. 14/17 no sessions [Washington-Lincoln Day]

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 539-51, 608-09, 681-91, 698, 703-10

Web links:

• Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works
• A Glove Cutters' Strike (Fulton County, N.Y. 1914). Original transcription of worker and management testimony concerning a 1914 strike in upstate N.Y. This is part of the "Glovers of Fulton County" WWW site soon to appear on the SUNY-Albany home page. The "Glovers of Fulton County" is the first multimedia venture of the History and Media Project of the Department of History. This selection was typed by Debbie Neuls from an original copy of the Board of Mediation and Arbitration hearing records.

LC/ Feb. 20 Lecture 8: "U.S. Entry into WWI: Internal Factors"

Disc/ Feb. 21/24

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 714-19, 722-42; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Web links:

LC/ Feb. 27 First Examination

Disc/ Feb. 28/Mar. 3

Assignments: No reading assignment

Web links:

LC/ Mar. 6 Lecture 11: "Cultural Conflict in the Twenties"

Disc/ Mar. 7/10

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 745-55, 764-65, 768-71, 774-82

Web links:

• N.Y.S. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities (Lusk Committee). Introduction to the printed guide to the records of the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities, giving background information on the Committee.
• Example 1: Original Scanned Informant's Report Sent to the Lusk Committee. This document is directly drawn from Prof. Gerald Zahavi's research on labor and radicalism in America. It, and the ones that follow, profile post-WWI radicalism in Broome County, New York. Broome County radicals were a divided lot in late 1919. This division--shared by many of their comrades across the nation--reflected the strength of ethnic and national chauvinisms, the general crisis in American socialism precipitated by World War I, and the impact of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. The vast majority of the County's radicals were right wing socialists, but there was also a substantial pro-Bolshevik left-wing. Local socialists were organized into a number of foreign language federations -- Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Russian, and so on. This document is a report on pro-Bolshevik Lithuanians active in Binghamton N.Y. [Source: N.Y. State Archives]
• Example 2: Original Scanned Informant's Report Sent to the Lusk Committee. An informant's report on a recent Socialist Party meeting in Binghamton. It was written by Julia Preston, a Binghamton Press reporter fluent in a number of East European languages. Preston, a right-wing socialist who detested pro-Bolshevik left-wingers, attended many local socialist meetings. Little did her comrades know that she was sending regular reports on their activities to the state legislature. Preston identified herself in her correspondence as agent 100. [Source: N.Y. State Archives]
• Example 3: Original Scanned Informant's Report Sent to the Lusk Committee. Here's another report by Julia Preston (agent 100), this time with a fascinating profile of the cultural world of Slovak radicals. [Source: N.Y. State Archives]
• Transcribed Versions of Informants' Reports and Correspondence Sent to the Lusk Committee. Here are more informant reports, this time from A. Adomaitis, along with correspondence from the Chief Investigator of the Lusk Committee and Binghamton attorneys responsible for relaying the reports to the Committee.
• Selection from 1921 FBI File on Broome County, NY Radicals A fascinating account of religious conflicts, Endicott radicals, and George F. Johnson, head of the Endicott-Johnson Company. E-J was a shoe manufacturing firm with plants in Endicott, Johnson City, and Binghamton, N.Y.
• Red Scare, Broome County, I. An article in the Binghamton Press from 1919, illustrating the erosion of civil liberties during the red scare years.
• Red Scare, Broome County, II. Two articles from the Binghamton Press from 1919. More examples of the erosion of civil liberties.
• The Edge Trimmers and the Patriarch. Endicott, NY (1927). A transcription of a conversation between the head of the Endicott Johnson Corporation and a group of employees. The Endicott Johnson Corporation instituted paternalistic practices in the 1890s. Under the direction of George F. Johnson, the company became a quintessential practitioner of both corporate and community welfare capitalism by the 1920s.

LC/ Mar. 13 Lecture 13: "Economic Stabilization"

Disc/ Mar. 14/17

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 782-89, 794-800, 804-11

Web links:

• Reminiscence of the Great Depression.
• Timeline of the 1920s and the Depression Era.
• FDR's 1935 State of the Union Address.

LC/ Mar. 20 Lecture 15: "The Social Programs of the New Deal"

Disc/ Mar. 21/23

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 802-04, 811-21; The Naked and the Dead, pp. 3-721

Web links:

• WPA -- African American Mosaic Series (prints and descriptions).
• The Flint Sitdown Strike.
• An Interview with a Shoeworker from Johnson City, N.Y..
• FDR's Second Inaugural Address. .

LC/ Apr. 3 Lecture 17: "The United States in World War II"

Disc/ Apr. 4/7

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 789-91, 827-44, 847-51, 858-73

Web links:

• Target Committee Meeting Minutes, May 10-11, 1945.
• Atomic Bomb Decision -- Bard Memorandum, June 27, 1945.
• Atomic Bomb Decision -- Truman Tells Stalin, July 24, 1945.
• Atomic Bomb Decision -- Truman Diary, July 25, 1945.
• Atomic Bomb Decision -- Official Bombing Order, July 25, 1945.
• Atomic Explosion Sites: Nevada Test Site.
• Atomic Explosion Sites: Trinity Site.
• The City of Hiroshima: Effects of the Nuclear Bomb Blast. A WWW exhibit by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Disc/ Apr. 11/14

Assignments: No reading assignment

Web links:

• Harry S. Truman and the "Truman Doctrine," March 12, 1947.
• Sect. of State George C. Marshall's "Marshall Plan" Speech, June 5, 1947.
• "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges," 1949.

LC/ Apr. 17 Lecture 20: "The Cold War: Asia"

Disc/ Apr. 18/21 no sessions [Passover]

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 886-96, 900-02, 916-17, 921-23, 932-36, 940-42, 945-50, 960-62, 969-70, 973-75, 1000-04

Web links: None this week.

LC/ Apr. 24 Lecture 21: "Communism, Espionage, McCarthyism"

Disc/ Apr. 25/28

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 884-85, 898-900, 910-14, 936-40, 942-45, 1031

Web links:

• Anticommunism at Columbia University. From the Columbia Spectator, Wednesday, April 8, 1953
• Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of Two Men. From the New York Times, Sunday, December 12, 1948.
• Is This Tomorrow? (poster, 1947).
• The [political] "outing" of Richard Edsall. A brief excerpt from: SUBVERSIVE INFLUENCE IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS: Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and other Internal Security Laws of the Comm on the Judiciary, US Senate, 82nd congress, 2nd session, Sept. 8, 9, 10, 23, 24, 25, and Oct. 13, 1952.
• Fred Schwarz, You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists). On brainwashing and literature. Published by the Christian Anti-Communists Crusade and Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960
• Fred Schwarz, You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists). On children and literature. Published by the Christian Anti-Communists Crusade and Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960.
• Homosexuals in government, 1950. From the Congressional Record, volume 96, part 4, 81st Congress 2nd Session, March 29 -- April 24, 1950, (pages 4527-4528).
• Runaway Daughter (1953). Hollywood film -- poster and promotional copy.
• I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951). Hollywood film -- poster and promotional copy.

LC/ May 1 Lecture 23: "Civil Rights, 1945-1965"

Disc/ May 2/5

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 896-98, 908-10, 918-19, 933-36, 981-82, 994, 996-97; The Women's Room, pp. 1-503

Web links:

• SNCC Position paper on Vietnam
• COINTELLPRO: FBI Intelligence on Albany-area civil rights activity.
• The Book Stokely Carmichael Clips.
• Civil Rights Chronology.

Assignments: American Pageant, pp. 882-83, 906-08, 919, 923-25, 950-53, 966-69, 971-73, 976-77, 987-93,1007-11

Web links: No assignment