The Jazz Age as Internationalism.
Read Guarneri, America, pp. 199-204.
Read the Wikipedia article on the
African American Great Migration, and the Wikipedia biographies of
A. Philip Randolph,
Marcus Garvey,
James Weldon Johnson, and
Jelly Roll Morton.
Progressivism in Historical Interpretation.
Read the Encyclopedia Britannica biographies of
Charles Beard,
Vernon L. Parrington and
Carl Becker.
You may optionally read the Carl Becker article
"Everyman His own Historian" American Historical Review
37 (January 1932), 221-236.
Your prospectus of historiographical issues for your term paper is due by class time today. See the term paper guidelines page for details.
America's Panama.
Finish reading John Lindsay Poland, Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden
History of the U.S. in Panama in preparation for class discussion.
In the author's view, what have been the key landmarks of American environmental policy and action in Panama? How did preconceptions about race shape efforts for scientific and technological development in the canal zone? To what extent were the mistakes he chronicles a result of failures to implement legitimate representative governmental institutions? Under what circumstances are the imposition of authoritarian alternatives necessary abroad to preserve broader American interests at home? If America's client states are not free, is America free? Imagine that you are Jefferson or Madison, or a representative of the First Peoples of the American Plains, or an American shopper -- what perspectives do you bring to this book?
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