Big Business and Big Ideas.
Read Ayers, American Passages, Chapter 17: An Economy Transformed:
The Rise of Big Business, 1877-1887
Review the
SHDB entries for 1877-1887.
Browse through the Wikipedia lists of
Inventions of the 1870s and
1880s. Pick three or four of these inventions and browse the related articles.
To the extent you can determine these, where were the items invented, by whom,
and under what circumstances?
You may optionally read the article by Robert Higgs,
"American Inventiveness, 1870-1920," Journal of Political
Economy 79, (May - June 1971): 661-667.
Preliminary Episodes List Due.
Please register as a student in the History Engine, using the
code provided on the
SHDB/History Engine pagei on the course website.
Please email me your preliminary list of History Engine episodes
and documents and post a copy to the
course discussion board before class today. See the
Project Guidelines page and the
History Engine Students Page for details.
You may also find it useful to look at the Peer Editing Worksheet that your reviewer will use to evaluate your contributions.
We will meet in a computer lab (LRC) today.
Gilded Age America as Transnational America.
Read Ayers, American Passages, Chapter 18: Urban Growth and
Farm Protest, 1888-1893.
Review the
SHDB entries for the years 1888 and after.
No Meeting Today.
Fall Weekend.
No Meeting Today.
Fall Weekend.
Please be sure that you have updated your research journal for this week.
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