Like there's anything else I could add... Arrowhead...

European Imperialism
American Imperialsm
Teddy Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie
Ford- interchangeable parts, assembly line
Women and Child Labor
Immigration
Custer and the West
Progressive Era
Roaring Twenties
Beatnicks
Drugs
Alcohol
Sex

HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, this is extremely late, but I wanted to try and get my post in before it’s all over.

I mainly wanted to comment on chapters 14 and 15 in D and L. These were really interesting chapters for me. The authors do a great job in chapter 14 of showing how something as seemingly objective as the Nixon tapes is, as in the case of Riis’s camera, still in need of critical analysis. D and L also point out how much these tapes show us about Nixon as a person.

Chapter 15, however, was much more interesting for me. The idea of myth-making is so intriguing. D and L do an excellent job of linking the dizzying world of popular culture to historical research and criticism. Having recently watched Apocalypse Now (though never having watched any of the other films mentioned), I was able to take away so much more from the film by reading D and L. The idea that filmmakers are constrained by the demands of drama forces the viewer to ask why the director shoots the film as he or she does.

And while historical accuracy is not the main objective of film, it still serves as a type of historical interpretive framework for society. Society’s views and opinions of history are shaped in many ways by how the subject is treated in popular culture. The protest and patriotic songs we listened to in class serve much the same purpose. As someone very interested in history, it is exciting to explore this relationship between history and popular culture.

Edited by author 02-20-2003 11:12 AM
Arrowhead:

Disenfranchisement
Railroads
Entrepreneurs and the rise of Big Business
Anti-trust laws
Federal Reserve act
US Imperialism
Urban Reform
The –isms: realism, darwinism, social darwinism, naturalism, social criticism
The Indian Wars

After studying the previous terms from the midterm and reviewing my notes, I think the following terms are not only the most important but as students will be the most benefical and useful to us.

1. GI Bill
2. the emergence of the ideal middle-class women (i thought this was interesting p.533)
3.development of Rock n'Roll
4.The Beats
5 John Foster Dulles and his foreign policy agenda
6.Indochina crisis
7. Civil Rights act: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock, Sit-ins, freedom Riders, civil rights legislation.
8. 1960 election (the debate aired on TV)
9.Cuban Missile Crisis.
10. Johnson's Immigration Act.
11. What led to Vietnam War or the aftermath of Vietnam War
12. Youth revolts in the 1960s and the rise of a New Left.
13. Hispanic Rights in the 1960-70s. (important I think b/c it something we do not often contemplate.)
14. The Camp David Accords.
15. Iran-Contra Affair (find this particulary fascinating after hearing Oliver North speak earlier this yr.)
16. Computer Revolution
17. The Balkans
(left out Watergate and other major events such as Gulf War b/c I feel like these are subjects that are always in the spotlight and that we may have studied before.)

Bison Group
I only have eight major points, but I cheated a little and snuck smaller points under those main headings. Here they are:

1. WWI (412-428)
   esp. Fourteen Points (423)
        Versailles Treaty (424-25)
2. Women’s Movement (435-36, 491)
3. “New Negro” and Civil Rights Movement (436-37, 491-92, 517-520)
4. The Crash and Its Causes (451-52)
5. FDR and the New Deal (457-58, 461-72)
6. Pearl Harbor (484-86)
7. WWII (489-508)
   esp. D-Day (498-99)
        Yalta (501-05)
        Atomic Bomb (506-08)
8. Cold War (513-17, 520-27)
   esp. UN (513) and NATO (517)
        Truman Doctrine (515-16)
        Korea (521-25)
        Red Scare (525-526, 428)

Bison:

1. WWI
2. Treaty of Versailles
3. The Twenties
4. The Great Depression
5. 1932 Election
6. The New Deal
7. Neutrality and WWII
8. Pearl Harbor
9. Teheran Meeting
10. Yalta
11. Atomic Bomb
12. Containment
13. Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan
14. NATO
15. Red Scare/McCarthy

Edited by author 02-20-2003 10:41 AM
After the last time with my summary of Picture Windows cutting off. I had to summarize over again in shorter version. I didn't think I would type at a computer again but here it is.
Arrowhead
Disenfranchisement of Blacks
Child Labor Laws
Anti Trust Act
Tariff Issue
Temperance Movement
Railroad Strike 1877
Roosevelt v. Wilson policy
Growth of big business
Progressivism
American Imperialism
Rise of labor unions

Bison Group:

1. Why America entered in WWI
2. The 14 points accepted by the allies
3. The Red Scare
4. The New Deal
5. Dust Bowl Migrants
6. Pearl Harbor
7. Social effects of WWII
8. The Atomic Bomb
9. The Cold War
10. The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
11. Joseph McCarthy

Here ya go....Arrowhead
-Disenfranchisement of Blacks/Jim Crow Laws
-Indian Policy
-Growth of Big Business (Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, etc.)
-Transcontitental Railroads
-Emergence of Urban Culture and accompaning ideologies-Darwinism, Social Darwinism, etc.
-Rise of organized labor/unions
-American Imperialism-Cuba, Panama Canal, Roosevelt's Big Stick, Roosevelt Corollary
-Progressivism
-Federal Reserve Act
-Anti-Trust Laws

Corn Group:

- G.I. Bill
- Emergeance of Suburbs
- Eisenhower
- McCarthy
- Civil Rights
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Vietnam
- Rebellion in 60's and 70's
- Watergate
- Reagan
- Gulf War

Corn Group:

1. The G.I. Bill (530)
2."I Like Ike" and the Dem./Rep. split South(542)
3. SNCC and Sit-Ins(559)
4. I have a Dream(560)
5. The Cuban Missle Crisis (560)
6. Watergate (586)
7. AIDS invades (601)
8. Fall of the Berlin Wall (605)
9. Clinton as peacemaker(624)
10. Election of 2001 (627)

Arrowhead:

-Disenfranchisement
-Railroads (specifically Pacific Railway Bill)
-Trusts (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan)
-Development of Unions
-Migration from rural to urban
-Framing crisis in 1870-1890s and the movements that came out of it (farmer's alliances, populist party)
-Coinage of Silver (1873 Congress drops silver coinage, Bland-Allison Act 1878, and Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1890)
-Progressivism
-Imperalism (Mckinley, Cuba, Phillipians, Roosevelt, Panama Canal)
-"Open-door" policy
-Yellow journalism
-Muckrakers
-Anti-trust laws
-Labor laws

Bison Group

I think these events are worth noting.

Beginnings of Civil Rights Movt and Women's movt
WW I
"Good Neighbor Policy"/Isolationism
The twenties
The Great Depression/ Stock market crash
Red Scare
New Deal/Election of 1932
Pearl Harbor and other events leadin up to WWII
WW II
Yalta Conference
Atomic Bomb
Cold War

Edited by author 02-19-2003 09:22 PM
Arrowhead

I think the following events are of considerable importance:
Private Enterprise
Trade Agreements Act
Disenfranchisement of Blacks
Child Labor Laws
Import Export Bank (1933)
Anti-Trust Act (The Trusts)/Antitrust Laws
Lend Lease Act (1941)
Tariff Issue
FDA
Social Darwinism
Spanish-American War
Temperance Movement
Railroad Strike 1877
Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy

P.S. Thanks Dr. Benson

Edited by author 02-19-2003 08:56 PM
Q. I am having some trouble putting the Custer book into context of this class. Any suggestions about how I should look at the book?

A. The book provides information on several topics and themes. Among these:

1) A soldier's experience in the Civil War.

2) The Plains Indian Wars, and its most famous battle.

3) The conditions and aspirations of middle class women in an age of the ideology of domesticity. What were the limits she faced as a woman? How did she use her femininity (and her widowhood) to her own benefit? Why did she choose to live her widowhood through her husband, instead of by being the fully-functioning autonomous woman she was obviously capable of being, and that other women of the time from similar backgrounds were being while she was not. (Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul spring immediately to mind).

4) What becomes famous in history, and how? The Sand Creek Massacre, Fetterman's Massacre, and the victories of Red Cloud that led to the Black Hills Treaty of 1868, to name three pointed examples, were each far more important in terms of policy and contemporary public reaction than Little Bighorn. Yet because of EBC's desire for a pension and to restore and control her husband's reputation, Little Bighorn is the one EVERYBODY knows. And this is almost entirely due to her relentless promotional efforts.

5) What does the book tell us about the course themes, and about how ordinary people encounter the big events of history?

That will due for starters. You should know when the four or five most major episodes of the book happened, too (most especially including the year of Custer's death).

Edited by author 02-19-2003 07:47 PM
My list was very similar to Kim's for the Bison group:
  Mexican War
  WWI
  The Red Scare
  the Twenties
  the Depression
  FDR's election
  Pearl Harbor
  Black participation in the War
  Internment of Japanese Americans
  Yalta Conference/United Nations
  Atomic Bomb
  Cold War