I. Overview of literature
     A.  Poetry
     B.  Short Story
     C.  Novel
     D.  Drama

II. Overview of Beginning era/Gilded Age 1877-1900
“The Lottery”–ss (262); “The World Is Too Much With Us”-poem (978)
    A. Great Concentration of Wealth
    B. Panic of 1873
    C. Conditions of Workers Week 2
         1.Women in Sweat Shops
         2. Child Labor - “The Chimney Sweeper”–poem (739)
         3. Coal Miners
         4. Meat Packing
     D. Growth of cities and problems of the cities
          “London”–poem (778); “Chicago”–poem (handout); “Fog”- poem (1086)
          “Acquainted With the Night”- poem (919)
      E. Political Corruption
        1.City Bosses–example of Tammany Hall–Richard Croker
        2. State Bosses–example of NY GOP–Tom Platte
        3. Political Spectrum in 1876
        4. Crime of ‘76
        5. Bureau of Indian Affairs and NYC Customs’ House
            The Jungle by Upton Sinclair-- novel (begin)

III. Industrialization–Why/Catalysts
“Those Winter Sundays”–poem (1074); “God’s Grandeur”–poem (875)
“Dover Beach”- poem (1141)
     A. Huge Civil War spending and war profiteering
     B. Business tied itself to Republican Party--Economic Realities
           1. Morrill Tariff
           2. Tight Fiscal Policy
           3. Railroads and government subsidies
      C. Great Natural resources
      D. Huge Labor force–New Immigration
      E. New innovations and inventions
III. New Immigration
“America”–poem (1007)

IV. Political Developments–Era of the Fat Presidents1880-1892
      A. 1880 election and Garfield
           1. Assassination of Garfield
           2. Pendleton Act
      B. Chester A. Arthur
      C. 1884 election and Cleveland
           1. Interstate Commerce Act
           2. Beginnings of unions
      D. 1888 election and Hayes
           1. McKinley tariff and Sherman Silver Purchase Act
           2. Billion dollar Congress
           3. Sherman Anti-trust Act

V. Populism Week 5
“Mending Wall”–poem (1176); “Birches”–poem (1175)
“The Road Not Taken”-poem (912)
      A. Regional Background
      “Barn Burning”-ss (178) “A Rose for Emily”–ss (29)
      B. Non-political efforts
      C. Political Party
      D. Populist party Platform of 1892
      E. Election of 1892 and Cleveland’s second term
      F. Election of 1896–End of Populist threat

VI. Progressivism
“Out, Out”–poem (710); “Miniver Cheevy” poem (1232)
“Richard Cory”-poem (842) “My Papa’s Waltz”–poem (718)
      A. Overview of thought
      B. Local level
      C. State level
      D. National level
            1. Theodore Roosevelt
                  a) Anti-trust action
                  b) Anthracite coal strike
                  c) Re-election 1904
                  d) Meat Inspection Act
                  e) Pure Food and Drug Act
                  f) Conservation
            2. William Howard Taft
                  a) His progressive views
                  b) Fight with TR
            3. Wilson
                  a) Underwood Tariff
                  b) Federal Reserve Act
                  c) Clayton Anti-Trust Act
                  d) Federal Trade Commission Act
TEST ONE–Henretta (pp. 454-632) and any literature discussed to this point. (February 27, 2006 - tentative date)

Week 8

     C. On the home front
     D. Versailles Peace Conference and the League of Nations fight
     E. Women’s right to vote and prohibition
     “The Storm”-ss (127); “Sweat”-ss (594);“Chrysanthemums”-ss (253)
     F. Election of 1920

VIII. Roaring Twenties
      A. Political corruption of Harding
      B. Social history of the decade
      “America”–poem (1007); “Theme for English B”–poem (1122)
      “Harlem” [Dream Deferred]–poem (1124); “I, Too”–poem (1118)
      “A Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1117); The Great Gatsby novel
      C. Suffering Agriculture
      D. TVA
      E. 1928 election

IX. Great Depression
      A. The Big Crash
      B. America at rock bottom
      C. Hoover does nothing
            1. Europe’s fault
            2. Raise the Tariff
            3. RFC–too little too late
      D. 1932 election

X. New Deal
      A. 1st hundred days
      B. 2nd hundred days
      C. Courtpacking

XII. Cold War
      A. Truman
            1. Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
            2. Fall of Eastern Europe and Berlin Blockade
            3. Bi-partisan foreign policy, NATO formed
            4. Communist China
            5. Korea
      B. Eisenhower and end of Korean War
      C. Vietnam
           The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien -- novel
      D. Afghanistan
      E. Fall of Berlin Wall End of Communist Threat
      F. The world’s only superpower

XIII. McCarthyism
Civil rights
“Everyday Use”–ss (102); To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee--novel
“Revelation”–ss(443); “Ballad of Birmingham”–poem (847)
      A. Background
      B. Brown vs. Board of Education
      C. Montgomery Bus Boycott
      D. Little Rock Central High School
      E. March on Washington–I Have a Dream
      F. Assassination of JFK and Johnson
            1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
            2. Voting Rights Act
            3. Fair Housing Act
      G. Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
      H. Later civil rights movements

XIV. Suburbia to Drugs 1950s to 1960s
“Men at Forty” (1015); “Cathedral”–short story (109)
“Autumn begins in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio”-poem
XV. Watergate and later politics
      A. Nixon and Watergate
      B. Carter and “moral leadership”
      C. Reagan years and greed
      D. Bush, the Gulf War, and paying for the Reagan Years
      E. Clinton

FINAL EXAM: Henretta (pp. 780-935); all lectures and presentations