Write a research paper covering the first week of September, 7–15, on what it meant to be free in the late 19th century.

Write a research paper covering the first week of September, 7–15, on what it meant to be free in the late 19th century. This week’s focus will be on examining different viewpoints on what it meant for African Americans to live free following the Civil War.please read the document and my previous attempt + its feedback. please message me for any further details or context or access to any material needed. HST 1200, “Introduction to American History since 1877 Fall 2023 CRN #42579 316 Pawley Hall (no longer 201 Dodge Hall) 3:00-4:47 Course Credits: 4.0 Professor: Daniel Clark Office: 407 Varner Hall Contact: djclark@oakland.edu In-Person Office Hours: TR 12:00-1:00, 2:00-2:45 Virtual office hours: MW 2:00-3:00, or by appointment AnnouncementsForum HST 1200: Introduction to U.S. History since 1877 SyllabusFile Required BooksPage Syllabus Question and Answer Forum Introductions Forum How to Get Help with TechnologyPage How to Engage the TextbookPage How to Analyze a Primary Source/DocumentPage How to Actively Watch Documentary FilmsPage Section I: What It Meant to be Free in the Late Nineteenth Century Week 1: September 7-15 This week we’ll mainly be exploring various perspectives about what it meant to be free for African Americans after the Civil War. We’ll also be figuring out how to read primary sources/documents and how to use the textbook effectively. Here’s what you need to do: On or before Thursday, September 7: Introduce yourself in the Introductions Forum (Optional, but encouraged!) Respond to at least two classmates in the Introductions Forum. (Optional, but encouraged!) Read the syllabus. Post questions about the syllabus on the Syllabus Question and Answer Forum. Read the Oral History Assignment Materials. Post questions about the Oral History Assignment on the Oral History Assignment Forum. Read the First Exam Assignment Sheet. Post questions about the First Exam on the First Exam Question and Answer Forum. Thursday, September 7 Attend class with questions about the course, the syllabus, the first midterm exam, and the oral history assignment. Tuesday, September 12 Read How to Engage the Textbook. Read and be prepared to discuss Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Chapter 15, “‘What is Freedom?’: Reconstruction,” pp. 565-603. (I will post Chapter 15 below, but I can’t post any additional chapters from the text. Contact me if you’re having difficulty getting access to Give Me Liberty!, either in hard copy or as an e-book.) Also read and be prepared to discuss Foner, Give Me Liberty!, pp. 661-72. (This section is not posted on Moodle.) Be sure to pay attention to the documents on pp. 576-77, 589, 670-71 Submit Journal Entry #1 by 3:00 p.m. The topic to address: What can we learn from the readings assigned for today about what it meant to be free for African Americans after the Civil War? Attend class with questions and comments about Chapter 15 in Give Me Liberty! (including the documents on pp. 576-77, and 589 and Give Me Liberty!, pp. 670-71). Thursday, September 14 Read How to Analyze a Primary Source/Document. Read Documents for Week 1 Post questions or comments about at least three of those documents before class today on the What It Meant to be Free Forum. Remember that your First Exam is posted so you can explore ideas directly related to that assignment. If African Americans attended the What It Meant to Be Free conference, based on these documents, what issues would they raise? Did African Americans encounter competing views and actions on what their freedom should mean? Be prepared to discuss the documents in class. Our Class’s Sense of What It Means to be Free (9/7/23)File Syllabus Question and Answer ForumURL Oral History Assignment MaterialsFolder Oral History Assignment Forum First Exam Assignment SheetFile First Exam Question and Answer Forum What It Meant to Be Free Forum How to Engage the TextbookPage Give Me Liberty Preface and Chapter 15File Study Questions for Week 1 Readings in Give Me Liberty!File How to Analyze a Primary Source/DocumentPage Documents For Week 1Folder Submit Journal Entry #1 by 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 12Assignment Opened: Sunday, September 7, 2003, 12:00 AM Due: Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 3:00 PM Section I: What It Meant to be Free in the Late Nineteenth Century Week 2: September 18-22 This week, we’ll be exploring themes of economic freedom, including entrepreneurial freedom, and the relative freedom of industrial workers. We’ll also look at how various people interpreted the vast economic changes in the late nineteenth century and the changes in social relationships that they brought. Those perspectives tell us much about conflicting visions of what it meant to be free in the late nineteenth century. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, September 19 Watch the documentary film Out of the Depths: The Miner’s Story (1984, 57 min.) in class. We’ll discuss the film in class, and also be prepared to discuss pp. 605-27 in Chapter 16 of Give Me Liberty!, plus pp. 651-53 (on the Homestead Strike), and pp. 658-59 (on the Rise of the AFL) in Chapter 17 of Give Me Liberty. Post questions, comments, and insights about this week’s material on the What It Meant to be Free Forum, Week 2. Post questions about the First Exam on the First Exam Question and Answer Forum. Thursday, September 21 Read and be prepared to discuss the Documents for Week 2 posted on Moodle for this week. Post questions or comments about the assigned documents on the What It Meant to be Free Forum, Week 2. Submit Journal Entry #2 by 3:00 p.m. on assigned sections in Give Me Liberty! and the film, but especially about the documents posted on Moodle for this week. Bring questions that you raised in your journals to our class discussion. What do the documents have to tell us about what it meant to be free? What confused you about any of the documents? First Exam Assignment SheetFile First Exam Question and Answer ForumURL Documents for Week 2Folder What It Meant to Be Free Forum, Week 2 Out of the Depths: The Miners’ StoryURL Out of the Depths: The Miner’s Story TranscriptURL Submit Journal Entry #2Assignment Opened: Thursday, September 7, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Thursday, September 21, 2023, 3:00 PM Section I: What It Meant to be Free in the Late Nineteenth Century Week 3: September 25-29 This week we’ll focus on competing visions of freedom in lands west of the Mississippi River, among discontented farmers and their opponents, between immigrants and anti-immigrant advocates, among women activists and their opponents, and between U.S. imperialists and those who opposed the takeover of other countries. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, September 26 Be prepared to discuss Give Me Liberty!, pp. 627-44 (The Transformation of the West) in Chapter 16, and 653-61 (The Populist Challenge) in Chapter 17. Watch the documentary film Geronimo and the Apache Resistance (1988, 57 min.) in class. The film will be part of our discussion. Also be prepared to discuss the Documents for Week 3, Part I, posted on Moodle. (Although we’ll most likely get to them on Thursday.) Post questions and comments about the material on the What It Meant to be Free Forum, Week 3. Post questions about the First Exam Assignment Sheet on the First Exam Question and Answer Forum. Thursday, September 28 Be prepared to discuss Give Me Liberty!, pp. 673-90 (Immigration Restriction, Chinese Exclusion, Women’s Activism, and Becoming a World Power) in Chapter 17. Also be prepared to discuss the Documents for Week 3, Part I that we didn’t get to on Tuesday and the Documents for Week 3, Part II, all posted on Moodle. Post questions and comments about the material on the What It Meant to be Free Forum, Week 3. Ask any questions about the First Exam that haven’t been addressed in the First Exam Question and Answer Forum. No journal entry this week. Work on your First Exam. First Exam Assignment SheetFile First Exam Question and Answer ForumURL Documents for Week 3, Part IFolder Documents for Week 3, Part IIFolder What It Meant to Be Free Forum, Week 3 Geronimo and the Apache ResistanceURL Section II: Women’s Suffrage, The Triangle Fire, and the U.S., 1900-29 Week 4: October 2-6 This week we’ll be focusing on the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Three years ago was the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution’s 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. The documentary film One Vote, Part I will be a major resource for this short unit, so post questions and comments about it in our forum and take notes so you can discuss it on Thursday. (The Vote, Part I takes the suffrage story through roughly 1915. Part II, also about 113 minutes long, covers the last five years of the movement. I’m only assigning Part I for this course.) On Thursday, we’ll also spend some time discussing the Oral History Assignment. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, October 3 First Exam Due by 3:00 p.m. Read the Second Exam assignment sheet, Part I, regarding the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Post questions about the Second Exam on the Second Exam Question and Answer Forum. Syllabus Change: Before Thursday’s class, watch the documentary film, The Vote, Part I (2020, 113 min.) on your own. I can’t be in class today because of a positive Covid test. Unfortunately, this documentary film is no longer available for free through PBS. I just found that out as this happened over the summer. The film is now only available through Amazon Prime. If you don’t have access to Amazon Prime, it is possible to view The Vote, Part I for free by signing up for a free seven-day trial of Amazon Prime or purchasing Part I for $2.99. I am extremely sorry about this development. I will reimburse any student for the $2.99 purchase fee if you decide to go that route. The transcript of the film is available and is linked below. Post questions or comments about The Vote, Part I, on the Women’s Suffrage and Triangle Fire Forum . Thursday, October 5 Submit Journal Entry #3 on The Vote, Part I by 3:00 p.m. Discuss The Vote Part I, plus any other posted materials regarding the Women’s Suffrage Movement. During the last half hour or so we’ll discuss the Oral History Assignment. Submit First Exam by 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 3Assignment Opened: Monday, September 25, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 3:00 PM Second Exam Assignment SheetFile Second Exam Question and Answer Forum How to Actively Watch Documentary FilmsPage Watch The Vote, Part I (2020, 113 min.)URL Transcript for The Vote, Part IURL Women’s Suffrage and the Triangle Fire Forum Submit Journal #3 by 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 5Assignment Opened: Monday, September 25, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Thursday, October 5, 2023, 3:00 PM Oral History Assignment MaterialsFolder Oral History Assignment ForumURL Suffragists Mentioned in The Vote: Part IFile Section II: Women’s Suffrage, The Triangle Fire, and the U.S., 1900-29 Week 5: October 9-13 This week we’ll be exploring the Triangle Fire of 1911 in greater depth than other topics. Although I want you to read the narrative introduction to the book, The Triangle Fire, our discussions and your essays will focus much more on the documents, the primary sources, to develop critical thinking skills. After all, this narrative account, and all others, didn’t appear magically. They ultimately came from primary sources. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, October 10 Read the Second Exam Assignment Sheet, Part II, regarding the Triangle Fire. Post questions about the Second Exam on the Second Exam Question and Answer Forum. Read Jo Ann E. Argersinger, The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents, Part One, “Introduction: The Fire That Changed America,” pp. 1-36, for background. In class, be prepared to discuss Part Two, The Documents, pp. 39-72 in The Triangle Fire. Those are the documents under the headings “1. The Garment Industry and Its Workers” and “2. Triangle and the ‘Uprising of the 20,000.’” Post on the Women’s Suffrage and Triangle Fire Forum about any aspect of The Triangle Fire. Thursday, October 12 Be prepared to discuss Part Two, The Documents, pp. 73-120, in The Triangle Fire. Those are the documents under the headings “3. The Triangle Tragedy: Grief and Outrage” and “4. The Fire that Lit the Nation”: Investigations and Reform.” Submit Journal Entry #4 on The Triangle Fire documents, by 3:00 p.m. Which three documents made the biggest impact on you, and why? Second Exam Assignment SheetFile Second Exam Question and Answer ForumURL Women’s Suffrage and the Triangle Fire ForumURL Submit Journal Entry #4Assignment Opened: Monday, October 2, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Thursday, October 12, 2023, 3:00 PM NYT Article on Triangle Fire MemorialURL Section II: Women’s Suffrage, The Triangle Fire, and the U.S., 1900-29 Week 6: October 16-20 This week we’ll be exploring U.S. history more generally from 1900-29. Read the Second Exam Assignment Sheet, Part III, and you’ll see that you’re responsible for a short, focused essay on either Chapter 18 or Chapter 19 in Give Me Liberty!, plus a short, focused essay on one of the two documentary films listed below. Each chapter and each film will have its own discussion forums. Here’s what you need to do: Both films ultimately offer similar interpretations of the decade, but they do so in very different ways. Here are your options: Option 1: The Twenties (1984, 52 min.). This is another installment in the series A Walk Through the Twentieth Century, hosted by our friend Bill Moyers (who brought you Out of the Depths: The Miners’ Story). The Twenties is based on oral history interviews with people who lived during the 1920s along with film footage and music from the era. Post questions or comments about the film on the The Twenties Forum. Option 2: The Twenties in Color (2017, 48 min.). This is a film made of black-and-white footage from the 1920s that has been “colorized,” with voice-over narration. It was first broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel. Post questions or comments about the film on the The Twenties in Color Forum. Tuesday, October 17 Read the Second Exam assignment sheet, Part III. Post any questions about the Second Exam on the Second Exam Forum. Be prepared to discuss Give Me Liberty!, Chapter 18: “The Progressive Era.” This discussion will take roughly the first 45 minutes of the class period. Post questions or comments about Chapter 18 on the Chapter 18 Forum. Click on the Chapter 18 Forum link to see a list of questions and issues to consider while reading this chapter. Watch The Twenties (1984, 52 min.). I’ll show this film to conclude the class session. Post questions or comments about the film on The Twenties Forum. Thursday, October 19 Be prepared to discuss Give Me Liberty!, Chapter 19: “Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916-1920.” This discussion will take roughly the first 45 minutes of the class period. Post questions or comments about Chapter 19 on the Chapter 19 Forum. Click on the Chapter 19 Forum link to see a list of questions and issues to consider while reading this chapter. Watch The Twenties in Color (2017, 48 min.). I’ll show this film to conclude the class session. Post questions or comments about the film on the Twenties in Color Forum. No journal entry due this week. Work on the Second Exam. Second Exam Assignment SheetFile Second Exam Question and Answer ForumURL Chapter 18 Forum, “The Progressive Era: 1900-1916″ Chapter 19 Forum: “Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916-1920” Watch The Twenties in Color (2017, 48 min.)URL The Twenties in Color Forum Watch The Twenties (1984, 52 min.)URL The Twenties Forum Section III: The Great Depression Week 7: October 23-27 This week we’ll begin a short unit on the Great Depression. The centerpiece of this section of the course is a set of documents posted on Moodle that present views of ordinary Americans during this era. We’ll be comparing and contrasting this evidence with the textbook’s account of the Great Depression and the federal government’s response to it, the First and Second New Deals. The appropriate role of the federal government in addressing a domestic crisis was hotly debated then, as it is now. The perceptions of ordinary Americans often don’t fit neatly into standardized narratives of any period. We’ll be exploring those complexities. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, October 24 Second Exam Due by 3:00 p.m. The first priority for today’s class will be to address any questions you have about the Oral History Assignment. We’ll also watch at least a portion of the documentary film Mean Things Happening (1993, 54 min.). Post questions about the film on the Great Depression Forum. Thursday, October 26 Read the Third Exam Assignment Sheet. Post questions about the Third Exam on the Third Exam Question and Answer Forum. Discuss pp. 815-40 in Give Me Liberty!, concerning the Great Depression and the First New Deal, as well as Mean Things Happening. Also, be prepared to analyze in class some of the documents in the first 11 .pdf pages of the file posted on Moodle for this section. Post questions or comments on the Great Depression Forum. Submit Second Exam by 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 24Assignment Opened: Sunday, October 8, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 3:00 PM Oral History Assignment MaterialsFolder Oral History Assignment ForumURL Third Exam Assignment SheetFile Third Exam Question and Answer Forum Great Depression DocumentsFile Great Depression Forum Section III: The Great Depression Week 8: October 30 – November 3 This week we’ll be continuing our investigation of the Great Depression, once again comparing and contrasting the textbook’s overview with the thoughts of ordinary Americans. How can we determine whether or not the First and Second New Deals were effective? Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, October 31 Be prepared to discuss the Great Depression Documents posted on Moodle. Post questions about the documents on the Great Depression Forum. Submit Journal #5, mainly on the Great Depression Documents, by 3:00 p.m. Thursday, November 2 Discuss pp. 840-64 in Give Me Liberty!, concerning the Second New Deal. Post questions about the documents on the Great Depression Forum. Watch an excerpt in class from a promotional film about the Works Progress Administration. Possibly discuss more from the Great Depression Documents collection posted on Moodle. Post questions about the Third Exam on the Third Exam Question and Answer Forum. Submit Journal Entry #5Assignment Opened: Monday, October 16, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 3:00 PM Third Exam Assignment SheetFile Third Exam Question and Answer ForumURL Great Depression DocumentsFile Great Depression ForumURL Watch Mean Things Happening (1993, 54 min.)URL WPA Promotional Film, 1937 (10 min.)URL Section IV: Struggles for Civil Rights Week 9: November 6-9 This week we’ll begin an exploration of various struggles for civil rights. We’ll be piecing together sections from three different chapters of Give Me Liberty! to locate civil rights activism during World War II and in the 1950s before moving to the 1960s. The documentary film Awakenings covers two important events from the 1950s, the murder of Emmett Till and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Then in your reading you’ll encounter an overview of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. We’ll be trying to determine what it takes to change society, much like we did with the Women’s Suffrage Movement. This week’s material will help provide context for an in-depth look at Mississippi Freedom Summer next week. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, November 7 Third Exam Due by 3:00 p.m. Read the Final Exam Assignment Sheet, Part I. Post questions about the Final Exam on the Final Exam Question and Answer Forum. Watch the documentary film Awakenings (1987, 50 min.). Thursday, November 9 Discuss pp. 866-69, 878-904, and 931-34 in Give Me Liberty! Post questions or comments on the Struggles for Civil Rights Forum. Also read pp. 977-87, and 993-1011 in Give Me Liberty! with an eye toward how that material might help you address Part I of the Final Exam. (This language is on the official syllabus but somehow didn’t make it to our Moodle page until I noticed on November 9. It is in play for the Final Exam.) Submit Third Exam by 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 7Assignment Opened: Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 3:00 PM Watch Awakenings (50 min., starting at the 4:33 mark)URL Struggles for Civil Rights Forum Final Exam Assignment Sheet, Part IFile Final Exam Question and Answer Forum Section IV: Struggles for Civil Rights Week 10: November 13-17 This week, we’ll take an in-depth look at a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964. We’ll be exploring what the organizers of Freedom Summer hoped to accomplish, what their decision-making process was like, who was involved, and what they did. We’ll also be learning about the roles of fear and violence during Freedom Summer, and by implication, throughout the Civil Rights Movement. This is also another opportunity to exercise your critical thinking skills while analyzing primary sources. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, November 14 Be prepared to discuss the documents under the headings “The Long Black Struggle for Freedom” and “Organizing Freedom Summer,” pp. 37-98, in John Dittmer, Jeff Kolnick, and Leslie-Burl McLemore, Freedom Summer: A Brief History with Documents. Post questions and comments on the Struggles for Civil Rights Forum. Possibly watch an excerpt from Ain’t Scared of Your Jails (1987, 55 min.). Post questions about the Final Exam on the Final Exam Question and Answer Forum. Thursday, November 16 Submit Journal #6, focusing on the documents in Freedom Summer, by 3:00 p.m. Be prepared to discuss the documents under the headings “Community Centers and Freedom Schools,” “Demanding the Right to Vote,” and “The Atlantic City Challenge,” pp. 99-153, in Freedom Summer. Also read an article or two from the Michigan Chronicle, posted below, about the experiences of African Americans in Detroit in the 1940s and 1950s. We’ll spend a bit of time in class discussing those articles. Final Exam Assignment Sheet, Part IFile Final Exam Question and Answer ForumURL Struggles for Civil Rights ForumURL Michigan Chronicle ArticlesFile Submit Journal Entry #6Assignment Opened: Monday, November 6, 2023, 9:00 PM Due: Thursday, November 16, 2023, 3:00 PM Section V: What it Meant to be Free: The Women’s Movement Week 11: November 20-24 This week we’ll explore the Women’s Movement of the 1960s and 1970s with the help of a documentary film. This material fits into Part III of the Final Exam, but we’re watching it this week because of Thanksgiving on Thursday. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, November 21 Read the Final Exam Assignment Sheet, Part III. Post questions about the Final Exam in the Final Exam Question and Answer Forum. Read Give Me Liberty, pp. 1020-33, “The New Movements and the Rights Revolution” Watch She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014, 92 min.) Post questions or comments about the film on the What It Meant to be Free Forum (Late 20th Century Edition) Thursday, November 23 No Class. Happy Thanksgiving! Nothing is due today, but keep in mind that per the Final Exam Assignment sheet, you’ll need to do some exploring in either Chapter 26, “The Conservative Turn, 1969-1988” or Chapter 27, “From Triumph to Tragedy, 1989-2004” in Give Me Liberty! Raise any questions in class about what you need to do or post them in the What It Meant to be Free Forum (Late 20th Century Edition). Final Exam Assignment SheetFile Final Exam Question and Answer ForumURL Watch She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (92 min.)URL What It Meant to be Free Forum (Late 20th Century Edition) Section VI: Origins of the Cold War and the Vietnam War Week 12: November 27 – December 1 This week, we’ll explore the origins of the Cold War, a global conflict that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, and we’ll link it with the Vietnam War. Our investigation will begin with a flashback to WWII and will continue into the postwar years, piecing together material from Chapters 22-26 in Give Me Liberty! and the film Roots of a War. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, November 28 Read the Final Exam Assignment Sheet, Part II Post questions about the Final Exam on the Final Exam Question and Answer Forum. Be prepared to discuss pp. 869-78, 905-10, 914-29, 934-46, and 948-71 in Chapters 22-24 of Give Me Liberty! Post questions and comments on the Origins of the Cold War and the Vietnam War Forum. Submit Journal #7 focusing on the origins of the Cold War, by 3:00 p.m. Thursday, November 30 Be prepared to discuss pp. 1011-20, 1033-36, and 1047-51 in Give Me Liberty! Watch Roots of a War (1983, 58 min.) in class. Submit Journal Entry #7Assignment Opened: Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 3:00 PM Final Exam Assignment SheetFile Final Exam Question and Answer ForumURL Origins of the Cold War and the Vietnam War Forum The Atlantic CharterURL Watch Roots of a War (58 min.)URL Section VI: What It Meant to be Free: Fast Food Nation Week 13: December 4-8 We’ll conclude the semester by learning about your oral history interview experiences and by with exploring what it meant to be free for people associated with the fast food industry in the late 20th century. Here’s what you need to do: Tuesday, December 5 Today’s class will be devoted to learning from you about your oral history interviews. Presentations about your interviews don’t have to be formal. Instead, we’ll have a sequence of volunteers sharing with the class what they learned from the person they interviewed and what they learned about the interviewing process.This is a great opportunity to learn more about the history you’ve collected this semester. Talking about your interview experience also counts as class participation. Thursday, December 7 Read Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation with the Final Exam in mind. I’ll be available in class to address any questions you have about the book or the assignment. You can always post questions or comments on the What It Meant to be Free Forum (Late 20th Century Edition). Oral History Assignment ForumURL Final Exam Assignment SheetFile What It Meant to be Free Forum (Late 20th Century Edition)URL Final Exams and Oral History Assignments Are Due by 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 14 Submit Final ExamsAssignment Opened: Friday, December 1, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Thursday, December 14, 2023, 3:00 PM Submit Oral History Assignments Opened: Thursday, September 7, 2023, 12:00 AM Due: Thursday, December 14, 2023, 3:00 PM

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