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dDDepartment of History

 

History 2353

American Youth Culture

Fall 2007

 

Course Schedule and Required Readings

 

Date
Reading
Homework
September 5

First Day of Class

 
Unit 1 -- Labor

September 7

Lecture

September 10

Harriet Robinson on Mill Girls
Strike Documents
Uses of Liberty Among Mill Girls
Harriet Robinson on 1836 Strike

September 12

A Canadian in Lowell, both article and primary documents

September 14

Stansell, chapters 1 and 2

September 17

Stansell, chapter 6

September 19

Ragged Dick, chapters 1 – 12

September 21

Ragged Dick, chapters 13 - Conclusion

September 24

Stansell, chapters 7 and 8

September 26

Laughlin, Where the Trouble Begins
Essay #A - Ragged Dick

September 28

Peiss, Introduction and chapter 1
October 1 Peiss, chapter 2

October 3

Wasserman, Cafes, etc…
October 5
No Class - NGPHC
Evidence Paper #1
Unit 2 -- War

October 8

Boy’s War

October 10

Boy’s War

October 12

Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Riders

October 15

Red Badge of Courage

October 17

Red Badge of Courage

October 19

Jack Wright Letters
Essay #B -- Boys' War

October 22

WWI Draft Legislation: Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States; Joint resolution to continue the military status of persons deserting the military naval service during the World War; Joint resolution providing for the registration for military service for all male persons citizens of the United States; Act to authorize the resumption of voluntary enlistment in the Regular Army and for other purposes

October 24

WWII Draft Legislation: Public Laws, Chapter 112; Public Laws, Chapter 638; Act to provide for the common defense by increasing the personnel of the armed forces of the United States and providing for its training.

October 26

Robin Kelly, Riddle of the Zoot

October 29

We Demand our Rights

October 31

1942 Letters Home

November 2

Transcript for Documentary: America Takes Charge, 1965-1967

November 5

Selective Service and Vietnam Evidence Paper #2
Unit 3 -- Popular Culture

November 7

Stansell, chapters 5 and 10

November 9

Piess, chapters 3 through 7 - in group assignments

November 12

Lynds, Child Rearing

November 14

Hollingsworth, Psychology of the Adolescent

November 16

Lynds, Making a Home

November 19

Hollingshead, Adolescent in the Community, Recreation and Tabooed Pleasures

November 21

Graebner, p. 1-86, p. 87 - 129
Evidence Portfolio

November 23

Thanksgiving Break

November 26

The Delinquints: Censorship and Youth Culture in Recent U.S. History

November 28

Douglas, chapter 1

November 30

Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee Essay #C -- Cheap Amusements or Coming of Age in Buffalo

December 3

Profile of a Noncomformist Youth Culture: A Study of the Berkeley Non-Students.

December 5

Douglas, chapters 3, 4, 5, 7 - in group assignments

December 7

Image is Everything

December 10

Coleman, Emergence of an Adolescent Subculture; Adolescent Culture

December 12 Youth, Rock 'n Roll and Electronic Media

December 14

Why Seattle? , Metal Missionaries

December 20

Enhanced Evidence Portfolio

 

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