Course Calendar Week One Jan 26th Course Introduction: Expectations, Guidelines, and Important Keywords — Jan 28th A Quick Overview of America in the 19th - 20th Century — Ritterhouse Reading Weel Two Feb 2nd Newspapers, Media, and the Creation of Identity — Mitchell Reading Feb 4th Commodifying Identity: The Rise of Advertisements and Selling a Myth — Schultz Reading (Chapter Four and Conclusion ONLY) Week Three Feb 9th Power of the Photograph: How the Other Half Lives — Riis Reading Feb 11th Entertainment as Control: The Dime Novel — Denning Reading Week Four Feb 16th Quiz One — Making an Enemy, Part One: Domestic “Threats” Feb 18th Making an Enemy, Part Two: Incoming Foes – Lee Reading Week Five Feb 23rd Domesticity and Expansion — Kipling Reading Feb 25th The Exclusion — World’s Fair: Hand-Crafting Wexler Reading Week Six March 1st Paper One Due — Making an Enemy, Part Three: Selling Wars Wilson Reading Propaganda Images March 3rd The Birth of a Blockbuster: D.W. Griffith Rewrites American History — Foner Reading Week Seven March 8th Enemies of the New Order The United States and the — – 1920’s Gardner Reading March 10th Against Foes Unnatural: The Great Depression and the Horror Genre — Week Eight SPRING BREAK! (WOO!) —
Course Calendar Week One Jan 26th — Course Introduction: Expectations, Guidelines, and Important Keywords Jan 28th — A Quick Overview of America in the 19th - 20th Century Ritterhouse Reading Weel Two Feb 2nd — Newspapers, Media, and the Creation of Identity Mitchell Reading Feb 4th — Commodifying Identity: The Rise of Advertisements and Selling a Myth Schultz Reading (Chapter Four and Conclusion ONLY) Week Three Feb 9th — Power of the Photograph: How the Other Half Lives Riis Reading Feb 11th — Entertainment as Control: The Dime Novel Denning Reading Week Four Feb 16th — Quiz One Making an Enemy, Part One: Domestic “Threats” Feb 18th – Making an Enemy, Part Two: Incoming Foes Lee Reading Week Five Feb 23rd — Domesticity and Expansion Kipling Reading Feb 25th — The World’s Fair: Hand-Crafting Exclusion Wexler Reading Week Six March 1st — Paper One Due Making an Enemy, Part Three: Selling Wars Wilson Reading Propaganda Images March 3rd — The Birth of a Blockbuster: D.W. Griffith Rewrites American History Foner Reading Week Seven March 8th — Enemies of the New Order – The United States and the 1920’s Gardner Reading March 10th — Against Foes Unnatural: The Great Depression and the Horror Genre Week Eight — SPRING BREAK! (WOO!)
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