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Dr. Kevin F. Decker
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Department of History
State University of New York
College at Plattsburgh


HISTORY 102:  UNITED STATES CIVILIZATION SINCE 1877

Summer 2005

ASSIGNMENTS

Map Quiz Topics:
Quiz I:      United States 
                 (Atlas of American History, 64-65).
Quiz II:     U.S. Overseas Possessions & Europe 1914
                 (Atlas of American History, 47, 50, 62).

Quiz III:     Europe 1939/Far East 1941 & South East Asia
                  (Atlas of American History, 56-7, 59).
Sample Outline Maps:
United States
World Projection
Europe 1914
Europe 1939
East Asia
Examination Topics:
Exam I:
Von Drehle, David.  Triangle:  The Fire that Changed America.  New York, NY:  Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003.
Exam II:
Moody, Anne.  Coming of Age in Mississippi.  New York, NY:  Dell Publishing, Laurel Books, 1968.

Directed Readings:
The Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876
Massacre At Wounded Knee, 1890
The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, 1892
Train Robbery, 1899
The Death Of President Garfield, 1881
Andrew Carnegie Features
Mother Jones:  The Miners' Angel
"Civilization in Southern Mills" (1901)
The World's Columbian Exhibition, 1893
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Archive of the American Eugenics Movement
Children At Work 1908-1912
Child Labor in America
Triangle Factory Fire
Zimmerman Telegram
Gas Attack, 1916
President Wilson Suffers a Stroke, 1919
W. H. Johnson Retrospective
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
African American Holocaust
The London Blitz, 1940
Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941
"Loose Lips Sink Ships"
Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944
Poster Images of the Second World War
The Long Telegram
Levittown:  Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
The Story of Silent Spring
The Stonewall Riot and Its Aftermath, 1969
Woodstock Festival, 1969
Excerpts from an Iran Hostage's Diary, 1979
A Concrete Curtain:  The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall

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