History 142 - United States From 1877

 

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List of Books and Articles for Final

On the final, in addition to ID questions and a longer essay question, you will be asked to give a summary and analysis of an argument made in one of the books or articles we have read for the course (20%).  This will the effect of rewarding students who have been doing the reading in a careful, critical fashion.  The articles and books about which you might be asked (you will be asked about one) include:

Woodward, C. Vann, The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Chafe, William M., The Paradox of Change:

"Playboy Joins the Battle of the Sexes," Barbara Ehrenrel

"The Making of Disneyland" by George Lipsitz

Woodstock and Altamont, by Michael Frisch

"America The O.K.," by Gregg Easterbrook