February 14-16: The Era of World War I

Read for Feb 14 class: note that some of this material will help you prepare for the role play on Thursday, so you might want to note who you will role play then

· Give Me Liberty, 719-739 (up to Liberty in Wartime)

· Observing Haiti

· “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier”: Singing Against the War another version

· Wilson in Voices of Freedom, 90-94

· Orgies of Ruthlessness another version

· "Get the Rope!" Anti-German Violence in World War I-era Wisconsin Farmer another version

Questions:

1) Why did the U.S. intervene in Latin America, in first two decades of the 20^th century? What arguments justified or supported intervention? How might Haitians have viewed U.S. claims for increased democracy through U.S. intervention?

2) Compare and contrast the arguments for and against U.S. intervention in WWI.

3) How did the U.S. government mobilize the public to go to war?

4) What relevance does WWI hold for your consideration of recent U.S. mobilization for war?

Read for Feb 16 class:

· Give Me Liberty, 739-762

· Voices of Freedom, 94-98, 103-112

· Chicagoans Cheer Tar Who Shot Man another version

Role Play/Debate 2: You will be asked to role play one of these characters, drawing on the writings below primarily, but also using assigned materials . Read both of these carefully to be prepared to do this, and also draw on chapter readings.

Madison Grant on Immigrants

Randolph Bourne in Voices of Freedom, 98-103

For preparation for the following, make key points you would make in defense of your position, noting where you got them. You will be required to turn in a copy of your preparation notes for the role play below

Role Play/Debate: It is 1919, just as the Palmer Raids are taking place, and you are on the street and you hear an exchange between a radical soap box speaker (just before he is arrested!) and a member of his audience about the conviction of Eugene Debs under the Espionage Act and the roundup of radicals. Be prepared, using the assigned documents to take a pro or con position on his conviction and the repression of radicals that is beginning. Please draw on all the readings, not just Debs’ speech for this preparation

Last Name begins with A-L: prepare to support Debs’ conviction and the round-up of radicals

Last Name begins with M-Z: prepare to oppose Debs’ conviction and the round-up of radicals

Question: How were freedoms restricted at home in WWI and after? Do you think they have any relevance for the present?

WWI Mobilization

· John Reed’s “What About Mexico?”: The United States and the Mexican Revolution

· “Avoid the Use of the Word Intervention”: Wilson and Lansing on the U.S. Invasion of Mexico

· “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier”: Singing Against the War

· Over There! Patriotic Music

· The Zimmerman Telegram: Bringing America Closer to War

· Making the World “Safe for Democracy”: Woodrow Wilson Asks for War

· War Is “a Blessing, Not a Curse”: The Case for Why We Must Fight

· Four Minute Men: Volunteer Speeches During World War I

· “The People Were Very Peaceable”: The U.S. Senate Investigates the Haitian Occupation

· Segregation at the Front in World War I

· “This Is How It Was”: An American Nurse in France During World War I

· Gas and Flame in World War I: The New Weapons of Terror

· “His Car Is His Pride”: Ode to a World War I Ambulance

· “Bombed Last Night”: Singing at the Front in World War I

· A Puerto Rican Migrant Protests Labor Conditions During World War I

· Puerto Rican Laborers during World War I

African-Americans and the Great Migration

· “Sir I Will Thank You with All My Heart”: Seven Letters from the African-American Great Migration

· Black Migrants Speak Out

· Black Migrants Write Home “Times Is Gettin Harder”: Blues of the Great Migration

· “Cotton Belt Blues”: Lizzie Miles’s Blues Song

Votes for Women

· Suffrage Movement Documents

· Memories of the Movement

· Auto Tours for Women's Suffrage: An Oral Memoir

· Starving for Women's Suffrage: "I Am Not Strong after These Weeks"

· Suffrage On Stage: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition

· Suffrage in Print: Alice Duer Miller's Satiric Journalism

· Singing for Suffrage: A Yiddish Musical Dialogue

· Auto Tours for Women's Suffrage: An Oral Memoir

· Jailed for Freedom: A Women's Suffragist Remembers Prison

· Starving for Women’s Suffrage

Seattle General Strike

· Excerpt from Howard Zinn, People’s History

· Seattle General Strike Project—extraordinarily rich resource—loaded with information

· Seattle General Strike of 1919

Postwar Red Scare:

· Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Makes “The Case against the Reds”

· Red Scare (images and documents-vast collection)

· “I Glanced Up—The Statue of Liberty!”: Emma Goldman Describes Her Deportation in the Era of the Red Scare

· The Red Scare of 1919-1920 in Political Cartoons from Jim Zwick’s website--terrific

· Basic Background to the Red Scare

· Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Makes “The Case against the Reds”

· “The Making of a Red” –satire on how easy it was to label someone as unpatriotic

· Emma Goldman Describes Her Deportation in the Era of the Red Scare

· Red Scare- major set of photographs from the Literary Digest, a mainstream publication, depicting the great fear of subversion

Chicago Race Riot of 1919

· “Chicago and Its Eight Reasons”:

· “Ghastly Deeds of Race Rioters Told”

· “Says Lax Conditions Caused Race Riots”

· “The Problem” and “Family Histories”

· The Chicago Daily Tribune Reports the Chicago Race Riot, 1919

· 38 documents and a lesson plan on the Chicago Race Riot (this site has middle school and high school lesson plans for a number of other historical issues as well)