Read: Zinn, Twentieth
Century, skim 1-30- read 31-76, (if you are using the People’s History
you should skim chapter 12 and read chapter 13
And the following
readings (Don’t despair!
These readings are fairly short)
·
How I became a
socialist agitator – Kate Richards O’Hare
·
The
Question of the Maximum by Jack London
·
The Socialist and
the Suffragist by Gilman
·
Black
Radical A. Philip Randolph
Option books for Graduate Students:
Bissett, Agrarian Socialism in America
Weinstein, The Long Detour: The History and Future of the American
Left, 1-106
For
more recommended links on Socialism, see History 498 webpage,
links for “socialism”
Readings for September 23, 2003: Wobblies and Direct Action
Required Reading: Zinn, Twentieth Century 77-109; (if
you are using People’s History you should read chapter 14 and the
beginning of chapter 15, up through steel strike of 1919) Schulz and Schulz, Price of Dissent,
16-33;
on-line reading: Direct
Action and Sabotage, excerpt (if
you’ve bought the book, read the Gurley section; if not then read it on line at this link::
Sabotage
Graduate
Students required: Green, Taking History to Heart,
1-119
For
more recommended links on IWW, see History 498 webpage,
links for IWW
October 7: 1930s: Comrades and agitators
Required Reading:
Zinn, Twentieth Century 128-136, skim 137-181; if reading Zinn
People’s History, 390-397, skim 398-434;
on-line required
reading
Excerpt from
Robin D.G. Kelley, “Comrades, Praise Gawd for Lenin and Them!”
1938 Pecan Shellers
Strike (Texas) documents—read introduction and the documents (which are
very short, or are pictures). Ask these questions: what perspectives on rights,
repression, methods of organization , the uses of anti-communism can you gain
from these primary documents? Was the strike successful? Explain
Graduate Students Option Books:
Bucki, Bridgeport’s socialist New Deal
Weinstein,
Long Detour, 107-168
For
more recommended links on 1930s, see History 498 webpage,
links for 1930s
November 4: New
Left and Anti-War Movement
Read: Zinn, Twentieth Century, 213-254 People’s History version:
And these documents:
· Port Huron
Statement-short version
· Mario
Savio’s speech and “End to History”
· “It Was Like A Weed:” Carl Oglesby
on The 1960s Student Movement
· “Let’s Have a Meeting:” Cathy
Wilkerson on SDS Organizing
· “Bigger Than Anything We
Understood:” Cathy Wilkerson On The Political Culture of SDS
·
A
Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority
·
Martin
Luther King's declaration of independence from the war in Vietnam
For other materials on the 60s movement, see History 498 webpage but for much
much more see my
1960s page
Graduate Students, option book:
Michael Foley Confronting the War Machine: Draft
Resistance During the Vietnam War
Graduate Students,
required Green, Taking History to Heart, 147-165 (If you have
just gotten the book, this needs to be completed by November 18, when we will
discuss it all)
November 25:
These are the selected pages from the Shepard and Hayduk
book: 1-51, 74-80, 88-102, 126-132, 141-149, 192-201, 229-240
Updated: December 2—we will
discuss November 25 assignments.
Be advised that this
course will be extended to the finals week.
Read: Zinn, Twentieth Century, 414-425; Excerpts, Shephard and Hayduk, From ACT UP to the WTO 265-289, 326-350, 389-393
Graduate Students, required: Right to the City, 227-237 Green, Taking History to Heart: 227-280
Graduate Student, Option Book:
Political Protest and Cultural Revolution 157-258;
Weinstein, The Long Detour 248-264