Assignments for HIS400

Reading Schedule for History 400 from February 24 through March 12th.

Entire Class
Hammack, entire by March 3rd
Tebeau, “Cultural Gardens” for March 12th

We will divide into three groups to prepare the readings below for discussion for Feb. 24, 26, and March 3.

Group 1
Cohen, “Ethnicity in a New Era” and “Living and Working in Chicago” and “Encountering Mass Culture” (see HIS304)
Group 2
Bodnar, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, and Chapter 7
Group 3
Hine, “Gender Dimensions”
Grossman, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, and “White Man’s Union”
Review of Jacob Lawrence images, http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/art/index.html and attendant stories http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/arts/design/28lawr.html.

For March 3, 5, and 10 we will discuss Hammack.

For March 12, we will discuss the Cultural Gardens.

Your next essay is due on March 12th.