Advanced American History
Tuesday -- Hrs 3/4: Complete reading of primary documents entitled Frederick Law Olmstead Accepts the Urban Challenge and Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives. Note their unique focus on urban development, and how many of the optimistic assumptions of Olmstead in 1870 are not realized by 1890 when Riis publishes his account of tenement life.
Hr 5: Notes on immigration/urbanization
Wednesday -- NHD Topic selection work.
American Studies
Monday -- Text assignment based on pages 160-68 (Westward Expansion and American Indians)
Tuesday -- Discussion of text assignment and analysis of changing federal policy directed at Native Americans in the 19th century. You should understand the impact of changing policies from forced Removal, to Reservations, to Assimilation and Allotment.
Wednesday -- A&E Biography -- Sitting Bull
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| photo of Sitting Bull courtesy pbs.org |
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