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Readings Handout #12
Dr. Rezelman

 

Progressivism and the "Great War," 1900-1919
 
  1. The Election of 1900
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "Theodore Roosevelt"  (3 pages)
      2. American History: "Rough Riders"  (1 page)
    2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "Roosevelt, Theodore"  (7 pages)
      2. ANB: "Roosevelt, Theodore"  (10 pages)
      3. EBO: "Roosevelt, Edith"  (3 pages)
         
  2. Progressivism
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "Muckraker Movement"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Jacob Riis"  (2 pages)
      3. American History: "Ida Tarbell"  (2 pages)
      4. American History: "Progressive Movement"  (1 page)
      5. American History: "Temperance Movement"  (2 pages)
      6. American History: "Margaret Sanger"  (2 pages)
      7. American History: "Settlement House Movement"  (1 page)
      8. American History: "Jane Addams"  (2 pages)
      9. American History: "Eugene V. Debs"  (2 pages)
      10. DAH: "Square Deal"  (1 page)
      11. DAH: "Trusts"  (3 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "Muckraker"  (1 page)
      2. American History: "Ray Stannard Baker"  (2 pages)
      3. American History: "Lincoln Steffens"  (2 pages)
      4. American History: "Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)"  (5 pages)
      5. ANB: "Goldman, Emma"  (4 pages)
      6. DAH: "Steel Strikes"  (3 pages)
      7. ANB: "Debs, Eugene Victor"  (5 pages)
      8. EBO: "United States: History: Imperialism, the Progressive Era, and the Rise to World Power, 1896-1920: The Progressive Era: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement" 
        (2 pages)
      9. American History: "Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)"  (2 pages)
      10. DAH: "Conservation"  (8 pages)
      11. Environmental Encyclopedia: "Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American Politician and Conservationist"  (3 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. American History: "Progressive Era"  (4 pages)
      2. American History: "Upton Sinclair"  (2 pages)
      3. DAH: "Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching"  (1 page)
      4. American History: "Emma Goldman"  (2 pages)
      5. DAH: "Industrial Workers of the World"  (5 pages)
      6. DAH: "Antitrust Laws"  (4 pages)
         
  3. "Progressive" Imperialism
    1. main readings
      1. EBO: "Roosevelt, Theodore: Foreign Policy"  (2 pages)
      2. DAH: "Roosevelt Corollary"  (1 paragraph)
      3. DAH: "Gentlemen's Agreement (14 March 1907)"  (1 page)
    2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "United States: History: Imperialism, the Progressive Era, and the Rise to World Power, 1896-1920: American Imperialism: Building the Panama Canal and American Domination in the Caribbean"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Construction of the Panama Canal" 
        (1 page)
      3. DAH: "Panama Canal"  (6 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Latin America, Relations with"  (first 3 of 5 pages)
      2. DAH: "Caribbean Policy"  (first of 2 pages)
         
  4. William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "William Howard Taft"  (2 pages)
      2. EBO: "Dollar Diplomacy"  (1 page)
      3. American History: "Progressive Party"  (1 page)
    2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Dollar Diplomacy"  (2 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. American History: "Gifford Pinchot"  (2 pages)
         
  5. Wilsonian Idealism, 1913-1917
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "Woodrow Wilson"  (4 pages)
      2. EBO: "Wilson, Woodrow: Early Life, Education, and Governorship"  (2 pages)
      3. DAH: "New Freedom"  (1 page)
      4. DAH: "Mexico, Punitive Expedition into"  (1 paragraph)
      5. EBO: "Veracruz Incident"  (half a page)
    2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Taft-Roosevelt Split"  (1 paragraph)
      2. DAH: "Bull Moose Party"  (1 page)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. EBO: "Clayton Antitrust Act"  (1 page)
         
  6. Wilson and World War I, 1914-1919
    1. main readings
      1. World History: "World War I"  (3 pages)
      2. American History: "Woodrow Wilson: Declaration of Neutrality (1914)"  (1 page)
      3. ANB: "Roosevelt, Theodore: The War in Europe" 
        (this section only -- 2 pages)
      4. ANB: "Wilson, Woodrow: Pursuing Impartial Neutrality during World War I"  (this section only -- 2 pages)
      5. EBO: "Sussex Incident"  (1 paragraph)
      6. American History: "Zimmerman Note (1917)"  (1 page)
      7. American History: "Sedition Act (1918)"  (half a page)
      8. American History: "Newton D. Baker: 'The Treatment of German Americans' (1918)"  (1 page)
      9. American History: "Great Migration"  (1 page)
      10. World History: "American Expeditionary Force"  (1 page)
      11. American History: "Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points Speech (1918)"  (2 pages)
      12. EBO: "Versailles, Treaty of"  (2 pages)
      13. American History: "Henry Cabot Lodge: Opposition to the Treaty of Versailles Speech (1919)"  (2 pages)
      14. ANB: "Wilson, Woodrow: The Rejection of the Versailles Treaty by Congress"  (this section only -- 1 page)
      15. American History: "League of Nations"  (1 page)
    2. suggested readings
      1. American History: "World War I"  (6 pages)
      2. DAH: "World War I"  (6 pages)
      3. American History: "Woodrow Wilson: War Message to Congress (1917)"  (6 pages)
      4. World History: "Second Battle of the Marne"  (2 pages)
      5. American History: "John J. Pershing"  (3 pages)
      6. DAH: "Fourteen Points"  (1 page)
      7. American History: "Woodrow Wilson: League of Nations Speech (1919)"  (4 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. American History: "Woodrow Wilson: First Lusitania Note to Germany (1915)"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Committee on Public Information"  (1 page)
      3. DAH: "Women and the Peace Movement"  (1 page)
      4. DAH: "Enemy Aliens in the World Wars"  (2 pages)
      5. ANB: "Wilson, Woodrow"  (everything from "Declaration of War (1917)" onwards)

 

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