Radical Moments in U.S. History
History 3394
Winter Mini-Semester 2011-2012
Books:
Buzzanco, et al, American Power American
People
Bruce Watson, Bread and Roses
Videos
of Class Lectures, etc.
Week 1:
Class Monday and Tuesday
Begin Bread and Roses,
and American Power American
People
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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Who Should Rule at
Home? (Staughton
Lynd article)
Part I.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J539hOB29MQ
Part II.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKJIyCtknaw
Part III.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCo_SA2J_3w
Part IV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft-yeeZU4gY
Part V.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuxAdHqejc
Whiskey Rebellion
Week 2:
(Take-home Test)
Complete Bread and Roses
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Uprisings and Rebellions in the
New Nation
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Democratic Uprisings and Dorr’s
Rebellion
Slaves and Abolitionists
Post-Civil War
Industrialization, and Proletarianization
1877: The Great Uprising (Video 1)(Video 2)
(Video 3)
The Counterrebellion: Haymarket,
Homestead, Pullman
Haymarket
statements
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Repression and Tragedy: Ludlow and The Triangle Fire (Interview
1) (Interview
2) (Interview
3)
Triangle Fire
Documentary
Agrarian Radicalism: Populists
and Green Corn Rebels ("Cross of
Gold" speech)
Rebels in Bohemia; World War I
Repression of Radicals (Debs speaks
out against the war)
Anarchy and Revolution; American
Bolsheviks
Watch "Reds" (On YouTube in 13
parts, part 1 at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk0Zo3fx4JM)
Sacco and Vanzetti (On YouTube in 14 parts, part 1 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdstXviXwYA&feature=related
Communists, Woody Guthrie, Upton
Sinclair (EPIC, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS77eZVIsXc;
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16xdCQIae4w), Huey Long (Share the
Wealth, "Every Man a
King," Randy Newman
on "Kingfish" ), The Grapes of Wrath ("Who do we
shoot?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JEYHczRar8;
-"I'll be there." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yer4L1Uhayc
)
Woody Guthrie's America:
This land is your land. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS2aE
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The Flint Strike: Interviews, http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/transcript_browser.html
"With
Babies and Banners" (video at
bottom of page)
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The Blacklist and HUAC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJzV6-wJ3SQ&feature=related
The Hollywood Ten.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taancRcLQ8o&feature=related
Jackie Robinson vs. Robeson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9dPSRtyLQ
Robert Taylor rips "Reds". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Z7gA8CFz0&feature=related
Dalton Trumbo at HUAC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFR4RIyekis&feature=related
Reagan at HUAC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saVnq3snkeI&feature=related
Walt Disney at HUAC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWLmfNEzaZo&feature=related
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Cultural Radicalism in the 1950s
Bikers, Beatniks, Jazz and Dope:
Origins of Counterculture
The Wild One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCENBce_dls
James Dean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E1QdvCC0Eg
Howl, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50&feature=related
Howl, part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJDV9z8XvEo&feature=related
Howl, part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FihYsCy9x8A&feature=related
Ginsberg's
"America": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-ANXLaViw
Kerouac on The Beat Generation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jej5d2kYjuQ
Miles Davis, So What: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c
LSD test on housewife. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDTsZn-eM5g
Ram Dass on LSD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hW6Dm_m5t4&feature=related
1950s drug awareness ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H_Z0e7AEFk
Anti-Kinsey ad, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nxkx1YK7CM&feature=related
Anti-Kinsey ad, part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9imRg9IpY&feature=related
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Brown v. Board: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGHLdr-iak
Little Rock Crisis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH-eC4LgZT4
Sit-Ins and SNCC
Birmingham bombing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI9EXuTNB2o&feature=related;
Baez song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shgSLKb-onA
Interview with CR activist re. Birmingham: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02jMtfcMSFA
Birmingham Children's March: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-P5KsltE8Y
JFK speech on CR, June 1963, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYuVKbEPgoc&feature=related;
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vitqaJ7VKqQ&feature=related
Medgar Evers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDF63Bh5OgM&feature=related
March on Washington footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2mU029PkQ&feature=fvsr
Dylan at March on Washington: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWg_JlN0Mw
"I Have a Dream" speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs
Freedom Summer, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6YLm8XxeA&feature=related;
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFpbc2-XoeI&feature=related
Nina Simone, "Mississippi Goddamn": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkcuNX4vrS8&feature=related
Phil
Ochs, "Here's to the State of Mississippi":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IFbJU0VWhE
Fannie Lou Hamer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-RoVzAqhYk
Selma to Montgomery March, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8reaKQgwKg&feature=related; part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS57Svuipas&feature=related; Selma crisis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cNnG8xfy20&feature=related
LBJ signs Voting Rights Act: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDKgduGK8Q
Malcolm X, "Who Taught You to
Hate Yourself?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRSgUTWffMQ;
"By Any Means Necessary," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhg6LxyTnY8;
"The Ballot or the Bullet"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9BVEnEsn6Y;
The Last Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzadDomO5cA&feature=related
From SNCC to Black Panthers
H. Rap Brown speech, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmr2k9vKfVY;
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cf87am2Kz0&feature=related;
part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlGllpoo5Mw&feature=related
Huey Newton on "Firing Line":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ypqCYPduI&feature=related
Stokeley Carmichael, "Black Power" speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWsgT67-RM4
Fred Hampton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnKtNV2NzI&feature=fvsr
Poor People's Campaign
MLK on Vietnam, 4/4/67: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1Ru2p8OfU
MLK "Mountaintop" speech,
4/3/68: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixfwGLxRJU8
Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On?":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s
Gil Scott-Heron, "The
Revolution Will Not be Televised": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6OASOH_66A
; "Whitey on the Moon": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY
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The 60s and the Commodification of Dissent
(Protest/Political Music:
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/gkeep/
ID and PW are buzz)
Final Scene of "Easy Rider":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjYAEtO-Ohk
"Easy Driver" Ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie2oRTkE6rI
"Fortunate Son" ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woyvGwGNGSo
(CCR, "Fortunate Son": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I)
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The New Left
Intellectual Origins: C. Wright Mills (Excerpts from "The
Power Elite": http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Book_Excerpts/PowerElite.html)
The Critique of "Corporate Liberalism"
SDS and "Participatory Democracy": From the Campuses to ERAP,
"An interracial coaliton of the poor"
Port Huron Statement: http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/huron.html
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Stop the War
Final Test--details TBD