Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Week One
September 3

September 5

Class Introductions

Give Me Liberty - Chapter 15
Voices "Colloquy With Colored Ministers" (1865) The White South and Black Freedom (1866)

Week Two
September 10

September 12

Give Me Liberty - Chapter 16
Chief Joseph, "Let Me Be a Free Man" (1879)
Social Darwinism (ca. 1880)
The Labor Movement in the Gilded Age (1887)

Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)

Week Three
September 17

September 19

Give Me Liberty - Chapters 17 and 18
John Marshall Harlan, Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Chinese-American Protest (1885)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)
Margaret Sanger on "Free Motherhood" (1920)
Industrial Liberty (1910)
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom (1912)

Week Four
September 24

September 26

Give Me Liberty - Chapters 19 and 20
Woodrow Wilson on America and the World (1916)
Eugene V. Debs, Speech to the Jury (1918)
The Great Steel Strike (1919)

André Siegfried on the "New Society" (1928)
Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Trial (1924)
Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925)

Week Five
October 1

October 3

Give Me Liberty - Chapter 21
Letter to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (1937)
Franklin D. Roosevelt on Economic Freedom (1936)

Herbert Hoover on the New Deal and Liberty (1936)
W. E. B. Du Bois, "A Nation Within a Nation" (1935)

Week Six
October 8

Midterm quiz - Midterm paper due

October 10 - Class Cancelled on October 8 due to weather - see October 8

Give Me Liberty - Chapter 22
START READING AHEAD IN COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI

Four Freedoms (1941)
Henry R. Luce, The American Century (1941)

Justice Robert A. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu vs. United States (1944)

Week Seven
October 15

October 17

Give Me Liberty - Chapters 23 and 24
The Truman Doctrine (1947)
NSC 68 and the Ideological Cold War
Henry Steele Commager on the Loyalty Crusade (1947)

C. Wright Mills on "Cheerful Robots" (1959)
Coming of Age in Mississippi - Parts One and Two

Week Eight
October 22

October 24

Give Me Liberty - Chapter 25
Coming of Age in Mississippi - Part Three

Coming of Age in Mississippi - Part Four

Week Nine
October 29

October 31

Give Me Liberty - Chapter 26
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
Barry Goldwater, "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty" (1964)

Also, the "Smoking Gun" tape of Nixon on Watergate: http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/trial/exhibit_01.pdf

Voices Jimmy Carter on Human Rights (1977)
The Reagan Revolution (1981)

Also, Newt Gingrich's Contract With America http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html

Week Ten
November 5

November 7

Give Me Liberty - Chapters 27 and 28
Voices The "Freedom Revolution" (1995)
Bill Clinton, "America's Millennium" (1999)

George W. Bush, "They Hate Our Freedom" (2001)
The National Security Strategy (2002)

Also, Osama bin Laden "Declaration of Jihad against Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Mosques" (on reserve)