week 1: Introduction
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Thursday1/11 |
Introduction |
Week 2: the origins of american corporate capitalism
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Tuesday1/16 |
Lecturette: The Big Shift in Capitalism of the 19th century Discussion/Workshop: Methodology and Technology: Planning a Research Project |
Thursday1/18 |
Lecturette: The Mind and World of C.W. Post Workshop: Constructing a Paragraph – The Rules Reading: Roche, “Capitalist Utopia” Quiz: Readings/Lecture/Workshop |
Week 3: 19th Century Capitalism
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Tuesday1/23 |
Lecturette: Robber Barons and Merchant Princes Workshop: Reading each other’s work. Graf One Reading: Harry Resseguie, “Alexander Turney Stewart and the Development of the Department Store, 1823-1876” Quiz: Take Home – 3 Grafs on lecture and Reading Questions Due: Print and bring to class five copies of your first graf: Write a paragraph where you explain to someone how to do something that you know how to do well. Or to answer a simple question about something you know a lot about. Start by thinking of your own prompt. Why 400m repeats are the key to success in middle distance running? Why USFS “white maps” are necessary for car camping in the American West? What are the necessary steps to make a perfect pot of beans? Then determine a few pieces of key data and write out individual sentences for each. |
Thursday1/25 |
Lecturette: Hardware and Software: Building out the New Economy Workshop/Discussion: Historiography, Gathering, and Mining Reading: Nelson, Business History Quiz: Readings: Resseguie and the two historiography essays |
Week 4: Food
| Date | Work |
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Tuesday1/30 |
Lecturette: American Food: How to invent a market Workshop/Discussion: C.W. Post invents health food. Primary source analysis Reading: Post Documents |
Thursday2/1 |
Workshop/Discussion: Making Sense of Zunz and the Monograph/Narrative MIdterm/Quiz: Zunz and Robinson Reading: Zunz, Making America Corporate Due: Graf Two: C.W. Post invents Health Food |
Week 5: The Western economy: Meat, Gold, and Wheat
| Dates | Work |
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Tuesday2/6 |
Lecturette: American Expansion and the American Economy Workshop/Discussion: How to hear a lecture and take notes Reading: White, Animal and Enterprise Due: Take Home Quiz on Zunz |
Thursday2/8 |
Workshop/Discussion: The one-idea paragraph Reading: Back to Basics: The Paragraph Due: Graf Three: The Frontier as an outlet for reckless capitalism |
Week 6: THe people
| Dates | Work |
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Tuesday2/13 |
Lecturette: The Populist Movement in the American Imagination Workshop/Discussion: Using Primary Sources to (re)consider Populism Reading: The Cleburne Demands (1886) Argerisinger, Populists in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Littlefield, “The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism” |
Thursday2/15 |
Lecturette: The Failure of American Labor Workshop/Discussion: Quiz: Lecture + Readings
Due: Graf Four/Short Essay One Political Advertising and the Middle-Class: C.W. Post and the Open Shop |
Week 7: the benevolence of a ruling class?
| Dates | Work |
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Tuesday2/20 |
Lecturette: Social Darwinism and the Invention of American Algerian Narrative Workshop/Discussion: C.W. Post and the Invention of the Entrepreneurial Biography Reading: Carnegie, Gospel of Wealth (Just read the GOW Essay) Barton, the Man Nobody Knows (No need to read the whole thing. Just spend an hour or so reading it. You just want to get the gist. |
Thursday2/22 |
Lecturette: Welfare Capitalism Workshop/Discussion: Corporate Towns Due: Graf Five/Short Essay Two The American Dream and Real Estate |
Week 8: The rise of the state
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Tuesday2/27 |
Lecturette: Putting the Great Depression and New Deal into Context Research Project Workshop I Gather Stage: Option One: Advertising and the Postum Company Option Two: Post, the NAM, and the Open Shop Option Three: The Birth of Health Food JSTOR, Google Books, Google Images, Summon, Reader’s Guide |
Thursday2/29 |
Discussion: The Concept of the State and History Reading: Galambos, The Organizational Synthesis Canaday, “Building the Straight State” Keller, Review of Sworonek, Building a New American State Novak, The Concept of the State in American History QUIZ: The Readings Research Paper Workshop II Modes of Analysis: Option One: Advertising and the Postum Company Option Two: Post, the NAM, and the Open Shop Option Three: The Birth of Health Food
Due: Paragraph/3-paragraph essay Option A: The State as a Historical Actor Option B: Initial Thoughts on Research Project |
Week 9: Catch up
Tuesday3/5 |
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Thursday3/7 |
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| SPRING BREAK |
Week 10: MICHAELANGELO’s Elephant – getting the Marble into the studio
Tuesday3/26 |
Workshop/Discussion: Roland Marchand’s Creating the Corporate Soul – Takeaways Reading: Roland Marchand, Creating the Corporate Soul |
Thursday3/28 |
Workshop/Discussion: The Prompt: C.W. Post was an early leader in the idea of public relations and addressing “the lament.” Reading: Post, “How to Make a Halo” Post, “The Preliminary Training of an Advertiser” Post, The Door Unbolted Part 1 Post, The Door Unbolted Part 2 Post, “The Door Unbolted” Part 3 Due Sunday: Five-Pargraph Essay on Post as Example of Marchand’s thesis |
Week 11: The yankee-cowboy war
Tuesday4/2 |
Lecturette: The New South and the New West Workshop/Discussion: Reading: Oglesby, “The Yankee-Cowboy War” Dochuk, Review of Grim, The Blessings of Business Dochuk, “Blessed by Oil, Cursed with Crude” Lassiter and Kruse, “The Bulldozer Revolution” Andrew Needham, “Sunbelt Boosters” Find and Read Five Reviews of Jefferson Cowie’s Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy Year Quest for Cheap Labor
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Thursday4/4 |
Workshop/Discussion: New Regionalism and New Corporate Systems Quiz: Readings Reading: See Above Due Friday at 5:00 p.m. : Three-paragraphs on Sunbelt capitalism |
Week 12: hip capitalism
Tuesday4/9 |
Discussion: Hamilton, Scott, Kirk Consumption and Identity |
Thursday4/11 |
Baird Witt Goodall Due: Three Paragraph Essay on Hamilton’s Argument |
Week 13: finance capitalism
Tuesday4/16 |
Lecturette:Workshop/Discussion: Reading: Due: |
Thursday4/18 |
Nelson-Frey Buckley Wyner Koenig Due: Five Paragraph Essay on the 2008 Financial Crisis – Just Narrative. No argument. Just write a short version of what happened and why. |
Week 14: research presentations
Tuesday4/23 Nadu Dickerson Johns Peter |
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Thursday4/25 Prech Gerdenich Neal Janobiddinov |
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Week 15: research presentations
Tuesday4/30 |
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Jones Borling Gfell |
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