IntroAmStud

American Studies 202 Prof. L. Hanley Fall 2004 NAC 6/216 TTh 11:00-12:15 x5875 NAC 6/106 hanley@bway.net

Syllabus

General resource: General: [|100 Years of New York City History] (NY Times)

=Week 1 8/31-9/2 = T Intro Th City of Difference: Immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York Kate Holladay Claghorn, "[|The Foreign Immigrant in New York City]" (1901) ** // Optional // **: [|Ellis Island] (Historychannel)

=Week 2 9/7-9/9= T Joanne Reitano, "[|The Triangle Fire from Industrialism to Progressivism]" [|Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820 - Present] (Smithsonian Institute)

Th The Tenement Lower East Side Tenement Museum [|Virtual Tour] Lawrence Veiller, "[|The Tenement House Exhibit of 1899]" "[|Report of the Tenement House Committee, Working Womens Society]"

=Week 3 9/14-9/16= T Jacob Riis, "[|The Mixed Crowd]," (from __How the Other Half Lives (1890))__ "[|Jewtown]," (from __How the Other Half Lives__ (1890)) "[|The Italian in New York]" (from __How the Other Half Lives__ (1890)) "[|Jim]" (from __Battle with the Slum__ (1902)) ** // Optional // **: "[|Pietro and the Jew]" (from __Battle with the Slum__ (1902))

Th Stephen Crane, __[|Maggie: A Girl of the Streets]__ (1893) [or if you prefer to download the entire text, go [|here]]

=Week 4 9/21-9/23= T Crane
 * // Optional // **: Upton Sinclair, __[|The Jungle]__ (1906)

T Crane
 * // Optional // **: [|Coney Island]
 * // Optional // **: [|Vaudeville videos]

=Week 5 9/28-9/30= T Reading photographs: James Curtis, "[|Making Sense of Documentary Photography]" (History Matters) Scholars in Action, "[|Frank Goodyear Analyzes a Daguerrotype]" (History Matters)Photographs: Jacob Riis photographs: Museum of the City of New York, "[|A Century Apart]" Museum of the City of New York, [|Jacob Riis Collection] Library of Congress, [|Stereoscopic Views of New York City below 14th Street]

Th Painting/The Ashcan School [|Ashcan School] [|Early American Realists], National Gallery John Sloan (1871 -1951) [|Art Archive] [|World Art Kiosk] [|National Gallery of Art] George Wesley Bellows [|Art Archive] [|National Gallery] [|Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden] George Luks [|Humanities Web] Everrett Shinn [|Art Renewal Center] [|National Gallery]

=Week 6 10/05-10/07= T Emerald City: New York in the Jazz Age [|American Cultural History]: 1920-1929 (Kingwood College Library) [|The 1920s] (Digital History) [|Jazz Age Culture] (Pittsburgh State University) [|City Sites] (U. of Birmingham, UK)

Th Skycraper [|Architecture of New York City] [|Skyscraper Museum] "[|The Skyline]," City Sites (U. of Birmingham, UK)

=Week 7 10/12-10/14= T [|John Dos Passos], __Manhattan Transfer__ (1925) [excerpts]

Th Dos Passos [excerpts] [|The Connected City: New York] (Smithsonian Institute)

=Week 8 10/19-10/21 = T Consuming desires [|Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy] (Library of Congress) [|Good Housekeeping Magazine], February, 1926 (LoC) [|Emergence of Advertising in America] (Duke U)

Th Dos Passos, __Manhattan Transfer__

=Week 9 10/26-10/28= T [|Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro] (U Virginia) [selections] [|Harlem: An African-American Community, 1900-1940] (Schomburg Center) [|The Harlem Renaissance] (Northern Kentucky University) "[|Great Migration]," (Wikipedia) [explain some of the economic, political, social contexts] "[|Migrations]," (Library of Congress) Jacob Lawrence, "[|Great Migration Series]" (Columbia University) Jacob Lawrence, "[|Migration Series]" (Whitney Museum) Th Jazz [|Red Hot Jazz Archive] [|Ken Burns Jazz] (PBS) [|Red Hot & Cool]
 * // Optional // **: "[|Drop Me off in Harlem]" (The Kennedy Center)
 * // Optional // **: The Great Migration

=Week 10 11/2-11/4= T Fletcher Henderson [selections] Duke Ellington [selections]

Th Henderson/Ellington [|Harlem After Dark: A Tour (Steve Watson)]

=Week 11 11/9-11/11= T Dance [|Archives of Early Lindy Hop] [|Jazz Age Dance] [|What Is Lindy Hop?] "'[|Scuse me, while I Lindy Hop]" (Crossroads Project)

Th Edge City Necropolis: introducton

=Week 12 11/16-11/18= T __Dog Day Afternoon__ (1975)

Th __Wolfen__ (1981)

=Week 13 11/23 - 11/25= T [|Piri Thomas], __Down These Mean Streets__

Th No class: Thanksgiving

=Week 14 11/30-12/2= T Thomas

Th 9/11 __The 9/11 Commission Report__ (2004)

=Week 15 12/7-12/9= T Alan Confino, "Collective Memory and Cultural History" (Xerox) [|September 11: Bearing Witness to History] (Smithsonian Inst.) [|The September 11 Digital Archive] (History Matters)

Th [|September 11: Bearing Witness to History] (Smithsonian Inst.) [|The September 11 Digital Archive] (History Matters)

=Week 16 12/14= T Last day of class

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