Tentative+Course+Schedule

Wed., Aug. 31 Introduction
 * __ Calendar: __**

Wed., Sept. 7 How does geography affect history? Reading: Miller and Pencak: Forward, Preface, Introduction, Chapter 8

Mon., Sept. 12 What tools are available for the study of history? Reading: Chapter 11

Wed., Sept. 14 How does archaeology affect the study of history? Reading: Chapter 10

Mon., Sept. 19 Why is it important to study history? Reading: Chapter 1

Wed., Sept. 21 How has man evolved? Mon., Sept. 26 What are some important milestones in history? Reading: Chapter 2

Wed., Sept. 28 Where is the best place to live? Mon., Oct. 3 **Test 1**

Wed., Oct. 5 What are the perils and promises of using oral history to study history? Reading: Chapter 15
 * Map quiz **

Mon., Oct. 10 What was the industrial revolution? Reading: Chapter 3
 * Oral interview topic/subject due (typed; emailed to instructor before class) **

Wed., Oct. 12 Who was Napolean and what were his goals?

Mon., Oct. 17 What does architecture reveal about how cultures change? Reading: Chapter 9
 * Oral interview bibliography due (typed, formatted) **

Wed., Oct. 19 What areas are global trading hot spots and why? Reading: Chapter 4
 * Paper Choice A due **

Mon., Oct. 24 Lapsansky also argues that the seeds of modern life were sown in early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. Is this true?

Wed., Oct. 26 Could the Union have won the Civil War without Pennsylvania? Reading: Chapter 5
 * Paper Choice B due **

Mon., Oct. 31 Did industrialization bring more benefits or more problems to nineteenth century Americans?
 * Pre-interview must be complete; **** interview outline due (one page, typed; emailed to instructor before class). **

Wed., Nov. 2 What do changing artistic styles reveal about societies? Reading: Chapter 14

Mon., Nov. 7 **Test 2**

Wed., Nov. 9 Why was corruption rampant in early twentieth century? Reading: Chapter 6

Mon., Nov. 14 Did the Great Depression and World War II cause Pennsylvania to decline from its position of economic and political power, or merely accelerate changes that were already occurring? **Thesis statement for research paper due (typed; emailed to instructor before class)**

Wed., Nov. 16 World War II in PA

Mon. Nov. 21 The Pennsylvania Railroad/ Bethlehem Steel

Mon., Nov. 28 Were the changes Pennsylvania underwent in the 20th century a sign of true decline and decay, or, as Philip Jenkins asserts, “part of a continuing process of economic and social development” (p. 318)? Reading: Chapter 7

Wed., Nov. 30 How has Pennsylvania attempted to reverse its political, economic and social decline, and how successful has that effort been?

Mon. Dec. 5 Why has tracing the family tree become so popular? Reading: Chapter 12

Wed., Dec. 7 How does photography reveal history? Reading: Chapter 13

Mon. Dec. 12 In the epilogue, historian Michael Zuckerman argues that, “In the twentieth century, Pennsylvania simply ceased to be the place it had been in the centuries before.” Is this a fair characterization? Reading: Epilogue
 * Oral History Project Due **

Week of Dec. 15-21 **Test 3**