Assignments
Assignment 1: The Creators fo American Popular Music
- Irving Berlin
- Eubie Blake
- James A. Bland
- George M. Cohan
- Thomas Dorsey
- James Reece Europe
- W.C. Handy
- Robert Johnson
- Scott Joplin
- Bessie Smith
- Bert Williams
Assignment 2: Modern American Art & Photography
- Ashcan School
- Thomas Hart Benton
- Mary Cassatt
- Walker Evans
- Lewis Hine
- Dorothea Lange
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Jackson Pollack
- Frederic Remington
- Alfred Stieglitz
Assignment 3: American Characters -- Radicals & Visionaries
- Clarence Darrow
- Eugene Debs
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Marcus Garvey
- Emma Goldman
- Woody Guthrie
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Margaret Sanger
- Norman Thomas
- Malcolm X
Assignment 4: Major Events
- 1927 Flood
- Chicago Fire
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Dust Bowl
- Galveston Hurricane
- Charles Lindbergh
- Louis-Schmelling Fight
- Scopes Trial
- Sinking of the Titanic
- Tet Offensive
- Woodstock & Altamont
Assignment 5: The Fabulous Fifties
- The Beats
- Birth of Rock ‘n' Roll
- Harley Earl and Automobiles of the 1950s
- The Folk Revival
- Early Television Personalities: Milton Berle, Lucille Ball
- Elia Kazan
- Alfred Kinsey
- Science Fiction Films of the 1950s
- Charles Van Doren and Herb Stempel
- Levittown and the Growth of Suburbia (Little Boxes, by Malvina Reynolds)
- Emmitt Till