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Week 5: Activism
***First Mid-term Due Monday, February 5 at 10:20 at the beginning of Lecture***
Monday: Imperialism
Wednesday: Cultural and Intellectual Changes for a
New Century
Friday: Progressive Reform
DISCUSSION SECTIONS: Coney Island and the Culture of Consumption
READINGS:
1.Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn
of the Century.
2."Internationalism" from the Pluralism and Unity
Project: http://www.expo98.msu.edu
3.Documents: McKinley's
War Message, 1898; and Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life Speech.
ADDITIONAL INTERNET RESOURCES:
1.An on-line history of US Imperialism: http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html
2.The World's Columbian Exposition: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html
created: February 10, 2000
last updated: January 29, 2001
Copyright 2001, Mark Kornbluh