Start Devil in the White City –finish by week 15

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MP 2. The Price of progress: Capitalism and Its Discontents
PPT Industrial Capitalism
HT5. Richard Olney and the Pullman Strike
HT6. Mary Harris Jones: Immigrant and Labor Activist

3  (No class on Tuesday)
MP 4.Trials of the New South
MP 10. Race and Power Under Jim Crow
HT3. Ida B. Wells, Higher Law, and Community Justice 

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MP 3. Behind the Bravura of the Wild West
HT7. Francis G. Newlands, Water for the West, and Progressivism
HT4. Mary Lease and the Sources of Populist Protest
PPT The West
PPT Populists

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MP 5. Rise of the Industrial City: New Places, New Peoples
HT10. James Michael Curley and the Politics of Ethnic Resentment
PPT City Development; Immigration

Exam I

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MP 6. Politics in the Gilded Age: Mainstream and Periphery
HT 2 James G. Blaine and the Republican Party Vision
PPT National Politics

You should be about half way through Devil in the White City  in order to finish by week 15

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MP 9. The Language of Empire
PPT Imperialist Expansion

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PPT Progressive Social Reform

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MP 12. Progressivism: Roots of the Reform Vision

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MP 13. Progressivism: Foundations for a New American State
PPT Progressive Political Reform

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HT11. Hiram Johnson and the Dilemmas of California Progressivism
MP 14. Nature Without Nurture: Progressives Confront Environmental Destruction

14  (No class on Thursday)
MP 11. Consumer Culture and Commercialized Leisure
HT9. Christy Mathewson and the National Pastime

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MP 15. America and the Great War
HT13. Edith Wharton and the Spirit of Noblesse Oblige

Exam II

Final Exam -  date TBA