INTRODUCTORY READINGS Stranges Course Packet Chapter 1 I GENERAL COMMENTS How do you have a GEM of a semester What are the historical memories of students List the first ten names you can think of regarding the subject matter of this course List the first ten events you can think of regarding the subject matter of this course II WHY HISTORY MATTERS Why study history The study of history will show the connections between past and present and thereby help us understand our present and provide guidelines for our future actions Knowledge enables you to distinguish between fact and fiction and recognize historical misconceptions This is an election year That is because every year is an election year for members of Congress The study of history is interesting depending on how it is taught Is history relevant The study of history contributes towards providing you with an education in addition to the training you receive in a university otherwise you re a technocrat or a dilettante superficial and possibly a bore COURSE OBJECTIVES The course will provide students with a breadth of learning a depth of learning a sense of perspective and the reality of learning not merely the illusion of learning COURSE CONTENT AND THEMES The course examines the social cultural political economic scientific and technological developments that have arisen in the United States since 1877 During this time Americans moved from having faith in the idea of progress in the 1700s to a belief in abundance in the 1870s 1970s to accepting the idea of limits in the post 1970s III IV 21 V SYLLABUS Instructor Office Office Hours E mail Telephone Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it George Santayana 1863 1952 Reason in Common Sense 1905 Anthony N Stranges 202 Glasscock History Building F 9 00 am 12 00 pm and by appointment I am usually in my office from 8 00 am to 5 00 pm except when I am teaching a stranges tamu edu 979 845 7159 Office 979 845 7151 History Department Teaching Assistant biw1997 tamu edu Tel 979 845 7151 Room 003 Glasscock History Building Brandon Willadsen Office Hours TTh 2 00 3 30 and by appointment History Section Classroom Location First Day of Class 106 504 TTh 3 55 pm 5 10 pm Fall 2023 Tuesday 22 August Richardson Petroleum Engineering Building Room 106 Fall Break Tuesday 10 October Thanksgiving Holiday Wednesday Friday 22 24 November Last Day of Class Total Number of Classes 28 Required Texts Thursday 30 November Anthony N Stranges History of the United States This is your online Course Packet To view or download its contents syllabus and chapters go to HOWDY to Canvas to HISTORY 106 click on FILES Mark Carnes and John Garraty The American Nation Fifteenth Edition Volume 2 P Anthony N Stranges Technological Transformation of Gilded Age America Revised Edition P Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front P a video is online at YouTube John Hersey Hiroshima P Course Content and Prerequisites The Course Packet Stranges History of the United States is online at Canvas It contains the syllabus and 15chapter summaries Each chapter summary gives the books and book chapters you will read during the semester Each chapter summary has a theme indicated by the chapter s title and introduction The course examines six broad themes social cultural political economic scientific and technological history in the United States since 1877 During this time Americans moved from 22 having faith in the idea of progress to a belief in abundance and to accepting the idea of limits The chapter summaries in the online Course Packet give students the opportunity to read the subject matter prior to coming to class and to listen carefully in class without having to take extensive notes The chapter summaries are not an excuse or substitute for inattention in class or class absence Each chapter provides an outline and summary that enables students to focus on the key historical events studied in this course This course has no prerequisites Examinations There are three examinations Each examination covers approximately one third of the course and will count 30 of your final grade There is no comprehensive final examination The OIEE university required Assessment Essay is also due on the day of Exam 1 21 September It counts 10 See page 32 for details First Exam Course Packet Chapters 2 5 Carnes and Garraty Chapters 16 19 Stranges Tech nological Transformation of Gilded Age America Thursday 21 September Midterm grades due Monday 9 October 12 00 pm Second Exam Course Packet Chapters 6 10 Carnes and Garraty Chapters 20 25 Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front Thursday 26 October Third Exam Course Packet Chapters 11 15 Carnes and Garraty Chapters 25 32 Hersey Hiroshima Monday 11 December the day of your final 1 00 3 00 pm Graduating seniors grades are due Wednesday 13 December 6 00 pm Final grades for all non graduating students are due Monday 18 December 12 00 pm Examination Format Each examination has 65 multiple choice questions and five bonus questions based on the course textbook Carnes and Garraty the chapter summaries Course Packet and the three course books Stranges Remarque and Hersey For the first examination Stranges is the course book for the second examination Remarque and for the third examination Hersey You need a green scantron 882 thin for each examination Writing a Good Essay Examination if required for a Make up Examination Your essay should contain three main divisions an introduction the body or discussion of the topic which may have several sections separated by paragraphs and a conclusion Avoid the following in your writing lengthy sentences clich s and jargon such as each and every prioritize the bottom line I feel unnecessary use of connectives such as however hopefully a string of prepositional phrases beginning with the preposition of use the possessive case instead excessive use of the passive voice Example of passive voice The Principia was written by Isaac Newton bad Example of active voice Isaac Newton wrote the Principia good 23 Use which in dependent clauses A sentence can convey its meaning without the dependent clause Use that in independent clauses An independent clause is usually necessary to give meaning to the sentence Examples for use of that and which In 1906 J J Thomson supplied the experimental evidence that permitted the introduction of an atom with far fewer electrons than ever imagined just a few years earlier The Principia which Isaac Newton published
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