• Introduction to the course.
• Course syllabus handed out.
• Reading --> "Film as Social and Cultural History."

• Reading --> "Letters Between John and Abigail Adams Concerning Women's Rights."
• Begin viewing 1776.

• Reading --> "Is 1776 Historically Accurate?"
• Continue viewing 1776.
• Research and Essay Project --> Due 2/25

• Finish viewing 1776.

• Reading --> "Homicide, Nativism, and Working-Class
  Culture in Antebellum New York." [Don't print this out--it wil be give to you in class.]
• PowerPoint --> "The Five Points & the Gangs of NY."

Th - 2/25 Day 6
80 mins.

• Begin viewing Gangs of New York.
• Hand in your essay on your favorite signer of the Declaration of Independence. [100 pts]

• Continue viewing Gangs of New York.

• Continue viewing Gangs of New York.

• Finish viewing Gangs of New York and discuss the movie.

• Reading -->

• View several segments of Birth of a Nation.

• Essay Test on Gangs of New York and Birth of a Nation
  [2 essays] -- 50 points

• Reading --> "High Noon--An Evaluation by Richard Keys."
• Begin viewing High Noon.

• Finish viewing High Noon.
• Reading --> Excerpts from Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
• Research and Essay Project. --> due

• Reading --> Excerpts from Machiavelli's The Prince.
• Begin viewing Godfather II.

• Continue viewing Godfather I

• Continue viewing Godfather I

• Finish viewing Godfather I.

• H-O-H Instruction Sheet.
• H-O-H ["Hands-On-History" -- 30 points] discussion of The Prince.

• Reading --> "Charlie Chaplin's 'The Tramp' Character." and begin viewing Modern Times.

• Finish viewing Modern Times and view clips from The Great Dictator.

• View Casablanca.
• PowerPoint --> "France During World War II."
• Reading --> "Casablanca and United States Foreign Policy."

• Reading --> "Wartime Hollywood."
• Reading --> "Casablanca, or the Cliches Are Having a Ball" by Umberto Eco.
• Finish viewing Casablanca.

• See clips from WW II propaganda films, cartoons, film trailers, and a clip from the 1944 Hollywood Canteen broadcast to Armed Forces Radio.

• Essay Test on Modern Times/The Great Dictator and Casablanca [2 essays] -- 50 points

• Discussion of the film and the reading.
• View Duck and Cover clip.

• Begin viewing Thirteen Days.

• Continue viewing Thirteen Days.
• Reading --> "The Cuban Missile Crisis--Reading the Lessons Correctly."
• Document Packet --> "Khrushchev-Kennedy Letters During the Cuban Missile Crisis."

• Finish viewing Thirteen Days.

• Work in class on your packets for the H-O-H

• H-O-H on the document packet of Khrushchev-Kennedy Letters and the reading above. [50 points]

• View Dr. Strangelove.
• Reading --> "A Commentary on Dr. Strangelove" by Brian Siano

• Finish viewing Dr. Strangelove.

• Essay Test on Hiroshima and Dr. Strangelove -- 50 points

• Begin viewing All the President's Men.
• Reading --> "Watergate Cast of Characters."

• Continue viewing All the President's Men.
• For the final project, check out the following sites:
  • "The Path to Watergate--A Documentary Source Problem."
  • Impeachment Articles.
  • Watergate.info

• Finish viewing All the President's Men.

• Begin viewing Frost/Nixon.

• Finish viewing Frost/Nixon.

• Finish working on your project.