The Bunker

Episode #39 Throw Back Thursday [Nov 3 2006] - My first attempt at Podcasting with students in my A.P. United States History program at Ballston Spa High School.  Original program retrieved from www. archive.org

DIRECT LINK TO CLASS NOTES: Progress and Poverty in Urban America [1865 to 1898]
The explosive growth of America’s large urban centers was accompanied by often disturbing changes, including the new immigrants, crowded slums, and conflicts over cultural values.

LINK TO ARTICLE: Capital District 1900

SOURCE CITATION: Mark McGuire (1999) "The region bulged at its 19th century seams." Albany Times Union. Available at https://bit.ly/3jZDki3

DIRECT LINK TO CLASS NOTES: Immigration and Cultural Conflict in Gilded Age America - Is America a haven for the poor and oppressed or guided by fluctuating feelings about race and ethnicity, and fear of foreign political and labor agitation?

DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: The Chinese Exclusion Act

SOURCE CITATION: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness," Bill of Rights Institute. https://cnx.org/contents/NgBFhmUc%4013.2%3ALKzu_mbq%406/9-15-%F0%9F%93%8D-The-Chinese-Exclusion-Act

Kearney, Denis. “’Our Misery and Despair’: Kearney Blasts Chinese Immigration.” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5046/

Scharf, J. Thomas. “The Farce of the Chinese Exclusion Laws.” http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=4055

University of California. “Chinese Exclusion Act.” Calisphere. https://calisphere.org/exhibitions/17/chinese-exclusion-act/

Hong, Jane. Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How American Repealed Asian Exclusion. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America: A History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015.

Lew-Williams, Beth. The Chinese Must Go: Chinese, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Salyer, Lucy E. Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

To The Halls of Montezuma  - The Mexican War [1846 to 1848] A one term president extends American territory across the continent by threatening war with England and manufacturing a controversial and unpopular two-year war with Mexico.

DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: A Brief Overview of the Mexican-American War  

Manifest Destiny - An Expression of Our National Spirit [1848 to 1852] Manifest Destiny, one of the most influential ideologies in American history, served as the  justification for the nation’s territorial expansion in the antebellum era.

DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: Manifest Destiny: What It Meant for American Expansion

SOURCE CITATION: McNamara, Robert. "Manifest Destiny: What It Meant for American Expansion." ThoughtCo, Aug. 25, 2020, thoughtco.com/what-is-manifest-destiny-1773604.

Author Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. He was Amazon.com's first-ever history editor and has bylines in New York, the Chicago Tribune, and other national outlets.

Direct Link to ThoughtCo.com Article: The Grimke Sisters 

Source Citation for ThoughtCo.com Article: McNamara, Robert. "The Grimké Sisters." ThoughtCo, Aug. 26, 2020, thoughtco.com/the-grimke-sisters-1773551.

DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: The Great Triumvirate

SOURCE CITATION:   McNamara, Robert. "The Great Triumvirate." ThoughtCo, Aug. 31, 2020, thoughtco.com/the-great-triumvirate-1773351.

Author Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. He was Amazon.com's first-ever history editor and has bylines in New York, the Chicago Tribune, and other national outlets.

Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery [1820 to 1865] The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States, the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century, will serve as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice.

DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE:  Biography - William Lloyd Garrison 

SOURCE CITATION:  Biography.com Editors. “William Lloyd Garrison Biography.” The Biography.com website, August 18, 2020, https://www.biography.com/writer/william-lloyd-garrisonl

Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery [1820 to 1865] The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States, the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century, will serve as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice.

DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Advocate for Women's Rights

SOURCE CITATION:  Lewis, Femi. "Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Advocate for Women's Rights." ThoughtCo, Sep. 18, 2020, thoughtco.com/frederick-douglass-abolitionist-and-advocate-45214.

Author Femi Lewis is a former writer for ThoughtCo who contributed articles on African American history. An experienced educator, Lewis has taught at Lehman College, City College of New York, and Long Island University. She has written curricula on topics in African American history and participated in seminars through the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Lewis has lectured on topics such as "Harlem Renaissance Poets: Creating an Authentic Voice," "African-American Women Writers," and "Hip-Hop Studies."

DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

SOURCE CITATION:  Michals, Debra. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton." National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2017. Date accessed.

Debra Michals is the  Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Merrimack College, and a women's/gender historian. Her  work focuses on 20th century U.S. women's history, as well as LGBTQ history and the histories of people of color.

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Rosenberg Fund for Children was started by Robert Meeropol, who was orphaned at age six when his parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed at the height of the McCarthy Era.

In 1990 Robert figured out how he could repay the progressive community that helped him survive. He founded the RFC to help children of targeted activists in the U.S. today- children who are experiencing the same nightmare he and his brother endured as youngsters. In September 2013, Robert's daughter, Jennifer Meeropol, took over for him as the RFC's executive director.

Since its start, the RFC has awarded more than $7 million to benefit thousands of children in the U.S. whose parents have been targeted because of their involvement in progressive movements including the struggles to preserve civil liberties, wage peace, safeguard the environment, combat racism and homophobia, and organize on behalf of workers, prisoners, immigrants and others whose human rights are under threat.

Trailer for the Great Gatsby

Dennis Miller Standup set on the 1920s

Quotes from 

Historians  William E. Leuchtenburg and Joseph Interrante

The Post War Dream: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order  President Wilson becomes the world's most ardent champion of peace.

Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During the Great War [1917-1919]

President Wilson turned America’s participation in World War I into a fervent ideological crusade for democracy

leading to the clash of individual rights and national security under the Espionage Act during WWI

Nativism and Anti-German Sentiment

Espionage and Sedition Acts 1917

6,000 arrests|2,000 prosecutions| 1,500 convictions

Eugene V. Debs [Socialist]

Charles T. Schenck [Socialist]

Special Guest: Andy Menzie in a conversation about Schenck

 A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War I
The colossal mobilization effort required to  build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war leads to an unprecedented scale of mobilization to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts.

Selective Service Act [Planning for the war]

Mobilization|African Americans “Harlem Hell Fighters”|Women|Native Americans

Financing the War [Sale of Liberty Bonds]

George Creel [Committee on Public Information] and Herbert Hoover [Food Administration]

Bernard Baruch [War Industries]|Promote efficiency and eliminate waste

Module Notes Sheets

Time Period #7 Module B - American in World War I 

 America in World War I Show Notes 

Video Clips used in Episode #3

The History of Us - The Great War

Obama awards Medal of Honor to black, Jewish WWI veterans

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U.S. Entry into World War I - Making the World Safe for Democracy [1917 to 1919
Entering World War I in response to Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare, Wilson turned America’s participation into a fervent ideological crusade for democracy that successfully stirred the public to a great voluntary war effort, but at some cost to traditional civil liberties.

United States position of Neutrality 1914 to 1917

Wilson 1916| “He Kept us out of the War”

German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

The Sussex pledge (May 4, 1916

The Zimmerman Telegram

Module Notes Sheets

Time Period #7 Module B - American in World War I 

US Entry into World War I Show Notes 

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Thunder Across the Sea: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I [1914]
After years growing nationalism and competition in Europe – a jostling for power and position, rivalries playing out over the acquisition of colonies and overseas territories eventually  plunge Europe into the savage conflict that would redraw the map of the continent—and the globe.

Context Clip: America and Europe in 1914 (8 minutes)

M.A.I.N Causes of World War I

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Gavrilo Princip  and the Black Hand

Mobilization of Alliances

Module Notes Sheets

Time Period #7 Module B - American in World War I 

Supplemental Links and Resources

NPR Podcast: A Century Ago In Sarajevo: A Plot, A Farce And A Fateful Shot (5 minutes)

NPR Podcast: Princip Pulled 'The Trigger,' But Never Meant To Start A War (5 minutes)

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