Dr. Juan C. Santamarina
Office Hours:  T-Th, 9:30-10:15, 12:00-1:15pm , and by appointment.  HM 443.
santamar@udayton.edu
Office Phone: (937) 229-2834

ANNOUNCEMENTS: MIDTERM EXAM REVIEW IS CURRENT --ALL OTHER REVIEWS ARE NOT CURRENT

READINGS

COURSE DESCRIPTION, REQUIREMENTS, AND GRADING

II.  IMPORTANT DATES

Term Paper Proposals Due	Thurs (Week 4)
Midterm  Exam Review Posted	Thurs (Week 7)
Midterm Exam	Thurs (Week 8)
Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review	Thurs April 15 (Week 15)
Term Papers Final Draft Due	Thurs April 22 (Week 16)
FINAL EXAM:	MONDAY APRIL 26, 2010, 2:30-4:20

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
****Documents below marked "ANALYSIS:" indicates documents for which you must prepare and submit a Document Analysis Worksheet on the THURSDAY of that week.

***INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTING THE DOCUMENTS IN CLASS
 

I. COLONIAL/EARLY NATIONAL ERA Week 1	READ: TOPIC: Course Introduction How do we Interpret our History?  Historiography of Am Foreign Policy Early Foreign Policy CONSTITUTION OF THE US	DISCUSSION: Sources of American Foreign Policy THEMES: 1. Trade at the Center of the US 2.  Landed and Commercial Expansion of the US 3. Concentration of Power in Hands of the President--"The Imperial Presidency." 4.  The Domestic is Foreign and vice versa
Week 2	READ: US Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century: From World Power to Global Hegemony Author(s): Michael Dunne Source: International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 25-40 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Royal Institute of International Affairs Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2626194 TOPIC: Can we Identify "American" ideas of Foreign Relations early in our History?  Colony to Nation: Early American Foreign Relations, 1750-1815	DISCUSSION: The American Revolution/Independence War DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776) ANALYSIS:  The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION: The Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777) The Federalist Papers (Selected) The Albany Plan of 1754
II. NINETEENTH CENTURY EXPANSION Week 3	READ: The first reading below is an article.  The second is George Washington's farewell address.  Please be sure to read both "George Washington, Presidential Term Limits, and the Problem of Reluctant Political Leadership" Bruce G. Peabody Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 2001), pp. 439-453 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27552322 George Washington's Farewell Address TOPIC: Why did our Continental Expansion Contribute to our National Expansion?  Setting the Stage for A New Age: The Monroe Doctrine and Economic Expansion, 1815-1850 Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817 Convention of 1818 Transcontinental Treaty of 1819 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Adams_onis_map.png EXPANSION COMPROMISES Photographic Time Line of the Civil War Selected Civil War Photographs for Class The Dred Scott Case AND Dred Scott II:  Actual Court Documents	DISCUSSION:  Economic Sources of American Foreign Policy CONSTITUTION OF THE US DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  The Monroe Doctrine December 2, 1823:  1823 State of the Union Address DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION: Amistad Case US Supreme Court Decision Amistad Case Backgound and other Documents The "Amistad" Case ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS PICTURES FROM NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Week 4	READ: Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War Author(s): Sven Beckert Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 109, No. 5 (Dec., 2004), pp. 1405-1438 Published by: American Historical Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3525033 FOR REFERENCE/USE IN CLASS: Photographic Time Line of the Civil War Selected Civil War Photographs for Class TOPIC: Why do we Expand Overseas at the end of the 19th Century?  Setting the Stage for Overseas Expansion: The Civil War and Continental Mastery, 1850-1896	DISCUSSION:  Economic Aspects of the Civil War DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:The Declaration of Causes of Seceding states (Winter 1861) ANALYSIS:The Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19, 1863) DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION: First Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861) The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (March 11, 1861) The Battle Hymn of the Republic McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln (July 7, 1862) The Emancipation Proclamation (1864) Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (1865) The Dred Scott Case AND Dred Scott II:  Actual Court Documents
III.  RISE TO WORLD POWER Week 5	READ: Paterson, Preface-Chapter 1 TOPIC: What Does China Have to do with the Caribbean?  Parting the Seas: U.S. Expansion South Toward China, 1896-1913	DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  Open Door Note DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION: William McKinley Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1901) Agreement Between the United States and Cuba for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations; February 23, 1903
Week 6	READ:  Paterson, Chapter 2 TOPIC:   Big Industry, Big Guns, and Big Boats:  Teddy Roosevelt and the American Empire Before the First World War	FILM:  Theodore Roosevelt DISCUSSION:  Effects of American Interference in the Cuban Independence War DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Address (March 4, 1905)   DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION:
Week 7 (Feb 15)	NO READINGS OR DOCUMENTS THIS WEEK	TOPIC:  Teddy Roosevelt
Week 8 (Feb 22)		TUESDAY---EXAM REVIEW THURSDAY---EXAM
Week 9 (March 1)	SPRING BREAK--NO CLASSES
Week 10 (March 8)	READ:  Paterson, Chapter 3 WWI Document Archive TOPIC: Was American Involvement in Europe and the World Inevitable?  The Prize and the Price: Europe and Asia, 1913-1920 Taft Inaugural, March 4, 1909 1912 Pres. Election Results Wilson's 1st Inaugural	DISCUSSION:  The Price of Expansion DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  President Woodrow Wilson's First Warning to the Germans (February 10, 1915) ANALYSIS:  President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (January 8, 1918) DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION: Wilson's 2nd Inaugural President Woodrow Wilson's War Message (April 2, 1917) The Espionage Act of 1917 The Reichstag Peace Resoilution (July 19, 1917) Conditions of an Armistice with Germany (November 11, 1918)
Week 11 (March 15)	READ:  Paterson, Chapter 4 TOPIC: How did Wilson Belive he Could Create an American World?  A New World Order?, 1920-1933	DISCUSSION:  Is International Cooperation Possible? DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS: The Kellogg-Briand Pact ANALYSIS:Covenant of the League of Nations DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION: Treaty of Locarno Between France and Poland October 16, 1925 Inaugural Address of President Warren G. Harding (1921) Inaugural Address of President Calvin Coolidge (1925) Inaugural Address of President Herbert Hoover (1929)
Week 12 (March 22)	READ: Paterson, Chapter 5 TOPIC: The Rise of American Supremacy, 1933-1945:  FDR's "New Deal" and the Problems in Europe and Asia REAL AUDIO INFAMY SPEECH	DISCUSSION:  Does the US want to Stay out of War? DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS: The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 14, 1941) DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION: The Nuetrality Act of 1937and the Neutrality Act of 1939
Week 13 (March 29)	TUESDAY 3/30:  SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT: HEIDI GAUDER PRESENTATION ON LIBRARY RESEARCH THURSDAY 4/1:  NO CLASSES DUE TO EASTER BREAK
Week 14 (April 5)	READ:  Paterson, Chapters 7-8 READ:  The Mahattan Project Documents , Paterson, Chapter 6 TOPIC: The Rise of American Supremacy, 1933-1945:  War and Peace TOPIC: Why did the USSR and the US become Enemies after the Peace?  A Challenge to Supremacy: The Cold War, 1945-1952	DISCUSSION:  Let's Blow up the Russians...and the Chinese...Everyone!! DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  The North Atlantic Treaty (Apr. 4, 1949) ANALYSIS: The Warsaw Security Pact: May 14, 1955 DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION: Third Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941) The Declaration of War on Japan (Dec. 8, 1941) The Declaration of War on Germany (Dec. 11, 1941) Fourth Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945) The German Surrender Documents of World War II (May 8, 1945) The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (Sept. 12, 1945) The Truman Doctrine (Mar. 12, 1947) Inaugural Address of President Harry S. Truman (1949)
Week 15 (April 12)	READ: Paterson, Chapters 9-12 TOPIC:  "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been...":  The Cold War and the Cold War Warmed Over?	TUESDAY FILM,  "Atomic Cafe" DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  NSC-68 (1950) DOCS. FOR PRESENTATION: Eisenhower's Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem (1954) SALT I Treaty SALT II Treaty DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  The Dayton Peace Accords (1995) THURSDAY: 1--First Draft of Term Papers AND a copy of the PEER REVIEW WORKSHEET are due at the start of class.  Absolutely no late submissions.  I will collect the papers and redistribute to the class.  From Thursday until Tuesday you will review/edit/etc. and return to author.
IV. CONCLUSION Weeks 16 (April 19)		TUESDAY:  FINAL EXAM REVIEW THURSDAY APRIL 22 IS THE LAST DAY OF OUR CLASS--FINAL DRAFT OF PAPERS ARE DUE TURN IN: 1--Final Paper to Turnitin.com 2--In Class you will turn in the First Draft, Peer Review, and Final Draft 3--You will present to the class, in about 2 minutes: Paper Topic Thesis Major findings/conclusions