Dr. Juan C. Santamarina

Office Hours:  By appointment, generally in ZH 301/302;  contact Paula.Braley@notes.udayton.edu or +1-937-229-2765

Office Phone: (937) 229-2765

ANNOUNCEMENTS: EXAM #1 REVIEW IS CURRENT FOR SPRING 2012 Final Exam Review is a SAMPLE ONLY The Academic Honor Code section of the Bulletin shall govern student academic conduct.  PLEASE READ AND UNDERSTAND!!!  The link: http://bulletin.udayton.edu/content.ud?v=29&p=3286&c=3313

READINGS

COURSE DESCRIPTION, REQUIREMENTS, AND GRADING

II.  IMPORTANT DATES

Midterm  Exam Review Posted	Thurs (Week 7)
Term Paper Proposals Due--SUBMIT TO ISIDORE LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDE PREPARED BY HEIDI GAUDER	Tues (Week 8)
Midterm Exam--SUBMIT ESSAY TO ISIDORE	Thurs (Week 8)
Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review	Thurs (Week 14)
Term Papers Final Draft Due	Thurs (Week 15)
FINAL EXAM:	MAY 1,  2012, 10:10am-12:00pm

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
****Documents below marked "ANALYSIS:" indicates documents which we will discuss in class in addition to the documents in the text.  Please read both sets of documents carefully.

 

I. COLONIAL/EARLY NATIONAL ERA Week 1 (Jan 17)	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 (Jan 24)	READ: The Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777) The Federalist Papers (Read #1, #2,  #10) The Albany Plan of 1754 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 THURSDAY: John Adams film--section on the Declaration of Independence
II. NINETEENTH CENTURY EXPANSION Week 3 (JAN 31)	READ:  The first reading below is an article.  The second is George Washington's farewell address.  Please be sure to read both 1.  "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 2.  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 TUESDAY: DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776) ANALYSIS:  The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) THURSDAY: DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  The Monroe Doctrine December 2, 1823:  1823 State of the Union Address FOR FURTHER READING (OPTIONAL) Amistad Case US Supreme Court Decision Amistad Case Backgound and other Documents The "Amistad" Case ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS PICTURES FROM NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Week 4 (Feb 7) Mon, Feb 6 Last day to drop classes without record	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 FILM:  Civil War	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) FOR FURTHER READING (OPTIONAL) 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 (Feb 14)	READ:  Paterson, Chapters 1 TUESDAY: 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 FOR FURTHER READING (OPTIONAL) 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 (Feb 21)	READ:  Paterson, Chapter 2 TOPIC: Big Industry, Big Guns, and Big Boats:  Teddy Roosevelt and the American Empire Before the First World War THURSDAY: FILM:  The Panama Canal On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where, just a few years earlier, the French had failed disastrously. But the U.S. paid a price for victory.  (c) 2010 WGBH Educational Foundation. All rights reserved.	FILM:  Theodore Roosevelt DISCUSSION:  Effects of American Interference in the Cuban Independence War DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Address (March 4, 1905)
Week 7 (FEB 28 ) Wed, FEB 29 Mid-Term Break begins after last class (Not applicable for those students enrolled in the DPT program)	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 THURSDAY:  NO CLASSES, Mid-Term BREAK	TOPIC:  Teddy Roosevelt
Week 8 (March 6)		TUESDAY---EXAM REVIEW THURSDAY---EXAM
Week 9 (March 13)	READ:  Paterson, Chapter  3 Woodrow Wilson Documentary 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) FOR FURTHER READING (OPTIONAL) 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 10 (March 20)	TUESDAY: THURSDAY:  No class at regular time.  Go to Beauregard-King Lecture: Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012 Time: 7:30 PM Location: Sears Auditorium, Jesse Philips Humanities Center	On March 22, 2012 award-winning historian John D’Emilio, professor of History and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, will deliver the History Department’s annual Beauregard-King lecture. His talk,   An Agitator for Justice:  The Life and Work of Bayard Rustin   traces the achievements of Bayard Rustin, a key figure in movements for peace, racial justice, and economic fairness in the US in the mid-20th Century.  What did he do, and what can we learn from his life? And why do so few people today know who he was?   Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012 Time: 7:30 PM Location: Sears Auditorium, Jesse Philips Humanities Center   At the subsequent reception, Dr. D’Emilio will sign copies of his biography Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin which will be available for sale at the event.
Week 11 (March 27)	READ:  Paterson,  Chapters 4-5 TOPIC: How did Wilson Belive he Could Create an American World?  A New World Order?, 1920-1933 HARRY TRUMAN AND WORLD WAR I The Great War, Hatred and Hunger World War I Allied Documentary FDR Infamy speech	DISCUSSION:  Is International Cooperation Possible? DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS: The Kellogg-Briand Pact ANALYSIS:Covenant of the League of Nations ANALYSIS: The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 14, 1941) FOR FURTHER READING (OPTIONAL) 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) The Nuetrality Act of 1937and the Neutrality Act of 1939
Week 12 (April 3) Mon, Apr 2 Last day to drop classes with record of W	READ:  Paterson, Chapter 6-7 READ:  The Mahattan Project Documents TOPIC: The Rise of American Supremacy, 1933-1945:  War and Peace MAJOR WARTIME CONFERENCES IMF DOLLAR SUPREMACY 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 FOR FURTHER READING (OPTIONAL) 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 13 (April 10)	READ:  Paterson, Chapters 8-10 FILM,  "Atomic Cafe" TOPIC:  "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been...":  The Cold War and the Cold War Warmed Over?	DOCS. FOR DISCUSSION: ANALYSIS:  NSC-68 (1950)
Week 14 (April 17) Wed, Apr 18 Easter Recess begins after last class	READ: Paterson, Chapters 11-12   TUESDAY:  FILM:  The Presidents:  Reagan (last part, end of Cold War) THURSDAY APRIL 19: 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.  You will review/edit/etc. and return to author next TUESDAY. PEER REVIEW WORKSHEET--PRINT AND ATTACH TO PAPER BE SURE TO ALSO UPLOAD YOUR DRAFT to ISIDORE BY THE START OF CLASS	TUESDAY: 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.  You will review/edit/etc. and return to author on Tuesday April 25. FOR FURTHER READING (OPTIONAL) Eisenhower's Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem (1954) SALT I Treaty SALT II Treaty
IV.  CONCLUSION Week 15 (April 24)	TUESDAY: FINAL EXAM REVIEW;  PEER REVIEWS DUE TO AUTHORS THURSDAY: THURSDAY--FINAL DRAFT OF PAPERS ARE DUE TURN IN: 1--Final Paper uploaded to Isidore 2--In Class you will turn in the First Draft & Peer Review (FINAL DRAFT TO ISIDORE ONLY, NO PAPER COPY) 3--You will present to the class, in about 2 minutes: Paper Topic Thesis Major findings/conclusions