Documemts below marked "ANALYSIS:" indicates documents for which you must prepare and submit a Document Analysis Worksheet on the Thursday of that week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Term Paper Proposals Due	Thursday January 25, 2001
Exam # 1 Review Posted	Thursday February 1, 2001
Exam #1	Thursday February 8, 2001
Exam # 2 Review Posted	Thursday March 29, 2001
Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review	Tuesday April 3, 2001--Peer Review Due BACK TO THE AUTHOR no later than Tuesday April 10, 2001
Exam #2	Thursday April 5, 2001
Term Papers Final Draft Due	Tuesday April 24, 2000--NO EXCEPTIONS
Final Exam Take Home Posted	This Final Exam is due to me or in the History Department office (HM 400) by 11:00am TUESDAY MAY 1, 2001--No exceptions.  Any exam not turned in by the due date and time will fail automatically.

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE:

HST 375-01:  THURSDAY MAY 3, 10:00-11:50am

READINGS:

Readings:
Walter LaFeber. The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, 1750-Present. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1996. (Second Edition) (ISBN: 0393964744 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.29 x 9.24 x 6.18).  Check it out at Amazon.com

Additional readings electronically linked below.

Resources:
Search the Internet
U. of Dayton Library and Online Resources from Ohiolink
U. of Dayton Department of History Homepage (History Resources)
U. of South Dakota History Students Web Project
U. of Dayton Humanities Base Homepage

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course will examine U.S. Foreign relations from the founding of the republic through the 20th century. We will place particular emphasis on American economic, political, ideological, territorial, and cultural continental expansion and its subsequent global expansion of interests and influence. Historiographically, therefore, this course will deal not only with U.S. diplomacy, but also with the many interconnected and multifaceted sources of American foreign relations.

REQUIREMENTS:

General:
Reading all the assignments by the assigned date, regular attendance to lectures, occassional short "thought" essays, one research paper, two exams, and a comprehensive final exam. All students are strongly encouraged to ask questions throughout the lecture, participate in discussion, and come to office hours.

Attendance:
Students are required to attend classes regularly and not miss more than three classes in the semester. Please remember that the lectures, discussion, and the readings are the core of this course and therefore, you are expected to attend all classes. Every two class periods missed after the first six, for example absences seven and eight, will result in an automatic one half grade reduction for the final grade. Due dates are cast in stone! There will be no make up exams and late assignments will not be accepted. Only in the case of extreme family or personal emergency, with prior notification, will I consider a deviation from this policy.

Papers:
The document review worksheets and research paper serve two purposes. One is to give practice to students in critical thought and writing. The second is to acquaint the student more deeply in areas of importance to us in the course of U.S. foreign relations. Thought papers will be required at various intervals through the semester. The research paper will be due 2 weeks prior to the end of the semester. You will receive detailed instructions in class as the semester progresses.

Course Evaluation:
DISCUSSION/THOUGHT PAPERS 15% (75 points)
RESEARCH PAPER 20% (100 points)
EXAMS 40% (200 points)
FINAL 25% (125 points)
TOTAL 100% (500 points)

Students can earn a maximum of 500 points throughout the semester. The grading scale is:

450-500 points = 90-100% = A
400-449 points = 80-89% = B
350-399 points = 70-79% = C
300-349 points = 60-69% = D
299-below = = F

STUDENT PROGRESS WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION!

THEMES OF COURSE:

1. Landed and Commercial Expansion of the US from 1750-1940.
2. Concentration of Power in Hands of the President--"The Imperial Presidency."
3. Isolationism--freedom of action, not withdrawal from foreign affairs.
4. The US became a great power and wanted to preserve the status quo or effect slow change when the economies and political systems of the world were in revolution.
5. Social policy, domestic events, and technology's influence on foreign policy.

WEEKLY SCHEDULE:

Week 1

Course Introduction. Guidelines, requirements, goals, themes and etc.
Discussion: Sources of American Foreign Policy

From Colony to Nation: Early American Foreign Relations, 1750-1815
Discussion: The American Revolution/Independence War

DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION:
ANALYSIS:  The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
ANALYSIS:  The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
The Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777)
The Federalist Papers
The Albany Plan of 1754

Week 4 READ: LaFeber, Chapters 3 and 4

Setting the Stage for A New Age: The Monroe Doctrine and Economic Expansion, 1815-1850
Discussion: Economic Sources of American Foreign Policy

DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION:
ANALYSIS:  The Monroe Doctrine (December 2, 1823)    Full version of the 1823 State of the Union Address
MATT ORSO: Biography of President James Monroe
The "Amistad" Case

Week 5 READ: LaFeber, Chapters 5 and 6

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)
THERESA FRANZINGER:  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)
ANALYSIS:The Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19, 1863)
MAGGIE MCGLOON:The Emancipation Proclamation (1864)
Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (1865)
Photographic Time Line of the Civil War
Selected Civil War Photographs for Class
The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott II:  Actual Court Documents

Week 6 READ: LaFeber, Chapters 7 and 8

Parting the Seas: U.S. Expansion South Toward China, 1896-1913

Week 7  READ: LaFeber, Chapters 7 and 8
              FILM:  Theodore Roosevelt

Parting the Seas: U.S. Expansion South Toward China, 1896-1913
Discussion: Effects of American Interference in the Cuban Independence War

DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION:
ANALYSIS AND JOSH HERRMAN: First Open Door Note (1899)
Other Link to Open Door Note
JOSH HERRMAN: William McKinley Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1901)
ANALYSIS:  Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Address (March 4, 1905)

Week 8  READ: LaFeber, Chapters 9 and 10

The Prize and the Price: Europe and Asia, 1913-1920
Discussion: The Price of Expansion

WORLD WAR I DOCUMENT ARCHIVE

DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION:
ANALYSIS:  President Woodrow Wilson's First Warning to the Germans (February 10, 1915)
ANALYSIS:  President Woodrow Wilson's War Message (April 2, 1917)
The Reichstag Peace Resoilution (July 19, 1917)
JOE BARGER:  President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (January 8, 1918)
KYLE RADIE:  Conditions of an Armistice with Germany (November 11, 1918)

A New World Order?, 1920-1933
Discussion: Is International Cooperation Possible?

DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION:
SCOTT MURPHY:  The Espionage Act of 1917
Covenant of the League of Nations
Inaugural Address of President Warren G. Harding (1921)
Inaugural Address of President Calvin Coolidge (1925)
Inaugural Address of President Herbert Hoover (1929)
VERONICA RENZI:  Treaty of Locarno Between France and Poland October 16, 1925
ANALYSIS: The Kellogg-Briand Pact
 

The Rise of American Supremacy, 1933-1945:  FDR's "New Deal" and the Problems in Europe and Asia

Week 11(Begins March 19)
READ: LaFeber, Chapters 12 and 13

The Rise of American Supremacy, 1933-1945:  Planning for War
Discussion: World War II

DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION:
KRISTIN SINCLAIR: The Nuetrality Act of 1937 and the Neutrality Act of 1939
Third Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
ANALYSIS:  The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 14, 1941)
ANALYSIS:  Roosevelt's Infamy Speech (Dec. 8, 1941) REAL AUDIO INFAMY SPEECH
TIM: The Declaration of War on Japan (Dec. 8, 1941)
TIM:  The Declaration of War on Germany (Dec. 11, 1941)
Fourth Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945)
TODD CIKRAJI:  The German Surrender Documents of World War II (May 8, 1945)
TODD CIKRAJI:  The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (Sept. 12, 1945)
JAY MARTIN:  The Mahattan Project Documents
HST 375 student JUNIOR UPTON'S Manhattan Documents Project Presentation
The Warsaw Security Pact: May 14, 1955

Week 12 (Begins March 26)

The Rise of American Supremacy, 1933-1945:  Planning the Post-War World

A Challenge to Supremacy: The Cold War, 1945-1952
TUESDAY DISCUSSION: TODD CIKRAJI:  The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (Sept. 12, 1945)

***EXAM #2***

DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION:
TUESDAY:  TANYA LUEPP:  The Truman Doctrine (Mar. 12, 1947)
Inaugural Address of President Harry S. Truman (1949)
ANALYSIS:  NSC-68 (1950)

The Maturing Cold War, 1953-1960, and "The 60s"
Discussion: The CIA

DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION:
MATT: The North Atlantic Treaty (Apr. 4, 1949)
Eisenhower's Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem (1954)
SALT I Treaty
SALT II Treaty
ANALYSIS:  START I and II Treaties
The Dayton Peace Accords (1995)