TEXTBOOK

• Raymond A. Mohl, THE MAKING OF URBAN AMERICA

OTHER READINGS

• Christine Stansell, CITY OF WOMEN: SEX AND CLASS IN NEW YORK 1789-1860.

• Roger Lane, ROOTS OF VIOLENCE IN BLACK PHILADELPHIA. 1860-1900.

• William L. Riordon, PLUNKITT OF TAMMANY HALL: A SERIES OF VERY PLAIN TALKS ON VERY PRACTICAL POLITICS.

• John Bodnar, Roger Simon, and Michael P. Weber, LIVES OF THEIR OWN: BLACKS, ITALIANS, AND POLES IN PITTSBURGH, 1900-1960.

• Kenneth T. Jackson, CRABGRASS FRONTIER: THE SUBURBANIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

• Jon C. Teaford, THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN CITY: PROBLEM, PROMISE, AND REALITY.

1. Friday August 25
Introduction

2. Monday August 28
The Historian and the City: the Study of Processes and Places

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 292-316.

3. Wednesday August 30
The Colonial Origins--Cities on the Hill and Social Divisions

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 3-23.

4. Friday September 1
The Urban World Of Artisans and Mechanics

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 24-44.

Monday September 4
Labor Day Holiday

5. Wednesday September 6
Ethnic and Racial Divisions in the Nineteenth-Century City

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl. The Making of Urban America, pp. 45-67.

6. Friday September 8
The Internal Structure of the Antebellum City (Part I)

7. Monday September 1l
The Internal Structure of the Antebellum City (Part II)

8. Wednesday September 13
Moral Reform and Social Order

9. Friday September 15
The Roots of Urban Politics.

10. Monday September 18
Gender and Class Relations within the City (Part I)

• Discussion of Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860, pp. xi-xiv, 1- 102.
• Undergraduate Mini-Reading Assignment due.

11. Wednesday September 20
Gender and Class Relations within the City (Part Il)

• Discussion of Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860, pp. 103-221.
• Undergraduate Mini-Reading Assignment due.
• Graduate Paper Analyzing Stansell due.

12. Friday September 22
Coping Anew with Problems: Urban Disease and Prostitution

13. Monday September 25
Cities on the Old Frontier

14. Wednesday September 27
Factory Town as Utopia and Reality

15. Friday September 28
Slave and Free Blacks in the Commercial City

16. Monday October 2
The Industrial City

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 70-80.

17. Wednesday October 4
Changing Perceptions of Urban Poverty

18. Friday October 6
Race and Violence in the Late Nineteenth Century City

• Discussion: Roger Lane, Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900, pp. 1-174.
• Undergraduate Mini-Reading Assignment due.

19. Monday October 9
The Emergence of Urban Culture

20. Wednesday October 11
Urban Leisure

• Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp 122-137.

21. Friday October 13
Changing Gender Relation in the Urban Context

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 138-156.

22. Monday October 16
The 80s and the Machine (Part I)

• Discussion: William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, pp. vii-xxv, 1-98.
• Undergraduate Mini-Reading Assignment due.

23. Wednesday October 18
The Boss and the Machine (Part II)

• Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 99-121.

24. Friday October 20
Urban Structural and Social Reform

• Graduate Research Paper Prospectus due.

25. Monday October 23
Review

26. Wednesday October 25
Midterm Examination

27. Friday October 27
City Government and the Building Of Infrastructure

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 81-98

28. Monday October 30
The New Immigrants and Urban Adjustment

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 157-169.

29. Wednesday November 1
Technology and the City

30. Friday November 3
Designing the City Beautiful

31. Monday November 6
Social Relations in Cities of New South

• Undergraduate Paper Topics due.

32. Wednesday November 8
Movers, Stayers, Risers, and Failures: Urban Mobility (Part I)

• Discussion: John Bodnar, Roger Simon, and Michael P. Weber, Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh. 1900-1960, pp. 1-151, 268-279.
• Undergraduate Mini-Reading Assignment due.

33. Friday November 10
Movers, Stayers, Risers, and Failures: Urban Mobility (Part II)

• Discussion: John Bodnar, Roger Simon, and Michael P. Weber, Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians. and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960, pp. 152-266.
• Undergraduate Mini-Reading Assignment due.

Friday November 24
Thanksgiving Holiday

34. Monday November 13
Metropolitan Areas and Urban Systems

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 189-201

35. Wednesday November 15
Public Policy and the Changing Federal-Urban Relationship

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 202-213.

36. Friday November 17
The Black Experience in the Modern City

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making of Urban America, pp. 214-227

37. Monday November 20
Suburban America (Part I)

• Discussion: Kenneth A. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, pp. 1-156.
• Undergraduate Mini-Reading Assignment due.

38. Wednesday November 22
Suburban America (Part II)

• Discussion: Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, pp. 157-305.
• Undergraduate Mini-Reading Assignment due

40. Monday November 27
Sunbelt Cities

• Readings: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making Of Urban America, pp. 252-267.
• Draft of Graduate Research Paper due.

41. Wednesday November 29
Comparative Urban History and the Rise Of Third World Mega-Cities

42. Friday December 1
The Crisis of the City

• A Prospective Discussion: Jon C. Teaford, The Twentieth-Century American City, pp. vii-x 1-156
• Undergraduate Mini- Reading Assignment due.

43. Monday December 4
The Future Of the City

• Reading: Raymond A. Mohl, The Making Of Urban America, pp. 268-288.
• Undergraduate Paper due.

44. Wednesday December 6
Review

• Graduate Research Paper due in final form.

Wednesday December 13
Final Examination (8:00-10:00a.m.)

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

1) Readings: You are expected to do the assigned readings (both books and articles) and to be prepared to discuss them in class on the day for which they are listed.

2) Mini-Reading Assignments: (15 percent of grade). In addition, for full length books that are assigned under dates specified as "Discussion," you are to turn in one paper of approximately 1-2 pages in length (typed) summarizing the readings due for that day due on the day of discussion. If a book discussion is divided over two days. you are to expected to turn in two papers, one for each class on each section assigned. (You may combine the two assignments for a single book provided you turn in the combined paper assignment on the first day of the book discussion.) Thus you will have a total of nine of these mini-assignments. Failure to turn any of these assignments will result in a penalty and an oral examination on the material for which you were responsible.

3) Class Attendance and Participation. (10 percent of grade) All Students are expected to participate in class discussion and are responsible for missed lectures and discussion sessions. In the case of book discussions, you may be asked to meet individually with me to discuss the readings for the day that you have missed. Attendance policy follows history department guidelines.

4) Midterm essay examination: (20 percent of grade). The exam will either consist of a take home examination or the questions will be given in advance to be answered in class. October 25, 1989.

5) Final examination: (25 percent of grade). An essay examination following a format similar to the midterm. Wednesday December 13, 8:00-10:00 a.m.

6) Research Paper: (30 percent of grade). A seven-page paper topic open using either primary or secondary sources. Students will be encouraged to pick topics (in consultation with the instructor) that reflect their own interests. You should submit a brief statement of your proposed paper topic and intended sources by November 6. The final paper is due December 4.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

1) Readings: Graduate students are also expected to do the assigned readings (both books and articles) and to be prepared to discuss them in class on the day for which they are listed.

2) Analytical Paper: (10 percent of grade) A paper of 5-9 pages in length analyzing Christine Stansell's, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860. This paper is not to be a book report but, rather, an exercise in historiographical analysis examining the methodology and substantive historical issues addressed in the book. Thus your paper should analyze the ideological underpinnings of her argument within the context of recent historical literature by examining the way she employs secondary sources to assist her in her analysis of primary material. You may wish to do limited readings in selected journal articles and/or review essays cited by (or addressing) Stansell to help you in this assignment. Due September 20.

3) Class Participation: (10 percent of grade). Participation in discussion on assigned articles and books. Attendance as per departmental policy.

4) Midterm Essay Examination. (20 percent of grade). The exam will either consist of a take home examination or the questions will be given in advance to be answered in class. October 25, 1989.

5) Final Examination: (20 percent of grade). An essay examination following a format similar to the midterm, Wednesday December 13, 8:00-10:00 a.m.

6) Research Paper: (40 percent of grade) 15-20 pages in length, the topic of which will be worked on the basis of your own interests in consultation with the instructor.

1. the paper topic,
2. the sources you intend to use,
3. the historical issues that
4. you will addressing, and
5. what you anticipate you will argue should be handed in no later than October 20. While this prospectus will only be tentative, experience has shown an early idea of the direction and focus will help research and writing.

A draft copy of the paper is due by November 27 for comment and criticism and a finished copy of the paper should be turned in no later than the last day of class.