Issues in American Economic History Since 1900
Prof. Ranjit S. Dighe
Spring 2010
Mahar 122
Eco 327-800: MW 3:00-4:20

Required texts for Spring 2010:

• Diana Hacker.  Rules for Writers.  6th edition.  New York: Bedford / St. Martin’s Books, 2008.  (You might own this already.  The 5th edition is also permissible.)
• Studs Terkel.  My American Century.  (Any edition is acceptable.  The original edition is New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995.)
• + numerous articles and book chapters, which are available via E-reserves, Internet, and PDF links on the course ANGEL site.

The most relevant links for this course, including the syllabus and links to all of the outside readings, will be on ANGEL.
Click here to log into ANGEL.

Final exam date and time:  Wed., May 12, 2 -4 pm.  (And, yes, it is optional.)

Some potential sources for research papers.  Revised 11 Feb. 2010.

Related web sites:

• How to do really well in college (some great advice from Prof. Norm Weiner)
• Search Penfield Library for articles, books, etc. on your short-reserarch-paper topic (the "Econlit" link is especially recommended)
• You be ILLin':  Penfield's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service can get you articles and books that the library itself doesn't have.  (Note:  You will need to sign up for this service first, though that's free.)
• Economic History Services (EH.NET)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Economic Report of the President (including historical statistics)
• U.S. Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions, 1854-Present
• Conversations with History -- video interviews and transcripts with over 400 historians, analysts, and newsmakers
• History News Network -- historians at their most opinionated
• Interesting interview with Delta Air Lines Chief Executive Richard Anderson, who likes well-read applicants who can write (NY Times, 2009)
• Jeffrey A. Miron & Elina Tetelbaum's provocative article, "The Dangers of the Drinking Age" (Forbes, 2009)
• A New York Times article about the gender pay gap finds it to be especially large among the highest earners (Nov. 2009)

• Map of manufacturing areas, 1900
• Cocaine Toothache Drops, 1885
• Bayer Heroin
• Marihuana Tax Stamp, 1945
• The Panic of 1907
• Panic on Wall Street, 1929
• Coffee-and-donuts lines of the unemployed during the Great Depression
• The great H.L. Mencken celebrates the return of legal beer in March 1933
• Churchill, FDR, and Stalin at Yalta, 1945
• Pres. Eisenhower's Farewell Address, 1961, in which he warns of the "military-industrial complex" (YouTube video)
• Map of the Great Migration of African Americans, 1916-1930
• The Great Migration of African Americans -- at a train station
• Student Elizabeth Eckford desegregates Arkansas Central High School, 1957; story
• Civil rights marchers in Seattle
• Word cloud of Pres. Bush's speech on the financial crisis, 2008
• Barnard College History Department E-Resources
• Teaching American History: includes a host of images, audio clips, and video clips
• The Authentic History Center: more images, audio, and artifacts