Monday, January 18
No Class MLK
Day |
Wednesday, January 20
No Class
Independent Study
(see email for directions)
|
Friday, January 22
(323D Meeting)
No Class
Independent Study
(see email for directions) |
Monday, January 25
Lecture 1: Introduction
WR Chapter 1
PowerPoint
Day1 |
Wednesday, January 27
Lecture 2:Money, Value, and Gains from Trade
Boyes
and Melvin, (only for those with no Economics background)
Heilbroner
and Milberg Ch. 3
PowerPoint
Day 2 |
Monday, February 1
Lecture 3:European Colonies
WR Chapter 2
PowerPoint
Day 3 |
Wednesday, February 3
Lecture
4:Colonial Regional Activity
WR Ch. 3
Colonial House Video (in class)
PowerPoint
Day 4
|
Friday, Februrary 5
(323D meeting)
Health in History
Fogel |
Monday, February 8
Lecture 5:Native Americans, Colonists, and the
Constitution
Axtell
Wilkinson
WR Ch. 29 pp. 557-59
No PowerPoint Day 5
|
Wednesday, February 10
Lecture 7: Revolution
WR Ch. 6
PowerPoint
Day 7
|
Friday, February 12
(323D meeting)
Growth
Siegler (Please contact Prof. Eschker if you would like a copy of this reading)
Take
Home Quiz Due Monday, February 15 in class.
|
Monday, February 15
Lecture 8:Populating the West
WR Ch. 8
PowerPoint
Day 8 |
Wednesday, February
17
Lecture 9:Industrial Revolution
Heilbroner
and Milberg Ch. 4,
WR Ch. 10
PowerPoint
Day 9
|
Friday, February 19
(323D meeting)
California Gold Rush
Clay
and Jones |
Monday, February 22
Lecture 10:Women, Immigrants, and Factory Life
WR
Ch. 10/ 11
PowerPoint
Day 10 |
Wednesday, February 24
Lecture 11:Antebellum Money and Banking
WR Ch. 12
PowerPoint
Day 11
|
Friday, February 26
(323D meeting)
Black Soldiers during the Civil War
Costa
and Kahn |
Monday, February 29
Lecture 12:Slavery and Exploitation
WR Ch. 13
PowerPoint
Day 12 |
Wednesday, March 2
NO CLASS.
We will cover this material the next class period.
Lecture 13:The Civil War
WR Ch. 14
No PowerPoint Day 13 |
Monday, March 7
Lecture 14:The Civil War
WR Ch. 14
PowerPoint
Day 14 |
Wednesday, March 9
Midterm Exam |
Monday, March 21
Lecture 17:Monopoly and Big Business
WR Ch. 17
PowerPoint
Day 17 |
Wednesday, March 23
Essay First
Draft Due
Lecture 18:
Immigration and Early Labor
Unions
WR Ch. 18
PowerPoint
Day 18
|
Friday, March 25
(323D meeting)
Railroad and Price Discrimination
Odlyzko
|
Monday, March 28
Lecture 19:Women in the Workplace
Costa
PowerPoint
Day 19 |
Wednesday, March 30
Lecture 20:
Wall Street and the Stock Market
Crash
No reading this day
PowerPoint
Day 20
|
Friday, April 1
(323D meeting)
Populist Farm Unrest
Mayhew
|
Monday, April 4
Lecture 21:Wall Street and the Stock
Market
Crash (cont.)
WR Ch. 28 pp. 534-39
PowerPoint
Day 21 |
Wednesday, April 6
Lecture 22:
Real Estate and Housing
WR Ch. 27 pp. 514-16
Shiller1
and
Shiller
2 (optional reading)
PowerPoint
Day 22
|
Friday, April 8
(323D meeting)
Goldin
(I)
|
Monday, April 11
Lecture 23: The Great Depression
WR Ch. 23
PowerPoint
Day 23 |
Wednesday, April 13
Lecture 24:
The Great Depression
(cont.)
WR Ch. 23
PowerPoint
Day 24
|
Friday, April 15
(323D meeting)
Great Depression from a NeoClassical Perspective
Cole
and Ohanian
|
Monday, April 18
Lecture
26:The
New Deal
WR Ch. 24
PowerPoint
Day 26
|
Wednesday, April 20
Lecture 27:
Environment and Natural Resources
WR Ch. 15 pp. 278-80, Ch.
27 pp. 511-14, and Ch. 29 pp. 545-46
Wright
1990
Libecap
(Note: The Wright
and Libecap readings are optional)
PowerPoint
Day 27
|
Friday, April 22
(323D
meeting)
Margarine Revolution
Dupre,
Brief
History of Bootleg Margarine Trade (optional)
|
Monday, April 25
Lecture 28:
Post War Macroeconomics, Immigration
and Labor Unions
WR Ch. 29
PowerPoint
Day 28 |
Wednesday, April 27
Lecture 28.5
Income Inequality
WR Ch. 30 pp. 574-77
Lindert
(SKIP sections on Britain, pages 174-185, 192-195, 200)
PowerPoint Day 28.5
Essay Final
Draft Due
|
Monday, May 2
Lecture 29:The New Economy in Historical Perspective
Gordon
PowerPoint
Day 29 |
Wednesday, May 4
Lecture 30:America in the Next Millenium
Krugman,
WR Ch. 30 (optional)
PowerPoint
Day 30 |
