Oops.  I'm stitting at my desk in my office and my copies of Chambers and Allitt are sitting on my desk at home.  <sigh>.  Oh well, it is spring weekend anyhow.  I will post the remainder of this week's assignments on the Internet by Sunday evening, barring  disaster.  There are a couple of things I would like to have you search for on the Internet, download, and read before Monday, however.

INTERNET ASSIGNMENT:

LOOK AT:

Materials on Grover Cleveland, at http://www.americanpresident.org/kotrain/courses/GC/GC_Campaigns_and_Elections.htm  Follow the links through this site.

The Election of 1892 which you'll find at http://www.multied.com/elections/1892.html .  Check the charts on the popular, electoral, and state by state votes.

Grover Cleveland's Second  Inaugural Address, which you'll find at http://www.multied.com/documents/Cleveland2.html

The Populist Party Platform, 1892   http://www.geocities.com/progpop/omaha.html

The People's  Party, at http://www.msys.net/cress/ballots2/pp.htm

The  Lecture Outline on Populism  at http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/populism.htm#Top  (note especially the diagnosis of problems and the groups blamed).

As you look at these, try to figure out how your paticular character would react to the issues as presented.  In the case of the Grover Cleveland Second Inaugural Address,  Think about it in relationship to the chapter "Striving" in Schlereth, and to the analyses of  "The Strenuous Life"  by Teddy  Roosevelt, and Bederman which were assigned for Wednesday of last week.
 

Read, in Chambers,

Chapter 2, sections  "The Weakened Spring of Government,"  and "Politics in the Depression Decade, "  pp. 38-55

....in Fink,

Political  Culture:  Public Life and the Conduct of Politics  pp. 167-179

We'll spend a little time discussing the Spanish American War and then begin a discussion of the politics of the decade, which we'll continue into Friday of this week.  The political focus will center on two elections: those of 1892 and 1896.  You  will want to think about the issues and personalities involved from the standpoint of your character, as well as from the vantage of 2002.

VISIT and  Peruse Thoroughly:

 1896:  The Presidential Campaign    at http://iberia.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html    This project by students and faculty at Vassar College is remarkably rich.  There is more here than I can reasonbly expect you to cover entirely.  I would, howver, like to have each of you look over the cartoons,  and then familiarize yourselves with one of the  leaders and issues as suggested on the table below:

LEADERS
John Peter Altgeld   Greg Abazorius,  Emily Whitson
Susan B. Anthony     Steven Altieri, Kerry Zermani
William Jennings Bryan     Adi Barzilai
Grover Cleveland     Jennifer Smith
Eugene V. Debs     Izabella Nizinski
Mark Hanna     Donna Beeby
William R. Hearst     Lynne Belchior
Mary E. Lease     Eric Brocklehurst
William McKinley     Michael Burton
J. P. Morgan     James Camden
John M. Palmer     Ronald Desnoyers
Joseph Pulitzer     Lauren Ferri
Elizabeth Cady Stanton     Jordan Forster
Henry Teller     Karen Hoffman
Benjamin Tillman     Gary Jaffae
Booker T. Washington     Erin Kania
Tom Watson     Michael Katzberg
William Allen White     Amanda Lorenzo
 
 

 

Themes of the Campaign

Kerry Zermani, Steven Altieri,  Antisemitism

Emily Whitson,  Greg Abazorius  McKinley Supporters and the Bible

Jennifer Smith,  Bryan and the Bible

Izabella Niziniski,  The Civil War and Slavery

Amanda Lorenzo,  The Currency Issue

Michael Katzberg,  Economic Depression

Erin Kania,  Immigration

Gary Jaffae, Farmers and Laborers

Karen Hoffman, Nativism and the A.P.A.

Jordan Forster, Racial Prejudice

Lauren Ferri, Sectional Interests

Ronald Desnoyers, Strikes

James Camden, The Supreme Court

Michael Burton, The Tariff

Eric Brocklehurst,  Trusts and Monopolies

Lynn Belchior, U.S. Foreign Relations

Donna Beeby. Woman Suffrage

Adi Barzelai, Women in the Campaign