HHS 414: Industrial America

Schedule, Reading List, & Assignments:

The schedule and assignments are subject to change during the semester. If you rely on a printed version of this schedule, please check back here regularly to make sure you have the most current version.

Last revised: April 19, 2012

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Date Topic Reading Assignment Assignment
       
Week One
Jan. 18
Introduction    
       
Week Two
Jan. 25
The Emergence of Republican Technology - Kasson, Preface, Chapters 1 & 2 Reading response 1 due
       
Week Three
Feb. 1
Technology, Imagination, and Aesthetics in the 19th Century - Kasson, Chapters 3 & 4
- Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey, Foreward and Chapter 6
Reading response 2 due
       
Week Four
Feb. 8
Industrial Utopia? - Kasson, Chapter 5 Project topic due
       
Week Five
Feb. 15
Engineering America - Layton, "The Ideology of Engineering," from The Revolt of the Engineers (Moodle)
- Selections from Noble, America by Design (Moodle)
Reading response 3 due - compare Layton with Noble
       
Week Six
Feb. 22
Engineers, Capitalism, and Standardization - Selections from Noble, America by Design (Moodle)

Stevens Library Guide for Historical Research

Reading response 4 due - respond to questions in my email sent on Feb 17
       
Week Seven
Feb. 29
SC Williams Library: Taylor and the Stevens Family - Clancey and Smith, "Inventing Efficiency: Scientific Management ca 1900-1940" (Moodle) Midterm essay due
       
Week Eight
March 7
Machines and the Second Creation - Hughes, Chapters 1-3 Reading response 5 due
       
March 12-16 Spring Break: No Class
       
Week Nine
March 21
Industrial Hoboken

**Meet at Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson Street, 10 am**

- Investigate the website of the Hoboken Historical Museum, especially the sections on A Short History of Hoboken and Driving Under the Hudson

- Selections from Ziegler-McPherson, Immigrants in Hoboken (Moodle)
Project annotated bibliography and outline due
       
Week Ten
March 28
Industrial Information - Hughes, Chapter 4
- Russell, Introduction to An Open World (Moodle)
Reading response 7 due on Hughes and Russell selections
       
Week Eleven
April 4
Humans and the Built Technological Environment - Hughes, Chapters 5 and 6 Reading response 8 due
       
Week Twelve
April 11
Industrialization, Stevens, and Hoboken - Selections from Ziegler-McPherson, Immigrants in Hoboken (Moodle) Reading response 9 due for students who are not doing presentations this week
     
Week Thirteen
April 18
Innovation and Industrial America - Selections from The Challenge of Remaining Innovative (Moodle) Reading response 10 due for students who are not doing presentations this week
       
Week Fourteen
April 25
The Deindustrialization of America

- Selections from Bluestone and Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America (Moodle)
- Renner and Navarro, "Why is Our Population of Uninsured and Underinsured Persons Growing?" (Moodle - optional)

See also:
- The Deindustrialization of Youngstown, Ohio
- What Deindustrialization Looks Like

Reading response 11 due for students who are not doing presentations this week

Final project essay due

       
Take Home Exam  

 


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