HIST 104 News

Whoa! The Poet Laureate of the United States! Here! Next Monday! Check this out!

(Here's another event--this posted to me by Phi Alpha Theta, the History honor society.)

History Club and Phi Alpha Theta Present: "America in 3-D: Landscape as National Identity and Tourist Attraction in ViewMaster™ Stereoscopic Images," by Dr. Patrick Luber

When: March 6th at 7:00
Where: Peace Garden room (Memorial Union)

Further Information:
Although the era of heroic landscape paintings has passed, landscape images continue to abound in popular culture. Patrick Luber, professor of art at the University of North Dakota, will discuss the evolving role of these images in defining national identity in a lecture at NDSU on March 6, 2006. Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, Luber’s presentation, “America in 3-D: Landscape as National Identity and Tourist Attraction in ViewMaster™ Stereoscopic Images,” compares and contrasts earl- nineteenth-century American landscape paintings with the stereoscopic View-Master™ images from the 1940s and ’50s to explore how these popular culture icons continue the artistic tradition of defining national identity through landscapes. Professor Luber’s lecture will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Peace Garden Room of the Memorial Union.

Women's Week, next week, offers a number of events that would be good for the Cultural Currents assignment. I've scanned a schedule for the week.

Women's Week Schedule

I received this notice of an event that seems likely as a Cultural Currents prospect.

"Multicultural Student Services and the History Department present... Charles McDew, Lecturer and Professor in the area of African-American History at Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis, MN. McDew will make a special trip to the NDSU campus to speak on the topic of the Civil Rights Movement. His lecture entitled "Those Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest" will be presented Tuesday, February 28th at 7pm in Memorial Union Peace Garden.

I've just uploaded exam scores. To find yours, search by three-digit ID number.

Access Scores Here!

You only need to bring a pencil (for marking scan sheets) and a blue or black pen (for writing the essay). And some knowledge, I suppose. Scan sheets and lined paper will be included in the exam booklets. You can take as much of the 75-minute class period to complete the exam as you wish. Be sure to put your three-digit ID# on all pieces you turn in--exam booklet, scan sheet, and essay page. We fully expect to post exam results (identified by three-digit ID#s) to this blog and to return exam sheets in class one week after the exam, that is, on Thursday the 23rd. If we beat that target date, well, that's a bonus. If we fail, it will be because of some technical failure, not for lack of effort on our (Jeff's and mine) part. By the way, hey, good luck on the exam!

This notice comes from Dave Mills, an officer in Phi Alpha Theta, the student honor society in History.

"Phi Alpha Theta will sponsor a movie night on February 22 at 6:30 pm in Room 138, Minard Hall. The movie is "1492: Conquest of Paradise" and will illustrate the discovery of the new world by Christopher Columbus, as depicted by Hollywood. Our discussion will challenge the myths and perceptions surrounding this event. Drinks and snacks will be provided, hope to see you there!"

Review session for Exam 1: Tuesday 14 February, 7-9 PM, Morrill Hall 103.

Sorry to be late posting these questions; Blogger seems to have been clogged lately, and I just became able to post again. Two of these will appear on the exam, and you write on one of those two.

How may Tocqueville's key concept of "the tyranny of the majority" be applied to the story of immigration and nativism during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Tocqueville provides certain impressions about the American character in his remarks on "the habitual intercourse" of Americans and on their preference for "practical science" rather than theoretical. Can you explain these American traits in terms of the ideas of Frederick Jackson Turner?

Tocqueville writes of the possibility of an "aristocracy of manufactures" in American democracy. Do you see such an aristocracy shaping up in the late 19th and early 20th century in America?

Five of the following will appear on the first exam.

Adam Smith is best known for his association with which economic concept?
A. To each his own
B. Survival of the fittest
C. The “Invisible Hand” of the market
D. Labor creates all wealth

Who is generally credited with the invention of barbed wire?
A. Alexander Graham Bell
B. Justin Morrill
C. Joseph Glidden
D. Joseph McCoy

The federal policy aimed at breaking up tribal reservations and absorbing individual Indians into the dominant culture is referred to as what?
A. Concentration
B. Manifest Destiny
C. Christianization
D. Assimilation

Samuel Gompers founded which one of the following labor organizations?
A. Industrial Workers of the World
B. Congress of Industrial Organizations
C. American Federation of Labor
D. American Railway Union

What is the literal meaning of the free-market philosophy known as laissez faire?
A. Leave it lone
B. Yankee go home
C. Property is theft
D. Only the strong survive

What of these was a congressional act that would best be described as an expression of nativism?
A. Morrill Act
B. Homestead Act
C. Chinese Exclusion Act
D. Gentlemen’s Agreement

Which of the following was known as the first “cattle town”?
A. Abilene
B. Chicago
C. Dodge City
D. Topeka

What television series featuring Clint Eastwood centered upon the great cattle drives?
A. High Plains Drifter
B. Rawhide
C. Ponderosa
D. Bonanza

To historian Frederick Jackson Turner, the frontier served as a safety valve against what?
A. Class revolution
B. Racial intolerance
C. Monopoly capitalism
D. Regional conflict

Program upcoming in Pavek Lounge, 6:30 Thursday 9 February: Check out this notice!