WELCOME TO VIEWING AMERICA. PLEASE BE SURE TO REGISTER FOR SECTIONS AND ATTEND YOUR SECTION ON THURSDAY OR FRIDAY THIS WEEK. For section on Thursday 2/4 or Friday 2/5 you should read the coures REQUIREMENTS, especially the description of the CYOU and peruse the CYOU LIBRARY before coming to section.
Most of the readings for the course are available through the web site. There are three exceptions and I suggest that you purchase these three books. They are starred on the syllabus and listed below:
J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of the Atomic Bombs Against Japan (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1997)
Henry Louis Gates, Colored People: A Memoir (New Kork: Knopf, 1994)
Jerald E. Podair, The Strike that Changed New York.
If you are not able to purchase these, they are all available with some limitations through the library. Brianna Kirk has summarized how they can be accessed below:
The J. Samuel Walker book (Prompt and Utter Destruction) is available as an E-book through the Library website (via Ebscohost) and is available on HathiTrust. Two downsides here -- it looks like the E-book through the library only allows one viewer at a time, and the HathiTrust digital version allows you to "check out" the book in one hour intervals. HathiTrust seems to be the more reliable option here.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015059216476&view=1up&seq=9
The Henry Louis Gates book (Colored People) is available through HathiTrust, with the same one hour "check out."
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015032930409&view=1up&seq=7
Podair's The Strike That Changed New York is available as an E-book through ProQuest. I don't think it has a one viewer at a time rule like Ebscohost does.
https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy01.its.virginia.edu/lib/uva/detail.action?docID=3420156
LECTURE OUTLINE
I will take your questions about fifteen minutes into lecture.
Write your questions on the chat function, Thomas will collect them, remove duplicates, and ask me them.
If you want to follow up, you can do so by chat, or turn on your mic and camera and ask me directly
Who Are We ?
Brian Balogh balogh@virginia.
Brianna Kirk
Thomas Storrs
Why Does History Matter?
What is the Course About and How does the course Work?
World War II
Where were your parents on September 11, 2001?
Pearl Harbor
Why the way WW II started matters
unites Americans like never before
convinces Ameircans that national security can never be taken for granted