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HIST
1302
4 credits/Spring 2005
M/W 11:15AM-12:05PM
Willey Hall 175
Professor
Barbara Welke
752 Social Sciences Tower
Office Hours:
W 1:30-2:30 p.m., Th. 9:00-10:00 a.m.
tel: (612) 624-7017
welke004@tc.umn.edu
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History
1302: United States History
1865 to
the Present
Lecture
and Reading Schedule
W.
1/19 Introduction
Discussion
Readings:
- Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Preface
Part
I:
The
Incorporation of America, 1865-1929
Defining
the Borders of Citizenship and Nation
M.
1/24 Reconstruction and the Meaning of Freedom
Discussion
Readings:
- Foner,
Give Me Liberty! Ch. 15
- U. S.
Constitution, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Foner, Give Me Liberty!,
pp. A10-A11.
- W.
E. B. DuBois, "The Freedmen's Bureau," The Atlantic
Monthly (March 1901)(CP Doc 1)
- "Uncle
Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner, Harper's Weekly, Nov. 20, 1869
Recommended
Readings:
- Eric
Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
(New York: Harper and Row, 1988).
- Eric
Foner, Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders
During Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1996).
- Steven
Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the
Rural South, From Slavery to the Great Migration (Cambridge:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003).
- Leon
Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
(New York: Knopf, 1979).
- Amy
Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and
the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998).
W.
1/26 Native Americans, Western Expansion, and the Industrialized
Corporate Frontier
Discussion
Readings:
- Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 16 pp. 591-619
- "Kill
the Indian, and Save the Man," Capt. Richard C. Pratt on the
Education of Native Americans (CP
Doc 2)
- Frederick
Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American
History" (1893)(CP Doc 3)
Lecture
Links:
Recommended
Readings:
- Linda
Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1999).
- Frank
Tobias Higbie, "Indispensable Outcasts: Harvest Laborers in the Wheat
Belt of the Middle West, 1890-1925," Labor History 38 (Fall
1997): 393-412.
- Frank
Tobias Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community
in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2003).
- Frederick
E. Hoxie, A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians,
1880-1920 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001).
- Jeffrey
Ostler, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism From Lewis and Clark
to Wounded Knee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Novels
and Other Literature:
- Frank
Norris, The Octopus: A Story of California (Garden City,
New York: Double Day, Doran, and Comp., 1928).
- Mark
Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (New York: Trident
Press, 1964).
M.
1/31 The Disorderly Triumph of Industrial Capitalism: Corporate
Consolidation, Labor Strife, and the Populist Challenge
Discussion
Readings:
- Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 16 pp. 619-633, Ch. 17 pp. 634-647
- Andrew
Carnegie, "Wealth," North American Review (1889)(CP
Doc 4)
- Populist
Platform of 1892, Foner, Give Me Liberty!, pp. A25-A27
Recommended
Readings:
- Alfred
Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American
Business (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977).
- William
Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991).
- Lawrence
Goodwyn, The Populist Movement: A Short History of the Agrarian
Revolt in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).
- Steven
Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation
of the Georgia Upcountry (New York: Oxford University Press,
1983).
- David
Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the
State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1987).
W.
2/2 Defining the Borders of Citizenship and Nation: Jim Crow,
Black Disfranchisement, and Lynching
Discussion
Readings:
Lecture
Links:
- Lynching
of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, June 15, 1920,
Duluth Minnesota
- For
lynching images seen in class, see James Allen, Halton Als, Congressman
John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography
in America (Twin Palms Publisher 2000).
Recommended
Readings:
- Edward
Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
- Eric
Foner, Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy (Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984).
- Glenda
Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of
White Supremacy in North Carolina , 1896-1920 (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1996).
- Grace
Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation
in the South, 1890-1940 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998).
- Evelyn
Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement
in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1993).
- Tera
Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors
After the Civil War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
- Neil
R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of
Jim Crow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990).
- Michael
Perman, Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the New South,
1888-1908 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
- Barbara
Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the
Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920, Part III (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001).
- C. Vann
Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3rd Revised Edition
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).
M.
2/7 United States Nationalism from 1880-1905
Discussion
Readings:
- Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 17 pp. 655-673
- Theodore
Roosevelt, "The Strenuous Life" (Chicago, 1899)(CP Doc 5)
- Rudyard
Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," McClure's Magazine
(Feb 1899)(CP Doc 6)
- "Every
Dog (No Distinction of Color) Has His Day," Harper's Weekly,
February 8, 1879
- "Political
Assassinations 'Taking the Consequences'," Harper's Weekly,
September 13, 1879
Lecture
Links:
Recommended
Readings:
- Gail
Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender
and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (Chicago: The University
of Chicago Press, 1995).
- Gary
Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
- Kristin
L. Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics
Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
- Erika
Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion
Era, 1882-1943 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2003).
- Louis
A. Perez, The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History
and Historiography (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1998).
W.
2/9 Urban Life & the Birth of Mass Culture
Discussion
Readings:
- Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 18 pp. 674-700
- Theodore
Dreiser, Sister Carrie (chapters 1 and 2)(CP Doc 7)
- Jacob
Riis, How the Other Half Lives? (1890), ch. 3 (CP Doc 8)
Recommended
Readings:
- Lary
May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the
Motion Picture Industry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1980).
- Kathy
Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century
New York (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986).
Novels
and Other Literature:
- Upton
Sinclair, The Jungle (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1988).
- Henry
James, The American Scene (New York: St. Martin's Press,
1987).
- E.L.
Doctorow, Ragtime (New York: Random House, 1975).
M.
2/14 Progressive Reform
Discussion
Readings:
Recommended
Readings:
- Robert
M. Crunden, Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement
in American Civilization, 1889-1920 (New York: Basic Books, 1982).
- Alan
Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal
State (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1991).
- Ellen
Fitzpatrick, Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive
Reform(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).
- Linda
Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History
of Welfare, 1890-1935 (New York: Free Press, 1994).
- Robert
Johnston, The Radical Middle Class : Populist Democracy and the
Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (Princeton
University Press, 2003).
- Louis
Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001).
- Daniel
Rogers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
(Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998).
- Kathryn
Kish Sklar, "Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers,"
Signs 10 (1985): 658-677.
- Kathryn
Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of
Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1995).
- Martin
J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism,
1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1988).
- David
P. Thelen, The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin,
1885-1900 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972).
W.
2/16 World War I
Discussion
Readings:
- Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 19
- Ngai,
Impossible Subjects, Introduction to Part I (pp. 1-14)
M.
2/21 The 1920s
Discussion
Readings:
- Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 20 pp. 768-798
- Ngai,
Impossible Subjects, Chs. 1 and 2 (pp. 17-90)
W.
2/23 Midterm Exam
Part
II
Building
the Liberal State, 1929-1968
M.
2/28 The Great Depression
- Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, ch. 20, pp. 799-807
- Ngai,
Impossible Subjects, Intro to Part II, ch. 3 and 4 (pp. 93-166)
Lecture
Links:
Recommended
Readings:
Note:
My emphasis here is less on historical scholarship and more to recommend
readings that will help you get a feeling for the human drama of the Great
Depression.
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James
Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (New
York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988, orig. pub. 1939).
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Robert
Cohen, Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great
Depression (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2002).
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Richard
Lowitt and Maurine Beasley, eds., One Third of a Nation: Lorena
Hickok Reports on the Great Depression (Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1983).
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Robert
S. McElvaine, Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from
the "Forgotton Man" (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1983).
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Theodore
Rosengarten, All God's Children: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974)
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Studs
Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
(New York: The New Press, 2000, orig. pub. 1970).
Memoirs
& Novels:
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Maya
Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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John
Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Weblinks:
W.
3/2 The New Deal
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, ch. 21
Recommended
Readings:
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Alan
Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin &
the Great Depression (New York: Vintage Books, 1982).
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James
Curtis, Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).
Novels
& Memoirs:
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Sinclair
Lewis, It Can't Happen Here (1936)
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Philip
Roth, The Plot Against America (2004)
Web-Links:
M.
3/7 World War II
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch 22 pp. 848-861, 885-891
Lecture
Links:
W.
3/9 World War II: The Home Front
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 22 pp. 862-885
Ngai,
Impossible Subjects, Intro. to Part III and Ch. 5 (pp. 169-201)
Spring
Break: March 14-18
M.
3/21 From World War to Cold War: Foreign Policy
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 23 pp. 892-916
George
F. Kennan, "The X Article" (1947) (CP Doc 11)
"NSC
68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security"
(April 14, 1950); A Report to the President Pursuant to the President's
Directive of January 31, 1950 (sections IV and Conclusion)(CP Doc 12)
W.
3/23 From
World War to Cold War: The Home Front
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 916-927
Ngai,
Impossible Subjects, Ch. 6 (pp.202-224)
Gosse,
Movements of the New Left, (TBA in Section)
M. 3/28 Living
the American Dream: Postwar Affluence
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 24 pp. 929-963
Nixon-Khrushchev
"Kitchen Debate" (CP Doc 13)
Moody,
Coming of Age in Mississippi, Parts I and II (Childhood and High
School) pp. 11-214
Recommended
Readings:
- Margot
Canaday, "Building a Straight State: Sexuality and Social Citizenship
Under the 1944 G.I. Bill" Journal of American History
90, 3 (2003): 935-957.
- Lizabeth
Cohen, A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption
in Postwar America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).
- Kenneth
T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United
States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
- Elayne
Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
(New York: Basic Books, 1999).
- Joanne
Meyerwitz, Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America,
1945-1960 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).
- Amy
Swerdlow, Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical
Politics in the 1960s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1993).
W.
3/30 The Civil Rights Era I: A Time for Justice
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 24 pp. 963-977
Moody,
Coming of Age in Mississippi, Parts III and IV (College and the
Movement) pp.216-384
Gosse,
The Movements of the New Left, (TBA in Section)
In-Class
Film: A Time for Justice: America's Civil Rights Movement (1992)
Recommended
Readings:
- Taylor
Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988).
- Taylor
Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999).
- Clayborne
Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981).
- Mary
L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American
Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
- Morton
Sosna, In Search of the Silent South: Southern Liberals and the
Race Issue (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977).
- Elizabeth
Sutherland, ed., Letters From Mississippi (New York: McGraw-Hill,
1965).
M.
4/4 The
Civil Rights Era II: From Beloved Community to Black Power
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 25 pp. 978-992
Gosse,
The Movements of the New Left, (TBA in Section)
Recommended
Readings:
- Christine
Acham, Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black
Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
- Cathleen
Cleaver and George Katsiaficas, eds., Liberation, Imagination,
and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their
Legacy (New York: Routledge, 2001).
- Alex
Haley and Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X, ed. Harold
Bloom (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1996).
- Thomas
J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality
in Postwar Detroit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
W. 4/6 LBJ's
Great Society
Due:
"Best Draft" Thinking through History Research Paper (due
in discussion section W/Th depending on when your section meets)
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 25 pp 992-998
Ngai,
Impossible Subjects, Ch. 7 & Epilogue (pp. 227-270)
Recommended
Readings:
- James
T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1994
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994).
M.
4/11 The War in Southeast Asia
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 25 pp. 998-1009
Gosse,
The Movements of the New Left (TBA in Section)
Recommended
Readings:
- Christian
G. Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers in Vietnam
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
- David
Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (Greenwich, Connecticut:
Fawcett Publications, 1972).
- Neil
Sheehan, A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America
in Vietnam (Vintage Books, 1988).
W.
4/13 The
Rights Revolution
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 25, pp. 1009-1017
Gosse,
The Movements of the New Left, (TBA in Section)
Part
III
What's
Right?: Conservative Resurgence
M.
4/18 1968 and "the Silent Majority"
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 25 pp. 1017-1021, Ch. 26 pp. 1021-1041
Gosse, The Movements of the New Left, (TBA in Section)
Recommended
Readings:
- John
A. Andrew, The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for
Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press, 1997).
- Dan
T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of
the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995).
- David
Greenberg, Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (New York:
W.W. Norton, 2003).
- Maurice
Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of
the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
- David
Farber, Chicago '68 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1988).
- David
Farber & Jeff Roche, eds., The Conservative Sixties (New
York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003).
- Lisa
McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
W.
4/20 Facing New Realities: Carter, the Energy Crisis, and
De-Industrialization
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 26 pp. 1041-1049
Recommended
Readings:
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Alan
Crawford, Thunder on the Right: The "New Right" and
the Politics of Resentment (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980).
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David Farber, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's
First Encounter with Radical Islam (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2005).
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Louis
Galambos and Joseph Pratt, The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth:
U. S. Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (New
York, 1988).
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Daniel
Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer
Culture, 1939-1979 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press,
2004).
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Paul
Sabin, Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940
(University of California Press, 2004).
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Bruce
Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture,
Society, and Politics (New York: Free Press, 2001).
M.
4/25 The Reagan Years: Consolidation of the New Right and
the "End" of the Cold War
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 26 pp. 1049-1067
The
Sharon Statement, Adopted by the Young Americans for Freedom, Sept 9-11,
1960 (CP Doc 15)
Excerpts
from 3 Speeches by President Ronald Reagan (CP Doc 16)
Lecture
Links:
W.
4/27 The "Consumers Republic"
John
F. Kennedy, "Special Message to the Congress on Protecting the Consumer
Interest," March 15, 1962 (CP Doc 17)
Bill
Clinton and Al Gore, National Performance Review Report, "From Red
Tape to Results: Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less,"
(1993)(CP Doc 18)
Recommended Readings:
- Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass
Consumption in Post-War America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).
M.
5/2 Globalization and the New Economy
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 27 pp. 1068-1104
Due:
Final Version "Thinking Through History" Research Paper (due
M/T depending on which day your section meets)
W. 5/4
September 11th in History
Discussion
Readings:
Foner,
Give Me Liberty!, Ch. 27 pp. 1104-1111, Epilogue pp. 1112-1131
William Langeweische, American Ground: The Unmaking of the World
Trade Center (excerpt) To download this excerpt, go to http://eres.lib.umn.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=164
and enter the password provided by Professor Welke or your section instructor.
Lecture
Links:
Recommended
Readings:
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Mary
L. Dudziak, ed., September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment?
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2003).
Final
Exam: Saturday (ugh!) May 14, 1:30-3:30 p.m. 175 Willey Hall
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