Lecture Podcasts for HIST 2112

Lecture on Wilson's Foreign Policy in World War I

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:12:00 +0000

The PowerPoint of our lecture on the attempt to export Progressivism abroad to save the world for democracy in World War I is below.

TR and the Other Side of the Progressives

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:56:00 +0000

In this lecture we look at the not-so-progressive side of the Progressive reformers, concentrating on the domestic and foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt. After summing up his contributions to conservation and consumer protection, we look at the notorious Brownesville episode (1906), TR's views on race and equality, and his policy toward Latin America. With the latter, Roosevelt revealed some of the less flattering aspects of Progressivism, compromising our nation'a philosophical ideals unecessarily in the legitimate quest to upold its objective security.

TR and the Other Side of the Progressives (a Video Podcast in the iPod Video format)

The Progressive Presidents

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:04:00 +0000

Today we had an exam at the end of the class but we began with a brief introduction to the Progressive Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. In twenty minutes or so, we looked at the "bright" side of the story, the ways in which Theodore Roosevelt served the cause of democracy and equal rights for all with his sometimes symbolic, and sometimes substantive, actions on these fronts.
Next time we look at their failures to extend democracy and fail dealings to all Americans, failures that were often glaring.

The Progressive Presidents: An Introduction (Video iPod format)

The Progressives: Part One

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:58:00 +0000

This audio podcast introduces the Progressives, at the municipal and state levels.

Click here for the audio podcast.

The New South: How Much Like the Old?

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:37:00 +0000

Because we had an exam yesterday, we had time in the 11:00 am section only for a ten-minute or so introduction to the story of the New South, the South between 1865 and 1914. This podcast is that introduction, recorded as an audio podcast only. While many economic indicators support the idea that there was indeed a New South characterized by widepread industrialization and economic change, the New South turned out to be much like the old in all the most important areas. Certainly if one defines the New South as a society of "wealth and prosperity based on industry," there was no New South after the Civil War.

Introducing the "New South" (audio podcast)

Poverty and Immigration Restriction, 1882-1910

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:50:00 +0000

To many Americans there was an imagined link between poverty and immigration. Since most immigrants were poor, Americans made the false leap to the conclusion that most poor people were immigrants, or that their poverty was caused by immigration. In today's lecture, captured below as an audio podcast, we look at how Americans viewed the "Old" and the "New" immigrants and recoiled at the sources of immigration between 1882 and 1910. The organizations and legislation that resulted are reviewed.

"Golden Door" No More: Poverty and Immigration in the late Nineteenth Century Lens(audio podcast)

Lecture 04: Poverty and its Fatal Diagnosis

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:56:00 +0000

Yesterday we introduced the topic of poverty in the late nineteenth century and looked at its dimensions and diagnosis. We saw that the poor were blamed for their own poverty, an insensitivity that only made problems worse. Because the battery failed on my microphone and the lecture was not recorded, I made this special podcast providing a condensed (in fourteen minutes) overview of the lecture. Next time we will look at a case study of tenement house reform and the discovery of poverty in the 1890s to round out our look at the topic of poverty. it was a problem that would have to await the progressive reformers after the turn of the century to be seriously addressed.

The Dimensions and Diagnoses of Poverty in the Age of Excess (video iPod format)

Lecture 03: Introducing the Age of Excess, 1877-1900

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:34:00 +0000

Today we talked about the age of the Economic Revolution in America, what is sometimes described accurately as an "age of excess." Overproduction of goods, oversupply of labor and a mania to organize privately to solve problems (usually with conflict as the result if not the goal) rendered it a time of suffering bereft of reform. I explain how America was growing rich as a nation and poor as a people. Next time we will look at specicic examples of the organizations for conflict that passed for the reform spirit of the "Gilded Age."

Introducing the Age of Excess (video iPod format)

Lecture 02: Reconstruction Concluded (From the 11:00 section)

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:02:00 +0000

In this lecture we take a closer look at the reasons why the old "Tragic era" interpretation of Reconstruction does not survive the test of documentary and historical scrutiny. I know of no historians who still subscribe to that older interpretation. Certainly Reconstruction was not a story of heroes and villains and the Radical Republicans had their ulterior motives along with all the others involved. But old facts have been looked at anew in the last fifty years, resulting in the now-respected revisionist view of such historians as Eric Foner.

Lecture 02: Reconstruction Concluded (from the 11:00 section)

Watching the Podcasts

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:59:00 +0000

Some of you are having difficulty loading the podcasts onto your computers. The problem is that you need the free Quicktime player installed on your computer. You should be able to download it from http://www.apple.com. I will try to get the Computer center to install this on the computers in Collins 224. if you watch them during labtime in this classroom, you will still need headphones so as not to distract the other students working there.

Lecture 01: Reconstruction

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:37:00 +0000

Was Reconstruction after the Civil War truly "a tragic era," as historians once thought, or a time of promising reforms that just did not go far enough? We begin to examine the subject and the controversies surrounding this time in this, our first, lecture.

Lecture 01, Reconstruction: A "Tragic" Era?

Introduction to Course

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:07:00 +0000

Today we went over the syllabus and I provided an overview of why the study of history is important: why it is a social science, not just an art. Students often wrongly think that history is about names and dates when it is really about interpretations and arguments. If you have questions about the syllabus or mechanics of the class, ask me anytime or review the video podcast below.

Course Introduction: About Your Syllabus

What is this Page?

rreiman@sga.edu (Richard A. Reiman) — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:31:00 +0000

This blog is the container for all the full-length podcats in our course. Not every lecture will be podcast, but those that are recorded will appear here. There will also be a link to FAQ for this page.