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The Folly of Empire

Overview

Students will be introduced to a book written by John B. Judis entitled, The Folly of Empire: What George Bush Could Learn From Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. This book compares recent foreign policy to the foreign policies pursued by Roosevelt and Wilson. It also covers the history of US foreign policy from Washington to the present. By being introduced to a currently published book about history the students will gain more confidence in their ability to interpret and understand...

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The Folly of Empire (Condensed Version)

Overview

Students will be introduced to a book written by John B. Judis entitled, The Folly of Empire: What George Bush Could Learn From Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.  This book compares recent foreign policy to the foreign policies pursued by Roosevelt and Wilson.  It also covers the history of US foreign policy from Washington to the present.  By being introduced to a currently published book about history the students will gain more confidence in their ability to...

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Fourteen Points

Gentlemen of the Congress:

Once more, as repeatedly before, the spokesmen of the Central Empires have indicated their desire to discuss the objects of the war and the possible basis of a general peace. Parleys have been in progress at Brest-Litovsk between Russsian representatives and representatives of the Central Powers to which the attention of all the belligerents have been invited for the purpose of ascertaining whether it may be possible to extend these parleys into a general conference with regard to terms of peace and...

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The Postwar Red Scare

On May 1, 1919--May Day--postal officials discovered 20 bombs in the mail of prominent capitalists, including John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan, Jr., as well as government officials like Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. A month later, bombs exploded in eight American cities.On September 16, 1920, a bomb left in a parked horse-drawn wagon exploded near Wall Street in Manhattan's financial district, killing 30 people and injuring hundreds. The suspicion was that the bomb was the work of alien radicals. Authorities...

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Guided Readings: Progressive Reform and the Trusts

Reading 1

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men; their greed and arrogance . . . and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition of excitement and irritation in the popular mind, which shows itself in the great increase in the socialistic propaganda.

—Theodore Roosevelt, 1906

Reading 2

I think we are in a position, after the experience of the last 20 years, to state two things: in the first place, that a corporation may well be too...

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Guided Readings: World War I

Reading 1

The United States must be neutral in fact, as well as in name, during these days that are to try men’s souls. We must be impartial in thought, as well as action, must put a curb upon our sentiments, as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another.

—Woodrow Wilson, Message to Congress, August 19, 1914

Reading 2

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

—Woodrow Wilson, Address to Naturalized Citizens at...