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Dr. Brian Regal
Professor for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Department of History, LHAC 212
Office phone: 909-737-5316
email: bregal@kean.edu
Syllabus: (note: syllabus may change over the course of the semester)
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Assignments for the Plague years: Beginning the week we return from Spring Break
Week 1: Download the midterm exam here, fill it out then email it back to me.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ThP41aL2QXLjq4wiqc8ii1JmvfOT-y3G/view?usp=sharing
Week 2:
If you haven't already found something for the Special collections project go to the WWII collection webpage and find something there to write your paper on. If you have any questions email me.
http://www.worldwariiscrapbook.com/
Week 3:
African Americans and the war. Read Winkler Chapter 3 and the two articles on African Americans and the war on the webpage below.
Week 4:
Tanks for the Memories
Read the following articles below
- Machines of War
- Heinz Gudarian
- Hitler's Teeth
Week 5:
The War in Asia. read Weiberg chapters 5 & 6, Collingham part 1-3. Power point slides 45-51.
Watch Battlefield episode 'The Battle of Leyte Gulf' follow link below.
Week 6:
The Home Front
Read Collingham Part 3/15, and Winkler Chap 2. Also, look at the Power Point slides #24-29 and #52 - 59.
Week 7:
The end of the war. Finish all the readings and review the final Power Point slides.
End of the Semester:
Finish the research project and any other home work not turned in.
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Required Reading:
Gerald L. Weinberg. World War II: a very short history (Oxford University Press, 2014) ISBN: 9780199688777
Lizzie Collingham. The Taste of War (Penguin, 2013). ISBN: 9780143123019
Allan M. Winkler. Home Front USA: America during World War II (Harlan Davidson, 2012). ISBN: 9780882952864
Power Point: Updated 4.29.20
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vr77gC4pm3vRyGs8whLqteEDu8g34Lu5/view?usp=sharing
Additional Required Reading:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fpnq4P83CPN0-g3MUr0tNnEg2iJd2JWS/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wq5NfQUe6D5mAZxvIRGmiLOukK4eWhSz/view?usp=sharing
African Americans in WWII part two
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-6lQ3fZut7iwW2aLRh2hgcslE4ztuJTI/view?usp=sharing
Machines of war (written in 1940)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1enn0fCQxhq6xk7psr_yMWG5iKogXAMuj/view?usp=sharing
Heinz Gudarian as the agent of change - often referred to as the father of modern armored warfare
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q2J_ZZntPOqcCgE8Ye7Jf7BF3ebUSXHF/view?usp=sharing
Hitler's Teeth - For those who think he survived and moved to Brazil
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YAGC_mlpVhOCaWrhSXsfsasWMTsSMHgK/view?usp=sharing
The war in the Pacific, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battlefield Documentary S2:E5. (Approximately 2hrs).
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