Course Materials

The Golden Age of San Francisco Rock
Instructor: Ritchie Unterberger
Location: Stevenson Hall 1301

Week 1

• The Roots of the San Francisco Sound & The Birth of Underground San Francisco Rock (PDF)

Week 2

• The San Francisco Psychedelic Rock Explosion; The Music Matures, Haight-Ashbury Endures (PDF)

Week 3

• The Late '60s: From Acid Rock to Hard Rock (PDF)

Week 4

• San Francisco Rock of the late 1960s/early1970s in the African-American and Latino Communities (PDF)

Week 5

• San Francisco Rock at the End of the 1960s and in the Early 1970s; The End of the Psychedelic Era (PDF)

Week 6

• San Francisco Rock in the mid-to-late 1970s, from young classic rock veterans to punk and new wave; The Legacy of San Francisco Rock (PDF)

The Permanently Unfinished Country
Instructor: Douglas Kenning
Location: Stevenson Hall 1300

Week 1

• Course Outline 

Week 2

• Immigration Survey
• Immigration Quotations
• Nativist Reaction to Irish Immigration
• Osceola: A Seminole Warrior Cloaked in Defiance

Week 3

• Letters from an American
• Nordic Supremacy
• Graph of U.S. Immigration Through the Centuries

The Dark Ages
Instructor: Samuel Cohen
Location: Stevenson Hall 1301

Week 1

• Introductions and Definitions

Week 2

• Barbarian Successor States in the Latin West

Week 3

• Reading List
• The East Roman Empire

Lincoln's Mentors
Instructor: Mick Chantler
Location: Stevenson Hall 1300

Week 1

• Course Outline (PDF)
• Lincoln's Early Teachers (PDF)

Week 2

• Lincoln and The Enlightenment (PDF)

Week 3

• Lincoln's Republican Party (PDF)

Week 4

• Lincoln's Literary Mentors (PDF)

Week 5

• Abraham Lincoln's God (PDF)

Week 6 (PDF)

• Lincoln's Wartime Mentors

The Life of Jack London: The Real and the Myths
Instructor: Lou Leal
Location: Stevenson Hall 1300

Week 1

• Unsettled Childhood, Finding Identity, Dealing with Success, Hardships and Dreams (PDF)

The Macchiaioli
Instructor: Heidi Chretein
Location: Stevenson Hall 1301

Week 1

• The "Other" Impressionists