J. Mark Souther, Ph.D.
Rhodes Tower 1904
Department of History
Cleveland State University
Spring 2006

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Euclid Corridor Project

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Daily Schedule

Week 1

W 1/18 Course Introduction

F 1/20 Peering Inside the Tourist Mind
Löfgren, “Telling Stories,” pp. 72-106, ECR

Week 2

M 1/23 Cleveland Memory & Identity: The Euclid Corridor

W 1/25 Discovering the American Landscape
Sears, “‘Doing’ Niagara Falls,” pp. 3-30, ECR
Sears, “Mammoth Cave: Theater of the Cosmic,” pp. 31-48, ECR

F 1/27 Research Workshop at CSU Special Collections
Site Selection Due in Class

Week 3

M 1/30 Discovering the American Landscape (Cont'd.)

W 2/1 Tourism & Elite Identity at 19th-Century Spas and Springs
Sterngass, “The Creation of Saratoga Springs,” pp. 7-39, ECR

F 2/3 Oral History Workshop
(Meet in Waetjen Auditorium lobby, Music and Communication Building)
Site Description Due in Class

Week 4

M 2/6 The Emergence of the American Seaside Resort
Sterngass, “The Rise of Newport,” pp. 40-74, ECR

W 2/8 Tourism and the Civil War
Weeks, “A Stream of Pilgrims,” pp. 36-53, ECR

F 2/10 Tourism as Sectional Reconciliation
Chambers, “War, Nostalgia, and Anomie, 1861-1896,” pp. 184-225, ECR

Week 5

M 2/13 The Railroad Revolution and the Rise of Mass Tourism

W 2/15 Tourism and the Transformation of the West
Rothman, Devil’s Bargains, pp. 29-112

F 2/17 Tourism and Native American Culture
Dilworth, “Tourists and Indians in Fred Harvey’s Southwest,” pp. 142-164, ECR
Image/Source Collection Due in Class
Reading Journal Response (Rothman & Dilworth) Due in Class

Week 6

M 2/20 No Class

W 2/22 Seeing the City: Guidebooks, Maps, and Tourist Paths
Cocks, Doing the Town, pp. 106-209

F 2/24 Chinatown: “Slumming” and Race and Class Identity
Rast, “Cultural Politics of Tourism in San Francisco’s Chinatown,” pp. 1-31, ECR
Reading Journal Response (Cocks & Rast) Due in Class

Week 7

M 2/27 Sybaritic Pilgrimages: Tourists and Red-light Districts
Long, “Sex and Tourism in New Orleans, 1897-1917,” pp. 15-41, ECR

W 3/1 Branding the City: Parades, Celebrations, and Public Memory
Glassberg, “Celebrating the City,” pp. 59-85, ECR

F 3/3 World’s Expositions, Great White Ways, and Cities Beautiful

Week 8

M 3/6 Staging Race at World’s Expositions
Nasaw, “The City as Playground” 62-79, ECR

W 3/8 Film: Coney Island

F 3/10 Research Workshop in CSU Special Collections

3/13-17 Spring Break – No Classes

Week 9

M 3/20 Nickel Empires: The Allure of Coney Island
Nasaw, “The Summer Show,” 80-95, ECR

W 3/22 Middle-Class Identity and Respectability at Luna Park
Register, “Life Is a Merry-Go-Round,” pp. 85-143, ECR

F 3/24 Tourism, Gender, and Sociability at Niagara Falls
Dubinsky, The Second Greatest Disappointment (All)
Reading Journal Response (Dubinsky) Due in Class

Week 10

M 3/27 From Railroad to Motorcar, 1910-1940
Belasco, “Itinerary,” “Gypsying,” and “Cars versus Trains,” pp. 3-39, ECR

W 3/29 From Hotel to Autocamp to Motel
Belasco, “Autocamping versus Hotels,”pp. 41-70, ECR

F 3/31 Roadside Attractions as Americana
Rothman, Devil’s Bargains, pp. 143-167

Week 11

M 4/3 Tourism and National Identity in World War I
Shaffer, “Seeing America First,” pp. 165-193, ECR

W 4/5 Visiting the Past: The Creation of Heritage Towns

F 4/7 Patriotic Shrines: Learning Civic Lessons at Gettysburg
Weeks, “Mass Culture Transforms Gettysburg,” pp. 115-144, ECR
Research Paper Due in Class

Week 12

M 4/10 Creating a Colonial Cityscape in Charleston
Yuhl, A Golden Haze of Memory, 1-52, 157-193 (All), + Choose 1 of the following:
53-87, 89-126, or 127-156
Reading Journal Response (Yuhl) Due in Class

W 4/12 The Balm of Nostalgia in Natchez
Davis, “Pilgimage to the Past,” pp. 51-82, ECR

F 4/14 A “New” New Orleans?

Week 13

M 4/17 Race, Tourism, and Public Space in the Interwar Period
Simon, “Staging Utopia on the Boardwalk” and “The Midway,” pp. 19-62, ECR
Revised Research Paper Due in Class (+ Emailed Electronic Copy)

W 4/19 Race, Tourism, and Public Space in the Postwar Years
Simon, “Narrating Decline and Erasing Race,” pp. 103-131, ECR

F 4/21 Tourism, Urban Image, and Civil Rights
Souther, “Into the Big League,” 694-725, ECR

Week 14

M 4/24 The New Mass Resort: Las Vegas
Rothman, Devil’s Bargains, pp. 287-312

W 4/26 Walt Disney and the Transformation of Tourism

F 4/28 The Fate of Urban America: Las Vegas or Atlantic City?
Rothman, Devil’s Bargains, pp. 313-337
Simon, “Casino Publics,” pp. 194-216, ECR

Week 15

M 5/1 The Rise of the Entertainment City, 1970s to Present
Souther, “Creole Disneyland”
Tour Scripts Due in Class

W 5/3 The Heritage Seekers: Living the Past Through Tourism
Weeks, “It’s 1863 All Over Again,” pp. 195-217, ECR

F 5/5 Tourist Paths on the Euclid Corridor?

F 5/12 Revised Tour Scripts (and Optional Oral History Transcript)
Due 8:30-10:30 AM (+ Emailed Electronic Copy)