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HIST
3822
3 credits/Spring 2004
T/Th 11:15-12:30
Anderson 330
Professor
Barbara Welke
752 Social Sciences Bldg.
Office Hours:
T 1-3 pm (or by appt.)
tel: (612) 624-7017
welke004@tc.umn.edu
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Schedule
1/20
INTRODUCTION TO COURSE AND COURSE THEMES
Recommended
Readings (broad surveys covering a significant part of time frame of course):
- William
H. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II, 5th
ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
- Lizabeth
Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in
Postwar America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).
- Gary Gerstle,
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the 20th Century (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2001).
- Godfrey
Hodgson, America In Our Time (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday
& Company, Inc. 1976).
- Alice Kessler
Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic
Citizenship in 20th-Century America (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001).
- Thomas
J. McCormick, America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy
in the Cold War and After, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1995).
1945-1960:
THE
TRUMAN & EISENHOWER YEARS
1/22
WWII AND THE ORIGINS OF POSTWAR AMERICA
Key Terms:
- New Deal
Liberalism
- Keynesian
economics (John Maynard Keynes)
Recommended
Readings:
Alan Berube,
Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War
II (1990).
Alan Brinkley,
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).
Lizabeth
Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in
Postwar America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).
Robert Dallek,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1933-1945
(1979).
Ruth Milkman,
Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World
War II (1988).
Alice Yang
Murray, What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2000).
Merle E.
Reed, Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement (1991).
Studs Terkel,
"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984).
1/27
FROM WWII TO THE COLD WAR: THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF JAPAN
Assigned
Reading: None
Lecture Links:
- The
Big Three at Yalta (Feb 1945)(British Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin)
- President
Harry S. Truman at Potsdam, July 1945, with Winston Churchill and Soviet
Premier Josef Stalin
- Enola
Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (Col. Paul
W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot, waving before takeoff on Aug. 6, 1945)
- Mushroom
cloud rising over Nagasaki following U. S. use of atomic bomb, Aug.
8, 1945
- Aftermath
of Nagaski bombing
- Victim
of Nagasaki bombing
Links Re
Enola Gay Exhibit Controversies
Recommended
Films:
The Day
After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and The Atomic Bomb (documentary)
Recommended
Readings:
Gar Alperovitz,
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Making of an American
Myth (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).
John Hersey,
Hiroshima (New York: Vintage Books, 1989)(orig. pub. by A.A.
Knopf, 1946)(first serialized in the New Yorker magazine).
Edward T.
Linenthal and Tom Englehardt, eds., History Wars: The Enola Gay and
Other Battles for the American Past (New York: Henry Holt and Company,
1996).
Robert James
Maddox, "Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb," American Heritage
(May/June 1995).
"The
Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb" Gar Alperovitz and the H-Net Debate
Richard Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986) and Dark Sun: The Making
of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995).
Martin J.
Sherwin, A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance
(1975).
1/29
DESCENT INTO COLD WAR
Assigned
Readings (Web-Links):
Lecture Links:
Key Terms:
- Yalta System
- Atomic
Bomb
- Cold War
- Truman
Doctrine
- Iron Curtain
- Marshall
Plan
- NATO
- Berlin
Blockade
- Korean
War
- NSC-68
- The Long
Telegram
Recommended
Reading:
- John L.
Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947
(1972)
- George
Kennan, Memoirs, 1925-1950 (1967) and Memoirs, 1950-1963
(1972).
- Melvyn
Leffler, A Preponderance of Power (1992).
- Thomas
Paterson, On Every Front: The Making and Unmaking of the Cold War
(1992).
- Reinhold
Wagnleitner, Coca-Colonization: The Cultural Mission of the United
States in Austria after the Second World War (1994).
- Daniel
Yergin, A Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National
Security State (1977).
2/3
ANTI-COMMUNISM AT HOME: MCCARTHYISM & CIVIL LIBERTIES
Assigned
Reading:
Note: For
all readings on electronic reserve, the website is http://reserve.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/eres/viewcourse.pl?frame=Hist3822_WELKE
Lecture Links:
Recommended
Readings:
- Robert
Griffith and Athan Theoharis, ed., The Specter: Original Essays
on the Cold War and the Origins of McCarthyism (1974).
- Joel Kovel,
Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of
America (1994).
- Ellen
Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Boston:
Little, Brown, 1998).
- Stanley
J. Kutler, The American Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the
Cold War (1982).
- David
Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Josephy McCarthy
(1983).
- Thomas
Reeves, The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy (1982).
Recommended
Films:
"Inherit
the Wind," (1960, based on the 1955 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert
E. Lee)
Notes
on Inherit the Wind
"The
Salt of the Earth"
2/5 Domestic
Containment: Family, Suburbia & Consumption
Assigned
Reading:
- Anne Moody,
Coming of Age in Mississippi (Childhood)
Lecture Links:
Key Terms:
- The Kitchen
Debate (1959)
- G. I.
Bill (1944)
- National
Defense Education Act (1958)
- Interstate
Highway Act (1957)
- Homemaker
- Leavittown
- Consumer
Republic
- Domestic
Containment
- Baby Boom
- "The
Organization Man"
- Restrictive
covenants, Red-Lining and Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
- the Beats
(Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs. . . .)
Recommended
Reading:
- Lizabeth
Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in
Postwar America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).
- Ellen
Herman, The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in
the Age of Experts (1995).
- Elaine
Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
(New York: Basic Books, 1999)(rev. ed.).
- Lary May,
The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
- Joanne
Meyerowitz, ed., Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America,
1945-1960 (1994).
- Jane S.
Smith, Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine (1990).
- Rickie
Solinger, Wake Up, Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before
Roe v. Wade (1992).
- Thomas
J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality
in Postwar Detroit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
- Julian
E. Zelizer, Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State,
1945-1975 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Influential
Books from the Time:
- John Kenneth
Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958).
- Allen
Ginsberg, Howl (poem)(1956).
- John Keats,
The Crack in the Picture Window (1957).
- Jack Kerouac,
On the Road (1957).
- C. Wright
Mills, The Power Elite (1956).
- Vance
Packard, The Hidden Persuaders (1957), The Status Seekers
(1959), The Waste Makers (1960).
- David
Reisman, The Lonely Crowd (1950).
- William
H. Whyte, The Organization Man (1955).
- Sloan
Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955).
Films:
- The
Wild One (1953)(starring Marlon Brando).
- Blackboard
Jungle
(1955)(starring Sidney Poitier).
- Rebel
Without a Cause (1955)(starring James Dean).
2/10
REFLECTIONS: AMERICA IN THE ATOMIC AGE
In Class:
Atomic Cafe (Documentary Film)(1982)
Assigned
Reading:
- David
Beers, Blue Sky Dream, pp. 1-35.
Key Terms:
- Bikini
(1946)
- Strontium-90
shows up in milk (1959)
- Nuclear
Test-Ban Treaty (1963)
- Three Mile
Island (1979)
- Strategic
Defense Initiative (SDI)("Star Wars")
- Radiation
Exposure Compensation Act (1990)
Recommended
Reading:
Paul Boyer,
By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn
of the Atomic Age (1994 rev ed.)
Recommended
Novels (and the changing view from children's literature):
- Heinz
Haber, Our Friend the Atom (1956)(and film of same name produced
by Walt Disney and exhibit at Disneyland's Tomorrowland sponsored by
General Dynamics)
- Nevil
Shute, On The Beach (1957)
- Eugene
Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail Safe (1962)
- Kurt Vonnegut,
Cat's Cradle (1963)
- Dr. Seuss,
The Butter Battle Book (1984)
Recommended
Films:
- On
The Beach (1959,
based on novel by Nevil Shute, starring Gregory Peck)
- Ladybug
Ladybug (1963)
- Dr.
Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1964, Dir. by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers)
2/12
SPARKING THE RIGHTS REVOLUTION: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT FROM
BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION (1954) TO LITTLE ROCK (1956)
Assigned
Reading:
- Anne Moody,
Coming of Age in Mississippi (High School & College)
Lecture Links:
- Remembering
Jim Crow,
American Radioworks Documentary by Stephen Smith, Kate Ellis, and Sasha
Aslanian
- OWI/FSA
Photographs: Images of Jim Crow
-
#1 Greyhound Rest Stop, betw. Louisville and Nashville, 1943
- #2
Greyhound Bus Station, Rome, Ga., 1943
- #3 Cafe,
Durham, NC, 1940
- #4
(Drinking Fountain, Halifax, NC, 1938)
- Executive
Order 9981 (Ordering Desegregation of Armed Services)
- Thurgood
Marshall
- Little
Rock
- The
Little Rock Nine
Key Terms:
- Plessy
v. Ferguson (1896)
- Executive
Order 9981 (see above)
- NAACP strategy
for education
- Brown
I (1954); Brown II (1955)("all deliberate speed")
- President
Dwight Eisenhower
- Little
Rock (Ark.)(1957)
- Ruby Bridges
(New Orleans, 1960)(for the excerpt I read in class, see John Steinbeck,
Travels with Charley, pp. 247-257)
Recommended
Readings:
- Daisy
Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock (1964)
- Charlayne
Hunter-Gault, In My Place (N.Y.: Vintage Books, 1993)
- Richard
Kluger, Simple Justice (N.Y.: Vintage Books, 1975)
- J. Anthony
Lucas, Common Ground (N.Y.: Knopf, 1985)
- Gerald
N. Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
- Mark Tushnet,
The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987).
1960-1968:
THE
KENNEDY & JOHNSON YEARS
2/17
TO THE BRINK: SUPERPOWER CONFRONTATION FROM THE BAY OF PIGS TO
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Short
Paper #1 Due
Assigned
Reading: None
Lecture Links:
- Kennedy
& Johnson, 1960 Presidential Campaign
- Kennedy-Nixon
Debates, First Joint Television-Radio Broadcast, Sept. 26, 1960
- Kennedy-Nixon
Debates, Second Joint Television-Radio Broadcast, Oct. 7, 1960
- Kennedy-Nixon
Debates, Third Joint Television-Radio Broadcast, Oct. 30, 1960
- Kennedy/Nixon
Debate, 1960 (image)
- Map
of 1960 Presidential Election
- John
F. Kennedy Speech to the Nation - Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 22, 1962
-
Ernest
R. May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White
House During the Cuban Missile Crisis (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1997).
Sergei
Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
(University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000).
Recommended
Films:
The
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Documentary,
2004)(Errol Morris, dir.)(currently showing Lagoon Theatre in Uptown,
Minneapolis).
2/19
REFLECTIONS: THE NEW ENTREPRENEURS AND THE "AMERICAN WAY"
(HOLIDAY INN, THE GOLDEN ARCHES, AND WALMART)
Coming
to a Location Near You Soon (or, how a sick dog led me to postpone this
one; will reschedule later in the term!)
Assigned
Readings: None
2/24
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT II: SIT-INS AND FREEDOM RIDERS TO THE CIVIL
RIGHTS AND VOTING RIGHTS ACTS
Assigned
Reading:
Lecture Links:
Key Names
and Terms:
- Montgomery
Bus Boycott (1955)
- Rosa Parks
- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
- SCLC (Southern
Christian Leadership Conference)
- Sit-Ins
- SNCC (Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)
- Freedom
Rides
- Mississippi
Freedom Summer
- MFDP (Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party)
- Civil Rights
Act (1964)
- Voting
Rights Act (1965)
- James Meredith
- March Against
Fear
- Stokeley
Carmichael (and SNCC)
- Floyd McKissick
(and CORE)
- Black Power
- Watts Riot
(1965)
- Black Nationalism
- Malcolm
X
- Black Panthers
(Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founders, 1966)
- Kerner
Commission
Recommended
(Secondary) Readings:
- Taylor
Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988).
- Taylor
Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998).
- Vicki
Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods, Women in the
Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers & Torchbearers, 1941-1965
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
- Mary L.
Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
- Todd Gitlin,
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam
Books, 1987, 1993).
- J. Anthony
Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American
Families (New York: Knopf, 1985).
- Diane
McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle
of the Civil Rights Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster,
2001).
- Charles
M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition
and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1995).
- Morton
Sosna, In Search of the Silent South: Southern Liberals and the
Race Issue (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977).
Recommended
(Primary) Readings:
- Eldridge
Cleaver, Soul on Ice (New York: McGraw Hill, 1968).
- Malcolm
X with Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York:
Grove Press, 1965).
- Dorothy
Height, Open Wide the Freedom Gates, A Memoir (New York: Public
Affairs, 2003).
- United
States. Kerner Commission, Report of the National Advisory Committee
on Civil Disorders (New York: Bantam Books, 1968).
2/26
FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Assigned Reading:
Key Terms:
- The Pill
(1960)
- President's
Commission on the Status of Women (1960, Report 1963)
- Betty
Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
Recommended
(Secondary) Readings:
- Jane Sherron
DeHart and Donald Mathews, Sex, Gender and the Politics of the ERA (1988).
- Alice
Echols, Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989).
- Sara Evans,
Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil
Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Knopf, 1979).
- Hugh Davis
Graham, Civil Rights and the Presidency: Race and Gender in American
Politics, 1960-1972 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
- Alice
Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest
for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001).
- Amy Swerdlow,
Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics
in the 1960s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
Recommended
(Primary) Readings:
- Michele
Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Super Woman (1970)
- Kate Millett,
Sexual Politics (1971).
- Shulamith
Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex (1972).
- Robin
Morgan, ed., Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From
the Women's Liberation Movement (New York: Random House, 1970).
3/2 EXPANDING
THE AMERICAN DREAM: LBJ'S GREAT SOCIETY
Assigned
Reading (Web-Links):
Recommended
(Secondary) Readings:
- Robert
A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (1982),
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (1990), The
Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (2002).
- James
Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1980 (1983).
Recommended
(Primary) Readings:
- Michael
Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States
(New York: MacMillan, 1962).
3/4 THE
HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
NOTE:
Moved to 4/6 and 4/8 when we talk about the mid-70s.
3/9
THE DOMINO EFFECT AND WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Assigned
Reading:
- David
Beers, Blue Sky Dream, pp. 36-138
Lecture Links:
Recommended
Reading:
- Michael
R. Belknap, The Vietnam War on Trial: The My Lai Massacre and the
Court-Martial of Lieutenant Calley (Lawrence: University of Kansas
Press, 2003).
- Eric M.
Bergerud, Dynamics of Defeat (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993)(superb
analysis of military strategy and tactics).
- David Halbertson,
The Best and the Brightest (New York: Random House, 1972)(very
good, very readable, still the best account of how and why JFK and advisors
got the U. S. committed to war)..
- Michael
Herr, Dispatches (New York: Vintage Books, 1968).
- Arnold
R. Isaacs, Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
- David
Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the
Vietnam War (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2000).
- Fredrik
Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation
of War in Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
- Neil Sheehan,
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
(New York: Vintage Books, 1988).
Recommended
Films:
- The
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara,
Dir. by Errol Morris (2003)(Winner Academy Award for Best Documentary)
- Hearts
and Minds, Dir. by Peter Davis (1975)(Winner Academy Award for
Best Documentary)
I recommend
watching both films.
Memoirs and
novels: There are lots of them. Here are a couple you might start with
-
- Lynda
Van Devanter, Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in
Vietnam (New York, 1993).
- Bao Ninh,
Sorrow of War (transl. London, 1993)(an underground bestseller
in Vietnam).
3/11
FIGHTING THE WAR AT HOME: THE STUDENT AND ANTIWAR MOVEMENTS
Assigned
Reading:
In-class:
Berkeley in the Sixties (1993)(Film)(available at Learning Resource
Center, Walter Library if you'd like to see the whole thing)
Recommended
Reading:
- John F.
and Rosemary S. Bannan, Law, Morality, and Vietnam: The Peace Militants
and the Courts (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974).
- Daniel
Berrigan, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (New York: Bantam
Books, 1971).
- Michael
S. Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the
Vietnam War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
- Todd Gitlin,
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam
Books, 1987).
- Doug Rossinow,
The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the
New Left in America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).
SPRING
BREAK 3/15-3/19
3/23
1968
Assigned
Readings: None
Lecture Links:
1968-1980:
THE
NIXON, FORD & CARTER YEARS
3/25
NIXON'S FOREIGN POLICY AND THE WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Due:
Short Paper #2
Assigned
Reading: None
Lecture Links:
Recommended
Reading:
- Kevin
B. Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969)(on Republican
strategy).
3/30
REFLECTIONS: THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, THE COUNTERCULTURE,
AND THE PC REVOLUTION
Assigned
Reading:
- David
Beers, Blue Sky Dream, pp. 139-160
Recommended
Readings:
- Paul N.
Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse
in Cold War America (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997).
- Dick Hanson,
The NewAlchemists: Silicon Valley and the Microelectronics Revolution
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982).
- Paul Mackun,
"Silicon Valley and Route 128: Two Faces of the American Technopolis,"
http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/sv&128.html
- David
Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park, The Silicon Valley of Dreams:
Environmental Injustic, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global
Economy (New York: New York University Press, 2002).
- Tom Wolfe,
"The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How the Sun Rose on the Silicon
Valley," Esquire Magazine (December 1983), 346-374.
4/1
WATERGATE AND AMERICAN DISILLUSIONMENT
Lecture Links:
Recommended
Readings:
- We have
discussed Richard Nixon many times over the course of the term. I highly
recommend a review essay of recent work on Nixon by David
Greenberg, "Richard the Bleeding Hearted," in Reviews
in American History 30.1 (2002): 156-167. (Note: This link
will only work if you are on campus. If you are connecting to the internet
from an off-campus location, you should go through the Library website.
Select "Articles" from the menu and then you can access the
review through any of a number of databases, including Muse or America:
History and Life.)
- David Greenberg,
Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (New York: W. W. Norton,
2003).
- Leonard
Garment, In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery
of Our Time (New York: Basic Books, 2000).
- Melvin
Small, The Presidency of Richard Nixon (Lawrence: University
of Kansas Press, 1999).
4/6
THE
OIL CRISIS AND GRIMMER ECONOMIC HORIZONS
Assigned
Reading:
Lecture Links:
Recommended
Reading:
- J. Brooks
Flippen, Nixon and the Environment (Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press, 2000).
- Gerald
Markowitz and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics
of Industrial Pollution (Berkeley: University of California Press,
2002).
4/8
REFLECTIONS ON THE CONSUMER ECONOMY
Assigned
Reading:
- Ralph
Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed (excerpt)(electronic reserve)
In-Class:
"Little Injustices" (Film)
Recommended
Reading:
- Lizabeth
Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in
Postward America (New York: A. A. Knopf, 2003).
4/13
THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
Assigned
Reading: None
Recommended
Reading:
- Alice Echols,
Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1989).
- Sara M. Evans, Tidal
Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End (New York:
Free Press, 2003).
- Estelle
Freedman and John D'Emilio, Intimate Matters (1988)
- Matt S.
Meier and Feliciano Ribera, Mexican American, American Mexicans:
From Conquistadors to Chicanos (1972; rev. ed. 1993).
- Peter
Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (New York: Houghton
Mifflin, 1999).
- Marc Stein,
City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia,
1945-1972 (2000).
1980-1992:
THE
REAGAN & BUSH YEARS
4/15
CONSERVATIVE RESURGENCE: RONALD REAGAN AND THE NEW RIGHT
Assigned
Reading:
- David
Beers, Blue Sky Dream, pp. 161-273
Lecture Links:
Recommended
Reading:
- Godfrey
Hodgson, The World Turned Right Side Up: A History of the Conservative
Ascendancy in America (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996).
- Lisa McGirr,
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2001).
4/20
THE COLD WAR COMES TO AN END
Assigned
Reading:
- J. L.
Gaddis, "Hanging Tough Paid Off," from The Bulletin of
Atomic Scientists (Jan/Feb 1989)(electronic reserve).
- Richard
Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein, "Reagan and the Russians,"
in Atlantic Monthly (Feb. 1994)(electronic reserve).
Due:
Short Paper #3
4/22
REFLECTIONS: THE NEW ENTREPRENEURS AND THE "AMERICAN WAY" (HOLIDAY
INN, THE GOLDEN ARCHES, AND WALMART)
As
promised, I've plugged this one back in.
Recommended
Readings-- Contending Visions:
Through the
Founders' Eyes -
- Ray Kroc
with Robert Anderson, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
(Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1977).
- Sam
Walton with John Huey, Sam Walton, Made in America, My Story
(New York: Doubleday, 1992).
- Kemmons
Wilson, The Holiday Inn Story (New York: The Newcomen Society
in North America, 1968).
Social Critics
-
- Mark Alfino,
John S. Caputo, and Robin Wynyard, eds., McDonaldization Revisited:
Critical Essays on Consumer Culture (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998).
- Barbara
Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001)(esp. intro. and ch. 3 "Selling
in Minnesota).
- William
Kowinski, The Malling of America: An Inside Look at the Great Consumer
Paradise (New York: W. Morrow, 1985).
- George
Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Pine Forge Press, 1993), The McDonaldization Thesis (London:
Sage Publications, 1998).
- Eric Schlosser,
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (New
York: Harper Collins, 2002).
- This
is Nowhere (documentary film)(High Plains Film, 2002).
Recommended
Monographs:
- Lizabeth
Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in
Postwar America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).
4/27
CULTURE WARS
Assigned
Reading:
Recommended
Readings:
- Beth Bailey,
Sex in the Heartland (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1999).
- Lisa Duggan
and Nan D. Hunter, Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture
(New York: Routledge, 1995).
- Faye D.
Ginsburg, Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
- Janice
M. Irvine, Talk About Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the
United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
- Edward
T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, eds., History Wars: The Enola Gay
and Other Battles for the American Past (New York: Metropolitan
Books, 1996).
- Jeffrey
P. Moran, Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
- John David
Skretny, The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and
Justice in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
- Melvin
Urofsky, Affirmative Action on Trial: Sex Discrimination in Johnson
v. Santa Clara (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1997).
- Jonathan
Zimmerman, Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).
Social/Political
Commentary:
- Robin D.
G. Kelley, Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars
in Urban America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997).
4/29
GlOBALIZATION, THE 'NEW ECONOMY' AND CLINTONOMICS
Assigned
Reading: None
Recommended
Reading:
- Alfred
E. Eckes, Jr. and Thomas W. Zeiler, Globalization and the American
Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Social/Political
Commentary:
- Thomas
Frank, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism,
and the End of Economic Democracy (New York: Doubleday, 2000).
5/4
"9/11": BACK ON A WAR FOOTING
Assigned
Reading:
- Elaine
Tyler May, "Echoes of the Cold War: The Aftermath of September
11 at Home," in Mary
L. Dudziak, ed., September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment?
(Duke University Press, 2003), 35-54 (electronic reserve)(Note:
The electronic copy is divided into two files to speed up the downloading
time -- be sure to read both files!).
5/6
TAKING STOCK: A HALF CENTURY OF CHANGE
5/14
(Friday)
FINAL PAPER
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