Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Week One - From Global Civil War to Global Colossus - America in Depression and War

August 28
Class introductions, syllabus, course objectives

August 30
Class cancelled - picking up my car in Billings, Montana!

Read Mosin Hamid's editorial "Why Do They Hate Us" from the Washington Post's opinion page from July 22, 2007.

On his Web site at: http://www.mohsinhamid.com/whydotheyhateus.html

Week Two - Preparing for Life After War

Maps and pictures for Week Two

September 4 - Lecture Notes

September 6 - Lecture Notes

Text: Chapter One

George Marshall, "European Unity," Truman on the Fair Deal, and Robert Taft's "Individual Liberty vs. Big Government" in Echoes

Week Three - Origins of The Cold War, European Reconstruction

Maps and pictures for Week Three

September 9

September 11

Text: Chapter Two

Kennan's "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" (i.e. the "Long Telegram,") Douglas Macarthur "What is Policy in Korea," and Truman's address to the American people on Korea in Echoes

Week Four - Wealth and Worry in Eisenhower's America

September 16

September 18

Text: Chapter Three
Wells: Chapter One

Eisenhower "The Middle Road" and address on the situation in Little Rock, McCarthy's Speech and Congressional testimony - Also read Brown v. Board of Education in Echoes

Week Five - Challenges of Soviet Power and Decolonization

September 25

September 27
In class exam - see September 16 outline

Text: Chapter Four

John Foster Dulles's Speech in New York, the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Declaration of Havana and Fidel Castro's "The Purpose of the Revolution" in Echoes

Also, Eisenhower's "Farwell Address" http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=90&page=transcript

Week Six - Kennedy and King

October 2

October 4 - No outline - watched movie

Text: Chapter Five

In class movie: Eyes on the Prize - vol. 2.

Martin Luther King "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" http://www.thekingcenter.org/prog/non/Letter.pdf

Week Seven - The Great Society

October 9

October 11 - Sick for class

Columbus Day holiday - no class

Echoes, Doc. IV.C (Johnson)

Week Eight -The Tragedy of Vietnam

October 16

October 18

Text: Chapter Seven
Johnson's message to Congress, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/tonkin-g.htm

Eisenhower and Kennedy's Letters to Ngo Dinh Diem, Johnson's Speech on Vietnam in Echoes

Also: Text of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/tonkin-g.htm

October 23

October 25

Text: Chapter Eight

Black Panther Party Platform, the NOW and Port Huron statements, and the Kerner Report on Civil Disorders in Echoes

Week Ten -Détente and Destabilization

October 30

November 1

Text: Chapter Nine - In class exam

Echoes: Kissinger "American Interests" November 1 Wells: Chapter Three

Week Eleven - Watergate and Democracy on the Brink

November 6

November 8

Text: Chapter Ten

Nixon's address to the American people and excerpts from the Watergate Tapes, Barbara Jordan's testimony in Echoes

Also: The War Powers Resolution http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/warpower.htm

Week Twelve - From Disco to Disaster - The Carter Years

November 13

November 15

Text: Chapter Eleven November 15
In class exam

Carter's address on Afghanistan and his Energy Policy Speech, Vance's statement on African policy in Echoes

Week Thirteen - Velvet Revolutions and a New World Order

November 20

Text: Chapter 13

Week Fourteen - Reagan and the Resurgent Right

November 27

November 29

Text: Chapter 12
Wells: Chapter Four and the statement by U.S. Bishops on Catholic Social Teaching in Echoes

Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech and address to the 1980 Republican convention in Echoes

Also, Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America" at http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html

Week Fifteen - Global Economies, Global Terror

December 3

December 5

Text: Chapter 14
Wells, Chapter Five

Osama bin Laden "Declaration of Jihad against Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Mosques" (on reserve)

George W. Bush "They Hate our Freedom" (on reserve)