Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Week One - America up to 1945

January 22 (L) January 28 (N)

Week one outline

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 - Cold War and Red Scare

January 29 (L) February 4 (N)

Week two outline

Slides and maps for week two

Text: Chapters One and Two

In class movie Duck and Cover

Readings:

Kennan, "Long Telegram," pp. 39-42
Noivkov, "Report on US Drive for World Supremacy," pp. 43-46
"The Truman Doctrine," pp. 46-48

Offner, "President Truman and the Origins of the Cold War," 55-63.

Week Three - Life in the 1950s

February 5 (L) February 11 (N)

Week three outline

Text: Chapter Three

Readings:

"Newsweek Decries the Problem of Dangerous Teens," 85-88
"Life Magazine Identifies the New Teen-Age Market," 88-90
"US News and World Report on Mass Culture and Televisoin," 90-94 "Vance Packard Warns Against the 'Hidden Persuaders," 94-97

Marchand, "Visions of Classlessness," 97-109

Week Four - The Cuban Missile Crisis and American Foreign Policy

February 12 (L) February 18 (N)

Week four outline

Pictures and maps for Week Four

Quiz - Both Sections

Text: Chapter Four

Readings:

"Fidel Castro Denounces U.S. Policy Towards Cuba," 127-130
"President Kennedy and His Advisers Debate Cuba," 136-144
"Premier Khrushchev Appeals to Kennedy," 144-147
"Dobrynin Reports on his Meeting With Robert Kennedy," 147-148

In Class Movie: Fog of War

Week Five - The Civil Rights Struggle

February 19 (L) February 25 (N)

Week five outline

Text: Chapter Five

Readings:

First two parts of Growing Up in Mississippi

"Martin Luther King - I Have a Dream," 182-185
"Stokey Carmichael Explains Black Power," 185-187

Sagrue, "The Continuing Racial Crisis," 203-209

In Class Movie: "Eyes on the Prize"

Week Six - From New Deal to Great Society

February 26 (L) March 3 (N)

Week Six outline

Text: Chapter Six

Readings:

Second two parts of Growing Up in Mississippi

"Lyndon Johnson Declares War on Poverty," 1964

Lassiter, "Suburban Politics and the Limits of the Great Society"

Week Seven - The Tragedy of Vietnam

March 4 (L) March 10 (N)

Week Seven outline

Text: Chapter Seven

Readings:

"Vietnamese Declaration of Independence," 325-327
"Eisenhower on the Domino Theory," 327-328
"Gulf of Tonkin Resolutoin," 331-332
"Johnson's Advisors Debate the War, 1965," 332-334

Michael Hunt, "The Wages of War," 338-342

Week Eight -Radicalism, Feminism, and the Reshaping of America

March 11 (L) March 31 (N)

Quiz - Both Sections

Week Eight outline

Text: Chapter Eight

Readings:

"Port Huron Statement," 245-250
"New Age at Total Loss Farm," 255-258
"Betty Friedan and the Problem That Has No Name," 281-284
"NOW Statement of Purpose," 284-286
Roe v. Wade, 292-295
Phyllis Schaffaly and the Positive Woman, 295-298

Echols, "Women's Liberation and Sixties Radicalism"

Week Nine - Watergate and American Malaise

March 25 (L) April 7 (N)

Week Nine outline

Text: Chapters Nine and Ten

Readings:

"Smoking Gun" tape from Watergate at the Nixon Presidential Museum
Readings "Senate Report on Campaign against King,"
187-189 "Senate Report on Attempts to Assassinate Castro," 134-136
"Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of the American Sprit," 353-355

Week Ten -"Morning in America" - The Reagan Revolution

April 1 (L) April 14 (N)

Week Ten ouline

Text: Chapter 11

Readings:

"Reagan Calls for New Economic Policies," 355-356
"A New Right Activist Explains Conservative Success," 356-360
"Ronald Regan Proclaims 'Spiritual Awakening," 360-351
"Koop Recalls Administration Response to AIDS Crisis," 369-372

Ginsberg and Shefter, "The Republicans Take Control"

Week Eleven -The Nineties and Bill Clinton

April 8 (L) April 21 (N)

Week Eleven outline

Text: Chapter 12

Readings:

"President Clitnton's 'New Covenant," 473-475
"'Gays in the Military' Mobilize Conservatives," 475-478
"Republican 'Contract With America,'" 478-480
"Clinton Ends 'Welfare as We Know It,'" 480-482
"How the Nation's Agenda is Set," 485-488

Miroff,"Bill Clinton and the Imperial Presidency," 488-501

Week Twelve - Globalization and the Dot Com Economy

April 15 (L) April 28 (N)

See week eleven's outline for class notes.

Important information about the final quiz, paper, and examination are here.

Text: Chapter 13

Readings:

"'New Democrats' Hail the New Economy," 395-397
"Federal Reserve Report Extols 'Mass Customization,'" 397-403
"Money Asks Wal-Mart, 'How Big Can it Get?'" 403-405
"A Critic Assails the Influence of Wal-Mart,"405-408
"A Columnist Decries Outsourcing," 408-409

Wiess, "The Fragmenting of America," 423-434

Week Thirteen - April 22 (L) Only

Quiz - Section L Only

Additional information for studying your final here:
Policies and events arranged by administration.

Movie TBA for Section L - Also will catch up on missed material and possibly prep for final examination.

Week Fourteen - America After September 11

April 29 (L) May 5 (N)

Quiz - Section N Only

Final week outline

Text: Chapter 14

Readings:

"President G.H.W. Bush and the New World Order," 511-512
"Osama Bin Laden Declares Jihad Against America," 514-516
"George Bush announces New National Security Strategy," 519-522
"Losing Hearts and Minds in Iraq," 514-527

Revisit the Hamid article from Week One this week