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August 26-28 Introduction
to Course, Postwar Order
September 2: The Opening to the Sixties: The
Black Freedom Movement
September 9:
Vietnam: introduction
September 11: Lies, Deceptions,
Conspiracies/Birmingham
September 16: no class –syllabus modified accordingly
September 18: Visions and Divisions
September 23: Campus/Left/Youth Culture
September 25: Great
Society/Conservative Revival
October 9: Continuing
the Fight for Rights
October 14: Continuing
the Fight for Rights (2)
Reminder: October 14, 2003: Make Plans for
Michael Honey lecture, 7.p.m., attendance required
October
16: Legacy of the 60s: Search for Meaning
Midterm due Tuesday, October 21 in class
October 21-23
Unravelling Postwar Order
Schedule is again
coinciding with original syllabus
October
28-30: Explaining the Right Turn in the 1970s and 1980s
Here are some
additional sites for context of late 1980s and 90s domestic issues.
If you are looking for specific information for interviews, these might be
useful. If you don’t find context for
your interviews in the materials you’ve read for this course, please check
here, or ask me. There is a wide range of topics addressed here, from politics,
cultural issues, AIDS, suburban sprawl, Ruby Ridge and Waco, to consumerism, LA
Riots of 1992, etc.
November
6-13-18: Mobile Capital, Migrating Workers modification of syllabus from this point
November 20: Iran-Contra
and terror in the 1980s
November 25: End of the Cold War through Gulf War
Dec 2: From the Gulf War to 9-11
December 4: 9/11-current Iraq war