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Course Syllabus

 

August 26-28 Introduction to Course, Postwar Order

September 2: The Opening to the Sixties: The Black Freedom Movement

September 4: Liberalism  

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

September 30: - 1968: Year of Hope and Rage               

October 2:  Polarization and Repression in the 1960s and 1970s    

October 7 Watergate and Nixon

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

Oral History assignment

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

November 4: Reagan’s America

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

Final Take-Home Exam