History 536
Spring 2008
Prof. John Putman

The United States Since World War II

 1/21         INTRODUCTION AND THE GOOD WAR

                         Reading: Wright, Ch. 1-2  Comic Book Nation Ch1-2 Questions

1/28      THE NUCLEAR AGE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR Lecture Outline Weeks 1-4

                         Reading: Paterson,"Harry Truman" and Gaddis, "The Origins of Cold War" articles (E-Reserves)

Kennan, The Sources of Soviet Conduct

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2/4  THE COLD WAR HEATS UP

                          Reading: Wright, Ch. 3-4 Comic Book Nation, Ch. 3-4 Questions

The Truman Doctrine, 1947

 2/11    THE GREAT FEAR AND AMERICAN SOCIETY

                        Reading: Wright, Ch. 5-6 Comic Book Nation Ch. 5-6 Questions

Screen Guide for Americans (pdf)

Screen Guide for Americans (gif)

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 2/18       HAPPY DAYS OR SO THEY THOUGHT Lecture Outline, Weeks 5-7

                          Reading:  Douglass, Intro., Ch. 1-2 Where Girls Are Ch. 1-2 Disc

                                       Bertrand, Ch. 1-3  Race, Rock, Elvis, Ch. 1-3 Disc

 2/25       THE SECOND RECONSTRUCTION

                                Reading: Bertrand, Ch. 4-end Race, Rock, Elvis, Ch. 4-7 Disc

Brown v. Board of Education I (1954)

Martin Luther King,  "Give Us the Ballot," 

FIRST MIDTERM EXAM

 3/3          NEW LOOK AND VIETNAM

                          Reading: Baritz, Ch. 1-2, 6-8 Baritz, Ch 1-2, 6-8 Quest 

                                       Wright, Ch. 7 Comic Book Nation, Ch. 7 Questions

Vietnam War Discussion Links

 3/10        CAMELOT AND THE GREAT SOCIETY Lecture Outline Week 8-9

                           Reading: Douglass, Ch. 3-6 Where the Girls Are Ch.3-6

                                       Klatch, "The New Age" article (E-Reserves) / Klatch Disc

Port Huron Statement

Young Americans for Freedom: Sharon Statement

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3/17        DAYS OF HOPE, DAYS OF RAGE

                             Reading: Bodroghkozy, Intro. and Ch. 1-4  Groove Tube, Intro-Ch. 4 Discussion

                                         Wright, Ch. 8 Comic Book Nation Ch. 8 Questions

3/24          RACE, RIGHTS, AND POWER  Lecture Outline Week 10-11

                              Reading:Bodroghkozy, Intro. and Ch. 5-7  Groove Tube Ch. 5-7 Discussion

Black Power Speech

SECOND MIDTERM EXAM

SPRING BREAK (3/31)

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4/7     1968 AND MISS AMERICA

                                  Reading: Douglass, Ch. 7-10    Where the Girls Are Ch. 7-10     

                                        McGirr, "The Sleeping Giant is Awakening"  (E-Reserves)    Discussion Questions                   

SNCC Position Paper- Women in the Movement

Women's Liberation' Aims to Free Men Too

 4/14          BACKLASH: ARCHIE BUNKER'S WORLD  Lecture Outline Week 13 to end

 4/21           TRICKY DICK AND WATERGATE

                       PAPER DUE-FRIDAY

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4/28          GAS LINES AND DISCO