1/21         INTRODUCTION AND THE GOOD WAR

MONDAY HOLIDAY--NO CLASS

1/28      THE NUCLEAR AGE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR

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

Kennan, The Sources of Soviet Conduct

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2/4  THE COLD WAR HEATS UP

                          Reading: May, Ch. 1-4 May, Ch. 1-4 Discussion

The Truman Doctrine, 1947

 2/11    THE GREAT FEAR AND AMERICAN SOCIETY

                        Reading: May, Ch. 5-8; Wright article (Blackboard) May, Ch. 5-8 Discussion ; Wright Disc

Screen Guide for Americans (pdf)

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 2/18       HAPPY DAYS OR SO THEY THOUGHT

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

 2/25       NEW LOOK AND VIETNAM

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

FIRST MIDTERM EXAM

  3/4         THE SECOND RECONSTRUCTION

                          Reading: Dudziak article (Blackboard) Dudziak discussion

Brown v. Board of Education I (1954)

Martin Luther King,  "Give Us the Ballot," 

 3/11        CAMELOT AND THE GREAT SOCIETY

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

                 Klatch, "The New Age" article (Blackboard) Klatch Disc

Port Huron Statement

Young Americans for Freedom: Sharon Statement

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3/18        DAYS OF HOPE, DAYS OF RAGE

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

3/25          RACE, RIGHTS, AND POWER

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

Black Power Speech

SECOND MIDTERM EXAM

SPRING BREAK (4/1)

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4 /8     1968 AND MISS AMERICA

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

SNCC Position Paper- Women in the Movement

Women's Liberation' Aims to Free Men Too

 4/15          BACKLASH: ARCHIE BUNKER'S WORLD  

Reading: Marcus, ch. 1-2 Happy Days Ch. 1-2 discussion

 4/22           TRICKY DICK AND WATERGATE

                       PAPER DUE-WEDNESDAY

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4/29          THE 70S AND THE RISE OF THE NEW RIGHT AND REAGAN