In order to not meet the Monday before Thanksgiving, when many of you will be on the road, I had to make more schedule shifts. The Google Calendar has also been acting up. So you will find a revised schedule on the "syllabus" link at the right, but for those of you who want even easier access, here is the rest of the schedule. NOTE that I have moved test 2 to Nov. 9 because I want more time to discuss the film and the book.
Week 9:
10/26: Lecture: “Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Charles Lindbergh, and What It Meant to be an American.” Read: GML, Chap. 22 to p. 755. Seldom Disappointed, Chap. 1-9.
10/28: Lecture: “Guns, Bombs, and Explosions: A Shameless and Indulgent Foray into WW2 in Europe. Read: GML, Chap. 22 p.755-end.
Week 10: World War II and Demobilization
11/2: Discussion of Best Years and Hillerman: VIEW Best Years of Our Lives by today.
11/4: Lecture: “Guns, Bombs, and Explosions: A Shameless and Indulgent Foray into WW2 in the Pacific. Read: Seldom Disappointed, Chap. 10-14.
Week 11: The Cold War
11/9: Test 2
11/11: Lecture: “Truman, 1948, and Cold War America.” Read: Seldom Disappointed, Chap. 15-17, GML, Chap. 23: Deadline to watch Here I Stand: Paul Robeson.
Week 12: The Emergence of Suburbia & the Dawning of the 1960s.
11/16: Lecture: “The Birth of the Mall Rat.” Read: GML, Chap. 24, Seldom Disappointed, Chap. 18-23.
11/18: Lecture: “JFK, Ardent Cold Warrior, Reluctant Civil Rights Champion.”
Week 13: Tofurkey or Turkey?
11/23: No Class:
11/25: Thanksgiving, no class
Week 14: The Rise and Fall of the 1960s
11/30: Lecture: “Civil Rights and Vietnam, Guns and Butter.” Read: GML, Chap. 25
12/2: Lecture: “Nixon, Wallace, and the Emergence of Backlash Politics.” Read: GML, Chap. 26 (VIEW Settin' the Woods on Fire by this date.)
Week 15: “Is the Best of the Free Life Behind Us; Are the Good Times Really Over for Good?”
12/7: Lecture: “Dark Days: Watergate, Carter, and Burning Helicopters in the Desert.”
12/9: Lecture: “Turning up the Heat in the Cold War under Reagan.”
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