Readings and Discussions
September 5 Introduction
September 10 Movie: The Atomic Cafe
September 12 Movie: The Atomic Cafe
September 17 The Cold War
September 19 The Cold War: Politics and foreign policy
The Truman Doctrine
Zinn, A People's History of the
United States, 1945-60
Schrecker, " Setting
the Anti-Communist Agenda"
Acheson's speech, January 12, 1950
Excerpts from NSC-68 (April 7, 1950)
McCarthy to the U.S. Senate (February 12,
1950)
Discussion Questions
September 24
The Cold War: The domestic front
Movie: Seeds of the Sixties
September 26
Schrecker, "The Legacy of McCarthyism"
Rosenberg Verdict (1951)
Kerouac, On the Road
Holmes, "This is the Beat Generation"
Allen, "Communists Should Not
Teach in American Colleges"
Homosexuals in the Government
Higher Education's
Appalling Responsibilities
Mental Hygiene
Discussion Questions
October 1 Origins of the Vietnam War, 1945-1963
October 3
Vietnam Declaration of Independence
Eisenhower Explains the Domino Theory
JFK: Inaugural Address
White House Statement on
Vietnam, November 1954
Rusk-McNamara Report
McNamara on Vietnam (1995)
Geneva Conference, 1954
A U.S. Army advisor
remembers his experiences (1962-63)
Kennedy Reaffirms the
Domino Theory
Discussion Questions
October 10 Civil Rights
Movie: Breaking Boundaries
October 15
Farber, chapters 4 and 7
King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
(1963)
King,
I Have A Dream (1963)
Malcolm X, The "Black Revolution"
speeches (1964)
Stokely Carmichael, Black Power
(1966)
Stokely Carmichael obituary
(1998)
Mississippi Freedom
Project: Letters to Home
Black
Panther Platform (1966)
JFK Speech ( June 11, 1963)
Discussion Questions
October 17
Movie: The Wild One
(We are meeting in Building 200, room 203)
Discussion Questions
October 22
Movie: The Wild One
Essay Writing
Discussion Questions
October 24 The Johnson Legacy: Vietnam and the Great Society
Farber, chapter 5
Harrington, The Other America
Johnson, The Great Society (1964)
Morgenthau, "Vietnam
and the National Interest"
Johnson's speech, April
7, 1965
Johnson's Farewell Address,
March 31, 1968
U.S. Objectives in South
Vietnam, 1964
Johnson's Message
to Congress, August 5, 1964
Johnson's Decision to
Commit Troops to South Vietnam
Discussion Questions
October 29
American Women, 1945 - 1970
October 31
Farber, chapter 1
A Purpose for Modern Woman (1955)
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex (1947)
How to Be a Good Wife (1954)
Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
(1963)
N.O.W. Statement of Purpose (1966)
Female
Liberation c. 1970
Steinem, Women's
Liberation (1970)
Manifesto of Shared Rape (1971)
Discussion Questions
November 5 Student Protest and the New Left
November 7
Farber, chapters 6 and 7
A Call to Resist Authority (1967)
King, Declaration of Independence (1967)
Hayden, The Port Huron Statement
(1962)
Savio's
speech, FSM sit-in, December 3, 1964
Savio
"The Berkeley Student Rebellion of 1964"
Students
for Law and Order (December 1964)
Schlesinger,
"The New Mood in Politics" (1960)
Discussion Questions
November 14 The war: various perspectives
November 19 Movie: In a Dark Time
The Arrogance of Power (1966)
Life Publishes One Week's Dead
in Vietnam (1969)
Proclamation of the Anti-Draft
Resistance
A Soldier Remembers his Idealism (1965)
The Draft's Inequities (1969)
At War in Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971)
Smith, "The Nurse With Round Eyes"
(1971)
Farber, chapter 10
Discussion Questions
November 21 & 26 Culture/Counterculture
Movie: Easy Rider
William Shatner, Lucy in
the Sky with Diamonds...really...!
Discussion Questions
November 28 Nixon and the end of Vietnam
December 3
Cronkite, "We Are Mired in
Stalemate" (1968)
Nixon's
Speech on Vietnamization (1969)
Nixon's
Speech on Cambodia (1970)
The Shooting at Kent State
(1970)
"Pacification's
Deadly Price", Newsweek, June 19, 1972
Jane
Fonda's Hanoi Broadcast
Address to the Nation,
January 23, 1973
Farber, chapter 11
Discussion Questions - to be
distributed in class