Readings and Discussions
September 9 Introduction
September 14 Movie: The Atomic Cafe
September 16
Movie:
The Atomic Cafe
Chafe - chapter 1
September 21 The Cold War
September 23 The Cold War: Politics and foreign policy
The Truman Doctrine
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)
Chafe - chapter 2
Discussion Questions
September 28
The Cold War: The domestic front
Movie: Seeds of the Sixties
Chafe - chapter 3
September 30
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
Chafe - chapter 4
Discussion Questions
October 5 Origins of the Vietnam War, 1945-1963
Chafe - chapter 9
October 7
Vietnam Declaration of Independence
Eisenhower Explains the Domino Theory
JFK: Inaugural Address
White House Statement on
Vietnam, November 1954
McNamara on Vietnam (1995)
Geneva Conference, 1954
A U.S. Army advisor
remembers his experiences (1962-63)
Kennedy Reaffirms the
Domino Theory
Chafe - chapter 10
Discussion Questions
October 14 Civil Rights
Movie: Breaking Boundaries
October 19
Chafe - chapter 6
King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
(1963)
King,
I Have A Dream (1963)
Malcolm X, The "Black Revolution"
speeches (1964)
Stokely Carmichael, Black Power
(1966)
Black
Panther Platform (1966)
JFK Speech ( June 11, 1963)
Discussion Questions
October 21
Movie: The Wild One
Discussion Questions
October 26
Movie: The Wild One
Chafe - chapter 7
Essay Writing
Discussion Questions
October 28 The Johnson Legacy: Vietnam and the Great Society
Chafe - chapters 8 and 10
Harrington, The Other America
Johnson, The Great Society (1964)
Johnson's speech, April
7, 1965
Johnson's Farewell Address,
March 31, 1968
Johnson's Message
to Congress, August 5, 1964
Johnson's Decision to
Commit Troops to South Vietnam
Discussion Questions
November 2
American Women, 1945 - 1970
November 4
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)
Discussion Questions
November 9 Student Protest and the New Left
November 16
Chafe - chapters 11 and 12
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"
Schlesinger,
"The New Mood in Politics" (1960)
Discussion Questions
November 18 Movie: In a Dark Time
November 23 Culture/Counterculture
Movie: Easy Rider
William Shatner, Lucy in
the Sky with Diamonds...really...!
Discussion Questions
November 25 Movie: Easy Rider
November 30
The war : perspectives
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)
Chafe, chapter 10
Discussion Questions
December 2
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
Chafe Chapter 13
Discussion Questions