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Week 7: the Sixties

February 26th, 2010 No comments

(17) Mon 3/1 Many Civil Rights Movements
Reading: HOT 137-162 = Rustin, Black Panthers, Rosales, Indians of All Tribes
Background reading: Moss 139-143/ GML 929-933

(18) Wed 3/3 Congress Day 3
Civil rights legislation will be on the table, and protesters may be outside in the streets.
In-class link: Summer of 1968, LBJ’s We Shall Overcome

(19) Fri 3/5 1968 – Talkin’ About a Revolution (Little Paper #3 due)
Reading online: Take a look at this PBS “Shock Year 1968” interactive timeline for overall context, and read Terry Southern “Groovin in Chi,” Esquire magazine, 11/68. In HOT read 163-197 = DeHart, NOW, Morgan, Vasquez, Schlafly
Background reading: Moss 143-151/ GML 943-956

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Week 6: Civil Rights Movement(s)

February 19th, 2010 No comments

(14) Mon 2/22 Johnson, Great Society
Reading: HOT 94-114 = Johnson, Schulman
Background reading: Moss 113-125 / GML 922-929
In-class link: 1964 Daisy Ad

(15) Wed 2/24 Civil Rights and Racial JusticeNo class – another Wednesday snow day!
We will postpone today’s reading and discussion to Friday, and bump Friday’s material onto Monday. *Remember to be preparing for next Wednesday’s Congress Day 3 by researching what your committee did (or wanted to do) during the 1960s and be ready to brief each other during committee work.

Reading for Friday 2/26: HOT 115-136 = Brown, Declaration, Moody, Chafe
Background reading: Moss 83-85, 102-106/ GML 899-909, 914-929
In-class link: MLK, “I Have a Dream” 28 Aug 1963

(16) for Mon 3/1 Many Civil Rights Movements
Reading: HOT 137-162 = Rustin, Black Panthers, Rosales, Indians of All Tribes
Background reading: Moss 139-143/ GML 929-933

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Week 5: Showdown in Cuba

February 12th, 2010 No comments

Mon 2/15 No Class

(12) Wed 2/17 Kennedy Years and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Reading: HOT 81-93 = Port Huron, YAF, JFK Inaugural, and “The Showdown,” from Time Magazine, 11/2/1962 [PDF]
Background reading: Moss 89-112, 106-112/ GML 909-921
In-class link: JFK’s inaugural, on video

(13) Fri 2/19 Exam #1 (covers 1945-1963)

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Week 4: Young and Restless

February 5th, 2010 No comments

(9) Mon 2/8 Youth Culture and “Juvies”
Reading: 2 document packets in PDF form, “Bringing Up Parents” (Time magazine), and Ruth Alexander, “What Price the Fatted Calf?” AND Hine, “Luckiest Generation,” (HOT 65-74)
Background reading: Moss 68-72, 76-78/ GML 896-899
In-class links: Memories of ’50s childhood, Alan Freed, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Blackboard Jungle, Wild One, Rebel Without a Cause, Teenage Doll, Senate Comic Book Hearings

(10) Wed 2/10 Congress Day 2No class, due to snowstorm!!
Note changes to the syllabus schedule below. We will have our Congress Day 2 on Friday instead, and push the discussion of HOT 81-93 reading onto Wednesday along with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

(11) Fri 2/12 Congress Day 2
Truman and Eisenhower-era policy debates and discussion & I will hand out the Exam #1 study guide in class

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