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<\/a>Mon 3\/25<\/strong> – Road to Wa<\/a>r, Organizing for Victory. Reading ACH Ch 24 p. 724-739. Handout: Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” <\/a>speech, January 1941<\/p>\nToday’s link: Simon Schama, “The Power of Art: Picasso’s Guernica<\/a>” (on Youtube, in 4 parts – we watched a bit of Parts 1 and 4 in class, but the whole show is terrific)<\/p>\n Wed 3\/27<\/strong> – Life on the WW2 Homefront. Reading ACH Ch 24 p. 739-745. Handout on Gordon Hirabayashi<\/a><\/p>\n Links for today:<\/p>\n “It’s Everybody’s War”<\/a> (1945) – 15 minute OWI promo showing homefront civilian commitment to the war effort, narrated by Henry Fonda<\/p>\n NPR Fresh Air interview with Lynne Olsen<\/a>, author of a new book on the America First committee and the debate over whether the US should enter WW2 1939-1941 (3\/26\/13)<\/p>\n Fri 3\/29<\/strong> – Fighting and Winning the War. Reading ACH Ch 24 p. 745-756. SkillBuilder #5 due<\/span>. <\/strong>Handout: Adam Kirsch, “Is World War II Still ‘The Good War’?”<\/a> (NYT, 5\/27\/11) Wed 4\/3<\/strong> – Workshop Day: McCarthyism. Review ACH Ch 24-25 – BRING LAPTOPS, please<\/strong><\/p>\n Fri 4\/5<\/strong> – The Middle Class Triumphant. Reading ACH Ch 26 p. 787-806. Quiz opens up, on Chapter 27. SkillBuilder #6 due<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Mon 4\/8<\/strong> – Gender, Sex and the Family in the ’50s. Reading: ACH Ch 26 p. 807-815<\/p>\n
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\nMon 4\/1<\/strong> – Cold War Ame<\/a>rica. Reading: ACH Ch 25 (skim\/take notes on entire chapter)\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n