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August 24: Introduction/ Background: Looking Back at the Great Depression and the New Deal/ America 1940-41: Between Depression and War
August 31: Fighting World War II: European and Pacific Theaters/ The "Homefront" (Chafe, chapter 1; Ambrose, chapter 1; Brinkley article, Major Problems)
September 7: Truman and Fair Deal Politics/ Origins of the Cold War/ Containment and the Truman Doctrine (Chafe, chapters 2-4; selections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 2.7, Major Problems; Paterson [ch. 1], Offner, and Gaddis [ch. 2] articles, Major Problems)
September 14: The Korean War/ McCarthyism and the “Red Scare”/ “Booms” in Postwar America (Chafe, chapter 5; selection 3.1, 3.2, Major Problems)
September 21: Society and the “Organization” Culture/ The Eisenhower Years/ The Evolution of the Civil Rights Movement (Chafe, chapter 6; selections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, Major Problems; Payne article, Major Problems)
September 28: The “Other” 1950s/ Postwar Popular Culture, 1945-1960 (selections 3.3, 3.4. 3.5. 3.6, Major Problems; Marchand and Schrum articles, Major Problems)
October 5: JFK and the Cold War/ New Frontier Politics (Chafe, chapter 7; selections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.5, Major Problems; Paterson [ch. 4] and May and Zelikow articles, Major Problems)
October 12: Midterm Exam
October 19: “The Great Society”/ Origins of Vietnam/ LBJ and Vietnam (Chafe, chapters 8-10; selections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, Major Problems; Patterson article, Major Problems)
October 26: The "Sixties"/ Revolutions and Counterrevolutions/ 1968: A “Critical Year”? (Chafe, chapters 11-12; selections 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, Major Problems; Sugrue, Isserman & Kazin, Shafer, and Heclo articles, Major Problems)
November 2: Nixon and the “Silent Majority”/ Watergate/ The Era of Détente (Chafe, chapter 13; selections 6.5, 6.6, 7.5, 7.6, 9.8, Major Problems; Lassiter, Hunt [chapter 9], and Isaacs articles, Major Problems)
November 9: The “Breathing Spell” Politics of Ford and Carter/ “Coming Apart” in the 1970's/ Popular Culture, 1960-1980 (Chafe, chapters 14-15; selections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 10.1, Major Problems; Echols and Bailey articles, Major Problems)
November 16: The Reagan Revolution/ "Culture Wars"/ Modern Popular Culture (Chafe, chapter 16; selections 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.6, 10.7, Major Problems; Ginsberg & Shefter and Tygiel articles, Major Problems)
November 30: Writing Assignment Due. The End of the Cold War/ From Bush to Clinton (Chafe, chapter 17; selections 10.5, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 14.2, Major Problems; Ehrenreich, Weiss, Sanchez and Holt articles, Major Problems)
December 7: Red States and Blue States: The 2000 Election/ Twenty-first Century America: From Bush To Obama/ Retrospective and the “First Draft of History” (Chafe, chapter 18 and Epilogue; selections 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 13.6, 13.7, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, Major Problems; 13.5, Crenson & Ginsberg, Gaddis [chapter 14] and Hunt [chapter 14] articles, Major Problems)
December 14: Final Exam, 7:00 PM