Course
Schedule
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From the New Deal to the Cold War
Thursday, September 7th
Introduction --
Terms of Debate: Liberalism and Conservatism
Website:
- Alan Brinkley, “Allard Lowenstein and the Ordeal of Liberalism,” in Liberalism
and its Discontents (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998):
237-48.
Forging the Crabgrass Frontier:
Consensus or Conformity?
Tuesday, September 12th
Exhuming McCarthy II
Website:
- Ellen Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1998): 154-200.
Book:
- Morton Horwitz, The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice (New
York: Hill & Wang, 1998): 52-73.
Thursday, September 14th
Exhuming McCarthy
II
Reader:
- Nathan Glazer and Seymour Martin Lipset, “The Polls on Communism
and Conformity,” in The New American Right, ed. Daniel Bell
(New York: Criterion Books, 1955): 141-165.
- Richard Hofstadter, Anti-intellectualism in American Life (New
York: Vintage, 1963): 3-23.
Tuesday, September 19th
Constructing Suburbia
I
Website:
- Lizabeth Cohen, “From Town Square to Shopping
Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America,” American Historical
Review 101 (Oct. 1996): 1050-1081.
- Karen Brodkin Sacks, “How Did Jews Become White Folks?” in Race,
eds. Steven Gregory & Roger Sanjek (New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 1994): 78-102.
Thursday, September 21st
Constructing Suburbia II
Website:
- Thomas Sugrue, “Crabgrass-Roots Politics:
Race, Rights and the Reaction The Origins of the Urban Crisis (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1996): 3-56.
Tuesday, September 26th
Winter of Our Malcontents
Screening:
- Rebel Without a Cause, dir. Nicholas Ray, 111 min., Warner Bros.,
1955, DVD.
Reader:
- Sara Evans, Personal Politics (New York: Vintage, 1979): 3-15.
Shades of Brown
Thursday, September 28th
The Decisions
Reader:
- Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (Brown
I).
- Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294 (1955) (Brown
II).
Book:
- Horwitz, Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice: 15-31.
Tuesday, October 3rd
Little Rock I
- Collection on website and in reader
Thursday, October 5th
Little Rock II
- Collection on website and in reader
Tuesday, October 10th
Catch-up day and Paper Writing Workshop
Thursday, October 12th
Little Rock III
- Collection on website and in reader
We’re on the Move Now
Tuesday, October 17th
Law and Lawlessness in Alabama (circa 1961)
Bloom & Breines:
•
James Farmer & John Lewis, “The
Freedom Rides,” pp.
22-27.
Reader:
- Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality (New York:
Hill and Wang, 1993), pp. 88-103.
Thursday, October 19th
Law and
Lawlessness in Alabama and Beyond
Reader:
- Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” in Civil
Disobedience: Theory and Practice, ed. Hugo Adam Bedau (New York:
Pegasus, 1969): 72-89.
- Harrison Tweed, Bernard G. Segal, and Herbert L.
Packer, “Civil
Rights and Disobedience to Law,” in Civil Disobedience: Theory
and Practice, 90-97
- William L. Taylor, “Civil Disobedience: Observations on the Strategies
of Protest,” in Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice,
98-105.
- Louis Waldman, “Civil Rights—Yes: Civil Disobedience—No
(A Reply to Dr. Martin Luther King),” in Civil Disobedience:
Theory and Practice, 106-115.
Tuesday, October 24th
Freedom Summer
Reader:
- Akinyele O. Umoja, “1964: The Beginning of
the End of Nonviolence in the Mississippi Freedom Movement,” Radical History Review 85
(Winter 2003): 201-26.
- Clayborne Carson et al., eds. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights
Reader (New York: Penguin, 1991): 166-189; 200-203.
Thursday, October 26th
1964:
Extremism in Defense of Liberty
Bloom & Breines:
- Young Americans for Freedom, “The Sharon Statement,” 290-91.
- Barry Goldwater, “1964 Acceptance Speech,” pp.
291-94.
Reader:
- Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking
of the American Consensus (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001): 371-405.
Tuesday, October 31st
The Warren Court and Civil Rights
Book:
- Horwitz, Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice:
32-51; 74-98.
Thursday, November 2nd
War on Poverty
Reader:
- Felicia Kornbluh, “To Fulfill their ‘Rightly Needs’:
Consumerism and the National Welfare Rights Movmeent,” Radical
History Review 69 (1997): 75-113
- Dwight Macdonald, “Our Invisible Poor,” The New Yorker,
January 19, 1963: 82-132 (actually much shorter due to excised advertisements).
Tuesday, November 7th
Lawyers for the
Poor
Book:
- Martha Davis, Brutal Need (New Haven: Yale University Press,
1993): 1-55.
Thursday, November 9th
The One on the Left
Bloom & Breines:
- “SNCC: Founding Statement,” 21-22
- “SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement,” 38-40
- Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” 105-108
- Mario Savio, “An End to History,” 89-92
- Barbara Garson, “Freedom is a Big Deal,” 95-96
- Carl Davidson, “Student Power: A Radical View”
- Radicalism in all its guises
Tuesday, November 14th
The One on the Left
Bloom & Breines:
- Carl Oglesby, “Trapped in a System,” 178-182
- Martin Luther King, Jr., “Declaration of Independence from the
War in Vietnam,” 186-191
- The Resistance, “We Refuse to Serve,” 195-196
- The Black Panther Party, “What We Want, What We Believe,” 125-28
- “No More Miss America,” 404-06
- New York Radical Women, “Principles,” 406-07
Thursday, November 16th
Lawyers Against
the Law
Reader:
- Kenneth Cloke, “Law is Illegal,” in Radical Lawyers,
ed. Jonathan Black (New York: Avon Books, 1971): 27-43.
- Walter Schneir, “Desanctifying the Courts,” in Radical
Lawyers, 297-301.
Website:
- Robert Lefcourt, “Law Against the People,” in Law Against
the People: Essays to Demystify Law, Order, and the Courts, ed.
Robert Lefcourt (New York: Random House, 1971): 21-37.
- Ann M. Garfinkle et al., “Women’s Servitude Under Law,” in Law
Against the People, 103-122.
Tuesday, November 21st
What a Riot! Political Trials at Decade’s
End
Reader:
- Elinor Langer, “The Oakland 7,” Atlantic Monthly, October
1969, pp. 76-82
- Abbie Hoffman, The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman (New York:
Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000) 147-64
Thursday, November 23rd
Thanksgiving
Day – no
class
Tuesday, November 28th
Riots and Crime
Control
Bloom & Breines:
- “Violence in the City – an End or a Beginning,” 109-116.
Website:
- Stanley Crouch, “When Watts Burned,” in Voices in Our
Blood, ed. Jon Meacham (New York: Random House, 2001): 346-348.
- Elizabeth Hardwick, “After Watts,” in Voices in Our Blood:
348-352.
Reader:
- The Kerner Report: The 1968 Report of the National Advisory Commission
on Civil Disorders (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988): 1-34.
Building the Gated Community
Thursday, November 30th
The Sun Rises on the Right
Bloom & Breines:
- Richard Nixon, “If Mob Rules Takes Hold in the U.S.,” 294-297
- Ronald Reagan, “Freedom vs. Anarchy on Campus,” 297-299
- Pete Hamill, “Wallace,” 300-302
- Spiro T. Agnew, “Impudence in the Streets,” 310-313
- Paul Goldberger, “Tony Imperiale Stands Vigilant for Law and Order,” 313-317
Tuesday, December 5th
Criminal
Culture I
Screening:
- Dirty Harry, dir. Don Siegel, 102 min., Warner Bros., 1971,
DVD.
Reader:
- Bruce J. Schulman, “This Ain’t No Foolin’ Around: Rebellion & Authority
in Seventies Popular Culture,” in The Seventies: The Great Shift
in American Culture, Society, and Politics (Cambridge: Da Capo Press,
2001): 144-158.
Thursday, December 7th
Criminal Culture II
Screening:
- All the President’s Men, dir. Alan J. Pakula, 138 min.,
Warner Bros., 1976, DVD
Reader:
- Keith W. Olson, Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America (Lawrence:
University of Kansas Press, 2003): 168-183.
Bloom & Breines:
- “Cointelpro, “Who Were the Targets?,” 317-21
Tuesday, December 12th
Last Class – Conclusions
and Reflections
